In 2021, New America released a report, "Harnessing Micro-Credentials for Teacher Growth: A National Review of Early Best Practices," exploring the benefits and challenges of leveraging micro-credentials for educators, including an informal scan of how states were integrating micro-credentials into educator policy. This publication…

Teachers' professional development for technology integration occurs through a network of different learning avenues, ranging from pre-service training to in-service formal professional development and informal learning. Few studies, however, examine how these learning modes interrelate and the types of skills they collectively offer to teachers.…

This book presents, discusses and explores questions around teachers' (mainstream teachers, student teachers, EAL teachers) conceptions of language and literacy practices as they seek to meet the educational needs of pupils from linguistically and culturally diverse backgrounds. The book captures the voices of a range of educators from various…

This study takes a sociocultural approach in examining how mathematics professional development facilitators and teachers enacted a professional development program in a statewide network of trainings. Facilitators (N = 11) and teachers (N = 62) were surveyed before and after implementation to capture how facilitators understood and then…

This qualitative case study explored how an existing restorative justice (RJ) curriculum designed for student affairs practitioners in higher education can be expanded to promote an alternative approach to retributive justice in campus sexual misconduct (CSM) cases at postsecondary institutions in the United States. Restorative justice is a…

If we say we 'deliver feedback to teachers,' we most likely subscribe to a traditional approach to instructional improvement. In this approach the principal or supervisor treats the teacher as passive recipient who is expected to act on feedback that is too generic to be useful, and promotes a simplistic view of teaching and its improvement. In…

Dialogic teaching has been demonstrated to be conducive to the development of important competencies and skills such as creativity, communication skills and critical thinking skills. Yet, the literature confirms that teacher--student interactions in the classroom are predominantly monologic rather than dialogic across subjects, grades and…

The purpose of the study was to investigate the level of practice, challenges, and prospects of SBM in Ethiopian schools. A holistic multiple-case study was utilized. In addition to document review, the researcher collected data via semi-structured interviews with maximum diversity sampling from eight participants. Thematic analysis was employed…

This qualitative case study (Yin, [2014]. "Case Study Research: Design and Methods." 5th Ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.) emerged from our effort to support teachers, who predominantly identify as monolingual speakers, in learning about translanguaging through a less-explored facet of translanguaging: multimodality. Drawing upon Bezemer and…

Due to the effects of the COVID-19 crisis on educational institutions, schools had to close and switch to online education. Training in-service teachers to incorporate and utilize technology as part of Internet-based instructions was a challenge and pressing necessity. TPACK is an essential framework for comprehending how teachers employ…

Professional development programs (PDP) are an important tool for achieving educational goals; assessing their effectiveness, however, is complex. The success of PDP depends on teachers' ability to transfer newly gained knowledge and skills into practice. To assess this effectiveness, it is necessary to develop appropriate methodological tools.…

The increasing trend to mainstream students with educational challenges (SEC) has obligated mainstream teachers to develop different approaches to deal with heterogeneous classes. Previous research on in-service and pre-service teachers has shown that successful inclusion is correlated with positive attitudes towards inclusion, a high sense of…

The aim of this study is to determine the technology integration self-efficacy of special education teachers. Within the scope of the study, it was examined whether the technology integration self-efficacy of special education teachers varies according to gender, professional seniority, in-service training and postgraduate education variables. Two…

Background: Teachers in developing countries face a complex challenge at work--teaching students who are first-generation learners, in classrooms with wide heterogeneity in learning levels, and in frequently resource-poor settings (Muralidharan et al., 2019; World Development Report, 2018). The presence of many of these potentially binding…

Background/Context: Improving reading comprehension has been a persistent and perplexing dilemma around the world since written communication was invented. Reading comprehension, which is the goal of reading, is a multi-faceted construct intertwining code-focused early reading skills and meaning-focused comprehension skills and strategies (Connor…