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Kyung Hee Park; He Li; Chang Liu – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: As university faculty faced new challenges, such as rapid digital social and the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) response, this study aimed to identify the daily changes in the interaction between the faculty and the organizational environment (colleague, policy and new issue) by exploring their recent dynamic educational efforts and…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Informal Education, Faculty Development, Lifelong Learning
Gretchen S. Goode; Laurie MacGillivray; Margaret S. Curwen; Amy Lassiter Ardell; Leslee K. Bailey-Tarbett – Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice, 2024
In this study, we explore systems thinking maps as a local literacy practice in a systems thinking professional development institute for PreK-8 teachers. Existing literature underscores the necessity of equipping teachers with a robust understanding of systems thinking; this study addresses a call in the research to find ways to do so. Rooted in…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Thinking Skills, Concept Mapping, Literacy
Lars Bjørke; Øyvind Førland Standal; Kjersti Mordal Moen – Educational Action Research, 2023
Although reflection has a key position in the development of teachers' pedagogical practices, few studies have investigated the development of physical education teachers' reflections over time. Against this backdrop, this study seeks to answer the following research question: "How does a one-year participatory action research project using…
Descriptors: Student Centered Learning, Physical Education Teachers, Reflection, Participatory Research
Pischetola, Magda; Møller, Jeppe Kilberg; Malmborg, Lone – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
Professional development programs for teachers in higher education are often characterized by top-down approaches, which fail to make appreciable differences in teaching practices. This study uses a qualitative approach to explore activity-oriented design (AOD) as an instrument for collaborative learning in higher education teacher professional…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, College Faculty, Cooperative Learning, Learning Activities
Paula Guerra; Ignacio Figueroa Céspedes; Pablo Zamora; María Paz González – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2024
Research shows that Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) foster teachers' professional learning. However, there is little knowledge about their implementation among early childhood (EC) teachers in Chilean and Latin American contexts. This article seeks to characterize two PLCs composed of EC teachers and to analyse, from the participants'…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Faculty Development, Communities of Practice, Teacher Attitudes
Puspha Sinnayah; Trudy Ambler; Kate Kelly; Loretta Konjarski; Kathy Tangalakis; Andrew Smallridge – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2024
The literature indicates that collaborative activities can support professional learning (PL) for academics teaching in higher education (HE). Nevertheless, limited approaches for collegial PL exist that can be embedded in the day-to-day work of busy academics. This paper reports on an evidence-based approach to practice that was undertaken to…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Faculty Development, Higher Education, Cooperative Learning
Elizabeth Drolet – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The aim of this action research study is to link research to action in order to meet individual learner needs through the creation of collaborative inquiry based teams that seek to provide equitable learning experiences through differentiated instructional practices. Key findings include the results of the primary goal of this study, which was…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Communities of Practice, Inquiry, Equal Education
Huang, Xianhan; Lai, Chun; Wang, Chan; Xu, Guonian – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2023
Although informal teacher learning (ITL) has been deemed critical for teachers in various contexts, it remains unknown how different kinds of ITL are associated with teacher self-efficacy, and how these relationships differ between public school teachers and private school teachers. Based on sociocultural theory and reflection theory, this study…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Teacher Education, Self Efficacy, Public School Teachers
Bragg, Leicha A.; Lang, Josephine – Mathematics Teacher Education and Development, 2018
(Re)designing mathematics assessment tasks that prepare pre-service teachers for teaching and offer learning opportunities for developing pedagogical practice is a challenging endeavour for teacher educators. Collaborative, reflexive peer learning teams provide expertise and support in advancing effective curriculum work, such as assessment tasks.…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Cooperative Learning, Teacher Educators, Reflection
Buchholz, Andrea C.; Wolstenholme, Janet; Varghese, Jeji; Robinson, J. Andrew; Spencer, Jennifer; Reniers, Jennifer – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2019
Abstract Educational Leadership in Teaching Excellence (EnLITE) is an 11-month faculty development program at the University of Guelph, Ontario. Created and led by faculty members and educational developers, EnLITE is designed to engage participants in the principles, practice and theory of teaching and learning in higher education and to promote…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Foreign Countries, Teacher Effectiveness, Student Centered Learning
Jessie Marie Cline – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The problem addressed is that inclusive classrooms lack consistent, collaborative learning opportunities for students with an identified learning disability (LD). A qualitative narrative inquiry was completed to collect teachers' stories and experiences. This study was framed by Vygotsky's social development theory, Bandura's theory of…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Students with Disabilities, Child Development, Sociocultural Patterns
Liu, Qingtang; Zhang, Si; Wang, Qiyun; Chen, Wenli – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2018
Teachers' online discussion text data shed light on their reflective thinking. With the growing scale of text data, the traditional way of manual coding, however, has been challenged. In order to process the large-scale unstructured text data, it is necessary to integrate the inductive content analysis method and educational data mining…
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Data Collection, Data Analysis, Discourse Analysis
Solheim, Ksenia; Roland, Pål; Ertesvåg, Sigrun K. – Educational Research, 2018
Background: Improvement in classroom interaction is a significant part of teacher profession that is often overlooked. The Norwegian Ministry of Education established a national initiative to develop lower secondary schools in the fields of reading, writing, numeracy and classroom management from 2012 until 2017. It provides a context where…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Classroom Communication, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
Vandegrift, Eleanor V. H.; Mulnix, Amy B.; Yates, Jennifer R.; Chaudhury, S. Raj – To Improve the Academy, 2018
Working remotely and collaboratively, our interdisciplinary team created an educational development workshop, "Thinking Skills for the 21st Century: Teaching for Transfer," in which participants not only experience, apply, and reflect on teaching across educational settings but also connect this work to principles that have been…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Cooperative Learning, Teamwork, Educational Development
Kowalski, Susan; Busey, Amy; Goldsmith, Lynn; Bates, Meg; Beilstein, Shereen; Perry, Michelle – Community for Advancing Discovery Research in Education (CADRE), 2017
Online modes of teacher professional development (PD) have gained prominence in recent years for their potential to transform and expand access to high-quality resources and experiences that positively impact teachers' knowledge, beliefs, instructional practices, and ultimately, student learning. However, with the increasing demand for and…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Online Courses, Preschool Education, Elementary Secondary Education