The study aims to evaluate how distance social studies courses were conducted during the pandemic, in line with teachers' experiences. The semi-structured interviews were conducted with 14 social studies teachers working in various provinces of Turkey in this study, which was carried out with interpretative phenomenology design, one of the…

This Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis study explores how elementary teachers made sense of their experience in the National Writing Project's Summer Institute and how it influenced their teaching of writing. Many elementary teachers have not received writing methods as a stand-alone course during their teacher preparation. Furthermore, the…

There is ample research on programs and pathways to support novice teachers entering the field but minimal research on transitioning from novice to expert teacher. The problem addressed in the research is that there is no framework for understanding how teachers become experts. This study's purpose is to understand how teachers perceive the…

One of the more important aspects involved in teaching is how teachers develop classroom management and discipline practices. Many teachers rely on practices that may be counterproductive to their goal of creating an effective learning environment. Teachers may choose discipline practices that can be aggressive or exclusionary causing students to…

While student diversity continues to increase in public schools, the racial demographics of teachers instructing this changing student body has not kept pace. Although research and policy have addressed the issue of recruitment of more diverse educators, more focus on the retention of the teaching candidates that are already in the field may have…

Career and Technical Education (CTE) aims to prepare students for a career or college. CTE teacher attrition negatively affects students and school districts. CTE teacher attrition also leaves schools with talent gaps concerning educators. Recruitment and induction are two critical points for new teachers, especially CTE educators, who do not…

Despite the growing research on practices that support student success, available data demonstrate a continued education debt for Black and Latinx students. Culturally relevant pedagogy (CRP) is a practice that can increase the academic success of students of color. This study explored how Black and Latinx students experience CRP. The study was…

The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine the impact of blended professional development on teacher efficacy. The variables hours of blended learning, subjects taught, and years of experience were investigated. Additionally, teacher efficacy was analyzed across domains of student engagement, instructional practices, and classroom…

Purpose: To fill a gap in literature, this phenomenological study explored the experience of teaching the arts online in Title I schools. Theoretical Framework: The theoretical framework for this study was based on the Studio Habits of Mind (SHoMs). For the purposes of this study, the researcher focused on three of the SHoMs: (a) stretch and…

A mixed-methods study was conducted to investigate Idaho's elementary school teachers' perceptions of the Idaho Evaluation Model as a motivator for teachers to improve their instructional practice, and to determine if teachers' experience level impacts these perceptions. The quantitative data was obtained from 157 Idaho kindergarten through…

This phenomenological study explores the personal and professional attributes of six elementary special education teachers who have taught in an urban school district for five or more years. The ongoing shortage of special education teachers and the increasing attrition rate have caused further analysis of the innate traits of long-serving special…

Researchers have been looking into the stressful nature of teaching for quite some time. Kyriacou (2001) maintains that teaching is one of the top five most stressful careers, while Stoeber and Rennert (2018) indicate that teachers exhibit a higher level of stress than any other profession (Bowen, 2016, p. 1205). Much educational and psychological…

The purpose of this sociocultural study was to analyze the lived experiences of exemplary teachers who teach on a military base school. By teaching a lesser-known diverse group of students who are children of military families, the teachers in this study shared the sociocultural perspective of Vygotsky's "perezhivanie "of the adjustment…

The arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic in February of 2020 made online learning in higher education a necessity. Because faculty are key to the success of online instruction, their attitudes, experiences, and motivation need to be understood and respected (Hoffman, 2018). Some faculty more readily adapt to online learning instruction than others.…

March 2020 changed the lives of many as the SARS-CoV-2 virus which was responsible for what became known as the COVID-19 pandemic, caused communities to isolate indoors and shift the workforce to mostly online or virtual, including higher education. This critical ethnographic study looked at the experience of the higher education teacher through…