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Mustapha, M. T.; Yaki, A. A.; Kannamma, E.; Garba, S.; Usman, S.; Abdullahi, K.; Yusuf, A. B.; Dahiru, S. H. – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2022
Connected Learning for STEM (CL4STEM) is an innovative project aimed at teacher capacity building in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics involving communities of practice as its component to developing teachers' ability to adopt an innovative approach to science instruction and to implement a novel curriculum. Hence, this study…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Secondary School Teachers, Communities of Practice, Capacity Building
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Anwaruddin, Sardar M. – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2016
In this article, I present insights from a discourse analytic study in which I examined publications that emerged from a teacher development program in Bangladesh. The program, known as English in Action, utilizes information and communication technologies to deliver professional development activities to English-language teachers. Now in its 8th…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Teacher Education Programs, English Teachers, English (Second Language)
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Mrayyan, Salwa – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
This study aimed at developing some of the mathematical modelling skills necessary for the student teachers in mathematics education College. Modeling involves making genuine choices, modeling problems have many possible justifiable answers, modeling problems matter to the end-user who needs to understand something or make a decision. Modeling…
Descriptors: Teaching Skills, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Models, Preservice Teacher Education
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Taton, Joshua A. – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2015
The author argues that students' persistent struggles with mathematics suggest a new form of professional development for teachers is needed. The author draws on a model of professional learning in literacy education to propose an analogous model for mathematics education: teachers of mathematics need to produce mathematical ideas, themselves, in…
Descriptors: Reflection, Faculty Development, Mathematics Education, Training Methods
Johnson, Evelyn S. – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 2015
The Technology Accentuated Teacher Education for Rural Specialists (TATERS) program aimed to: (a) prepare highly qualified special education teachers across a state comprised of more than 70% rural districts, (b) develop a system of support through a mentor network and institutions of higher education collaboration to address the needs of teacher…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Special Education, Special Education Teachers, Evidence Based Practice
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Ali, Takbir – Professional Development in Education, 2014
This article reports on a school improvement initiative undertaken by a private university in Pakistan. The Whole School Improvement Programme, designed with the purpose to improve the quality of education appropriate to children and teachers of poor communities, is being implemented in selected elementary schools. Central to the program is…
Descriptors: Teacher Leadership, Foreign Countries, Educational Improvement, Elementary Schools
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Skoretz, Yvonne; Childress, Ronald – Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 2013
The purpose of this program evaluation was to determine the impact of a school-based, job-embedded professional development program on elementary and middle school teacher efficacy for technology integration. Participant bi-weekly journal postings were analyzed using Grappling's "Technology and Learning Spectrum" (Porter, 2001) to…
Descriptors: Technology Integration, Professional Development, Self Efficacy, Program Evaluation
Rives, Megan Bambalis – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this mixed methods research study was to examine the effectiveness of a professional development approach in increasing the knowledge and use of instructional technology in the classrooms of elementary teachers. The participants were comprised of 14 elementary teachers in a rural public education school district in the southeastern…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Professional Development, Program Effectiveness, Technology Uses in Education