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Dichter, Alan; Zydney, Janet Mannheimer – Journal of Staff Development, 2015
Educators have begun to use protocols to facilitate professional development in online spaces--partly because people need to connect from different places, but also to take advantage of new environments for learning. For example, asynchronous tools, such as discussion forums, blogs, or Google+, where participants post messages to one another at…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Electronic Learning, Communities of Practice, Facilitators (Individuals)
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Killion, Joellen – Journal of Staff Development, 2015
In this study of 16 teachers in two primary schools in the Netherlands, researchers built on findings from previous studies to demonstrate that a thoughtfully designed professional development program can be "effective and sustainable, if certain conditions are met" (p. 772) in changing teachers' knowledge, beliefs, perceived problems,…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Teacher Behavior, Active Learning