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Jennifer Schero – Journal of Museum Education, 2024
In the last decade, explorations into the work of volunteer educators, titled "docents," within art museums revealed turbulent circumstances that led some institutions to alter their volunteer programs, if not end them entirely. How did art museums come to rely on volunteers to undertake such an important responsibility -- that of…
Descriptors: Museums, Volunteers, Art Education, Educational History
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Susan Finn Miller – Adult Literacy Education, 2024
This article conveys one practitioner's career-long journey related to teaching reading. The author gained valuable information from relevant research reports regarding the keys to effective reading instruction and has learned even more while implementing a systematic approach to teaching reading as a volunteer tutor.
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness, Teacher Education
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Anh Thi Nguyen; Thi Thuy Loan Nguyen; Thi My Huong Nguyen – MEXTESOL Journal, 2024
While Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT) has been widely researched and accepted as a potentially powerful teaching method in language education around the world, research examining the teachers' beliefs about the impacts of a training on TBLT to date has remained limited. In Vietnam, studies on this topic were scarce (Nguyen & Jaspaert,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Lynne Von Glahn – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Community-based organizations offer English Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) support to community members due to a severe shortage of trained and certified Teaching English Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) teachers (Sutcher et al., 2019). Many of these organizations rely on volunteers to teach and tutor students enrolled in the programs they…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods
Milena Tyler von Wrangel – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This exploratory study considers how and to what effect personalized and trauma-informed learning were implemented by one teacher at one continuation high school ("XHS"). There is growing evidence regarding the effectiveness of personalized learning in improving student academic achievement (Pane et al., 2015) but limited research into…
Descriptors: High School Teachers, Trauma Informed Approach, Individualized Instruction, Teaching Methods
Dorottya Demszky; Heather C. Hill; Eric S. Taylor; Ashlee Kupor; Deepak Varuvel Dennison; Chris Piech – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2025
The role of teacher agency in professional learning has been the subject of several qualitative studies but has not yet been tested in an experimental setting. To provide causal evidence of the impact of teacher agency on the effectiveness of professional learning, we conducted a preregistered randomized controlled trial in an online computer…
Descriptors: Professional Autonomy, Faculty Development, Attribution Theory, Online Courses