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Lucinda Pease-Alvarez; Katharine Davies Samway – Phi Delta Kappan, 2025
Traditional teacher professional development uses a transmission model, in which perceived experts share information with teachers that they are then expected to use in their work with students. In contrast, collaborative inquiry (CI) invites teachers to work with others to answer questions about their work and how they can improve. Lucinda…
Descriptors: Teacher Collaboration, Inquiry, Faculty Development, Teacher Improvement
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Lynn J. McNair; Simon Bateson; Marlies Kustatscher; John Ravenscroft – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2024
In this paper, we present an argument for Practitioner Inquiry (PI). We briefly introduce PI, and we indicate how PI recasts the professional and political role of the Early Years Practitioner (practitioner). At the core of this article is the work of the early childhood pioneer, Friedrich Froebel (1782-1852). Froebel provided principles to…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers, Faculty Development
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Shah, Vidya – Educational Foundations, 2022
Much of the literature on professional development offers disembodied, secular, detached and technical approaches to teaching and learning. Born of a collective need for healing, meaning and co-inquiry, I joined justice-oriented educators to explore our overlapping experiences as liberatory practitioners and spiritual seekers. We met for over a…
Descriptors: Religious Factors, Justice, Decolonization, Teaching Methods
Berg, Jill Harrison – ASCD, 2022
In "Uprooting Instructional Inequity," noted leadership coach Jill Harrison Berg offers a comprehensive guide to help school and teacher leaders amplify the power of collaborative inquiry as a means for identifying, interrogating, and addressing instructional inequity. At the center of the book is Berg's i3PD Planning Map, an invaluable…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Equal Education, Active Learning, Inquiry
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Abi-Hanna, Rabab; DeJaynes, Tiffany; Gulla, Amanda Nicole – LEARNing Landscapes, 2023
In this article the authors, a Mathematics education professor and two English education professors, describe how we used poetic inquiry in peer-led professional development workshops for field supervisors who observe and evaluate teacher candidates. Poetic inquiry was taken up to better understand our shared experiences of mentoring teacher…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Mathematics Teachers, English Teachers, Poetry
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Polly, Drew; Badiali, Bernard; Burns, Rebecca West; Coler, Cynthia; Cosenza, Michael; Goree, Krystal; Stoicovy, Donnan; Zenkov, Kristien – PDS Partners: Bridging Research to Practice, 2023
In this article, the authors describe a key change from the First Edition to the Second Edition of Essential 3 of the NAPDS Nine Essentials. In the original Essential 3, the concept of "reciprocal professional development" was emphasized to honor PL opportunities that are led by either school-based faculty personnel as well as…
Descriptors: Professional Development Schools, Partnerships in Education, College School Cooperation, Universities
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Cochran-Smith, Marilyn; Lytle, Susan L. – Teaching Education, 2021
In this commentary, the authors aim to connect the provocative topic of this special issue--"'The Village and the World': Research with, for, and by Teachers in an Age of Data" to several key ideas about practitioner inquiry that they have developed and explored over the years. They begin by highlighting three dimensions of their concept…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Teacher Researchers, Inquiry, Data
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Yung-Ju Chen; Xiuye Xie – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2024
This article aims to explain how social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter can be useful setting for effective professional learning communities (PLCs) for physical educators. It also pinpoints the opportunities and challenges of using social media for PLCs and provides recommendations for physical educators and physical education teacher…
Descriptors: Social Media, Physical Education Teachers, Communities of Practice, Faculty Development
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Lim, Joanna; Fickel, Letitia; Greenwood, Janinka – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2022
Little is known about the way that teachers cope with the formalisation of professional inquiry in New Zealand. Despite its systemic implementation as an accountability-driven initiative to improve the quality of education, there are varied interpretations and enactments of professional inquiry. In this article, we will explore one teacher's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Accountability, Educational Policy
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Bar, Carmel; Yarden, Anat – American Biology Teacher, 2023
Large data sets invite students to engage in scientific practices such as question asking, identifying correlations, using visualizations, and practicing data literacy in an authentic context. However, authentic data sets are rarely introduced in the biology classroom. We prepared an online inquiry activity based on authentic gross characteristics…
Descriptors: Animals, Inquiry, Science Education, Multiple Literacies
Anna Rosevsky Saavedra; Amie Rapaport – Phi Delta Kappan, 2024
For many students, project-based learning (PBL) can be more engaging than more traditional instructional approaches. Over the past 15 years, Anna Saavedra and Amie Rapaport studied seven inquiry-based approaches. Their research shows that PBL has a positive effect on students' achievement and development of important soft skills. Schools can…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Learner Engagement, Academic Achievement
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Sarah Haavind – School Science and Mathematics, 2024
According to the Next Generation Science Standards, three-dimensional teaching challenges educators to adopt an inquiry approach through science and engineering practices aligned with disciplinary core ideas and crosscutting concepts. Few teachers today feel confident in their ability to orchestrate such lessons. Teaching inquiry science takes…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Academic Standards, Inquiry, Educational Practices
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Din, Cari; Alharbi, Hawazen; Maclinnis, Martin; Mardjetko, Andrew; Archer-Kuhn, Beth; Jamniczky, Heather; Jacobsen, Michele – Papers on Postsecondary Learning and Teaching, 2022
The Teaching Scholars Program and Community of Practice (TSCoP) develops educational leadership and research through enabling reflective conversations, purposeful listening, inclusive standards, and bold thinking about Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). Teaching Scholars lead innovative practice in their own faculty given their shared…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Leadership, Higher Education, Mentors
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Ecke, V.; von Renesse, C. – PRIMUS, 2022
In this paper, we invite the reader to think deeply about professional development opportunities for faculty. The focus of this professional development is to improve teaching and learning by including more inquiry in the mathematics classroom. Building on theories of teaching and learning, we develop the idea of "teaching procedures"…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Active Learning, Faculty Development, Mathematics Teachers
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Priest, Kerry L.; Chung, Jessica; Gleason, Michael C.; Guthrie, Kathy L.; Navarro, Christine D.; Pierre, Darren E.; Steele, Michelle Cummings; Weng, John – New Directions for Student Leadership, 2021
The confluence of crises facing our global and local communities have challenged leadership educators to think and practice differently. This has meant shifts in how we teach, how we connect with students, and how we understand our role in making change in our institutions and communities. How can we navigate change personally and as a community?…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Practices, Teaching Methods, Inquiry
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