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Showing 1 to 20 of 61 for “"professional development for teachers"”.
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Effective professional development for teachers of students with autism
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Professional Development for Teachers: Perceptions of Northeast Tennessee Principals.
<p>This study was designed for the purpose of quantitatively examining the perceptions of northeast Tennessee principals as they compared their system's professional development plans to Learning Forward's, formerly the National Staff Development Council, recently revised definition of professional …
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Examining an Observation-Based Model of Professional Development for Teachers
… of reculturation prompted by standards-based reform initiatives. Student content standards suggest fundamental changes in the way teachers, schools, and districts think about and do their work. These substantive reform efforts require a parallel reorganization in professional development …
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International professional development for teachers : the Fulbright Hays Group Projects Abroad, 2003-2007
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Curriculum, Teaching and Educational Policy, 2010
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Transitions Toward Transformation: Exploring Continuing Professional Development for Teachers in Ireland (2 Vols.)
… addresses the question of a national framework for continuing professional development (CPD) for teachers in Ireland. The framework aims to make provision for CPD that would be transformative in its impact on teachers, improving the quality of teaching for the benefit of the young people in the …
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The development of a model of continuing professional development for teachers of primary science
… (Curaclam na Bunscoile, 1971), requires teachers at all levels of primary school to teach science. A review carried out in 2008 of children’s experiences of this curriculum found that its implementation throughout the country was uneven. This finding, together with the increasing numbers …
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Exploring the use of information and communication technology for enhancing the delivery of continuous professional development for teachers
Continuous Professional Teacher Development is one of the effective ways of enhancing the quality of education throughout the world. With that attainment of Democracy in 1994, South African government incorporated this innovative strategy in its educational policies. To enhance the effectiveness of …
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An Examination of the Relationship Among the Intentions, Features, Affordances, and Outcomes of Saturday Academy for Math Professional Development for Mathematics Teachers
… to connect the features of SA4M to the affordances reported, participants of SA4M deepened their content knowledge on both conceptual and skill specific levels, and expressed intentions to incorporate many of the tasks from SA4M into their practices. There are implications for those tasked …
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Moving To A District Balanced Literacy Program: A Change Leadership Plan
… the Annual Yearly Progress (AYP) designation for two consecutive years were required to implement a comprehensive school reform model. This change plan examined the movement from the comprehensive school reform model Success For All (SFA) to a balanced literacy framework within Harmony …
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A Three-Part Dissertation: Staff perceptions of the Newly Restructured Professional Development Program for ELL and Bilingual Teachers; Bilingual Kindergarten Curriculum and Instruction; Biliteracy in Transitional Bilingual Education Programs: A Policy Advocacy Document
… et al., 2014). Research indicates that success for English language learners hinges on comprehensible content instruction and literacy instruction in their native language and English. The implementation of the Biliteracy framework in a school district with a high population of English language …
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A Program Evaluation of Professional Learning Communities to Support Professional Development and Student Learning
<p>For this program evaluation, I examined the effectiveness of Professional Learning Communities (PLC) with regard to how it supported professional development for teachers and student learning at Sunshine Elementary School (pseudonym). The literature reviewed argues that PLCs are viable venues to …
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Teachers' and Students' Experience of Teaching and Learning in Culturally Diverse Classrooms
… Saskatchewan. The participants were two homeroom teachers and two Nepali immigrant students in those classrooms. Data were collected through classroom observation and interviews. Based on the data, the research generated four themes: Challenges for teachers and students, common strategies for …
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Virtual insights : the design, development and evaluation of a strategy for online communication in teacher professional development
This thesis discusses the process of the design, development and evaluation of a strategy for online communication within a model of professional development for teachers and the results of an eight-month pilot project involving two school teams. The pilot project involved two school teams and an …
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HOW PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AT ONE CULTURAL INSTITUTION AFFECTS PARTICIPANTS’ THINKING ABOUT THE TEACHING OF HISTORY
The current study examined the impact that professional development has on teaching history. A total of nine middle school and high school teachers, with varying degrees of teaching experience and content backgrounds, participated in the study. Through an artifact analysis, field notes, interviews, …
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How Teachers Build Relationships with Students in a Bimodal Environment
<p>Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, teachers nationwide were encouraged or required to teach on a bimodal platform, forcing them to create lessons, deliver lessons, and build student relationships in a way they had not experienced before. The purpose of my study was to investigate the strategies …
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The Implementation of a Two-Way Dual Language Program And The Impact On Teaching And Learning
… the requirement of mandated bilingual programs for English Language Learners in the state of Illinois. This qualitative program evaluation focused on a school district that entered into an adaptive change process with respect to creating a two-way dual language immersion program that would …
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How Principals Understanding Of Best Practices In Professional Development Impacts Teacher Pedagogy
… leader. Principals are the key lever to creating professional development with teachers in order to improve teaching and learning. The single most important variable to student achievement is the quality of the teacher in the classroom ( Darling-Hammond, 2014). In order to ensure teacher quality, …
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Trainee teachers and ionising radiation: understandings, attitudes and risk assessments. A descriptive study in one institution
This study described UK trainee teachers’ understandings of and attitudes to radioactivity and ionising radiation, in one School of Education. The investigation addressed three research questions. The first focussed on the understanding of alpha, beta and gamma radiations. The second looked at risk …
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Implementing Peer Coaching in a State Funded Pre-Kindergarten Program: An Autoethnography
… preparation, implementation, and analysis of a professional development program. The purpose of this study was to reflect upon whether or not a peer coaching program would enhance the development of pre-kindergarten teachers' emergent literacy strategies in the Greater New Orleans area. This …
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