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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"professional development workshop"”.
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Teachers' Perceptions of an Online Social Network as an Instructional Platform: The Impact of an Edmodo-Based Professional Development Workshop
… Additionally, whether the OSN supports a professional learning community was investigated, and the influence of this type of professional development design on the participants' perceptions was analyzed.</p><p> Generally, the OSN was perceived as an instructional platform particularly for …
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Creating the environment for inclusion: ways for teachers to encourage positive interactions between typical and special needs children
… conceptual thesis is to create an outline of a professional development workshop model to be implemented at a later date and time. This professional development model is designed to teach fifteen to twenty inclusion teachers how to create a safe and accepting learning environment where students …
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The Imperatives of Health and Weight in Primary Care Clinics: Current and Envisioned Practices
… Network 5As of Obesity Management™ continuing professional development workshop. I interviewed the observed primary care clinicians, and key informants in the Canadian Obesity Network. Using analytic insights from discourse analysis, actor-network theory, and visual studies, I analysed both …
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Behavioral coaching: A strategy for increasing general education teachers' skills in managing challenging behavior
… However, when teachers are provided with professional development and a conceptual model around challenging behavior, teachers report confidently implementing strategies, and these strategies are beneficial for student behavior. Few empirical studies have investigated how professional …
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Workshop Training And Instructional Coaching: A Model For Professional Development That Results In Academic Student Growth
<p>This study examined two forms of Professional Development, workshop training and instructional coaching together and workshop training alone. All participating teachers attended the same workshop training on vocabulary instruction and were trained in using procedural cards for teaching science …
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Development of a CDIO Framework for Teacher Training in Computational Thinking
… thinking to their students. In this thesis, the development of a framework to train elementary school teachers and students in computational thinking is presented. It is based on a framework for engineering education, and modifies that framework to design and implement creative, cross-curricular …
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Evaluation of a professional development curriculum in movement education and adapted physical activity for invisible disabilities : a critical cross-case analysis
… a guided, descriptive evaluation of a three-day professional development workshop curriculum designed to supplement these areas lacking in professional preparation within their respective cohorts. Case-by-case and comparative analyses illustrated the inherent assumptions and societal constraints …
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Novice Teachers: Using Professional Development to Discover Whether They Continue to Use the Behavior Management Strategies Taught in the Undergraduate Program
… This research was designed to study teacher professional development with novice special education teachers as they move from a teacher preparation program to a full-time teaching position. The participants for this study included five novice special education teachers. The participants …
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"Working with Students from Displaced Backgrounds" Teacher Training Workshop
… on designing, conducting, and improving a professional development workshop for TESOL teachers. The workshop covers the topics of global displacement, cultural awareness, and the oppression of migrant populations in the US. Pre- and post-workshop surveys will be employed in the study. …
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Strengthening Co-Teacher Partnerships Between ENL and Content-Area Teachers
… divergent teaching philosophies, and lack of professional development hinder effective collaboration and reduce equitable learning opportunities for English language learners (ELLs). A comprehensive literature review highlights the ways in which power dynamics, scheduling conflicts, and …
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Writes of Spring 2014: Fostering Creativity in Theatre, Education, and Leadership
… artistic and educational value. Through professional development and qualitative research, this project demonstrates the importance of creativity and its role in the classroom and on stage. This study examines my role as Project Coordinator in Orlando Repertory Theatre's (The REP) Writes …
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Practical Pragmatics: A Workshop to Learn Strategies for Teaching Pragmatic Awareness to Adult English Language Leaners
… language) classrooms has led to a gap in the development of students’ communicative competence in English as a second or foreign language. The purpose of this project is to provide an opportunity for teachers, who may be unaware of how to recognize their own first language pragmatic …
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Helping developers to help each other: a technique to facilitate understanding among professional software developers.
Much of a professional software developer’s work involves amending or extending pre-existing software; creating new software from scratch represents only a small proportion of their time. Even in a brand new project they still need to make sense of work others have done in the emerging software …
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Elucidating the function of inositol pyrophosphate signaling pathways in Arabidopsis thaliana
… and graduate students and created a professional development workshop series. During the COVID-19 pandemic, I developed an online version of the VT-REEL program. Using inclusive pedagogy practices and surveys from the participants, we compiled the best practices for moving a summer …
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Summative assessment practices of Solomon Islands year nine science teachers
… their practices, and to identify their professional learning needs in creating assessment tools. The second part of the study involved a small-scale professional development intervention, which aimed to enhance the science teachers’ skills and confidence in summative assessment as well …
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SCIENCE TEACHERS’ UNDERSTANDING AND PRACTICE OF INQUIRY-BASED INSTRUCTION IN UGANDA
… Additionally, few studies have explored how professional development (PD) training workshops on inquiry and nature of science (NOS) affect chemistry teachers’ understanding and practice of IBI. </p> <p>My purpose in this multi-case exploratory qualitative study was to explore the effect of a …