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Abbott, Marilyn L.; Lee, Kent K. – Modern Language Journal, 2022
We describe a longitudinal (5-year) researcher-supported initiative designed to strengthen the research-practice link (RPL) and serve as an effective form of situated professional learning and development (PLD) in adult second language programs. We facilitated the formation of and supported 9 professional reading groups of 6-12 instructors (N =…
Descriptors: Researchers, Faculty Development, Adult Education, Second Language Learning
Yi-Hwa Liou; Claire Sinnema; Joelle Rodway; Ling-Hui Su; Alan J. Daly; Rachel Cann – Journal of Professional Capital and Community, 2025
Purpose: Driven by the need to deepen understanding of the mechanisms driving teacher collaboration for enhancing teacher learning and practices, this study aims to investigate the influence of collaborative organizational conditions, network intentionality and efficacy for leading curriculum learning on teachers' professional growth within the…
Descriptors: Teacher Collaboration, Faculty Development, Communities of Practice, Teacher Attitudes
Tal Carmi; Ainat Guberman; Rachel Cohen Brandeis – Professional Development in Education, 2025
Professional learning communities (PLCs) have become the gold standard of teachers' professional learning. However, their success is far from guaranteed. Little is known regarding the processes that groups of learners undergo to become fully-fledged PLCs. This study followed a teachers' PLC over three years. It shows how the facilitator learned to…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Communities of Practice, Teacher Collaboration, Learning Processes
Anita A. Wager; Brittany Caldwell; Jamie Vescio – Mathematics Teacher Educator, 2024
Acknowledging that our professional development (or methods course) was not going as well as we had hoped was difficult. However, knowing what to do and correcting the problem was even more challenging. This article explains how we engaged teachers in helping us rethink our video club by listening to and acting on their ideas. Through "coffee…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Mathematics Instruction, Video Technology, Clubs
Diana Soares; Amanda Franco; Magda Rocha; Paulo Dias – International Journal for Academic Development, 2024
Faculty development is essential to promote pedagogical innovation and the transformation of teaching practices. The faculty development model presented in this study was guided by three research questions about how scholars engage in institutionally held training opportunities for professional development; how scholars engage with and collaborate…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Institutional Cooperation, Community Development, Communities of Practice
Tocco, Audrey J.; Mehrhoff, Lauren A.; Osborn, Haley M.; McCartin, Lyda F.; Jameson, Molly M. – To Improve the Academy, 2023
Pedagogical metacognition, or the reflective and reflexive actions associated with teaching practice, strengthens the planning, monitoring, evaluation, and adjustment of teaching in higher education faculty. Learning communities are optimal environments to foster this active teaching reflection. This study incorporated pedagogical metacognition…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Teaching Methods, Metacognition, Higher Education
Lee, Lai Har Judy; Rahmat, Rozi Binte; Lin, Li; Lim, Poh Heng; Tan, Toh Hwee – Professional Development in Education, 2023
A networked learning community (NLC) comprises teachers from different schools engaging collaboratively in purposeful and sustained professional learning. Networked learning entails the construction of knowledge that is new to the members of the group by tapping their collective practitioner knowledge and the public knowledge base. Members can use…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Communities of Practice, Computer Mediated Communication, Foreign Countries
Annwesa Dasgupta; Justin L. Hess; Pratibha Varma-Nelson – To Improve the Academy, 2024
Discipline-based education research (DBER) constitutes bridging theoretical knowledge and educational practice to advance learning while accounting for the contextual features and nuances that are important to a discipline. DBER literacy enables faculty members to understand and apply evidence-based instructional strategies to advance student…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Grants, Intellectual Disciplines, Educational Research
Oakley, Grace; King, Ronnel B.; Scarparolo, Gemma E. – Teacher Development, 2023
This article reports on a study of a teacher professional development (TPD) course that combined digital courseware with a face-to-face professional learning community. The aim of the course, implemented in a developing country, was to improve teacher knowledge and practice in early childhood literacy and numeracy. Using interview and…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Communities of Practice, Courseware, Blended Learning
Joshua W. Reid; Allison B. Hardee; Brett A. Criswell; Melody Elrod; Steven B. Berryhill Jr.; Gregory T. Rushton – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2025
Teacher leaders often have to navigate implicit leadership structures within their schools and often move between communities as part of their roles. This study explores how a Noyce Master Teaching Fellow program fostered a sense of empowerment within teacher leaders. The program provided opportunities for the teacher leaders to become legitimate…
Descriptors: Teacher Leadership, Teacher Empowerment, Program Effectiveness, Faculty Development
Wangbei Ye – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2025
This paper explores school principals' use of human resource management (HRM) strategies and their influence on teachers' professional learning communities in X Rural District in China's Shanghai. Semi-structured interviews with 16 school and kindergarten heads showed that school-level contextual factors accounted for school principals' use of HRM…
Descriptors: Principals, Communities of Practice, Faculty Development, Human Resources
Gormley, Clare – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2022
The influence of non-formal professional learning in higher education remains a relatively under-researched area. This paper aims to contribute to the literature by exploring the impact of an implementation of non-formal professional learning operating at an Irish university since April 2017. The initiative--called "The Sipping…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Nonformal Education, Faculty Development
Nelsen, Kiki – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Blended learning is a teaching strategy that broadly consists of the use of multiple methods of delivery, often including face-to-face and technology-enhanced teaching. Research on the efficacy of blended learning programs has lacked focus in large part due to the ambiguity of the definition. Most existing blended learning research has been…
Descriptors: Teaching Experience, Blended Learning, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
Dena AuCoin; Holli Vah Seliskar – Journal of Faculty Development, 2024
Ongoing professional learning in supportive contexts, such as in Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) has been indicated as effective in promoting reinvigoration in teaching. PLCs are a community of educators that engage in a regular process of learning and reflection, where faculty can work together with peers toward common goals and purposes…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, College Faculty, Well Being, Electronic Learning
Kirsi Pyhältö; Lotta Tikkanen; Henrika Anttila – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2024
Supervision is one of the most important determinants of a successful doctoral process. However, there have been few large-scale survey studies on the development of PhD supervisors. In this study, doctoral supervisors' perceptions of their supervisory competence, professional development activities and professional support from the research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Supervisors, Doctoral Programs, Attitudes