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Thibault Coppe – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2024
Thirteen years after the publication of the book "Social Network Theory and Educational Change," what can we say about the evolution of research connecting social network theory and analysis with teacher professional development? In this evolution, we can witness a conceptual shift in the literature connecting teacher professional…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Faculty Development, Network Analysis, Communities of Practice
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Du, Hanxiang; Xing, Wanli; Zhu, Gaoxia – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2023
Social-media-based teacher learning networks have the affordance to grant flexibility of time and space for teachers' professional learning, support the development and sustainability of social networking, and meet their just-in-time needs for exchanging knowledge, negotiating meaning and accessing resources. However, most existing research on…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Informal Education, Teacher Education, Social Networks
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Matranga, Anthony; Silverman, Jason – Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, 2022
Online collaborative and content-focused professional development (PD) is becoming an increasingly important setting for supporting mathematics teachers' professional learning. The purpose of this study was to better understand the process by which a community emerges in such a PD setting by examining how the cohesiveness of 21 mathematics…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Mathematics Teachers, Online Courses, Social Networks
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Nickles, George M.; Herbert, Bruce – Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2022
Centerness is defined as a quality of multi-agent systems (groups) where agents share a common set of system goals and interact so the system will achieve those goals. A pair of measures is identified to capture the two dimensions of centerness: distance-weighted fragmentation and average goal centerness. As a case study, the measures of…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Social Networks, Information Science, Teacher Centers
Virginia Messinger – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Social Networking Sites or SNSs have been used as a form of self-guided professional development (PD) by educators of all grade levels. However, there are limited students regarding Secondary educators using SNSs as a form of self-guided PD and there is also a lack of an examination of how those educators are using what the learn from SNSs within…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Social Media, Communities of Practice, Faculty Development
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Ma, Ning; Gong, Kaixin; Zeng, Min – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2023
Background: Collaborative learning has become a crucial approach to promoting online in-service teacher training. Appropriate peer recommendation for group composition is the basis to ensure productive learning outcomes of collaborative learning. However, there is a lack of understanding of the impact of peer recommendation on in-service teachers'…
Descriptors: Teachers, Cooperative Learning, Electronic Learning, Faculty Development
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Sarah Boodt; Charlynne Pullen – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2025
Professional development for the further education sector (FE) in England, whether commissioned by the Education and Training Foundation (ETF), or the Department for Education (DfE), is typically formal learning. There are usually measurable outcomes, and practitioners are asked to identify changes to their practice. The focus on outcomes means…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Social Networks, Continuing Education, Educational Practices
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Zhang, Ni; Liu, Qingtang; Zheng, Xinxin; Luo, Lei; Cheng, Yun – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2022
Lesson study (LS) is an effective means of improving teachers' facility with teaching design. This research designs a case study of online to offline (O2O) LS and explores the social interaction and behaviour patterns in the process of the LS. The participants included 29 chemistry teachers from 10 secondary schools and two educational technology…
Descriptors: Teacher Collaboration, Faculty Development, Communities of Practice, Teacher Improvement
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Zhang, Hai; Yu, Luyao; Cui, Yulu; Ji, Mengxue; Wang, Yining – Interactive Learning Environments, 2022
The study of teacher development and teaching interaction in physical classrooms has presented research problems, but with the development of classroom observation and video analysis, quantitative and visual analysis of the teaching process has been realized. In order to better understand the teaching models of teachers, this study is devoted to…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Teacher Evaluation, Teaching Methods, Teaching Models
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Madeline DeShazer; Christine Park; Jenna Neal; Elise Cappella; Julie Sarno Owens; Deinera Exner – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
Background: Research highlights the value of coaching to support elementary school teachers' use of effective classroom practices (Cappella et al., 2012; Owens et al., 2017). Coaching is particularly useful when teachers implement new or complex strategies, which can include culturally-responsive and equity-centered practices (i.e. strategies that…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Social Networks, Capacity Building, Network Analysis
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Margolis, Jason; Strom, Kathryn – Professional Development in Education, 2020
While many educational practitioners and researchers can speak to the benefits of teacher leadership anecdotally and theoretically, tracing direct evidence of impact via traditional quantified measures, like student achievement, has been challenging. In this paper, we argue that the logic underlying traditional teacher leadership assessment does…
Descriptors: Teacher Leadership, Faculty Development, Educational Assessment, Social Networks
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Benbow, Ross J.; Lee, Changhee; Hora, Matthew T. – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2021
While educators and policymakers increasingly link the '21st-century' skills of communication, teamwork, problem-solving, and self-directed learning to graduate success in important high-technology industries, few studies look at how technological college faculty -- who are expected to help instil these important skills in students -- learn to…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Faculty Development, 21st Century Skills, Social Networks
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Kim, Mi Song; Park, Hyejin; Kici, Derya – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2021
Multiliteracies is not only concerned with learners' meaning-making using multiple communication and representation channels but with individuals' contributions towards a collaborative and participatory culture. However, understanding collective knowledge construction in computer-mediated discussions is challenging due to large and complex digital…
Descriptors: Multiple Literacies, Online Courses, Social Networks, Network Analysis
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Rehm, Martin; Cornelissen, Frank; Notten, Ad; Daly, Alan J. – Teachers College Record, 2020
Background/Context: Teachers and educational professionals can draw on (informal) networks to foster their professional development. Moreover, a growing number of studies have shown that teachers use social networking sites (SNSs), such as Twitter, to keep up to date with the latest news on education and share resources with colleagues.…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Social Networks, Social Media, Faculty Development
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Lazenby, Suzanne; McCulla, Norman; Marks, Warren – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2022
Less is known about the professional development of experienced principals, defined here as having more than five years in the role, than that of aspirant principals. This deficit is somewhat surprising at a time when experienced principals are viewed as key players in two major international school leadership movements of the 21st century: the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Experience, Faculty Development
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