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Peterson, Lana; Scharber, Cassandra – Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher Education, 2018
Makerspaces are the latest educational movement that may disrupt the "grammar of schooling." Makerspaces may change the ways schools use technology; change the ways schools engage in learning and teaching; and change the forms of learning that count in schools. However, without deliberate professional learning and planning, the glamor of…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Training Methods, Elementary Secondary Education, Teaching Models
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Casey, Katherine – Educational Leadership, 2011
As teachers learn new pedagogical strategies, they crave explicit demonstrations that show them how the new strategies will work with their students in their classrooms. Successful instructional coaches, therefore, understand the importance of modeling lessons to help teachers develop a vision of effective instruction. The author, an experienced…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Coaching (Performance), Change Strategies, Protocol Materials
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Sormunen, K.; Keinonen, T.; Holbrook, J. – Science Education International, 2014
The core idea of the PROFILES project is to support science teachers' continuous professional development. The instructional innovation of the PROFILES is the so called Three Stage Model (TSM) which aims to arouse students' intrinsic motivation, to offer a meaningful inquiry-based learning environment and to use the science learning in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Professional Continuing Education
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Spector, Barbara S.; Burkett, Ruth; Leard, Cyndy – Science Educator, 2012
This paper introduces a model for using informal science education venues as contexts within which to teach the nature of science. The model was initially developed to enable university education students to teach science in elementary schools so as to be consistent with "National Science Education Standards" (NSES) (1996) and "A Framework for…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Scientific Principles, Experiential Learning, Science Education