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Kevin Proudfoot; Pete Boyd – Professional Development in Education, 2025
How are teachers motivated to continue to learn throughout their career in a high-stakes accountability context? This innovative mixed methods study employs inductive/deductive hybrid thematic analysis and self-determination theory to investigate teachers' self-reported motivations to continue their professional learning. Through analysis of…
Descriptors: Teacher Motivation, Teacher Education, Faculty Development, Accountability
Wangbei Ye; Bin Zhou – Professional Development in Education, 2025
This study aims to portray Master Teachers' experience of teacher professional development in post-1976 China. Interview data were collected from 22 Master Teachers from Shanghai in 2019-2020. Analyses of the findings revealed that these Master Teachers experienced three historical stages of teachers' professional development in China: a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Master Teachers, Faculty Development, Educational Change
Carolina Cuéllar; Andrea Horn; Álvaro González; Juan Pablo Queupil – Professional Development in Education, 2025
Capacity-building has been promoted by the central level in Chile, through a reform that resembles school districts, where the intermediate level is intended to provide pedagogical support for schools. However, this has proven to be challenging due to different visions about what capacity-building looks like and how it relates to school…
Descriptors: Capacity Building, Public Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Change
Katherine Herbert; Luke van der Laan – Professional Development in Education, 2024
The interest in Professional Development (PD) in learning and teaching in Higher Education (HE) has seen an increase in the last few years owing to the evolving role of HE teaching academics in the futures of students and their employment. In Australia, while there is evidence that research in learning and teaching PD is growing, these studies…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Universities
Christopher N. Blundell – Professional Development in Education, 2025
Using digital technologies in teaching and learning is a complex endeavour, and mixed evidence of impact suggests further consideration of related professional learning and development (PLD) is needed. In this endeavour, and more broadly, there are growing calls to frame PLD as complex. Kathryn Strom and Kara Viesca proposed in 2021 a complex…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Faculty Development, Elementary School Teachers, Foreign Countries
Meng Zhang; Allan David Walker; Haiyan Qian – Professional Development in Education, 2023
Promoting teacher professional learning by empowering established master teachers as leaders is a priority in many societies, including America, Australia, and Canada. Yet, few systems have implemented strategies that allow this to happen at scale. China is one of the few societies that engage master teachers in spreading learning. They do this…
Descriptors: Teacher Leadership, Faculty Development, Foreign Countries, Teacher Improvement
F. Saadati; E. Abarca Millán; N. Fuenzalida – Professional Development in Education, 2025
This qualitative exploratory case study focused on a Professional Development (PD) program for mathematics teachers in the public system, which is an underserved community of teachers in Chile. The study aimed to understand how the program addressed the challenges brought by the pandemic. Using semi-structured interviews and drawing from a…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, COVID-19, Pandemics, Faculty Development
Santiago Rincon-Gallardo – Professional Development in Education, 2025
This conceptual article presents a challenge to the dominant view and practice of teacher professional learning and its focus on preparing "experts in teaching" and proposes instead an emphasis on preparing "experts in learning." Drawing on contemporary knowledge on the nature of human learning and development, and in…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Educational Innovation, Foreign Countries, Expertise
Nicole Mockler – Professional Development in Education, 2024
This short reflection explores both the challenges and potentials of teacher professional learning in contemporary times. It argues that the neoliberal logics of professional development as deployed in many contexts around the world limit and curtail the potential for teachers to engage in generative professional learning that fosters growth and…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Teacher Competencies, Foreign Countries, Educational History
Peter Bannister; Mark Carver – Professional Development in Education, 2025
Responding to GenAI technologies, academics press for PLD that informs pedagogical practice and policy development. However, insufficient critical evaluation of whose knowledge informs this and its underlying complexity has resulted in excessively reductive offerings that either champion specific tools or advocate for their prohibition. Engaging…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Faculty Development, English for Academic Purposes, Language Teachers
Giorgio Ostinelli; Alberto Crescentini – Professional Development in Education, 2024
In this article, we analyse teacher professional development in five European countries (Italy, Germany, France, England and Finland), comparing their approaches to teacher professional learning and development (PLD). We performed this task using a general framework based on what several studies highlighted so far as key-features in educational…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Foreign Countries, Teacher Competencies, School Culture
Anders Astrup Christensen – Professional Development in Education, 2025
The concept of professional learning communities (PLCs) has received considerable attention in research as well as in school practice since the late 1990s. PLCs have been positively associated with a variety of outcomes for both teachers and students, but differences in the way the concept is operationalised, and the fact that most of the research…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Teacher Surveys, Foreign Countries, Job Satisfaction
Matt O'Leary – Professional Development in Education, 2024
This conceptual paper discusses 'unseen observation' as an alternative model of classroom observation to support teachers' professional learning. The paper starts with a critical synopsis of how observation has been appropriated principally as a performance management tool for monitoring teacher effectiveness in the UK. It argues that the…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Classroom Observation Techniques, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Evaluation
Gerbert Sipman; Rob Martens; Jürg Thölke; Susan McKenney – Professional Development in Education, 2024
This study explores teachers' awareness of intuition, and how that awareness affects their classroom practices both conceptually and pragmatically. Scholars have long supported the notion that intuition is a crucial form of knowing that supports teaching. Teachers rely heavily on their intuition to deal with complex classroom situations,…
Descriptors: Intuition, Faculty Development, Classroom Techniques, Self Concept
Oriana M. Price; Amanda L. Lizier – Professional Development in Education, 2024
New managerialism and neo-liberal discourses have re-shaped traditional academic practices towards the vocational aspects of higher education. One institutional response to the growing graduate employability policy agenda has been the introduction of work-integrated learning (WIL) within Australian universities, a form of learning to require…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Professional Education, Career Readiness