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Rebecca J. Landa; Danika Pfeiffer; Calliope Holingue; Emily Baker – Journal of Early Intervention, 2024
A majority of children's language learning experiences occur in inclusive early child care and education settings. Few evidence-based professional development (PD) programs exist to empower early childhood education providers to use language instruction practices with children in inclusive classrooms. There is little research on providers'…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Behavior Modification, Child Language, Inclusion
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Angela Kathleen McNichol; Reinekke Lengelle; Rob F. Poell – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2024
This integrative literature review aimed to synthesise published research on the use of expressive, reflective and creative writing in a career context, known as Career Writing. Studies included English-language research from peer-reviewed journals published between 1990 and 2020 with intervention(s) involving writing for personal and professional…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Career Counseling, Intervention, Expressive Language
Quinn, Emily D.; Cook, Alexandria; Wiedrick, Jack; Rowland, Charity – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2021
Purpose: The goal of this study was to investigate the initial feasibility of the Communication Matrix Professional Development Program (CMPDP), an online program created to help educational professionals teaching students with complex communication needs. Method: A one-group pretest-posttest design was employed with 102 educational professionals…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Speech Language Pathology, Allied Health Personnel, Individualized Education Programs
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Eldevik, Sigmund; Ondire, Iwona; Hughes, J. Carl; Grindle, Corinna F.; Randell, Tom; Remington, Bob – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2013
Although Discrete-trial Teaching (DTT) is effective in teaching a many skills to children with autism, its proper implementation requires rigorous staff training. This study used an interactive computer simulation program ("DTkid") to teach staff relevant DTT skills. Participants (N = 12) completed two sets of pre-tests either once (n = 7) or…
Descriptors: Autism, Imitation, Computer Simulation, Teaching Methods
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Turner, Rebecca; Brown, Tony; Edwards-Jones, Andrew; Hughes, Julie; Banks, Alison; Bardsley, Janet; Bryan, Yvette; Gray, Claire; Isaac, Amanda; Mann, Judith; Mason, Maureen; McKenzie, Liz; Osborn, Julie; Rowe, Martin; Stone, Mark; Wilkinson, Rachel – Professional Development in Education, 2015
The diversification of settings in which higher education is delivered has resulted in a growing proportion of lecturers entering teaching from professional backgrounds. This is a challenging transition as lecturers are rarely given the space to consider the implications of this move on their identities and practice styles. Writing is recognised…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Professional Development, College Faculty
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Slomp, David Hendrik; Graves, Roger; Broad, Bob – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2014
Over three days, 180 junior and senior high school English teachers, postsecondary (university and college) writing instructors, workplace (corporate and small business) writing instructors, and government officials who are responsible for portfolios related to workforce training and literacy met to understand from a broad systems-level…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Processes, Writing Instruction, Writing Teachers
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Bolton, Gillie – Educational Action Research, 2006
An effective mode of reflective practice and reflexivity is through personal professional narrative and story exploration. All professional and personal experience is naturally storied; telling or writing stories are prime human ways of understanding, communicating and remembering. Narratives of vital or key areas of professional experience can be…
Descriptors: Expressive Language, Reflective Teaching, Writing Instruction, Ethics
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Kynigos, Chronis – International Journal of Computers for Mathematical Learning, 2007
This article illustrates how four teacher educators in training were challenged with respect to their epistemology and perceptions of teaching and learning mathematics through their interactions with expressive digital media during a professional development course. The research focused on their experience of communally constructing artifacts and…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Mathematical Models, Epistemology, Teacher Educators
Stremel, Kathleen; Wilson, Rebecca – 1998
This workbook for developing communication in learners with severe disabilities is from the Mississippi Early Education Program for Children with Multiple Disabilities, a program designed to train Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Part H service coordinators and service providers to use family centered strategies. The objective of the…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Concept Teaching, Early Intervention, Expressive Language