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Youmen Chaaban; Hessa Al-Thani; Xiangyun Du – Professional Development in Education, 2024
Using social constructivist theories of adult learning, the Faculty Pedagogical Development (PD) Programme was designed to offer faculty a unique professional learning experience at one university in Qatar. This study reports on the evaluation of this PD programme that involved 24 participants from different colleges in its first round of…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Program Evaluation, Teaching Methods, Constructivism (Learning)
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Peercy, Megan Madigan; DeStefano, Megan; Kidwell, Tabitha; Ramirez, Rebekah – Professional Development in Education, 2016
Understanding how online approaches to teacher education can support teacher candidates (TCs) in the central work of teaching, that of engaging in practice with learners, has become increasingly important. This study is aligned with scholarship in core practices, which asserts that opportunities to examine, engage in and reflect upon the…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Literacy Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Sangster, Pauline; Stone, Kelly; Anderson, Charles – Professional Development in Education, 2013
This article reports on part of a wider study in which a group of teachers opted for a new model of continuing professional development (CPD) that was offered by one local authority (LA) in Scotland. In collaboration with the LA, the teachers selected the topic of critical literacy and the critical pedagogies that develop from a critical literacy…
Descriptors: Critical Literacy, Transformative Learning, Faculty Development, Professional Continuing Education