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Ashlee Lynn McManamey – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Graduation rates and standardized test scores are common indicators to measure student academic achievement. These indicators have revealed a gap between two socioeconomic cohorts of students in kindergarten through 12th grade. Students attending high-poverty schools have lower academic performance than students attending low-poverty schools. As a…
Descriptors: Poverty, Comparative Analysis, Leadership Styles, Transformational Leadership
Kuh, Lisa P. – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2016
Reflective practice has potentially positive effects on an organization's capacity to focus on student learning and teaching practices. In an effort to comply with policy and provide teachers with opportunities to reflect on their practice, districts, schools, and teachers have turned to various models that feature collaborative experiences. One…
Descriptors: Teacher Collaboration, Professional Development, Reflective Teaching, Teacher Effectiveness
Brown, Natalie Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this qualitative case study was to understand how utilizing the Core Knowledge Sequence and aligned curricular resources influenced teachers' perceived self-efficacy for a sample of Arizona elementary charter school teachers. The sample for this study was a convenience sample of 15 elementary teachers, who were currently…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs, Case Studies
Sofo, Francesco; Abonyi, Usman Kojo – Professional Development in Education, 2018
In Ghana, research has shown that educational reforms over the years have ignored the importance of school leadership development, and there are currently very few reform initiatives that address the need to develop the leadership proficiencies and skills of school leaders. This study sought to investigate how school leaders, who include…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Leadership Training, Professional Development, Principals
Shriki, Atara; Patkin, Dorit – Teacher Development, 2016
This study explored Israeli elementary school mathematics teachers' perceptions of their professional needs, with the purpose of developing in-service training courses which cater to these needs. Eighty-four teachers responded to the questionnaire and were interviewed. The results indicate that the respondents' main needs are associated with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
Baudson, Tanja Gabriele; Preckel, Franzis – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2016
Stereotyping of gifted students may not only hinder identification and actualization of potential but also personality development ("stigma of giftedness"). This is obvious in the case of negative stereotyping (e.g., the disharmony hypothesis, which sees gifted students as intellectually strong, but emotionally and socially inferior),…
Descriptors: Gifted, Academically Gifted, Stereotypes, Teacher Attitudes
Hughes, Bob; Arbogast, Janet; Kafer, Lindsey; Chen, Julianna – Adult Learning, 2014
Teaching graduate students to conduct evaluations is typically relegated to evaluation methods courses. This approach misses an opportunity for students to collaboratively use evaluation skills to explore content. This article examines a graduate course, Issues in Adult Basic Education, in which students learned evaluation methods concurrently…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Graduate Students, Evaluation Methods, Methods Courses
Perdomo-Díaz, Josefa; Felmer, Patricio; Randolph, Valeria; González, Guillermo – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2017
In this paper we present a professional development course designed to impact on teachers' mathematical knowledge for teaching fractions. The main features of the course are the use of i) problem solving activities related with mathematical knowledge for teaching fractions ii) peer discussions and iii) monitor's interventions focused on answering…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Professional Development, Case Studies, Fractions
Martin, Christie S.; Polly, Drew; Wang, Chuang; Lambert, Richard G.; Pugalee, David K. – International Journal for Technology in Mathematics Education, 2016
This study examined the influence of professional development on elementary school teachers' perceptions of and use of an internet-based formative assessment tool focused on students' number sense skills. Data sources include teacher-participants' pre and post survey, open ended response on post survey, use of the assessment tool and their written…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Mathematical Concepts, Elementary School Mathematics, Teacher Attitudes
Franco-Fuenmayor, Susana E.; Padrón, Yolanda N.; Waxman, Hersh C. – Bilingual Research Journal, 2015
Despite the fact that the population of English Language Learners (ELLs) is rapidly increasing, there is ample evidence that indicates that most teachers can benefit from training for teaching ELLs effectively. The purpose of this study is to examine teachers' knowledge of instructional practices for ELLs, research on bilingual programs,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Teachers, English (Second Language), Language Teachers, Knowledge Level
Karaman, Ayhan – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2016
Many countries all over the world have recently integrated nature of science (NOS) concepts into their science education standards. Providing professional support to teachers about NOS concepts is crucially important for successful implementation of the standards. For this purpose, a summer science camp was offered to elementary and science…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Elementary School Teachers, Science Teachers, Summer Science Programs
Kamalova, Lera A.; Koletvinova, Natal'ya D. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
This article is aimed to study the problems of reading and improve reading culture of students-bachelors of elementary education in modern high institutions and development of the most effective methods and techniques for improving of reading culture of students in the study of Humanities disciplines. The leading method to the study of this…
Descriptors: Reading, Reading Achievement, Reading Improvement, Bachelors Degrees
McCullough, Mary Irene – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Autism is being diagnosed at an unprecedented rate, with an influx of children with autism being educated in the general education classroom. A positive self-efficacy amongst teachers is imperative as education moves toward the inclusive education model. Bandura theorized a bidirectional approach in the improvement of self-efficacy. The purpose of…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Children, Autism, Inclusion
Clarke, Doug; Roche, Anne; Wilkie, Karina; Wright, Vince; Brown, Jill; Downton, Ann; Horne, Marj; Knight, Rose; McDonough, Andrea; Sexton, Matthew; Worrall, Chris – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2013
As part of a teacher professional learning project in mathematics education, university mathematics educators taught demonstration lessons in project primary schools. These lessons were part of a "pre-brief, teaching, and debrief" process, in which up to eight teachers observed each lesson. Using brief questionnaires completed in advance of the…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Elementary Schools, Observation, Educational Change
Feeney, Eric J. – Teacher Development, 2016
This study examined teachers' learning situated in a school to reveal factors that support and hinder learning in the workplace. The investigation analyzed teachers' orientation to learning, examining beliefs, practices, and experiences about teachers' learning in relation to change in the workplace. A hypothesis is that teacher learning and…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Characteristics, Workplace Learning, Teacher Improvement