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Moltchanov, Barbara – NECTFL Review, 2021
This article examines the development, delivery, and outcomes of a year-long, collaborative, professional development (PD) program for 33 K-16 world language educators who taught in the State of Delaware. This work was prompted (in part) by Delaware's publication of its World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages (Delaware Department of…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Faculty Development
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Bentahar, Adil; Copeland, Kathleen D.; Stevens, Scott G.; Vukelich, Carol J. – International Education Studies, 2021
Teacher professional development (PD) programs ideally evaluate how professional learning experiences empower teachers to be effective change agents in their disciplines and communities. The Khbrat ["experiences" in Arabic] program is a year-long, global teacher PD initiative launched by the Saudi Ministry of Education. The goal is to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
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Hestness, Emily; McGinnis, J. Randy; Breslyn, Wayne; McDonald, R. Christopher; Mouza, Chrystalla – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2017
In the context of a weeklong summer professional development program focused on climate change education, we conducted a qualitative case study investigating how science educators' understandings of learning progressions (LPs) informed their ideas about climate change teaching practice. Participants (N = 27) in the Climate Academy were middle…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Climate, Faculty Development
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Lima, Anselmo; von Duyke, Katherine – Dialogic Pedagogy, 2016
The practice of a dialogic pedagogy inspired by the writings of Bakhtin is increasingly popular in different parts of the world. This article is an account produced in the spirit of such pedagogy. Two professors (one from Brazil, the other from the United States), both members of an international dialogic pedagogy study group, write together to…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Collaboration, Dialogs (Language), Classroom Communication
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Buttram, Joan L.; Farley-Ripple, Elizabeth N. – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2016
The purpose of this article is to identify how principals shape the adoption and implementation of professional learning communities. The study employed a sequential mixed-methods approach in which interviews, observations, and document analysis informed survey design. Teachers were surveyed in four elementary schools about the practices and…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Principals, Adoption (Ideas), Program Implementation
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Bieler, Deborah – Educational Leadership, 2012
If veteran teachers made a list of resolutions for what they'd do next school year to better support new teachers in their schools, what actions and approaches should top those lists? The question has high stakes because half of all new teachers leave the profession within the first five years. Researchers have identified "support from the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Teacher Leadership, Communities of Practice, Graduate Surveys