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Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Krutka, Daniel G. – Professional Development in Education, 2015
Traditional, top-down professional development (PD) can render teachers mere implementers of the ideas of others, but there is some hope that the participatory nature of social media such as Twitter might support more grassroots PD. To better understand Twitter's role in education, we conducted a survey of K-16 educators regarding their use of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Publishing, Web Sites, Computer Mediated Communication
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Allen, Ann Sundstrom; Topolka-Jorissen, Kathleen – Professional Development in Education, 2014
This qualitative methods study examined a rural North Carolina elementary school that implemented teacher learning walks as a method of professional development. Adapted from the practice of principal walkthroughs, teachers followed a protocol for collaboratively observing colleagues' classrooms and reflecting on teaching and learning. The…
Descriptors: Capacity Building, Rural Schools, Elementary School Teachers, Faculty Development