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Sackman, Risa; Gannon, Nancy – Learning Professional, 2023
Most people associate summer with activities that have nothing to do with school, or, if they do, summer school comes to mind -- the remediation variety. Historically, summer school is for struggling students who need to relearn and firm up skills from prior years or for those required to retake a class. But what if it could be reimagined how to…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Acceleration (Education), Faculty Development, School Districts
Janet Kesterson Isbell – Journal of Open, Flexible and Distance Learning, 2024
Research has demonstrated the need to prepare higher education faculty for transitioning from in-person to online modality. Researchers note the need to train faculty in course design, building classroom community, and establishing a teaching presence, among other things. This paper describes a professor's participation in a university-funded…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Electronic Learning, Faculty Development, Instructional Design
Sarah Summers – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2024
This chapter describes a pedagogy-first summer faculty development program designed to support faculty who want to add digital components to a course or academic program.
Descriptors: College Faculty, Faculty Development, Summer Programs, Institutes (Training Programs)
Center for Civic Education, 2019
This one-page fact sheet describes "We the People" professional development opportunities. These include: (1) national summer institutes; (2) state and regional workshops, seminars, and institutes; and (3) advanced content seminars. Participants complete academic readings, attend morning lectures, and participate in afternoon sessions…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Faculty Development, Civics, Institutes (Training Programs)
Reeves, Philip M.; Bobrownicki, Aiyana; Bauer, Melanie; Graham, Mark J. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2020
Visual representations, such as pathway models, are increasingly being used to both communicate higher education science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education program evaluation plans as well as accurately represent complex programs and the systems within which the educational programs reside. However, these representations…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Program Evaluation, Difficulty Level, Stakeholders
Maurer, Trent W. – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic necessitated unprecedented changes to teaching and learning in higher education. SoTL-active faculty were uniquely positioned to leverage their knowledge and expertise to improve teaching and learning during the pandemic not only in their own courses, but through a knowledge mobilization approach also in broader contexts…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Higher Education, College Faculty
Kim, Hee-Jeong – Education Sciences, 2021
Teacher professional learning occurs across various contexts. Previous studies on teacher learning and changes in practice have focused on either classroom contexts or learning communities outside of school, but have rarely investigated teacher learning across multiple contexts. Investigating teacher learning across the double contexts of…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Case Studies, Middle School Teachers, Mathematics Teachers
Athans, Kimberly – English in Texas, 2019
In this article, the author introduces the notion of the balloon metaphor, an exercise she created for preservice writing teachers, in which they reflect upon their writing mentors and their writing journey. The author also discusses three very important issues facing the field of literacy today: teachers are not taught to write, teachers of…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Writing Teachers, Writing Instruction, Preservice Teachers
Kornegay Rose, Krystal; Cahill, Sarah; Baron, Christine – Journal of Museum Education, 2019
Supported by an Institute of Museum and Library Services National Leadership Grant, Mystic Seaport Museum educators present how findings from evaluations of their teacher professional development programs challenged them to reconsider what it means to understand and support teachers' unique professional needs. Included is a discussion of what it…
Descriptors: Museums, Teaching Methods, Teacher Responsibility, Faculty Development
Bang, Megan; Bricker, Leah; Darling-Hammond, Linda; Edgerton, Adam; Grossman, Pam; Gutiérrez, Kris; Ishimaru, Ann; Klevan, Sarah; Lee, Carol; Miyashiro, David; Nasir, Na'ilah Suad; Noguera, Pedro; Payne, Charles; Penuel, Bill; Plasencia, Sara; Vossoughi, Shirin – Learning Policy Institute, 2021
This report provides a set of six design principles, or stances toward learners and learning, that are essential for creating intellectually rigorous and equitable learning settings. These principles provide a holistic framework for designing goals, practices, and activities for summer learning and beyond. The Six Design Principles for Summer…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Program Design, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students
Visnovska, Jana; Cobb, Paul – Mathematical Thinking and Learning: An International Journal, 2019
We report on five-year professional development collaboration with a group of middle-school mathematics teachers during which their views of what constitutes a productive classroom statistical activity changed. The teachers' statistics instruction was initially typical in the US context and focused on producing calculations and following…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Attitude Change, Statistics, Mathematics Activities
Wallace Foundation, 2021
The American Rescue Plan Act has made funds available to states and districts to speed up recovery from the effects of COVID-19, including addressing learning loss. The Wallace Foundation has distilled evidence from its work that may be helpful in informing choices about how to spend those funds, as well as how to implement key strategies. Summer…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Summer Programs
Smith, Tessa; Barrett, Claire – Journal of Faculty Development, 2019
"The Wisconsin Experience Seminar" is an extended-orientation style first-year seminar (FYS) that is intended to support students' transitions to college. The course is held each academic semester at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and is taught by instructors in a variety professional roles at the university. The program is housed…
Descriptors: First Year Seminars, College Faculty, Communities of Practice, Faculty Development
Angela M. Kohnen; Cathie English – English Journal, 2016
This article reports on a weeklong professional development seminar where teachers worked with professionals to understand the way argument functions in different fields.
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Persuasive Discourse, Authentic Learning, English Instruction
Amy Rasmussen; William Eastman – English Journal, 2018
The goal of this article is to share how the authors implemented a summer learning experience designed for the benefit of teachers and students simultaneously at Clear Creek Independent School District in Texas. They facilitated what John Hattie's research recommends: "a community of teachers [that] work together to ask the questions,…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Communities of Practice, Language Arts, Middle School Teachers