The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL) is a systematic and evidence-based approach to examining teaching and improving learning that is openly shared. In the summer and fall of 2024, the National Academies Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education held a public workshop series exploring current and future applications of…

Public interest has surged around artificial intelligence (AI) due to new capabilities demonstrated by new AI chatbot technologies, such as ChatGPT. This study investigates teachers' immediate perceptions, concerns, and professional development needs with respect to AI in a large urban school district. Using a mixed methods approach, we analyzed…

Despite the critical role teachers play in AI education, research on their understanding of generative AI tools remains limited, particularly concerning their ethical assessment knowledge. This study addresses the gap by proposing the Generative AI Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (GenAI-TPACK) framework, which incorporates ethical…

There is a growing need to equip teachers with social emotional behavioral knowledge in schools through professional development. Yet, for developers of such professional development offerings, identifying a single adequate tool that can flexibly assess learning across topics and offerings presents a unique measurement challenge. In this study, we…

This article discusses the benefits of providing training sessions for teaching practice through a workshop model. The author provides an overview of the Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework and explains how each branch relates to the planning and delivery of a teacher-training workshop. The article concludes with a sample workshop plan based on…

This autobiographical article recounts a White woman's efforts to establish a center for teaching and learning (CTL) in a large HBCU in the southern part of the United States. She describes the ways in which tenets of critical feminism, feminist pedagogies, and adult learning and development informed her approach to faculty development. She…

This article focuses on learning that can facilitate the transition from being a scholarly teacher to becoming a scholar of teaching and learning, outlining the critical steps faculty can take to deepen their engagement with the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL). It begins by distinguishing between scholarly teaching, which involves…

In the Chinese vocational education context, expert feedback plays an important role in many teacher professional development programs, such as mentoring, lesson observation, teaching evaluation, and expert-teacher workshops. Previous research examined the general setting and effectiveness of these programs and did not go into depth about the…

As the educational system is being transformed by challenges and opportunities, supporting the students in the underexplored domain of social and emotional learning becomes vital. This study explores the lived experiences of science teachers from varied lengths of teaching experiences and their perceived key areas that are vital in the development…

The purpose of this study was to investigate current practices pertaining to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) inclusivity among U.S. secondary choral teachers. Data consisted of survey responses (N = 145) from individuals teaching choral music at the middle school and/or high school level in the United States. Results…

Educator growth, well-being, and evaluation are often disconnected. How can we weave them together to better champion adult learning needs so educators can thrive and remain in their roles? In this important resource, bestselling authors Lori Cohen (The PD Book) and Elizabeth Denevi (Learning and Teaching While White) present a framework for…

This comprehensive guide gives an overview of Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) for K-12 teacher leaders and other school professionals with practices toward achieving transdisciplinary success for lifelong literacy in schools. MTSS is a holistic teacher leadership approach that focuses on transdisciplinary networks of instruction and…

This study examined the interrelationships among professional development activities (PDAs), teaching beliefs (TB), teacher efficacy (TE), decision-making (DM), and teaching behaviors (TBH) among elementary school teachers of English as a foreign language (EFL) in Taiwan. Using a path analysis approach, the study explored how participation in PDAs…

Although the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) has continued to evolve as a field, building and sustaining SoTL within educational institutions remains challenging. Through interviews with 18 SoTL scholars, we sought to examine the question, "How do individuals and institutions sustain SoTL?" Our findings highlighted the…

Building upon the ideas of social constructivists work in dialogic instruction (Bakhtin, 1981; Vygotsky, 1978) and self-efficacy theory (Bandura, 1977), this study sought to answer: How does teacher participation in a book club impact teacher disposition to dialogic practices in the classroom? And how does teacher participation in a book club…