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McChesney, Katrina; Aldridge, Jill M. – Professional Development in Education, 2021
Although school and education system leaders can mandate teachers' participation in professional development activities, various school-related, teacher-related and student-related factors influence the degree to which professional development opportunities ultimately result in the desired teaching and learning impacts. This study examined…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Models, Program Effectiveness, Teacher Attitudes
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Craig, Stephanie L.; Smith, Sean J.; Frey, Bruce B. – Professional Development in Education, 2022
Although the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Framework has been effective in designing tools and lessons, implementation of the Framework to design entire learning environments possesses its own limitations in research. This paper describes a quasi-experimental study of the effects of a professional development program on teachers'…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Institutes (Training Programs), Summer Programs, Access to Education
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Yow, Jan A.; Lotter, Christine – Professional Development in Education, 2016
This study investigates the role of an inquiry professional development institute in empowering middle school mathematics and science teachers to develop as teacher leaders. Teachers and coaches jointly attended content sessions and participated in practice teaching sessions with students. The coaches led reflection sessions following the practice…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Educators, Middle School Teachers
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Nabhani, Mona; Bahous, Rima; Hamdan, Zeina – Professional Development in Education, 2012
This case study examines the attitudes of the secondary and middle school teachers at one school in Lebanon regarding the effect of the school's professional development (PD) programs on the quality of their teaching practices and motivation. It also examines teachers' attitudes regarding PD as well as their recommendations to improve the quality…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Interviews, Foreign Countries, Middle School Teachers
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Lieberman, Joanne – Professional Development in Education, 2009
The present article addresses how lesson study can facilitate changing traditional norms of individualism, conservatism and presentism that constrain American teachers from learning from one another. The article investigates how lesson study can serve as a vehicle for developing teacher learning communities by developing or redeveloping teachers'…
Descriptors: Norms, Communities of Practice, Instructional Improvement, Case Studies