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Xiaowan Jin; Xiaowei Tang; Bojun Yu; Zuomin Li; Jianqiu Chen; Zuanbiao Zhu; Bin Zhu; Meijuan Chen; Bangping Ding – Science Education, 2025
This study examines Chinese primary science teachers' professional learning experience in a web-based community of practice established and run by practitioners, with support from teacher researchers. Over time, it has grown into a preferred knowledge-sharing base for primary science teachers of the region and gradually gained national…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Communities of Practice, Elementary School Teachers, Science Teachers
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Emily Byers-Ferrian; Shannon Keeny – Learning Professional, 2024
Eighteen people from different countries sat in a circle of chairs in a room facing the Sea of Moyle, some having traveled far to reach Ballycastle, Northern Ireland, for a week of learning about skillful responses to conflict and living better together across differences. Addressing the group, which included the authors, was Colin Craig, founder…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Conflict, Faculty Development, Change Agents
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Kozhakhmet, Sanat; Moldashev, Kairat; Yenikeyeva, Aisulu; Nurgabdeshov, Assylbek – Studies in Higher Education, 2022
The use of corporate management practices in higher education has led to spread of result-oriented practices to improve research productivity, including publication rewards and requirements. In this paper we stress the importance of input and process based approaches by examining the mediating role of research self-efficacy on the relationship…
Descriptors: Productivity, Research, Self Efficacy, College Faculty
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Assel Sharimova; Elaine Wilson – Professional Development in Education, 2025
As a source of social capital, teachers' professional networks have been linked in the research literature with professional learning. Social media platforms have increased teachers' professional networking opportunities, suggesting more space for informal learning. Capturing the experiences of 41 school teachers in Kazakhstan using thematic…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Communities of Practice, Social Networks, Social Media
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Haresnape, Janet M.; Aiken, Fiona J.; Wynn, Nirvana C. – Open Learning, 2022
This study explored the extent to which distance learning tutors found sharing practice through participating in a tutor-led online programme of online events helped them to develop as practitioners and hence support students more effectively. The regular online sessions, delivered by tutors for tutors, was a staff development initiative…
Descriptors: Open Universities, College Faculty, Distance Education, Sharing Behavior
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Underwood, James; Joshevska, Majda – IAFOR Journal of Education, 2019
This article is a case study of the knowledge that is exchanged by teachers when they are engaged in professional communities that extend beyond the workplace, including internationally. The participants in this study were all teachers from England and Macedonia. The data collection method was via interview. This data was thematically coded and…
Descriptors: Professionalism, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, Faculty Development
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Kohnke, Lucas – Online Learning, 2021
While technology use is becoming increasingly common in education, teachers remain reluctant to use technology and hesitant on how best to incorporate it into their teaching and practice. There is a strong demand from institutions for English language teachers to cope with the changing landscape of teaching in the twenty-first century. This…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Professional Continuing Education, College Faculty, Language Teachers
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Remillard, Janine T.; Van Steenbrugge, Hendrik; Machalow, Rowan; Koljonen, Tuula; Krzywacki, Heidi; Condon, Lara; Hemmi, Kirsti – ZDM: Mathematics Education, 2021
We examine teachers' reflections on incorporating digital instructional resources (DIRs) into their mathematics teaching. We analyze qualitative interviews with 39 elementary school teachers from four educational contexts: Belgium, Finland, Sweden, and the U.S., using a framework proposed by Pepin et al. (Int J Math Educ 46: 645-661, 2017) to…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Technology, Educational Resources
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Bilir, Zeynep Topcu; Sop, Ayli?n; Çavus, Zeynep Seda; Basaran, Yagmur – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2022
Children's problem behaviour in the preschool period is a severe obstacle to social-emotional development and a precondition for maladjustment in social relationships during school life. Professionals in the field have been improving existing practices to prevent and intervene in young children's challenging behaviour. To this end, many…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Preschool Curriculum, Social Emotional Learning
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Miranda, Joana P.; Batista, Mariana; Duarte, Cristina; Sanches, Tatiana – Education Sciences, 2021
Peer observation of teaching has been adopted as a method to improve the quality of teaching. It involves observers providing descriptive feedback to their peers on learning and teaching practices. However, although extensively described in the literature in the education field, its use as a tool for development beyond teaching skills has not been…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Higher Education, Feedback (Response), Peer Evaluation
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Schulleri, Phillipa – Asian Journal of Education and Training, 2020
In this paper, a closer look at mentoring in education is presented. The research sample was a team of eleven international teachers who were engaged in mentoring local teachers in a high school for gifted students in Kazakhstan. The purpose of the study was to explore the experiences of international teachers, as they relate their experiences of…
Descriptors: Mentors, High School Teachers, Foreign Nationals, Gifted
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Laleka, Salma – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2019
Schools in post-colonial developing countries have complex and varied problems with the quality of leadership and instruction, calling for unique approaches to improvement. Based on an interventionist-ethnographic study involving three low-fee elementary schools in Pakistan, this paper discusses a model for developing multilevel leadership…
Descriptors: School Administration, Administrative Organization, Instructional Improvement, Elementary Schools
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Zou, Tracy X. P. – Studies in Higher Education, 2019
Professional development for academics has seen a trend towards social engagement through communities and groups, as reflected by a number of increasingly popular concepts: communities of practice, faculty learning communities, and learning and teaching networks. Despite the potential benefits of such engagement, there is a paucity of research on…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, College Faculty, Phenomenology, Communities of Practice
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Al-Mahmood, Reem; Papalia, Gerardo; Barry, Sinead; Nguyet Nguyen, Minh; Roemhild, Juliane; Meehan-Andrews, Terri; Julien, Brianna; Holt, Colleen; Bester, Lucas; Bruce, Chris; Miles, Rebecca; Neilson, Cheryl; Louie, Judy – Higher Education Research and Development, 2020
There has been significant interest in developing academics through Teaching Scholar Development Programs across the USA, Canada, the UK, and more recently in Australia. At their core, such programs develop academics across teaching scholarship, leadership, promotion, and award opportunities, where universities reap the benefits of developing such…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, College Faculty, Program Descriptions, Universities
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Parker, Melissa; Patton, Kevin; O'Sullivan, Mary – Irish Educational Studies, 2016
Signature pedagogies [Shulman, L. 2005. "Signature pedagogies in the professions." "Daedalus" 134 (3): 52--59.] are a focus of teacher educators seeking to improve teaching and teacher education. The purpose of this paper is to present a preliminary common language of signature pedagogies for teacher professional development…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Faculty Development, Communities of Practice, Teacher Education
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