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Download full textSertel Altun; Banu Yucel-Toy – South African Journal of Education, 2023
With this study we aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a collaborative and reflective school-based training model on the teachers' professional transformation in a middle school in Turkey. This study emerged as a result of a need for this school to transform its instructional approach to the understanding by design (UbD) approach. Considering…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Middle School Teachers, Foreign Countries, Instructional Design
Holmes, Venita R. – Houston Independent School District, 2019
This program evaluation assessed the utility and efficacy of lead4ward toward facilitating meaningful instructional planning, and improving STAAR reading, English language arts, and math performance of students whose teachers participated in lead4ward professional development. A web-based survey on HISD's HUB yielded responses from 340 educators…
Descriptors: Instructional Development, Program Effectiveness, Faculty Development, Standardized Tests
Direct linkThompson, Ruthanne; Coe, Alice; Klaver, Irene; Dickson, Kenneth – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2011
Informed by the results of a baseline research study of regional citizen knowledge and understanding concerning watershed issues, a team of university faculty and classroom teachers designed and implemented a water conservation education program to address lacking areas of watershed knowledge. The authors developed age-appropriate, hands-on…
Descriptors: Water Quality, Water, Conservation Education, Program Implementation
Trauth-Nare, Amy; Buck, Gayle – Educational Action Research, 2011
Our purpose was to investigate the efficacy of using reflective practice to guide our action research study of incorporating formative assessment into middle school science teaching and learning. Using participatory action research, we worked collaboratively to incorporate formative assessment into two instructional units, and then engaged in…
Descriptors: Instructional Development, Action Research, Formative Evaluation, Program Effectiveness
Penuel, William R.; McWilliams, Harold; McAuliffe, Carla; Benbow, Ann E.; Mably, Colin; Hayden, Margaret M. – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2009
This paper compares and contrasts the impacts of three professional development designs aimed at middle school Earth science teachers on how teachers plan and enact instruction. The designs were similar in their alignment to research-based practices in science professional development: each design was of an extended duration and time span,…
Descriptors: Instructional Development, Teacher Surveys, Earth Science, Active Learning
Armstrong, Thomas – Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2006
While most of the dialogue in education today is about accountability, standardized testing, and adequate yearly progress, the truth is that student success is deeply connected to the physical, emotional, and cognitive needs that they have at different ages. The best schools already know this and follow practices that are academically engaging and…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Student Projects, Middle Schools, Active Learning
