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Novak, Angela M.; Lewis, Katie D. – Roeper Review, 2022
The four zone professional learning model is a practical, comprehensive approach to striving toward equity through professional learning within gifted education programs. Grounded in equity literacy and funds of knowledge frameworks and based in best practices in culturally responsive gifted professional learning, the zones address the knowledge…
Descriptors: Gifted Education, Faculty Development, Models, Equal Education
Cancelliere, Semoni; Ramsaroop, Sarita; Petersen, Nadine – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2023
Background: Despite large-scale interventions aimed at developing literacy skills, children's reading competence levels in South Africa continue to remain an area of concern. In addition, the need to prepare learners for the increased demands of a fast-changing world of learning and working is gaining attention in educational policy and practice.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy, Lesson Plans, Teaching Guides
Nagle, Charles; Sachs, Rebecca; Zárate-Sández, Germán – Language Teaching Research, 2023
Despite substantial advances in the field of instructed second language acquisition (SLA) with regard to our understanding of second language (L2) pronunciation development and pedagogy, many language instructors continue to report a lack of confidence in incorporating pronunciation instruction (PI) into their classes. This survey study examined…
Descriptors: Pronunciation Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
McDonough, Sharon L.; Brandenburg, Robyn – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2022
Although the provision of initial teacher education has been the subject of more than 100 inquiries and multiple reforms, the work of those in teacher education remains under-researched. This comparative research provides two snapshots of teacher educator surveys conducted seven years apart (2013 and 2020) in a regional university in Australia.…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Barriers, Influences, Foreign Countries
Wells, Trent; Hainline, Mark S. – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2021
Agricultural mechanics remains prominent in many school-based agricultural education (SBAE) programs. SBAE teachers need a wide range of knowledge and skills to competently teach agricultural mechanics. A lack of teacher competence can create issues within educational settings. Teacher competence can be improved through effective professional…
Descriptors: Agricultural Engineering, Agricultural Education, Agriculture Teachers, Faculty Development
Reynolds, Erica G. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
RtI refers to a specific set of interventions to support students who struggle to make progress in the general education settings. Fuchs and Deshler emphasized that teachers need to understand the conditions and contextual factors of RtI within a school district that may influence its implementation. Implementing these reforms requires ongoing…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, Faculty Development, Teaching Skills, Special Education
Stroebel, Leoni C. E.; Hay, Johnnie; Bloemhoff, Hermanus J. – South African Journal of Education, 2019
During the past two decades, curriculum restructuring in South Africa has had some unintended consequences; one of these being the unrealistic demands expected from Life Skills (LS) and Life Orientation (LO) teachers. Physical Education (PE) finds itself within the multi-faceted subject of LS/LO, therefore the teacher, often without requisite…
Descriptors: Physical Education Teachers, Faculty Development, Foreign Countries, Knowledge Base for Teaching
Brownell, Mary T.; Jones, Nathan D.; Sohn, Hyojong; Stark, Kristabel – Teacher Education and Special Education, 2020
In the 2010 issue of "Teacher Education and Special Education (TESE)," Sindelar and colleagues examined the current status of research on special education teachers and outlined future work necessary to improve the special education teacher workforce. In this article, the authors focus explicitly on Sindelar and colleagues' charge to…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Students with Disabilities, Teacher Education Programs, Special Education
Stewart, Vivien – Educational Leadership, 2018
In many countries, just as in the United States, the pressure is on to raise the quality of the teaching force; the bar is being raised for what teachers should be able to do. Drawing on her experiences organizing the International Summit on the Teaching Profession and leading delegations of educators to various nations, Stewart describes how some…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Foreign Countries, Teacher Competencies, Change Strategies
Favre, David E.; Bach, Dorothe; Wheeler, Lindsay B. – Journal of Research in Innovative Teaching & Learning, 2021
Purpose: This study aims to understand the extent to which a faculty development program that includes a week-long course design experience followed by sustained support changes new faculty's perceptions, beliefs and teaching practices. The authors employed the teacher professional knowledge and skill (TPK&S) framework and characteristics of…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Beginning Teacher Induction, Beginning Teachers, Teacher Competencies
Ching, Yu-Hui; Wang, Sasha; Yang, Dazhi; Baek, Youngkyun; Swanson, Steve; Chittoori, Bhaskar – Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 2020
This paper presents a case study on six elementary school teachers' perceived learning in a professional development program where teachers facilitated an integrated STEM robotics activity in an afterschool setting. Teacher reflections and interviews data were analyzed for themes. The findings revealed teachers' positive growth in the following…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Faculty Development, STEM Education
Schmidt, Teressa – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2019
The quality of vocational education and training (VET) and, in particular, the quality of VET teaching, is a prominent topic of discussion in Australia's post-compulsory education sector. VET teachers are described as 'dual professionals', and expected to maintain current vocational competencies (industry currency) as well as pedagogical skills…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Vocational Education Teachers, Educational Quality
Heather C. Hill; Kathleen Lynch; Kathryn E. Gonzalez; Cynthia Pollard – Phi Delta Kappan, 2020
How should teachers spend their STEM-focused professional learning time? To answer this question, Heather Hill, Kathleen Lynch, Kathryn Gonzalez, and Cynthia Pollard analyzed a recent wave of rigorous new studies of STEM instructional improvement programs. They found that programs work best when focused on building knowledge teachers can use…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Faculty Development, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Teaching Skills
Audrey Kathryn Chery – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation examines the skills, knowledge, and support needs of novice and experienced Languages for Specific Purposes (LSP) teachers in higher education in the United States. Using a critical ecological approach (CEA) framework, it aims to contribute to the global growing body of research on LSP teacher preparation that has thus far…
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Likert Scales
Dzamesi, Felicia Elinam; van Heerden, Judy – South African Journal of Education, 2020
In this article we report on the development and implementation of a professional development programme for teachers of the kindergarten curriculum (4-5 year olds) in Ghana. Kindergarten teachers in Ghana have little experience and meagre training in implementing a play-based pedagogy as recommended in the national curriculum. An indigenous…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers