Collaborative learning and expert-led ongoing coaching workshops are recognized as optimal forms of professional development. The problem is that there are times when teachers choose to avoid working with a staff developer or embrace this form of professional learning. This qualitative study examined elementary school teachers' professional…

The discussion has now turned into an enrollment boom for many colleges and universities. Dual enrollment provides opportunities for students to gain valuable college credit while still in high school. It is an opportunity for students to experience the college way and save money on future educational endeavors. The purpose of this study was to…

The study aims to reveal how faculty members perceive and feel about being a teacher at university, and make efforts to enhance their teaching responsibilities. The qualitative study was designed as a transcendental phenomenological study. The views of 25 faculty members at different universities in Turkey were obtained by interviewing method, and…

This chapter explores the range of barriers that instructors, especially adjunct and other non-tenure track instructors, may face when attempting to learn new pedagogical techniques or improve their courses. The author will present concrete strategies for using a disability-informed Universal Design for Learning (UDL) approach to making faculty…

In an era where teachers are increasingly being asked to demonstrate evidence of their impact, action research is identified as a practical and critically reflective research approach for enhancing explicit teaching and learning. Using a historical perspective, foundations for reflective practice and action research in educational contexts are…

This study explored how members of a community of practice of teacher educators from a diversity of institutions across one state engaged in and expressed (dis)comfort during a two-day workshop on anti-bias teacher education. Using a qualitative, single-case embedded design, we found that there was a range of engagement with the workshop content…

For coaching to fulfill its promise as an effective teacher professional development model, coaches need access to teachers' classrooms and practice. However, teachers largely have autonomy over whether, when, and how such access is granted. Previous research has identified the types of strategies coaches leverage to gain access, and in this…

The interplay between mathematics teachers' beliefs and practices has been widely investigated and research has examined how teachers' beliefs about mathematics, teaching and learning change when participating in continuing professional development (CPD). In this paper, I track teachers' self-reported beliefs and practice changes as they…

Teachers' decisions for instructional design and technology integration influence their teaching practices and student learning performances. Technology-integrated learning environments have been widely leveraged due to the recent global health crisis and student learning needs (Polly et al., "TechTrends," 65(3), 240-242 2021). Teachers…

Purpose: The aim of this paper is to describe teachers' professional development in Lesson Study (LS) as processes situated in Semiosphere and generated by the unevenness due to different cultural traditions. The authors characterise teachers' professional development in two LS experiments as processes generating new knowledge to point out their…

This meta-analysis explores training teachers in the use of data, defined as any quantifiable information that helps teachers know more about their students for instructional decision-making. The questions addressed are as follows: (1) What are the features of data literacy training for kindergarten through 12th-grade teachers?; (2) What are the…

Intact visual functions are necessary for children to reach their academic potential. In the absence of vision screening, children may have unnoticed vision disturbances and academic challenges may be attributed to other problems, such as learning or cognitive disabilities. Visual problems are detrimental to educational achievement if they are not…

This paper analyses the move by an Australian university faculty to a new building featuring open plan and alternative workspaces. Through the lens of the theory of practice architectures, the paper examines how the new built spaces both enabled and constrained the professional learning practices of academics. Drawing on a case study of the…

This paper investigates how Japanese lesson study has been modified in the context of the U.S., and how this modification has affected teacher agency based on the framework of the ecological approach proposed by Priestley et al. (2016). There are two major findings. First, Japanese lesson study has been adapted and modified in the U.S. as an…

Less is known about the professional development of experienced principals, defined here as having more than five years in the role, than that of aspirant principals. This deficit is somewhat surprising at a time when experienced principals are viewed as key players in two major international school leadership movements of the 21st century: the…