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Direct linkKatherine L. McNeill; Renee Affolter – Learning Professional, 2024
Curriculum-based professional learning is not just having teachers read curriculum materials, but rather includes carefully crafted experiences to support their sensemaking, deep understanding of the curriculum and its pedagogy, and ability to transfer that knowledge into practice. This instructional model requires that teachers be responsive to…
Descriptors: Expertise, Educational Quality, Faculty Development, Curriculum Implementation
McCausland, Jonathan; Jackson, Jennifer; McDonald, Scott; Bateman, Kathryn; Pallant, Amy; Lee, Hee-Sun – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2023
Learning to teach is a culturally situated activity. As teachers learn, it is important to understand not only what teachers learn, but how they learn. This article describes a qualitative case study of a subset of four teachers' learning during a professional development surrounding a plate tectonics curriculum. Using qualitative methods, this…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Science Instruction, Teacher Attitudes, Case Studies
Download full textKoçak, Gülsen; Tas, Yasemin; Yerdelen, Sundus – Excellence in Education Journal, 2022
This study examined the predictive effect of students' perceptions of science teacher's autonomy support and classmates' support on their basic psychological needs (i.e., relatedness, autonomy, and competence) in science. 1,018 middle school students from 9 public schools in Turkey completed self-report surveys. Hierarchical multiple regression…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Public Schools, Science Teachers
Mostafa Nazari; Haniye Seyri – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2024
Framed in an interpretative phenomenological approach, this study explored the role of teaching subject (i.e. discipline) in Iranian teachers' online identity construction during the COVID-19 pandemic. Data were collected from teachers of hard and soft sciences through semi-structured interviews, reported practices and online interactions. Data…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disciplines, Professional Identity, Electronic Learning, Foreign Countries
Wright, Diane S.; Crooks, Kevin R.; Hunter, Don O.; Krumm, Caroline E.; Balgopal, Meena M. – Environmental Education Research, 2021
Environmental education researchers and policy makers acknowledge the need to act responsibly toward the environment. Yet, teachers do not always know how to help students translate environmental knowledge into sustainable action. This study examines the implementation of locally developed place-based education (PBE) curriculum for middle school…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Science Teachers, Professional Autonomy, Curriculum Implementation
Wang, Min – Journal of Multilingual Education Research, 2020
Informed by theorizing positioning and agency, this article presents a case study by examining a science teacher's positioning acts and her agency development in a middle school in New York City. An analysis of this teacher's teaching narratives reveals that when she positioned her emergent multilingual students as "whole people," who…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Middle School Teachers
Weis, Aaron M. – Horizon Research, Inc., 2013
The 2012 National Survey of Science and Mathematics Education was designed to provide up-to-date information and to identify trends in the areas of teacher background and experience, curriculum and instruction, and the availability and use of instructional resources. A total of 7,752 science and mathematics teachers in schools across the United…
Descriptors: National Surveys, Science Education, Middle School Teachers, Teacher Surveys
Robertson, Laura Elizabeth – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study examined factors that contribute to Chinese and United States middle school science teachers' perceptions of autonomy support. Autonomy is one component of self-determination theory and has been associated with intrinsic motivation. The study used a mixed methods design including quantitative data collected through an online survey and…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Self Determination, Teacher Motivation, Professional Autonomy
Banilower, Eric R.; Smith, P. Sean; Weiss, Iris R.; Malzahn, Kristen A.; Campbell, Kiira M.; Weis, Aaron M. – Horizon Research, Inc., 2013
The 2012 National Survey of Science and Mathematics Education was designed to provide up-to-date information and to identify trends in the areas of teacher background and experience, curriculum and instruction, and the availability and use of instructional resources. A total of 7,752 science and mathematics teachers in schools across the United…
Descriptors: National Surveys, Science Education, Mathematics Education, Teacher Background
