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Download full textFusco, Dana; Espinet, Ivana – Afterschool Matters, 2010
Until recently, youth practitioners learned how to support team building, maximize the participation of diverse groups of youth, and measure the desired effects of new strategies through experience, ingenuity, mentoring, and an occasional workshop. As research amasses about the critical role of staff quality in predicting positive outcomes for…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Professional Development, Certification, Youth Programs
Direct linkBoyd, Joy L. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Multicultural education professional development training at the district level for teachers who teach at the elementary level in one southeastern US district has reached only a small number of the assigned teachers. Multicultural education professional development training could bring awareness to a district's professional development department…
Descriptors: Social Change, Workshops, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
Wischow, Emily D. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
While pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) has been widely studied in the literature, there have been few studies that focus on content knowledge exclusively, and none that examine the interactions between new content knowledge and existing PCK. This study traced the interactions between five teachers' pedagogical content knowledge and novel…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Case Studies, Knowledge Base for Teaching
Folami, Florence – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Musculoskeletal injuries caused by patient lifting and transfers are a concern to health care workers. The Safe Patient Handling Act calls for all health care organizations to move to mechanical assistance from previous manual methods of transfers. This research analyzed two different educational programs that addressed safe patient handling for…
Descriptors: Hospitals, Nurses, Injuries, Program Effectiveness
Elliott, Susan L. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Professional development within many school districts has become more closely linked to school or district achievement goals, daily practice and student assessment data. Both empirical research and experiential-based writing in the field have suggested that data-driven job-embedded professional development supports teacher learning and improved…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Professional Development, Data, Educational Environment
Fielder, Amy – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Elementary teachers' attitudes toward professional development and ways to increase teachers' participation in professional development were explored in this qualitative, grounded theory. The researcher conducted five focus groups comprised of elementary classroom teachers, special area teachers, and Instructional Facilitators. Data from the focus…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Feedback (Response), Working Hours, Elementary School Teachers
Murray, John Matthew – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Research has begun to create a consensus about the essential characteristics of professional learning opportunities that impact teachers' knowledge and practices. These key characteristics include duration, teacher collaboration, active learning, a content knowledge focus, and a connection to school goals. A recent national study (Darling-Hammond,…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Teacher Collaboration, Active Learning, Psychometrics
Trehearn, Mary K. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study was to examine professional development in three Nebraska public schools. For decades, the issue of professional development has been dissected, often resulting in unhealthy opposition between faculty and administration. Numerous studies have been conducted on teacher education, often with inconclusive or conflicting…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Professional Development, Teacher Educators, Public Schools
Salinas, Alejandra – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this meta-analysis was to better understand the relationship between the substantive-content focus of professional development for inservice teachers of mathematics and their students' achievement. That professional development for teachers enhances student achievement has been well established by recent studies; however, those…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Mathematics Teachers, Professional Development
Mooney, Marianne; Silver-Pacuilla, Heidi – National Institute for Literacy, 2010
The purpose of this paper is threefold: (1) to provide information to policymakers and government personnel who support and develop workforce development programming, policies and practices for youth, including those with learning disabilities (LD); (2) to provide a national view of the literacy and employment status of youth with LD who have low…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Juvenile Justice, Literacy, Labor Force Development
Fluellen, Jerry E., Jr. – Online Submission, 2010
On the weekend of December 13, 2008, 4,000 House Meetings in our nation convened to plan service events. In Jacksonville, Florida, four such House Meetings were held. Of the four, two became official links in Organizing for America, President Obama's grassroots organization. Of the two, one strove to become a learning organization. At the heart of…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Political Campaigns, Presidents, Strategic Planning
Zascerinska, Jelena – Online Submission, 2010
The rapidly changing nature of Europe and of education and culture that includes conditions for student teacher professional development is generated by the democracy transition from opportunity to choose towards qualities and purposes in the context of cultural and educational globalization. Conditions of contribution applied to enhance student…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Democracy, Global Approach, Foreign Countries
Franklin, Kimberly – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2010
Research shows that study abroad experience affects professional qualifications. It is evident that employers value the skills and knowledge potentially gained from study abroad and that these competencies are transferable on the job. Nearly all known research lacks a longitudinal component. Of the few studies that focus on long-term outcomes,…
Descriptors: Employment Qualifications, Alumni, Intercultural Communication, Cultural Pluralism
Baughman, Sarah; Arnold, Mary; Boyd, Heather H.; Franz, Nancy K.; Mead, June P.; Rowe, Ellen; Silliman, Ben – Journal of Extension, 2010
The National 4-H Council Learning Priorities team developed educational content for professional development to increase evaluation capacity and evaluation skills for 4-H educators. Extension specialists in Oregon, Vermont, and Virginia piloted Evaluating for Impact curriculum through learning communities. Lessons learned from the pilot project…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Evaluation Methods, Professional Development, Delivery Systems
Marbach-Ad, Gili; McAdams, Katherine C.; Benson, Spencer; Briken, Volker; Cathcart, Laura; Chase, Michael; El-Sayed, Najib M.; Frauwirth, Kenneth; Fredericksen, Brenda; Joseph, Sam W.; Lee, Vincent; McIver, Kevin S.; Mosser, David; Quimby, B. Booth; Shields, Patricia; Song, Wenxia; Stein, Daniel C.; Stewart, Richard; Thompson, Katerina V.; Smith, Ann C. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2010
This essay describes how the use of a concept inventory has enhanced professional development and curriculum reform efforts of a faculty teaching community. The Host Pathogen Interactions (HPI) teaching team is composed of research and teaching faculty with expertise in HPI who share the goal of improving the learning experience of students in…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Microbiology, Educational Change, Learning Experience
