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Everton Lacerda Jacinto; Jo Towers; Lyndon Martin – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2024
The goal of this paper is to explore aspects of the work of mathematics teachers that students consider problematic and in need of improvement. By using an inductive thematic analysis, we present three themes generated from interviews conducted with 15 students in Alberta, Canada who were participating in high school mathematics upgrading courses.…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Teaching Methods, Mathematics Teachers, Teacher Improvement
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Arlene L. Grierson; Tiffany L. Gallagher; Rachel St Hilaire – Professional Development in Education, 2024
This qualitative case study explored the experiences of a digital technology (DT) coach over the duration of a school year, as she forged her role and sought to support elementary teachers' abilities to integrate technology in instruction across the curriculum. In a school district in Ontario, Canada, the DT coach engaged teachers in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Development, Coaching (Performance), Instructional Improvement
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Omer, Kamel; Jacobs, Shoshanah; Bettger, Bill; Dawson, John; Graether, Steffen; Murrant, Coral; Zettel, John; Newton, Genevieve – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2023
Student Evaluations of Teaching (SETs) are a ubiquitous tool in higher education. Though they are not effective means of evaluating teaching ability, they are useful in formative teaching development of a teaching career. We characterise the current formative use of and attitudes towards SETs by instructors across all disciplines (STEM and…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes
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Chuckry, Cheryl – BU Journal of Graduate Studies in Education, 2019
The professional learning journey for teachers can be either a challenging or a fulfilling one, depending on the conditions in each educational setting. One new initiative at the Manitoba Teachers' Society, the Collaborative Learning Team Grants project, seeks to address barriers such as fixed mindsets, a lack of time, and the absence of praxis,…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Teacher Improvement, Barriers, Instructional Leadership
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Michelle Briegel; Bria Scarff – International Journal for Students as Partners, 2023
This reflective case study describes the benefits of a pedagogical partnership between a student and a faculty member of a professional practice child and youth care counsellor program. Reflecting on data collected from their pedagogical partnership experiences, the authors present a case study of the process they used and draw data from their…
Descriptors: Counselor Training, Teacher Student Relationship, Student Role, Teaching Methods
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Osmond-Johnson, Pamela; Campbell, Carol – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2018
There has been increased attention to the importance of teachers and teacher quality in developing and sustaining successful education systems for some time now (Barber and Mourshed in How the world's best performing school systems come out on top, McKinsey & Company, New York, 2007; Darling-Hammond et al. in Empowered educators: how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Competencies, Faculty Development, Program Development
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Stark, Jody – Research Studies in Music Education, 2021
This article outlines the methodology and findings from an interpretive collective case study exploring the professional learning of three elementary music teachers. Participants were purposefully selected based on their differing career stages, background, and teaching situations, and each participant was interviewed five or six times over the…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Teaching Experience
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Buchholz, Andrea C.; Wolstenholme, Janet; Varghese, Jeji; Robinson, J. Andrew; Spencer, Jennifer; Reniers, Jennifer – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2019
Abstract Educational Leadership in Teaching Excellence (EnLITE) is an 11-month faculty development program at the University of Guelph, Ontario. Created and led by faculty members and educational developers, EnLITE is designed to engage participants in the principles, practice and theory of teaching and learning in higher education and to promote…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Foreign Countries, Teacher Effectiveness, Student Centered Learning
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Riveros, Augusto; Viczko, Melody – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2015
While teacher learning has become a locus of school reform across many international settings, there is relatively little examination of the idiosyncratic ways in which policy discourses on teacher learning are enacted in schools. In this paper, we aim to investigate how these policy discourses are translated and configured into practices and…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Faculty Development, Teacher Improvement, Educational Change
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Scoppio, Grazia; Luyt, Ilka – Education and Information Technologies, 2017
Distance education has provided the foundation for new generations of learning, including courses delivered through various web-based educational technologies, also referred to as online learning. Many post-secondary institutions face the challenge of creating processes and systems to support instructors who are required to design, deliver, and…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Online Courses, Models, Educational Quality
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White, Lynn – BU Journal of Graduate Studies in Education, 2018
Many teachers today struggle to meet the differentiated needs in their classrooms. Mentorship programs are often available to teachers in the first five years of teaching, but after the initial induction process there is little support for teachers. In the past, when teachers were identified as struggling in the classroom, they were evaluated…
Descriptors: Teacher Collaboration, Peer Relationship, Mentors, Elementary School Teachers
Fullan, Michael; Hargreaves, Andy – Learning Forward, 2016
Coinciding with the 2016 Annual Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, Learning Forward commissioned and supported a study of professional learning across the nation of Canada entitled "The State of Educators' Professional Learning in Canada." A research team led by Carol Campbell, Associate Professor of Leadership and Educational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Teacher Collaboration, Teacher Competencies
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Bruce, Catherine D.; Hawes, Zachary – ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2015
The ability to mentally rotate objects in space has been singled out by cognitive scientists as a central metric of spatial reasoning (see Jansen, Schmelter, Quaiser-Pohl, Neuburger, & Heil, 2013; Shepard & Metzler, 1971 for example). However, this is a particularly undeveloped area of current mathematics curricula, especially in North…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Visualization, Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries
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Richardson, Rick; Kalvaitis, Darius; Delparte, Donna – Journal of Experiential Education, 2014
This study examined how adventure educators could use systematic feedback to improve their teaching skills. Evaluative instruments demonstrated a statistically significant improvement in teaching skills when applied at an outdoor education center in Western Canada. Concurrent focus group interviews enabled instructors to reflect on student…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Adventure Education, Teaching Skills, Focus Groups
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Forgie, Sarah E.; Yonge, Olive; Luth, Robert – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2018
Post-secondary institutions, especially those with a research focus, face a challenge in ensuring consistent and high-quality teaching, in part because many members of the teaching faculty have backgrounds in research instead of teaching. A common part of meeting this challenge is the presence of Centres for Teaching and Learning (CTLs) on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Centers, Educational Development, Faculty Development
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