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Anna Stodter; Ed Cope; Robert C. Townsend – Professional Development in Education, 2024
There is a clear need to design more effective professional learning environments, particularly in sport coaching as a developing educational profession. The purpose of this study was to investigate the interplay between theory-informed pedagogic design, the role of the coach developer, and sport coaches' perceived learning in a Higher Education…
Descriptors: College Athletics, Athletic Coaches, Professional Education, Faculty Development
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O. Avidov-Ungar; S. Hadad; T. Shamir-Inbal; I. Blau – Professional Development in Education, 2025
This mixed-method study is based on interviews with 60 elementary-school teachers who participated in TPD (Teacher professional development) during two periods of the COVID-19 pandemic. Teachers were in early, middle and senior career stages. Teacher statements revealed three categories: (1) Informal and formal TPD -- without appropriate formal…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Faculty Development, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Hastie, Peter Andrew; MacPhail, Ann; Calderón, Antonio; Sinelnikov, Oleg Anatolievich – Professional Development in Education, 2015
This paper reports on three cases where university teacher educators have provided an ongoing and interactive support system for teachers learning a particular curriculum and instructional model in physical education in their own schools. Located in diverse contexts (Ireland, Spain and Taiwan), each of these initiatives was grounded in the idea…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Educators, Physical Education, Teacher Education
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Sato, Takahiro; Haegele, Justin A. – Professional Development in Education, 2018
The purpose of this study was to investigate in-service physical education teachers' engagement during online adapted physical education (APE) graduate professional development. This study was based on andragogy theory. All participants were in-service physical education teachers enrolled in a state-approved online APE endorsement program at a…
Descriptors: Adapted Physical Education, Physical Education Teachers, Grounded Theory, Teacher Attitudes
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Walsh, Christopher S.; Power, Tom; Khatoon, Masuda; Biswas, Sudeb Kumar; Paul, Ashok Kumar; Sarkar, Bikash Chandra; Griffiths, Malcolm – Professional Development in Education, 2013
Examples of mobile phones being used with teachers to provide continuing professional development (CPD) in emerging economies at scale are largely absent from the research literature. We outline English in Action's (EIA) model for providing 80,000 teachers with CPD to improve their communicative language teaching in Bangladesh over nine years.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Continuing Education, Faculty Development, Telecommunications
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Das, Ajay K.; Gichuru, Margaret; Singh, Ajay – Professional Development in Education, 2013
This study examines the preferences of regular primary and secondary school teachers in Delhi, India regarding professional development delivery modes in the context of inclusive education for students with disabilities. A total of 223 primary school teachers and 130 secondary school teachers responded to a seven-item Likert-type questionnaire,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inclusion, Teacher Attitudes, Faculty Development