Providing effective professional development that improves teaching quality and in turn impacts student performance, has been of key interest to educational leaders. This qualitative phenomenological collective case study explored the use of microteaching as effective professional development and its effect on teacher instructional practices and…

Reading proficiency is a vital skill that holds implications for future student success. Teachers hold the key for opening the door to this reading success. However, changing teacher instructional behavior can prove challenging. Thankfully, the professional development method of microteaching incorporates effective adult learning components by…

In accelerating fast changing knowledge-based and information societies such like the European Union technology dominates most facets of our everyday lives, and learning activities as well. Unfortunately, particularly seniors and elderly people suffer the risk to be left behind, and that the digital divide becomes bigger. This is problematic…