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Martin H. Smith; Gemma Miner; Lynn Schmitt-McQuitty – Journal of Extension, 2023
Curricula are planned and written by curriculum developers; they serve as instructional guides for educators. Educators make adaptations to written curricula to meet learners' needs and achieve intended learning outcomes. The efficacy of curriculum adaptations is enhanced when educators have a high pedagogical design capacity, which can be…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Faculty Development, Curriculum Development, Teacher Collaboration
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Meixia Ding; Rongjin Huang; Catherine Pressimone Beckowski; Xiaobao Li; Yeping Li – ZDM: Mathematics Education, 2024
Lesson study (LS), a teacher-oriented, student-focused professional development (PD) approach that originated in Japan, has spread globally. However, existing literature on the implementation of LS and its effectiveness provides inconsistent results, suggesting a need to review current research on LS. With a focus on LS in mathematics education,…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Teacher Improvement, Teacher Collaboration, Faculty Development
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Lili Zhou – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2023
What mathematics is and how to teach it are questions that mathematics educators constantly confront. A challenge identified in mathematics education is supporting students to see mathematics as normal human activity. Mathematics educators' viewpoints of mathematics determine whether they can recognize and exploit learning opportunities for…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Informal Education, Females, Teacher Collaboration
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Fang, Yanping – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2022
Drawing on discourse analysis and interview data, this case study uncovers how a lesson study team, supported by a curriculum specialist and an experienced teacher, anchored anticipating of student learning in sound curriculum deliberation, which enabled novice teachers to teach effectively inferencing skills, a highly demanding domain, through an…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Teacher Collaboration, Inferences, Skill Development
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Mairéad Hourigan; Aisling M. Leavy – Professional Development in Education, 2024
Changes in society demand constantly evolving education systems. Teachers' practice is crucial to the successful implementation of educational reforms. A major obstacle for practicing teachers in implementing reform mathematics is that they have not experienced it themselves as learners. Consequently, teachers require extended, practice-based…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Urban Schools, Self Evaluation (Groups), Faculty Development
Zak Pearson – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this Action Research study was to investigate and examine how expatriate educators can make western curriculum more relevant and contextual for Chinese students to increase student engagement and learning outcomes through professional learning communities (PLCs) at a Chinese international school. The study examined experiences of…
Descriptors: Program Design, Communities of Practice, Foreign Nationals, High School Teachers
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Evert, Kimberly; Ellefson, Nicole; Hadlock, Benjamin – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2022
External accountability pressures force school leaders to examine how they support effective teacher practice. Providing collaborative work time to evaluate student performance and plan for future teaching has been a common strategy to support teacher practice. We assess how teachers from two districts with differently-structured curricular…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Lesson Plans, Leadership Responsibility, Cooperative Planning
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Smith, Mariah; Peterson, Donna J.; Downey, Laura H. – Journal of Extension, 2020
The lesson study methodology allows Extension educators to reflect on instructional practices and gather formative data that can be used to refine curricula. We trained Extension educators and formed a community of practice (CoP) of agents who used the lesson study method to inform improvements of a 4-H coding curriculum. The CoP planned and set…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Extension Education, Teacher Collaboration, Communities of Practice
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Sullanmaa, Jenni; Pietarinen, Janne; Lipponen, Lasse; Soini, Tiina; Pyhältö, Kirsi – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2022
Teacher learning is crucial in terms of good quality education in early years and, respectively teachers' professional communities are crucial for teacher learning. The meaning of engagement in collaborative learning and resources available in professional community are emphasized in educational reforms. In this study, we explored teachers'…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Primary Education, Correlation
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Chen, Licui – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2020
Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) have been recognized as a promising infrastructure for teacher professional development and student achievement. There has been increasing research interest in PLCs outside mainstream Western contexts. Based on literature and documentary analysis, this paper outlines the historical development of PLCs in…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Academic Achievement, Faculty Development, Lesson Plans
Bond, John Kenneth – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This non-experimental, descriptive study examined the effect(s), if any, that professional learning communities have had on the professional practices of secondary (grades 9-12) mathematics teachers in Boone, Clay, Putnam, and Kanawha counties in West Virginia. Also investigated were the potential differences in instructional-practice change(s)…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Secondary School Mathematics, Curriculum Development, Secondary School Teachers
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Sadik, Olgun – Contemporary Educational Technology, 2021
This research was designed and conducted considering the theoretical and practical suggestions of design-based research (DBR) methodology and aimed to identify and address problems in a one-semester technology integration course at a Midwest university in the US. Community of practice (CoP) was used as the theoretical framework in this research to…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Teacher Collaboration, Teacher Educators, Teacher Education Curriculum
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Helmbold, Erika; Venketsamy, Roy; van Heerden, Judy – Perspectives in Education, 2021
Lesson Study is an internationally recognised professional development approach for teachers. This case study explores the impact of implementing Lesson Study in the early grades of a South African primary school, pertinently targeting early childhood mathematics teachers. The evidence suggests that Lesson Study has the potential to positively…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Elementary School Teachers, Primary Education, Mathematics Teachers
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Kumm, Brian E.; Harmon, Laurlyn K.; Evans, Katherine; Plunkett, Daniel; Widuch, Daniel – Schole: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education, 2019
Collaboration is commonly viewed as a valuable and necessary yet complex and challenging aspect of faculty life in the contemporary academy. The value of collaborative efforts is often tied to tangible, measurable outcomes as a principle marker of success (e.g., increased publications, larger grant awards, and closer conformity to defined…
Descriptors: Teacher Collaboration, Communities of Practice, Sense of Community, Self Concept
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Szeto, Elson; Sin, Kenneth; Leung, George – Professional Development in Education, 2021
This paper aims at extending the understanding of principal leadership in support of teachers' development of robot-based pedagogy for students in a cross-school professional learning community (PLC) of Hong Kong's special education. Sixty representative teachers from over 30 special schools, that is 50% of the total number of special schools,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Collaboration, Communities of Practice, Special Education
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