Background: Current policy discourses emphasise the importance of evidence in education, including evidencing the impact of teacher professional learning on student outcomes. Randomised controlled trial (RCT) designs are promoted to measure 'impact'. Recent debates about this reflect longer standing methodological disputes. Advocates of…

Achieving the ongoing professional development of teachers is of international concern. Professional development communities (PDCs), also known as professional learning communities, developed as a means of attaining this goal. In 2015, Israel began to implement a teacher development program called Hashkafa that consists of school-based PDCs whose…

This paper focuses on school improvement processes in the context of weekly curricular-based teaching and learning activities outside the classroom -- known as "Draußenschule" or 'outdoor school' -- in three German primary schools. Qualitative interviews were conducted with three teachers two years after implementing the 'outdoor…

This one-page fact sheet presents findings from a two-phase evaluation of the week-long We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution summer institutes during 2009. The institutes evaluated were the Grand Teton Institute, the Iowa Institute, the National Middle School Institute, and two National Elementary Institutes. Two hundred upper…

Purpose, Scope, and Method of Study: The purpose of this study was to understand and describe faculty and other key stakeholders' lived experiences as they pertained to training and preparing online faculty for gaining essential online teaching competencies. This qualitative phenomenological study utilized semi-structured interviews of key…

This doctoral project investigates the impact of Child Adult Relationship Enhancement (CARE) training on teacher behavior management skills, as well as their perceptions of the program. A review of the literature includes research concerning current social emotional learning (SEL) programs, parenting programs, and the role of the therapeutic…

Connected Learning for STEM (CL4STEM) is an innovative project aimed at teacher capacity building in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics involving communities of practice as its component to developing teachers' ability to adopt an innovative approach to science instruction and to implement a novel curriculum. Hence, this study…

The Cognitive Acceleration (or Let's Think) approach to mathematics teaching is a Piagetian programme drawing on Vygotsky's research, developed at King's College London over 30 years ago, along with its associated professional development (PD) programme. This project sought to replicate the original studies conducted 10-15 years earlier and before…

The purpose of this explanatory sequential mixed methods study was to explore K-12 music educators' changes in practice one year after completing a three-week professional development experience in world music education. Results from the quantitative phase of research indicated all participants (n = 10) perceived distinct changes in practice after…

The Billion Oyster Project and Curriculum and Community Enterprise for the Restoration of New York Harbor with New York City Public Schools (BOP-CCERS) seeks to integrate harbor restoration activities with science teachers in order to provide their students with experiential learning through environmental impact in New York City with the vision…

Teacher empowerment is a central issue in relation to the efforts to improve the quality of education. However, teacher empowerment will remain an abstract idea if its implementation is not supported by an appropriate strategy. The demands for a quality education will be unreciprocated if teachers do not have the opportunity to empower themselves.…

This research explores two ongoing professional development (PD) modalities for early childhood teachers and their effect to teachers' performance. We compare training, teacher study groups and a combination of both to a control group in the Albanian preschool context. We aimed to obtain m?r? c?mpl?t? understanding ?f different fac?ts ?f th?…

Pakistan, like many other countries of the world, has continually been criticized for its unproductive professional development (PD) policies and practices for teachers due to low student achievement in science disciplines. A good portion of science teachers (62%) in Pakistan was found to be uncomfortable in teaching the scientific concepts…

Students may benefit from evidence-based interventions to support their classroom learning (Carmago et al., 2016). Additionally, laws and policies, such as the Every Student Succeeds Act (2015) and the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (2006), mandate the implementation of evidence-based practices to improve student outcomes in schools.…

Teachers often struggle to utilize reform-based teaching strategies in their first few years of teaching for many reasons (Ball, Thames & Phelps, Journal of Teacher Education 59, 389-407, 2008; Berlin & White, "International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education" 8, 97-115, 2010; Frykholm & Glasson, "School…