Instead of 'the frenetic rush' to find effective models of continuing professional development (CPD) that will 'work', Armour et al. (2017, What is 'effective' CPD for contemporary physical education teachers? A Deweyan framework. "Sport, Education and Society," "22"(7), 799-811. https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2015.1083000)…

In addition to content knowledge, it is necessary to teach learning skills. Using relevant learning skills assures better learning outcomes and abilities for the whole life course. Due to a packed curriculum or teachers having insufficient skills, student learning skills are often neglected. The aim of this study is to find out whether it is…

This article presents findings from a national online survey of social work faculty (N = 1,039) that examines financial and economic content in the current curriculum, gaps in coverage, and strategies for improving social workers' academic preparation to work with populations living in extremely financially vulnerable circumstances. We sent the…

Professional development programs today increasingly ask teachers to capture video in their own classrooms to share with peers. Yet little work has explored the nature of the videos that teachers produce for this purpose. This study takes a first step by looking inside a set of almost 200 videos collected by 84 K-2 teachers participating in one of…

The 2019 coronavirus disease pandemic forced faculty members at institutions of higher learning across the world into teaching online in about 2 weeks. This reflective essay describes steps taken by business school faculty in a U.S. Midwestern midsized regional university to assist other faculty in the school in making this rapid transition to…

Schools in various parts of the world adopt plans or projects to improve the quality of school processes and students' learning. Therefore, it is important to understand the processes of strategic planning such as teachers' participation on decision making related to school plans. Apparently a limited number of studies have hitherto been conducted…

Modern researchers focus on spiritual and moral education only of children, particularly in the humanities. In this study, we develop and implement a program for the spiritual and moral education of 24 mathematics teachers aged between 30 and 65 years and assess its effectiveness. The program's effectiveness was assessed based on previously…

Teachers' decisions are often undergirded by their sense of pedagogical responsibility: whom and what they feel beholden to. However, research on teacher sensemaking has rarely examined how teachers reason about their pedagogical responsibilities. The study analysed an emotional conversation among urban mathematics teachers about what they teach…

This research describes the perceptions of school principals in the context of their role in leading the professional development of the teaching staff. Their perceptions were examined in reference to three educational ideologies: socialization, acculturation and individuation. Data analysis of semi structured interviews conducted with 20 school…

Background: A comprehensive international literature review on alternative assessment in physical education has been provided by López-Pastor et al. ([2013]. "Alternative Assessment in Physical Education: A Review of International Literature." "Sport, Education & Society" 18 (1): 57-76). The authors remarked that while more…

The relevance of the study is due to the need to identify the position of teachers in their professional activities, the manifestation of its reflective activity. A special attitude of the teacher to his own activity, when the very content of this activity is for the teacher as an object of analysis, reflection and evaluation, characterizes the…

Introduction: Two pioneering studies in Spain are presented on the Learning to Forgive program inspired by the research of Robert Enright and his team, pioneers in the education of forgiveness. Study 1 aims to analyze whether teacher training in the Learning to Forgive Program increases their knowledge of forgiveness and Study 2 evaluates the…

The aim of the research is to investigate the relationship between the preschool teachers attitudes towards science education and their cognitive flexibility levels. In this context, personal information of 207 pre-school teachers was collected with the Personal Information Form prepared by the researcher. Attitude Scale of Preschool Teachers…

In the study, the aim is to determine the effects of the application of first aid training lessons on sports injuries. The group of the study was determined by the simple random sampling method included in the random sampling technique and consists of 20 physical education teachers who are still on duty in the 2020-2021 academic year. All of the…

Because the role of literacy coach as a transformative change agent is a goal of many literacy programs, we set out to examine the process by which a literacy coach becomes a leader and transforms the learning environment of an "underperforming" high school being monitored by the state education department for low test scores. In the…