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A Professional Learning Community Approach to Improving English/Language Arts Instructional Planning
Direct linkKotsko, Adrienne – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Simply defined, effective English Language Arts (ELA) instruction is cohesive, integrated, and requires students to think deeply. Creating such instruction is difficult, however, because of insufficient training in instructional planning and the numerous types of curricula teachers must navigate that may not align well. Therefore, new secondary…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Educational Improvement, Language Arts, Instructional Development
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Download full textSummers, Sarah E.; Chenette, Heather C. S.; Ingram, Ella L.; McCormack, Jay P.; Cunningham, Patrick J. – InSight: A Journal of Scholarly Teaching, 2016
Reflection is a high-impact practice in education. This paper explores the premise, approach, and outcomes of a learning community centered on scholarly engagement with the literature of reflection. Using the reflection model operationalized by a national consortium, we developed, implemented, and assessed reflection activities designed to create…
Descriptors: Reflection, Interdisciplinary Approach, Teaching Methods, Educational Practices
Jennifer L. Kobrin – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2016
In winter 2014, I came upon an opportunity to conduct a case study on a team of middle school math teachers who initiated a study group to examine how a set of learning progressions could help them with their planning, instruction, and assessment. Learning progressions are research-based hypotheses about how students develop more sophisticated…
Descriptors: Middle School Mathematics, Middle School Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Communities of Practice
Rob Simon – English Education, 2015
This case study explores an urban secondary literacy teacher's involvement in communities of inquiry over time. I draw on data from a multiyear study that documented the intellectual work of a community of teacher candidates I worked with as an instructor in a literacy methods course and cofounder of an inquiry community they participated in…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, High School Teachers, Case Studies, Communities of Practice
Keppell, Michael, Ed. – Information Science Publishing, 2007
"Instructional Design: Case Studies in Communities of Practice" documents real-world experiences of instructional designers and staff developers who work in communities of practice. "Instructional Design: Case Studies in Communities of Practice" explains the strategies and heuristics used by instructional designers when working…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Communities of Practice, Case Studies, Electronic Learning
Hubball, Harry; Burt, Helen – International Journal for Academic Development, 2004
The purpose of this article is to provide a critical review of the motivating factors, processes and outcomes pertaining to learning-centred curriculum reform in higher education. A case study example is provided from the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of British Columbia. Although academic units on university campuses tend…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Higher Education, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
