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Alfonso García-Monge; Daniel Bores-García; Gustavo González-Calvo – Teacher Development, 2024
Many studies highlight the importance of socio-emotional aspects in professional communities of practice (CoP). This study aims to understand how these aspects are articulated with the professional content. An online professional CoP has been subjected to analysis by following a sequential exploratory mixed-methods inductive model combining the…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Communities of Practice, Internet
Lesus, Melina – ProQuest LLC, 2023
In this qualitative case study, I examined how teacher instructional practices and beliefs around teaching literature were impacted after self-selecting into a sustained professional development opportunity called Bard Core. Specifically, I ask, 1. What are the perspectives of secondary ELA teachers as to how a self-selected, year-long,…
Descriptors: Literature, Teaching Methods, Faculty Development, Language Arts
Xiangyun Du; Juebei Chen; Nikolaj Stegeager; Trine Lindvig Thomsen; Aida Guerra; Patrik Kristoffer Kjaersdam Telléus; Line Bune Juhl – International Journal for Academic Development, 2025
The study explored the viewpoints of two groups of mentors -- subject and pedagogy -- on their roles in a 12-month problem-based learning (PBL) academic development program at a Danish university. Q methodology analysis from 49 mentors revealed consensus on certain generic characteristics of good mentorship, namely active listening, constructive…
Descriptors: Mentors, Feedback (Response), Teaching Methods, Peer Teaching
Green, Lena; Collett, Karen – South African Journal of Education, 2021
In this article we argue that school leaders should ensure that teachers experience a supportive professional learning community committed to collaborative, thoughtful inquiry and be enabled to create similar communities in their classrooms. This study followed on one published in 2017 that explored school leaders' responses to an introduction to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Thinking Skills, Skill Development, Communities of Practice
Kanyarat Cojorn; Kanyarat Sonsupap – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2024
Ample studies have confirmed that the concepts of Community of Practice and Lesson Study can effectively develop professional development, especially in the design of learning. This positive impact on learners is also evident. Therefore, this study aimed to examine the results that occurred with students who learned from teachers who used…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Teaching Methods, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Students
Stephen D. Kroeger; Kathryn Doyle; Christina Carnahan; Andrew G. Benson – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2024
Microteaching is a way of doing professional development for teachers wanting to incorporate new evidence-based and high-leverage practices into their instructional toolboxes. Given how much work is required in teaching and the limited time professionals have available, microteaching is an accessible process that supports instructional improvement…
Descriptors: Microteaching, Faculty Development, Evidence Based Practice, Instructional Improvement
Brock, Tracy Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This research study was designed to examine the impact of the incorporation of vocabulary instruction and various teacher strategies by a middle school science teachers team on student science achievement. The researcher focused on the teacher preparation of vocabulary word walls and the inclusion of specific words within individual units of study…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Educational Practices, Middle School Teachers, Team Teaching
Laura Gough; Rommel Miranda; Matthew Hemm; Leann Norman; Brian Jara – Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education, 2025
The Diffusion of Innovations (DOI) model can be used to explore how faculty prioritize learning about and adopting new pedagogical approaches. Here, we use the DOI framework to contextualize biology faculty perceptions of a professional development (PD) program designed to help them create a full semester course-based undergraduate research…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Faculty Development, Student Research
Christine Pascal; Tony Bertram; Sally Cave; Tina Bruce; Helen Lyndon; Sue Bennett; Anne Denham – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2024
This paper presents a narrative case study of an innovative Froebelian approach to professional development, implemented in a large Nursery School and Family Centre in southern England undertaken as part of an extended programme of research and development funded by the Froebel Trust from 2021-2024 which was trans-national, including two early…
Descriptors: Action Research, Faculty Development, Communities of Practice, Teaching Methods
Sophia Abbot; Laura Lukes; Dayna Henry; Lindsay Wheeler – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2024
In this chapter, the authors describe the theory of change behind a regional cross-institutional community of practice (CoP) for educational developers seeking to strengthen their institution's SoTL culture and increase faculty SoTL production by providing institution-level support initiatives and programming.
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Institutional Cooperation, Communities of Practice
Angela Miller-Porter – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study was about a university course, "Mindfulness & Sustainability" (GC495), that I designed, instructed, and assessed. Twenty-one students and I went on a mindful learning journey; together we cultivated a community of Transformative Sustainability Learning (TSL). I used The Work that Reconnects (WTR) to teach mindfulness in…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Metacognition, Sustainability, Communities of Practice
Dan Jiang; Nicolaj Stegeager; Trine Lindvig Thomsen; Xiangyun Du – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2024
This study explores early career academics' (ECAs) professional learning in a Danish university's Professional Learning (PL) program, based on problem- and project-based learning (PBL) principles. Using a complexity theory lens, professional learning is viewed as a dynamic process involving intrapersonal, behavioral, relational, and contextual…
Descriptors: Novices, Faculty, Communities of Practice, Universities
Crawford, Angela R.; Carney, Michele; Champion, Joe; Schmidt, Megan – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2022
This report is about how a group of U.S. teachers (N = 98) and researchers used a boundary object in a collective study of grades 6-8 mathematics instruction. The focus is the teachers' engagement with a framework for effective instructional practices. Using qualitative content analysis of teachers' responses to use of the framework, we assessed…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness
Adeline Yuen Sze Goh; Alistair Daniel Lim – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2024
Like other health care practices, the increasing complexity in dentistry signals the need for a reconceptualisation of dentist professional learning. Professional dental bodies, at large, still privilege formal continuing professional development (CPD) provisions focusing on off-the-job activities despite growing evidence that much invaluable…
Descriptors: Dentistry, Communities of Practice, Workplace Learning, Professional Development
Natalia Spyropoulou; Achilles Kameas – European Journal of Education, 2024
This study investigates the multifaceted roles and competences of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) educators and their engagement in Communities of Practice (CoPs). Through an online survey of Greek educators who have implemented STEAM educational projects, employing both closed and open-ended questions, this research…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Art Education, STEM Education, Foreign Countries