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Chandran, Katie Busch; Haynie, Kathy C.; Tawbush, Rachael; Wyss, J. Michael – Journal of STEM Outreach, 2021
A year of COVID-19 quarantine required educators to switch from in-person to virtual learning platforms, causing a dramatic reimagining of their daily praxis. Their experiences are likely to influence new norms for K-12 education. While virtual learning can be effective, student engagement, student retention, and student attention can be…
Descriptors: Asynchronous Communication, Virtual Classrooms, Electronic Learning, COVID-19
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Paulsen, Kim; DaFonte, Alexandra; Barton-Arwood, Sally – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2015
Teacher preparation programs (TPP) rely on school-based mentor teachers and university mentors to assist their teacher candidates with bridging the information presented in courses to the "real world" of teaching. Given the important role that the clinical components of teacher preparation provide in terms of candidate development, the…
Descriptors: Mentors, Program Development, Program Implementation, Teacher Education Programs
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Cho, Moon-Heum; Rathbun, Gail – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2013
Teacher Professional Development (TPD) is critical for educational improvement in higher education. However, one of the main concerns in TPD is that the traditional workshop format constrains active participation and the consequent creation of usable knowledge for teaching. In response to this challenge, we developed a series of teacher-centred…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Case Studies, Teacher Education Programs, Online Courses
Doherty, Iain – Online Submission, 2011
Continuing professional development for teaching is important for institutional renewal, teacher development and student learning improvement. However, our longitudinal research into provision of continuing professional development has shown that the majority of educators who attend professional development workshops do not put what they have…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Teaching Methods, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation
Hezel Associates (NJ1), 2009
In a time of evolving Algebraic standards and expectations for Minnesota teachers and students, the establishment of quality professional development and technical assistance can help educators move more confidently toward greater mathematics understanding and, subsequently, successful teaching and learning. To this end, the Minnesota Department…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Data, Science Teachers, Professional Development
Education Service Center Region 13, Austin, TX. – 1998
Intended for use as staff development for both new and experienced teachers who will participate in mentoring programs, this guide discusses effective mentoring in English education. Section 1 of the guide discusses the Texas Center for Reading and Language Arts and outlines how its multiple projects are designed to share successful strategies and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, English Teacher Education, Group Activities, Instructional Innovation
Holcomb, Edie L. – 1993
Outcomes of the School-Based Instructional Leadership (SBIL) program are described in this paper. The goal of the program is to empower school leadership teams (which include administrators, teachers, and representatives of stakeholder groups) for new roles and relationships as they implement a school-development process within their own contexts.…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Leadership, Professional Development
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Wong, Marina W. – Teacher Development, 2007
This paper reports findings from an investigation of the implementation of "assessment for learning" in classroom music instruction in Hong Kong primary schools, focusing on the changes in assessment practice and music teachers' classroom instruction. Qualitative methodology was employed to document the cases of three music teachers. It…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Music Education, Foreign Countries, Music Teachers
Kirk, James J. – 1991
This paper describes residential week-long seminars offered at the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching (NCCAT) in Cullowhee, North Carolina, Western Carolina University. The center was established in 1985 to reward and support outstanding full-time teachers in North Carolina and to enhance teaching as an art and as a profession.…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Faculty Mobility, Higher Education, Problem Solving
Cook, Kathy; Karr-Kidwell, PJ – 1993
This paper describes the design and implementation of a staff-development program at Vivian Field Junior High School in Carrollton, Texas. The school is a member of the Texas Partnership School Initiative, which was created to give schools latitude in raising student achievement. The goal of the staff-development program was to identify gains in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cooperative Learning, Inservice Teacher Education, Instructional Improvement
Ayers, Jerry B. – 1989
The evaluation of teacher inservice education programs is discussed. Evaluation of an inservice program is aimed at answering questions about the program's effectiveness and providing a description of the impact the experience has on the participants. Curriculum evaluation should be concerned with four kinds of decisions: (1) planning; (2)…
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Formative Evaluation
Lange, Renee T. – 1995
As a practicum project, a developmentally appropriate training model was designed and implemented in a day care facility with 6 staff members, serving 40 children. Following documentation of the problem areas that inhibited application of developmentally appropriate practices in the particular day care setting, appropriate actions were…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Childhood Needs, Classroom Environment, Day Care