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Download full textUstuk, Özgehan – Teaching English with Technology, 2022
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) provide digital learning spaces for individualized professional development that may create opportunities in teacher education and support language teachers. Language teachers need continuous professional development to develop their digital literacies, and further research is essential to investigate new…
Descriptors: MOOCs, Case Studies, Faculty Development, Language Teachers
Direct linkSato, 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
Levenson, Esther – Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, 2013
Promoting mathematical creativity is one of the aims of mathematics education. This study investigates the tasks teachers chose when their aim was to occasion mathematical creativity in the classroom. Five cases are described in depth, and general trends found among these cases as well as in additional data are discussed. Findings indicated that…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Creativity, Creative Teaching, Teaching Methods
Brock, Cynthia H.; Pennington, Julie L. – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2014
This study, situated in the United States, is set in a context where large and growing numbers of children from non-dominant backgrounds populate American public schools while the vast majority of teachers teaching in US schools are White, monolingual women who may not have the requisite expertise to teach children from non-dominant backgrounds.…
Descriptors: Whites, Teacher Attitudes, Racial Factors, Cultural Influences
Liu, Michelle; Murphy, Diane – Information Systems Education Journal, 2012
Written and oral communication has been listed as the top explicitly requested skill by employers for a long time. Despite pressure from industry, the gap still exists between the expectations and average written and oral communication skills of current information technology/information systems graduates. This paper addresses the above issues and…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Communication Skills, Fused Curriculum, Information Technology
Brynteson, Kristin – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Teachers in K-12 schools are constantly being challenged to find new and engaging ways to teach students and help them gain the proficiencies needed to be successful in school and the world around them. During the 2010-2011 school year six teachers in a rural Midwestern school district were asked to implement a new six week digital story creation…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Rural Schools, School Districts, Barriers
Vinogradov, Patricia Egan – ProQuest LLC, 2013
In this case study of adult English as a Second Language (ESL) educators, the researcher facilitated a six-week professional development activity around the topic of early literacy instruction. The four participants in the study circle were all LESLLA (low-educated second language and literacy acquisition) teachers whose students are adult…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Kindergarten
Kirell, Leah R. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The following dissertation explores how higher education faculty members' memories of learning content and learning to write influence their pedagogical practices and examines how disciplinary and departmental contexts intersect with those pedagogical practices. The research was designed as a nested case study that draws on interview data,…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Teaching Styles, Memory
Szabo, Susan, Ed.; Martin, Linda, Ed.; Haas, Leslie, Ed.; Garza-Garcia, Lizabeth, Ed. – Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers, 2013
For their 56th annual meeting, the Association of Educators and Researchers (ALER) met in Grand Rapids, Michigan at the Amway Grand Hotel. This year's conference theme was Literacy Is Transformative, which was also used as the title for this year's Yearbook, Volume 35. Included are double-peer reviewed papers, the presidential address,…
Descriptors: Literacy, Reading Instruction, Transformative Learning, Mentors
Kriek, Jeanne; Grayson, Diane – South African Journal of Education, 2009
The state of mathematics and science education in South Africa is a cause for concern. This situation can be attributed, in part, to many mathematics and science teachers' limited content knowledge, ineffective teaching approaches, and unprofessional attitudes. To address these three problem areas simultaneously, a holistic model for the…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Science Teachers, Physical Sciences, Foreign Countries
Brouillette, Liane R.; Burge, Kim; Fitzgerald, William; Walker, Pamela – Journal for Learning through the Arts, 2008
This article explores commonalties between literacy instruction and learning to understand the symbolic languages of the visual and performing arts. A detailed case study of an urban professional development program for secondary arts teachers looks at the learning initiated by writing assignments that prompted students to reflect on arts…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Art Education, Urban Schools, Case Studies
Shea, Kelly A.; Balkun, Mary McAleer; Nolan, Susan A.; Saccoman, John T.; Wright, Joyce – Across the Disciplines, 2006
This article describes a writing-across-the-curriculum project that was born of one university's commitment to writing and ubiquitous computing. Faculty members across the disciplines, seeing an opportunity to re-introduce WAC on its campus through a curriculum development initiative funded out of an internal teaching, learning, and technology…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Writing Instruction, Faculty Development
Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Spector, J. Michael, Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaias, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2013
These proceedings contain the papers of the IADIS International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA 2013), October 22-24, 2013, which has been organized by the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS), co-organized by The University of North Texas (UNT), sponsored by the…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Cognitive Processes, Learning Processes, Short Term Memory
