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Kurt Winkler; Martin Schöfl; Liane Kaufmann; Christoph Weber – Discover Education, 2025
Background and objectives: An early understanding of numerosity is crucial to developing proficiency in arithmetic, and rapid pattern recognition via subitizing is key in this process. The training app "LORE" specifically targets and cultivates pattern recognition skills from the beginning of formal schooling. This study investigated…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Arithmetic, Elementary School Students, Grade 1
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Simone Dunekacke; Andrea Wullschleger; Urs Grob; Aiso Heinze; Anke Lindmeier; Franziska Vogt; Susanne Kuratli Geeler; Miriam Leuchter; Anuschka Meier-Wyder; Selma Seemann; Elisabeth Moser Opitz – ZDM: Mathematics Education, 2024
Adaptive learning support provided by kindergarten teachers before and after (macro-adaptive learning support) as well as during mathematical learning activities (micro-adaptive learning support) is a cross-cutting concept of teaching quality. Effective adaptive learning support enhances children's learning. However, providing it is challenging…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Kindergarten, Mathematics Instruction, Faculty Development
Alexis Prudhomme – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this study was to identify the perceptions of third through fifth grade teachers on the effectiveness of district reading instruction training as it relates to reading achievement. This research was conducted for the following purposes: (a) to explore the perceptions of third through fifth grade teachers on the effectiveness of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5
Brandy M. Locchetta – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Nurturing, responsive relationships between teachers and young children and between children and their peers are critically important predictors of lifelong positive outcomes (Jones et al., 2015; DeLay et al., 2016; Hanish et al., 2016). By prioritizing strategies that promote and sustain these types of relationships with and between children,…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Electronic Mail, Coaching (Performance), Interaction
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W. Hunter Holland; Robert B. Powell; Kathleen K. Holland; Barry A. Garst; Elizabeth D. Baldwin; Cassie F. Quigley – Journal of Outdoor and Environmental Education, 2024
Continuing education programs for educators are designed to advance educators' teaching practices and ultimately advance students' academic success. However, many non-traditional wilderness-based programs lack evidence of proven efficacy. Experiential wilderness-based programs are believed to enhance participants' character traits through…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Outdoor Education, Adventure Education, Faculty Development
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Daniëls, Ellen; Hondeghem, Annie; Heystek, Jan – Professional Development in Education, 2023
Throughout the past decades, the profession of school leader has become more complex. To deal with these increasing complexities and the challenges school leaders encounter, it is important that school leaders are provided with effective professional development. However, research on school leaders' learning and professional development, and…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, School Administration, Professional Development, Faculty Development
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Gidari, Styliani; Kakana, Domna Mika – Journal of Teacher Education and Educators, 2022
In this article, we present the evaluation of a kindergarten teachers' professional development programme, 'Upgrading the quality of the pre-school environment' conducted by the participating teacher--thee programme is aimed at the improvement of the quality of Early Childhood Education and Care. The evaluation, which followed a mixed-method…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Kindergarten, Program Evaluation, Faculty Development
Copeland, Rachel C. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This professional practice dissertation examined the application of Program Transition Points implemented in a K-12 Special Education Initial Licensure Program to ensure effective teacher preparation and successful program completion. Feedback from educational stakeholders, data results from program and internship evaluation outcomes, and the…
Descriptors: Special Education, Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education, Special Education Teachers
Marc Hernandez; Sarah Kabourek; Isis Owusu; Arvind Ilamaran – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2025
NORC at the University of Chicago designed and implemented an impact evaluation of the SEEDS of Learning (SEEDS) professional development (PD) program on behalf of the Kenneth Rainin Foundation, in collaboration with Kidango. SEEDS of Learning is an evidence-based PD program that prepares early childhood educators to help children develop the…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Faculty Development, Program Evaluation, Evidence Based Practice
Rachel Schechter; Anna Robinson; Isabella Ilievski – Online Submission, 2024
In a study examining the efficacy of Heggerty's Bridge to Reading program during the 2023-2024 school year, LXD Research measured the program's impact on kindergarten and first-grade students' reading outcomes on the NWEA MAP Reading Fluency assessment. Results indicated that first graders using the program demonstrated significantly greater…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Beginning Reading
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Brigid McNeill; Gail Gillon – Topics in Language Disorders, 2025
This national implementation study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of Tier 2 structured literacy teaching set within a multi-tiered system of support. Case-controlled matching was used to determine the impact of the implementation for 1,265 5-year-old children. One comparison group included 1,265 children who were matched to the experimental…
Descriptors: Multi Tiered Systems of Support, Literacy Education, Program Effectiveness, Young Children
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Robert C. Schoen; Catherine C. Lewis; Christopher Rhoads; Kevin Lai; Claire M. Riddell – Journal of Experimental Education, 2024
Lesson study, especially when conducted with support from targeted resources, is often identified as a potentially effective means to support teacher learning. In this study, 80 school-based teams of educators, representing 80 classrooms of third- or fourth-grade students in the US, were randomly assigned to one of four conditions: lesson study…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Faculty Development, Elementary School Teachers, Grade 3
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Downton, Ann; Giumelli, Kerry; McHugh, Barbara; Stenning, Paul – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2023
The shift from additive to multiplicative thinking is challenging for students. A professional learning program was developed that focused on an identified area of need by teachers, namely multiplicative thinking. Program content focused on concepts underpinning multiplicative thinking, pedagogical approaches, challenging tasks, and application to…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Program Effectiveness, Multiplication, Thinking Skills
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Bekir Yildirim – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2024
Background: This study investigated how an online professional development program (OPDPs) affected preschool teachers' STEM teaching competence, what technological tools and materials they used during STEM education after the program, and what they thought about OPDPs. Purpose: This study aimed to focus on all dimensions of the effects of OPDPs…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Online Courses, Preschool Teachers, Program Effectiveness
Rachael C. Rost-Allen – ProQuest LLC, 2024
With large-scale wicked problems threatening our world, the integration of sustainability into teacher professional learning is systemically lacking in the United States. The purpose of this case study was to understand the impact of a multi-session, sustainability-related professional learning program on twelve PreKindergarten-8th grade educators…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Faculty Development, Private Schools, Self Efficacy
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