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Saperstein, Evan – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2023
During the 2016 to 2017 school year, the Québec Ministry of Education announced the rollout of a new course, "Financial Education," that would take effect the following September. This sparked a curriculum debate over its potential impact on another Grade 11 course, "Contemporary World." Tasked with preparing educators to teach…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Implementation, Curriculum Development, Educational Administration
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Dierker, Lisa; Nazarro, Valerie; Rosenbaum, Janet; Flaming, Kristin – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2023
The purpose of this study was to inform the dissemination of a project-based statistics curriculum by identifying institutional and instructor characteristics that predict its implementation. Data were drawn from pre- and post-workshop surveys completed by 67 instructors attending a one-and-a-half-day professional development workshop on…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Active Learning, Statistics Education, Curriculum Implementation
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Durden-Myers E. J.; Evans E.; Davies M.; Campbell J.; Swaithes W. – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2025
The Curriculum for Wales became statutory for Welsh schools in September 2022. This study aimed to gather insight from Welsh teachers embedding the New Curriculum for Wales within their context, with a specific focus on the implementation of the Health and Wellbeing (HWB) Area of Learning and Experience (AoLE). Participants included fifteen…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Implementation, Teacher Attitudes, Well Being
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N. Dube; P. Higgs – South African Journal of Education, 2024
In the study reported on here we investigated the impact of Ubuntu on learner behaviour and academic achievement in secondary schools in the Gweru district of Zimbabwe. The study participants comprised 38 learners and 7 teachers from 4 secondary schools in the Gweru district. Data were collected through focus-group discussions, semi-structured…
Descriptors: African Culture, Academic Achievement, Educational Philosophy, Secondary School Students
R. Bud McKendree; Aaron J. McKim – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2021
In this case study, we explored an innovative Professional Development (PD) approach where teachers were positioned as experts and drivers of change. Simplified as Participatory PD, Michigan State University Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources (AFNR) Education faculty constructed an experience for Michigan AFNR Educators following the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Faculty Development, Extension Education, Grounded Theory
Talbert, Christina – Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access (Smithsonian Learning Lab), 2020
This post-professional development evaluation study (based on in-depth interviews) assessed the experience of ten educators who had participated one year earlier in workshops about the use of museum digital resources through the Smithsonian Learning Lab (SLL) for curricula development. The project focused on creating SLL collections to integrate…
Descriptors: Ethnic Studies, Learning Laboratories, Teacher Workshops, Museums
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Glynn, Cassandra, Ed.; Spenader, Allison, Ed. – Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, 2023
The 2023 Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages was held in Columbus, Ohio on March 9-11. This year's theme, Empathy, Equity, and Empowerment is reflective of the vital work educators do in classrooms every day across the country. The Wikipedia definition of empathy is "the capacity to understand or feel what another…
Descriptors: Empathy, Equal Education, Empowerment, Cultural Awareness
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Winks, Lewis; Warwick, Paul – Policy Futures in Education, 2021
Enabling educators to meet new and challenging times requires fundamental shifts to ways of imagining and enacting their practice. A central yet often understated aspect of this educational change are the various ways in which educators receive training and development. From initial teacher training through to continuing professional development,…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Teaching Methods, Faculty Development, Educational Change
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Garraway, James – Higher Education Research and Development, 2017
Though the future cannot be accurately predicted, it is possible to envisage a number of probable developments which can promote thinking about the future and so promote a more informed stance about what should or should not be done. Studies in technology and society have claimed that the use of a type of forecasting using plausible but imaginary…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Prediction, Predictor Variables, Teacher Workshops
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Ortiz, Janel L.; Conkey, April A. T.; Brennan, Leonard A.; Fedynich, La Vonne; Green, Marybeth – American Biology Teacher, 2020
The lack of environmental education in many primary and secondary school systems is likely due to overloaded school curricula, lack of funds, large classroom sizes, and other contributing factors. Through the integration of hands-on activities following the training of teachers, we can improve the impact of environmental education. Our goals in…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Environmental Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Improvement
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Salmon, Gilly; van der Merwe, Antoinette; Schoonwinkel, Arnold – Journal of Learning for Development, 2020
This action research project describes the application of a large-scale collaborative learning design method to a major educational transformation programme at a South African university. Our findings determined that Carpe Diem learning design was an appropriate methodology for contributing to and creating key moments and movements…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Teaching Methods, Intervention, Instructional Design
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Sánchez-Naranjo, Jeannette – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2022
Recent scholarship in professional development (PD) has advocated for solid conceptual frameworks and understanding of the complex process involved in how language educators may continue to develop and fulfil the current challenging teaching demands. However, specific relationships underlying departmental cultures and how language educators relate…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Educational Change, Outcomes of Education, Second Language Learning
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Sdunzik, Jennifer; Johnson, Chrystal S.; Kong, Ningning N. – History Teacher, 2021
United States history classrooms have the potential to simultaneously foster an understanding of students' cultures and experiences today in relation to the nation's history and develop critical thinking and technology literacy. Yet classroom materials and instructors tend to avoid, ignore, or misrepresent controversial topics such as race and…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, History Instruction, Academic Achievement, African American History
Ferreras, Ana; Kessel, Cathy; Kim, Myong-Hi – National Academies Press, 2015
On July 15-17, 2012 the United States National Commission on Mathematics Instruction and Seoul National University held a joint Korea-U.S. workshop on Mathematics Teaching and Curriculum. The workshop was organized to address questions and issues related to math teaching and curriculum that were generated by each country, including the following:…
Descriptors: Mathematics Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Textbook Preparation, Teacher Workshops
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Jaffe, Nick – Teaching Artist Journal, 2011
This article presents an artist-centered approach to thinking about teaching artist professional development. This framework is intended both as a concrete basis for actual workshops and courses and as a scalable concept for more in-depth curriculum for the development of TA practice. The author addresses it as much to working TAs (who are the…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Artists, Art Teachers, Educational Objectives
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