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Marcia Håkansson Lindqvist; Peter Mozelius; Jimmy Jaldemark – Discover Education, 2024
In the contemporary digitalised knowledge society, work-integrated professional development is an important and continuous activity. Continuous professional development should preferably be a hybrid format, where academia collaborates with industry and the surrounding society in a multi-directed exchange of ideas. Continuous professional…
Descriptors: Models, Professional Development, Communities of Practice, Higher Education
Karie Brown – Mathematics Teacher Educator, 2024
Lesson study's international popularity spread as a unique, agency-oriented model of teacher professional development that is context-rich and deeply rooted in teacher subjectivities. This project aimed to answer the question, what do mathematics teacher education researchers learn about teacher learning by focusing on uncertainties as they arise…
Descriptors: Decolonization, Communities of Practice, Foreign Countries, Professional Development
Evaluation of Teacher Professional Learning Workshops on the Use of Technology - A Systematic Review
Alireza Ahadi; Matt Bower; Jennifer Lai; Abhay Singh; Michael Garrett – Professional Development in Education, 2024
Teacher professional learning workshops have been frequently used to prepare in-service and pre-service teachers for effective use of technology in education. Evaluation of these workshops is crucial to identify the effectiveness of these programmes in terms of improving teaching skills, increasing knowledge, changing attitudes, and developing…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Communities of Practice, Inservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teacher Education
Adeline Yuen Sze Goh; Alistair Daniel Lim – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2024
Like other health care practices, the increasing complexity in dentistry signals the need for a reconceptualisation of dentist professional learning. Professional dental bodies, at large, still privilege formal continuing professional development (CPD) provisions focusing on off-the-job activities despite growing evidence that much invaluable…
Descriptors: Dentistry, Communities of Practice, Workplace Learning, Professional Development
Martinez, Antonio Estevan; Gehrtz, Jessica; Rasmussen, Chris; LaTona-Tequida, Talia; Vroom, Kristen – Innovative Higher Education, 2022
One way that university mathematics departments across the United States are making efforts to improve their introductory mathematics courses is by implementing or increasing the level of course coordination. This can entail creating uniform course elements for multi-section courses and efforts to build a community of practice among the…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Departments, Coordination, Communities of Practice
Diaz, Raquel Munarriz; Taylor-Jones, Tiffany – ZERO TO THREE, 2022
A community of practice (CoP) is a vehicle for bringing in participants who share a common interest to learn from and grow with each other. In order to have a transformative learning experience, the CoP needs to be facilitated by a humble, credible facilitator. This article examines the role and benefits of a humble, credible facilitator and how…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Facilitators (Individuals), Role, Interaction
Ann MacPhail; Deborah Tannehill; Rebecca Ataman – Professional Development in Education, 2024
We contend that the notion of critical friend is a legitimate consideration with respect to considering how to most effectively encourage professional relationships that support and enhance professional learning and development (PLD). This paper will firstly consider an overarching framework of professional relationships and define…
Descriptors: Friendship, Professional Development, Interpersonal Relationship, Role
Sanyal, Chandana; Haddock-Millar, Julie; Clutterbuck, David; Richardson, Melissa – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2021
As Action Learning has evolved, it has been adapted to promote learning in various contexts. In this account of practice, we share our perspectives as facilitators of the application of action learning principles within Reflective Practice Forums for Mentoring and Coaching Programme Managers. The ethos of action learning was adopted with the…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Teamwork, Mentors, Coaching (Performance)
Glaze-Crampes, Amanda L. – Education Sciences, 2020
In the modern educational era, there is an increasing focus on Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) education. Innovation and workforce preparation play a large role in the push to increase scientific literacy, thinking skills and high-skilled personnel. However, there are ongoing issues with reforming education to meet these goals as…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Professional Development, STEM Education, Higher Education
Gotlieb, Rebecca J. M.; Pollack, Courtney; Younger, Jessica W.; Toomarian, Elizabeth Y.; Allaire-Duquette, Geneviève; Mariager, Nadja M. – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2019
An increasing number of scholars are being trained in the field of mind, brain, and education (MBE), yet discussions of trainees' needs and how to meet them are rare. We, the inaugural International Mind, Brain, and Education Society (IMBES) Trainee Board, identify three broad needs of MBE trainees: guidance and support, greater access to and…
Descriptors: Career Development, Guidance, Communities of Practice, Educational Needs
Harrison, Christine – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2018
Yuli Rahmawati's paper presents an auto-ethnographic inquiry into her lived experiences as a science teacher in different countries. Through her reflections and analysis of events, Yuli captures and builds a model of her identity and explores the influence of inter- and intra-cultural perspectives in shaping how she recognizes herself and brings…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Professional Identity, Professional Development
Olszewski, Todd M. – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2019
Many U.S. colleges and universities have emphasized the value of student-driven undergraduate research as one way to augment the traditional classroom experience. For undergraduate students, human subjects-based research, which typically requires review by an institutional review board (IRB), can have a particularly profound impact on their…
Descriptors: Socialization, Undergraduate Students, Learning Experience, Student Research
Bowe, Julie; Gore, Jennifer – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2017
Conventional professional development, while still in full swing in many places, has been widely maligned for its passive approach to learning, its failure to address local differences, and its often single-event format. While the corrective move to more collaborative models of professional learning has been heralded, few empirical studies to date…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Teacher Effectiveness, Communities of Practice, Teacher Collaboration
Papadopoulou, Marianna – Educational Action Research, 2020
This paper discusses the aims, rationale and aspects of a new Action Research (AR) module developed for level 6, Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) students. The aims of the module are three-fold: First, to support learners in developing the research and academic skills needed to investigate their own practices, generate knowledge and…
Descriptors: Action Research, Professional Development, Professional Identity, Early Childhood Teachers
Kudenko, Irina; Hoyle, Pauline; Dunn, Ben – Contributions from Science Education Research, 2019
This chapter investigates the impact and relative advantages of two engagement models for delivering science-specific PD: school-led partnerships and external-led PD delivered by STEM experts. Traditionally professional development (PD) led by professional education experts has been used to improve the quality of science teaching and learning in…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, School Role, Elementary School Science, Science Instruction