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Nicole N. Waskie-Laura – Learning Professional, 2023
Districts may have limited internal capacity to provide teachers with sustained, systemic professional learning that is relevant to every teacher due to a lack of funding, inadequate staffing, insufficient time, and competing demands. Educational service agencies, which work at the regional level to support multiple districts, can address those…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Special Education Teachers, Agency Role, Program Effectiveness
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Yung-Ju Chen; Xiuye Xie – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2024
This article aims to explain how social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter can be useful setting for effective professional learning communities (PLCs) for physical educators. It also pinpoints the opportunities and challenges of using social media for PLCs and provides recommendations for physical educators and physical education teacher…
Descriptors: Social Media, Physical Education Teachers, Communities of Practice, Faculty Development
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Rochelle Gregory; Kristen Weinzapfel – Journal of College Academic Support Programs, 2024
Like many of its contemporaries across the state, North Central Texas College's (NCTC) English and math faculty were committed to the promise of corequisite education and its students' success as outlined by the Dana Center, but they also understood the obstacles to implementing, assessing, and scaling its corequisite courses. NCTC's English and…
Descriptors: Required Courses, Mathematics Teachers, English Teachers, College Faculty
Barrett, Sharon Kebschull – Public Impact, 2023
When Dr. Tina Lupton and Dr. Timisha Barnes-Jones joined the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools, Opportunity Culture implementation was happening in the midst of COVID. Lupton, the executive director of professional learning, and Barnes-Jones, the area superintendent for a network of 15 transformation schools, used their experience in other…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Data Use, Achievement Gains, Program Effectiveness
Benjamin W. Cottingham; Heather J. Hough; Jeannie Myung – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2023
Student achievement in California has not rebounded after the precipitous declines of the COVID-19 pandemic, with English language arts (ELA) and math scores remaining well below prepandemic levels. Student attendance has declined dramatically, and trauma and time away from school have led to mental health challenges, delays in social development,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Teacher Collaboration, Coaching (Performance), Educational Improvement
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Newton, Jennifer Ryan; Williams, Mira Cole – Journal of Special Education Technology, 2022
Instagram is a free, online social media application that facilitates social networking. Since Instagram is image dependent, educators create visuals accompanied by captions of up to 2,200 characters. By adding specific hashtags to captions, educator posts are curated by the algorithm into a broad community of practice, colloquially known as…
Descriptors: Social Media, Social Networks, Telecommunications, Faculty Development
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Dick, Lara K.; Appelgate, Mollie H.; Gupta, Dittika; Soto, Melissa M. – Mathematics Teacher Educator, 2022
A group of mathematics teacher educators (MTEs) began a lesson study to develop a research-based lesson to engage elementary preservice teachers with professional teacher noticing within the context of multidigit multiplication. Afterward, MTEs continued teaching and revising the lesson, developing an integrated process that combined lesson study…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Teacher Educators, Faculty Development, Communities of Practice
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D. William Kay; Steven M. Smith; Vurain Tabvuma; Katelynn Carter-Rogers – Strategic Enrollment Management Quarterly, 2024
The Saint Mary's University first-year student success program was developed by its strategic enrollment management (SEM) group to enhance support for first-year students. As an integrated program that implements student success modules into the first-year core curriculum, this initiative has proven to be effective in enhancing student engagement…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, First Year Seminars, Strategic Planning, Enrollment
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Bullard, Lisa G.; Felder, Richard M. – Chemical Engineering Education, 2019
A new chemical engineering faculty member can get a significant career head start by team-teaching the material and energy balance course with a mentor--an excellent instructor who has taught that course many times. The experience gives the mentee modeling and guided practice in research-validated teaching practices, and substantially reduces the…
Descriptors: Chemical Engineering, Team Teaching, College Faculty, Beginning Teachers
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Onodipe, Grace; Robbins, Michelle; Ayuninjam, Gwendoline; Howse, Tashana; Cottrell-Yongye, Adrienne; Curry-Savage, Jayme – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2020
Faculty Learning Communities (FLCs) have gained a lot of attention in higher education. Research has shown that they support student learning, faculty development, and congenial relations among faculty. This paper will shed light on a successful, multidisciplinary FLC comprised of nine faculty members who engaged in Flipped Classroom pedagogy over…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Teacher Collaboration, Flipped Classroom, Instructional Design
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Beatty, Shelley; Clark, Kim; Lines, Jo; Doherty, Sally-Anne – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2020
Communities of Practice are an increasingly common tool used to support novice academics in higher education settings. Initiated in 2015 at a Western Australian University, TLABs is an acronym for 'Teaching and Learning for Level A and B' academic staff and was designed to build a community of practice to mentor junior academics; help them develop…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Teacher Collaboration, Beginning Teachers, Beginning Teacher Induction
Tyler, Burr; Iveland, Ashley; Nilsen, Katy; Britton, Ted; Nguyen, Kimberly; Estrella, Denise; Arnett, Elizabeth – WestEd, 2019
This evaluation report describes a central professional learning strategy that the California NGSS Early Implementers Initiative used to help teachers effectively transition to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). The Initiative's approach to lesson study, called a Teaching Learning Collaborative (TLC), brings together teams of teachers…
Descriptors: Teacher Improvement, Teacher Collaboration, Academic Standards, Science Education
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Wagoner, Bryan; Gummer, Natalie; Rein, Nathan; Thompson, Curtis L.; Czander, Giovanna; Peterfeso, Jill; Pryor, Adam – Teaching Theology & Religion, 2017
A panel at the 2016 American Academy of Religion conference staged, taped, transcribed, and edited this conversation about the challenges and opportunities of teaching in a "nano department"--an undergraduate religion or religious studies department (or combined religion and philosophy department) with only one, two, or three faculty…
Descriptors: Religion Studies, Undergraduate Study, Departments, Curriculum
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Michelle Lee Sprouse – English Journal, 2016
The most common forms of teacher professional development are ineffective and lead to low teacher satisfaction. A critique protocol offers an alternative that intellectually engages teachers and fosters meaningful collaboration at different career stages. This paper discusses the work that should be done before beginning any critique session, as…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Teacher Collaboration, Feedback (Response), Program Effectiveness
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Conderman, Greg – Kappa Delta Pi Record, 2016
Teachers are spending more of their time and making more decisions within teams. Effective teacher-based teams provide academic and behavioral support for students as well as professional development for teachers. Learn how the best teams function.
Descriptors: Teacher Collaboration, Teamwork, Participative Decision Making, Faculty Development
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