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Marshman, Margaret; Bennison, Anne; Goos, Merrilyn – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2022
Prospective secondary mathematics teachers in Australia are typically taught by mathematics educators and mathematicians who work in different faculties and seldom collaborate--a situation that can lead to conflicting views about how to teach mathematics. This paper reports on findings from semi-structured interviews with three mathematics teacher…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Teacher Educators
Garofalo, Linda; Nourse, Danute M.; Garofalo, Mary – Journal of Catholic Higher Education, 2021
Current research suggests that faculty development should address a cross-section of personal and professional needs of the faculty, as well as support the institution's mission. Using evidence to support faculty development can foster reflective practitioners and close the gap between teaching and research by creating "sustainable…
Descriptors: Institutional Mission, Faculty Development, Reflective Teaching, Sustainability
Stoller, Aaron – Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies, 2020
While the scholarship of interdisciplinarity has grown prolifically in the last thirty years, the discourse primarily frames interdisciplinarity as an instrumental research construct. In this article, I will argue that this framework should be expanded to consider how interdisciplinary engagement can support education for democracy. The article…
Descriptors: Democracy, Interdisciplinary Approach, Educational Philosophy, Guidelines
Orchard, Janet; Williams, Amanda; Christopher, Kate; McKeown, Shelley; Jackson-Royal, Rachael; Wright, Kathryn; Wan, Sally Wai-Yan; Davids, Nuraan – British Journal of Religious Education, 2021
We present a distinctive approach to knowledge exchange used in the 'Shared Space' project; an inter-disciplinary researcher-teacher partnership using Allport's contact theory contact theory as a lens to interpret teachers' self-reported practice in the subject Religion and Worldviews (RWE). By so doing, we created new professional knowledge and…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Intergroup Relations, Epistemology, Interdisciplinary Approach
Wheeler, Kathryn A.; Hall, Georgia; Naftzger, Neil – Afterschool Matters, 2022
Out-of-school time (OST) programs can play an important role in fostering the development of literacy skills among children and youth. To investigate the variety of literacy skill-building strategies OST programs use, researchers from the National Institute on Out-of-School Time (NIOST) examined the practices of 31 programs in Massachusetts. This…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, After School Programs, Elementary School Students, Educational Quality
Rojas, Natalia M.; Morris, Pamela; Balaraman, Amudha – AERA Open, 2020
Achieving high-quality preschool at scale is challenging; to do so likely entails a combination of program standards, teacher qualifications and compensation, on-site quality monitoring, and professional development (PD). This study aims to examine the impact of investments in PD within the context of an expansion of universal preschool in one of…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Access to Education, Evidence Based Practice, School Districts
Boman, Jennifer; Currie, Genevieve; MacDonald, Ron; Miller-Young, Janice; Yeo, Michelle; Zettel, Stephanie – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2017
In this chapter we describe the Decoding the Disciplines Faculty Learning Community at Mount Royal University and how Decoding has been used in new and multidisciplinary ways in the various teaching, curriculum, and research projects that are presented in detail in subsequent chapters.
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Communities of Practice, Interdisciplinary Approach, Teaching Methods
Payne, Brian K.; Mayes, Lisa; Paredes, Tisha; Smith, Elizabeth; Wu, Hongyi; Xin, ChunSheng – Journal of Cybersecurity Education, Research and Practice, 2021
The Center for Cybersecurity Education and Research at Old Dominion University has expanded its use of high impact practices in the university's undergraduate cybersecurity degree program. Strategies developed to promote student learning included learning communities, undergraduate research, a robust internship program, service learning, and…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Information Security, Computer Security, Information Science Education
Ralston, Nicole C.; Smith, Rebecca; Naegele, Zulema; Waggoner, Jacqueline – TESL-EJ, 2019
This research investigates teacher implementation of the Guided Language Acquisition Design (GLAD) model over time and after teachers received a unique combination of additional GLAD training, coaching, and collaboration. Teachers who took part in this in this study had previously received an initial full-week, intensive GLAD training; however,…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Teacher Collaboration, Models, Second Language Learning
Grabman, Rebecca; Stol, Talia; McNamara, Annie; Brahms, Lisa – Journal of Museum Education, 2019
This article describes Children's Museum of Pittsburgh's multi-phase approach to developing professional development (PD) for its maker educators. Researchers engaged maker educator staff in research-practice partnerships at each stage of the process, with the intention of supporting maker educators in developing their practice. Grounded in…
Descriptors: Museums, Faculty Development, Theory Practice Relationship, Sociocultural Patterns
Kirsten, Nils – Education Inquiry, 2019
This study examined how teachers relate literacy teaching to their ordinary subject teaching in professional development settings. The study is conducted within the large Swedish professional development program the Literacy Boost (in Swedish "Läslyftet"), which can be viewed as an example of an international focus on reading ability…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Literacy Education, Faculty Development, Program Descriptions
Williams, Stacy A. S.; Staulters, Merry L. – Journal of Educational & Psychological Consultation, 2014
The primary to high school student population in Jamaica has become more academically diverse, and schools are experiencing the pressures of implementing reform programs without adequate financial and professional development support. The schools facing the greatest challenges and needs in Jamaica are often those in the rural areas. Researchers…
Descriptors: Rural Education, Foreign Countries, Interdisciplinary Approach, Consultation Programs
Martin-Prudent, Angi; Lartz, Maribeth; Borders, Christina; Meehan, Tracy – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2016
Early identification and appropriate intervention services for children who are deaf or hard of hearing significantly increase the likelihood of better language, speech, and social-emotional development. However, current research suggests that there is a critical shortage of professionals trained to provide early intervention services to deaf and…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Hearing Impairments, Evidence Based Practice, Social Development
Coyle, Do; Halbach, Ana; Meyer, Oliver; Schuck, Kevin – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2018
This article explores how a group of educators and researchers enacted an inclusive process of conceptual growth involving teachers and teacher educators as active agents, knowledge builders and meaning-makers in the development of a Pluriliteracies approach to Teaching for Learning (PTL). The evolution of a working model based on five emergent…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Multiple Literacies, Criticism, Second Language Learning
Carrejo, David J.; Reinhartz, Judy – Teacher Development, 2014
Thirty-five elementary teachers participated in a yearlong professional development (PD) program that was designed to foster a culture of on-going teacher learning to promote the co-development of science and language literacy for English language learners (ELL). An explanatory design methodology was used to determine the degree to which science…
Descriptors: Scientific Literacy, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Reading Tests