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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"Effective Professional Development"”.
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Effective professional development for teachers of students with autism
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Lost in translation? : transformations of federal policy intentions for effective professional development in statewide policy
… OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Teacher professional development is a key policy lever to redress ongoing concerns about teacher quality and student academic success. This policy lever has been and continues to be employed by the U.S. federal government despite modest and uneven results …
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ENGLISH LEARNERS: QUALITY INDICATORS OF EFFECTIVE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN EARLY LITERACY FOR TEACHERS AND COACHES
… instruction their teachers should be attending professional development that is supported by research, content focused, and expands their own knowledge and understanding of literacy. Long gone are the days of one size fits all professional development opportunities. To compete in the 21st …
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Designing Effective Professional Development for Teaching Students in Poverty: Impact on Teacher Beliefs and Classroom Practice
… to discern the impact of practitioner-designed professional development (PD) on teacher beliefs about students from poverty. This study focused on the creation and implementation of PD designed to help teachers explore their beliefs, and investigated whether these beliefs changed after teachers …
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Examining Adolescence Science and Mathematics Teachers' Views of the Characteristics of Effective Professional Development: A Q-methodological Study
… design and implementation of secondary teacher professional development (PD) has been a focus of researchers for decades. Often viewed as the way to increase the quality of teaching and to improve student achievement, billions of dollars are invested in PD within the United Stated every year. As …
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Examining Adolescence Science And Mathematics Teachers’ Views Of The Characteristics Of Effective Professional Development: A Q-methodological Study
… design and implementation of secondary teacher professional development (PD) has been a focus of researchers for decades. Often viewed as the way to increase the quality of teaching and to improve student achievement, billions of dollars are invested in PD within the United Stated every year. As …
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Building the best : a quantitative evaluation of a state-level teacher retention strategy designed to increase self-efficacy, reflective capacity, and job satisfaction through effective professional development
… to increase retention by providing career development, which improves working conditions, ultimately leading to increases in job satisfaction for teachers. Teacher self-efficacy and reflective practice are both related to teacher retention (Yost, 2006). Teacher self-efficacy is known to be …
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Transformative Professional Development Through the Eyes of Jack Mezirow and Thomas Guskey
… teacher. Students must have skillful, highly effective teachers who have consistent access to on going professional development. NCLB offers guidelines for effective professional development. States interpret these guidelines and add their own varied legislative requirements. The current …
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Coaching for Change: Teacher Perceptions of the Impact of Personalized, Reflective Professional Development
… coaching has become a popular form of professional development in schools. Instructional coaches are often teacher leaders with years of classroom experience but little formal training in working with adult learners. This research examined the experiences of instructional coaches and …
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Assimilating digital immigrants into high-access learning environments
… the instructional shift required for effective integration of these devices, they are not allocating enough time and resources for teacher professional development (Sawchuck, 2010). This has contributed to a digital divide between teachers in districts across the state, and, even, …
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Examining Teachers' Perspectives on an Implementation of Elementary Engineering Teacher Professional Development
… with the core concepts of engineering to effectively teach aspects of the subject in their classrooms. Elementary engineering teacher professional development (EETPD) has been identified as a method to disseminate engineering content knowledge to elementary teachers.</p> <p>The purpose of …
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The Study of Black American Male School Principals’ Life Experiences and How They Affect Black American Male Students in Their Schools to Close the Academic Achievement Gap
… study focused on how they used their life and professional experiences to help Black American male students in their schools to close the academic achievement gap. Three themes were acknowledged in this investigation: the impact of having a strong Black American male in their lives, ensuring …
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A Preliminary Investigation of the Effects of a Professional Development Training on Secondary Students' Reading Scores
… amount of research has stressed the need for effective reading interventions for adolescents. However, little research has evaluated effective professional development of secondary teachers in the area of literacy. The current study examines the results of embedded teacher professional …
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A Study on the Relationships of Professional Development, Teacher Working Conditions and Job Satisfaction while Controlling for Years of Teaching Experience and Grade Level Taught
… 2011, pg. 1). Indeed, teacher preparation and professional development is an extremely important issue facing our educational system today. There is a great deal of research that supports the idea that the most important factor that affects student achievement is a highly qualified effective …
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The Use of Educational Technology Integration by Special Education Teachers in Rural Schools in South Carolina
<p>Effective professional development training is essential to ensuring full technology integration in all classrooms by all teachers on a regular basis. Technology integration can greatly enhance the learning of all students. In particular students with disabilities and special needs benefit a …
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Transforming regular classroom instruction to differentiate for gifted and highly capable learners
… the study explored how teacher engagement in an effective professional development program impacted their practice and disposition toward meeting the needs of gifted learners, while seeking information regarding changes in school district culture to promote 21st century learning environments. …
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A qualitative instrumental case study investigating the interrelatedness of adult learning theory, targeted professional development, and the creation of professional learning communities during the implementation of an elementary school improvement model
… improvement programs. Research has shown effective professional development that is targeted to student, teacher, and school needs is essential to implementing new programs. The purpose of this study was to illustrate the interconnectedness of adult learning theory, targeted professional …
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An Eight-Week Professional Development in Service in Best Practice Strategies in Literacy Instruction Kindergarten Through Grade Five
… is providing them with sustained and meaningful professional development opportunities. While much has recently been implemented in the area of formal induction programs for new teachers, nationally, few veteran teachers have had access to sustained and intensive professional development about …
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The role of principal leadership in special education: a Delphi study
… throughout their school community through effective professional development, instructional leadership, and communication with all stakeholders. The findings from this study have implications for the practices of current school leaders, and may be used to inform future research related to …
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Mathematics Curriculum Coaching and Elementary School Students’ Mathematics Achievement in a Northeast Tennessee School System
… Academic coaching has been identified as an effective professional development activity for teachers. The purpose of this study was to investigate the difference between students’ achievement levels before and after a mathematics initiative in a Northeast Tennessee school district. In this …
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