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Lara Rodrigues; Stephen M. Pompea; Alejandra Meneses; Maximiliano Montenegro – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2025
Chile is home to most of the world's largest telescopes, and astronomy research is robust in the country. However, astronomy education in Chile is much less mature. As an effort to increase its quality and coverage, more astronomy K-12 teacher professional development (PD) has been offered in Chile in the last decade, but the results of these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Teachers, Astronomy, Faculty Development
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Thomas R. Guskey – Learning Professional, 2024
Political discord, social tensions, and global conflicts compel teachers to guide students in exploring diverse perspectives and engaging in constructive, respectful dialogues. Furthermore, the rapid evolution of technology, particularly artificial intelligence (AI), necessitates teachers and school leaders to consider entirely new paradigms in…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Faculty Development, Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education
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Butcher, Mark – Childhood Education, 2022
Education systems today must prepare every child, everywhere, to thrive in an increasingly complex world. But despite huge increases in education spending over the past two decades, children are not achieving the desired outcomes. A lack of belief and investment has led to widespread demotivation of teachers and officials, as demonstrated by high…
Descriptors: Teacher Motivation, Role Models, Lifelong Learning, Foreign Countries
Rebecca M. Howell; Taylor C. Lauck; Leslie T. Watts – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This capstone project investigates professional development perceptions from the lens of three different participant groups: district administrators, school administrators, and teachers. A literature review identifies PD changes, legislative mandates, and the roles each must play to support teacher growth. The mixed-methods study assesses the…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Faculty Development, School Administration, School Districts
Leslie T. Watts; Rebecca M. Howell; Taylor C. Lauck – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This capstone project investigates professional development perceptions from the lens of three different participant groups: district administrators, school administrators, and teachers. A literature review identifies PD changes, legislative mandates, and the roles each must play to support teacher growth. The mixed-methods study assesses the…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Faculty Development, School Administration, School Districts
Taylor C. Lauck; Leslie T. Watts; Rebecca M. Howell – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This capstone project investigates professional development perceptions from the lens of three different participant groups: district administrators, school administrators, and teachers. A literature review identifies PD changes, legislative mandates, and the roles each must play to support teacher growth. The mixed-methods study assesses the…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Faculty Development, School Administration, School Districts
Lorra Wells – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This multiple case study explored the relationship between school district and school site environments and the character of instructional coaching. Across the US billions of dollars are spent every year on professional development for teachers, and over the last few decades, coaching, as a form of professional development, has grown in…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Coaching (Performance), Instructional Improvement, Program Evaluation
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Toolin, Regina E.; Jorgenson, Simon; Ratmeyer, Stephanie – Electronic Journal for Research in Science & Mathematics Education, 2022
The Vermont STEM Leadership Institute (VSTEM) was designed to provide professional learning and leadership opportunities for K-12 educators teaching primarily in high-need schools. The fundamental premise of the program was to actively engage teachers in constructivist curriculum and pedagogy coupled with authentic scientific research experiences…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Teachers, STEM Education, Faculty Development
Nicole B. McGhee – ProQuest LLC, 2022
As beginning teachers face challenges and seek support, many never receive the guidance needed to help them become effective teachers. Lack of support can build obstacles that lead to job dissatisfaction and failure to retain teachers. Nationwide, states have adopted legislation to require induction programs for new teachers to improve teacher…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Program Evaluation, School Districts, Rural Schools
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Filiz Demirci; Cengiz Özyürek – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2024
The study aims to investigate the influence of the online professional development (PD) program focused on precollege engineering education on science teachers' teaching engineering self-efficacy. A nested mixed research design was employed to conduct the study, in which the basic qualitative design was integrated into a weak experimental design…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Development
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Deepti Tagare; William R. Watson – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2024
This design case describes an online synchronous teacher training on computational thinking (CT) skills for a community of practice (CoP) of in-service teachers in India. The training used gamification, reflection, and localization as instructional strategies. The purpose of this training was to help in-service K-12 teachers identify…
Descriptors: Gamification, Computation, Thinking Skills, Communities of Practice
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James, Wendy; Tunison, Scott – Professional Development in Education, 2023
While there is widespread agreement about the need to evaluate professional development, actual evaluation remains rare, despite the fact that K-12 school districts invest in professional development as the main mechanism to grow teacher practice and improve student learning. This article explores research literature about why current mechanisms…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Individuals), Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Faculty Development
Javan Marquese Childs – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The number of Black males serving in the principal position drastically declined following the ruling of Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, which led to the desegregation of public schools. This unexpected outcome of Brown v. Board of Education caused Black educators to lose their jobs after being deemed unqualified to serve as teachers and…
Descriptors: Principals, Blacks, Males, Elementary Secondary Education
Dicdiquin, Juana B.; Mobo, Froilan D.; Cutillas, Anesito L. – Online Submission, 2023
This study assessed the effectiveness of a professional development program for junior high school mathematics teachers in the Philippines and analyzed their achievement test results in Mathematics. The study aimed to identify the factors affecting the quality of mathematics instruction and propose solutions to these challenges. The study found…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, Faculty Development, Junior High School Teachers
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Irby, Beverly J.; Pashmforoosh, Roya; Druery, Donna M.; Eljaouhari, Nariman; Tong, Fuhui; Lara-Alecio, Rafael – International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments, 2022
As a major component of leadership development, professional development (PD) support needs more researchers to focus on possible ways to build school leaders' instructional capacity. Despite the increasing use of virtual professional development (VPD) as venues for leadership development, little is known about the essential components of an…
Descriptors: Leaders, Principals, Faculty Development, Online Courses
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