The special education process is guided by subjectivity, due to interpretations and discrepancies of laws, vague criteria, professional expertise, compromised data, and decision-making of the multidisciplinary IEP team. Consequently, subjectivity contributes to the misidentification of students. The researcher explored the special education…

Limited professional training regarding elementary social studies content and pedagogy contributes to the reduction of elementary social studies instruction. The purpose of this descriptive phenomenological study was to explore how the experiences of elementary educators during the 2018 Alabama Bicentennial Summer Institutes held in Mobile,…

Co-teaching is defined as special education and general education teachers working together to support all students in an inclusive classroom. The goal of co-teaching is to provide all students with the opportunity to participate and learn in a class that is challenging and provides opportunities for success. As schools gravitate towards…

Research aims: Educational research showed that a crucial role in determining student achievement and school effectiveness is played by teachers. At the same time, teachers differ widely in their impact on student performances and previous studies has not been able to identify the sources of this variation. As a consequence, "teacher…

The use of collaborative writing partnerships is frequently cited as an effective strategy to increase the productivity and quality of academic writing (Austin & Baldwin, 1991). However, developing and utilizing these relationships effectively can prove challenging to early-career academics. This article used Boud, Keogh, and Walker's (1985)…

How do we develop understanding of our teacher identities and what can aesthetic modes offer to assist reflection and learning about shifting images of identity? These questions provoked our auto-ethnographic project. As two experienced early childhood teachers, we found ourselves transitioning into new professional terrain as teacher-researcher…

The high performance of Japanese students, as demonstrated on international tests, is well-known, but the professional learning of Japanese teachers has received less attention. Ruth Ahn, Yasuko Shimojima, Hisayoshi Mori, and Shigeru Asanuma describe the professional development requirements for teachers across their careers. Novice teachers are…

All teachers can benefit from peer coaching because it provides opportunities for them to grow in their craft by promoting collaborations, observations, feedback, and support from peers. The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of peer coaching on teacher instructional practices, in the areas of preparation for instruction and teacher…

Purpose: This study aims to understand of the role that teacher entrepreneurial behavior plays in developing teacher professional capital. The extant concepts around school leadership mostly encompass the transformative and instructional roles of school leaders in managing, mobilizing and supporting teachers for student achievement. However,…

This article documents two professors' inquiry into a lesson on supervising for equity in a supervisor preparation course. Through an iterative process of lesson design, lesson implementation, analysis of student work, and pedagogical discussion, we refine the lesson. Our study sheds light on the potential challenges of preparing supervisors to…

With the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, even greater efforts are needed to address students' academic and social emotional needs, all the while making up for learning loss and preparing for the unpredictable combinations of distance learning, blended learning, and in-classroom learning. These expectations, along with the need for greater…

Over the past two years, middle school advocates have been sharing their thoughts on the following prompt: "What drives your spirit and commitment to middle level education?" The purpose has been to capture 'the spirit' of middle school educators?' From these stories five characteristics emerged that can help us consider how to promote…

With the increasing demand for improved student achievement in mathematics, few studies have been conducted examining teacher efficacy when continuously supported through a collaborative professional learning community (PLC) structure. This study examined teacher efficacy within PLC activities in a middle school. Both the belief that mathematics…

We describe the theorization and implementation of a collaborative pilot initiative that took place over the course of one school year as we implemented provocative acts of mentoring for beginning art teachers. The provocations we set in motion were designed to confront prevalent myths of teaching and to embrace the power of artistic exploration…

The educational field is traditionally characterized by a distinction between general and special education in educational practice, theory and research. Especially in cross-professional collaborative processes related to inclusion, it becomes evident that the professionals represent different perspectives and positions with different roles,…