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Tran, Dung; Lee, Hollylynne; Doerr, Helen – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2016
The research reported here uses a pre/post-test model and stimulated recall interviews to assess teachers' statistical reasoning about comparing distributions, when enrolled in a graduate-level statistics education course. We discuss key aspects of the course design aimed at improving teachers' learning and teaching of statistics, and the…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Thinking Skills, Graduate Students, Statistics
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Carey, Thomas; Davis, Alan; Ferreras, Salvador; Porter, David – Open Praxis, 2015
This paper explores the integration of Open Educational Practices (OEP) into an institutional strategy to develop distinctive excellence in teaching, learning and scholarship. The institution in the case study is a public polytechnic university serving a metropolitan area in Canada. If emerging Open Educational Practices are to flourish at our…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Open Education, Excellence in Education, Case Studies
Fulkerth, Robert – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
A comprehensive adjunct faculty training program is described, whose aim is to improve student perceptions of courses and programs in a private, not-for-profit MBA and Law degree granting university in San Francisco, The program is somewhat novel in that it uses (a) student input from open-ended responses on course evaluations to determine faculty…
Descriptors: Course Evaluation, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Feedback (Response), Faculty Development
Gaofeng, Ruan; Yeyu, Lin – Online Submission, 2007
Peer coaching, or peer assisting, was established in 1970s by Joyce and Showers. Initially used in teachers' professional development, it refers to a process that two or more teacher peers evaluate current practice mutually; expand skills, extract and build new skills; share ideas, and review & solve problems of classroom teaching in a way of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Internet, Peer Teaching
Zygouris-Coe, Vicky; Yao, Yuanming; Tao, Yedong; Hahs-Vaughn, Debbie; Baumbach, Donna – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2004
The Florida Online Reading Professional Development (FOR-PD) program is funded by the Florida Department of Education (DOE) and is housed at the University of Central Florida (UCF). FORPD is an online staff development project designed to help teachers improve reading instruction for learners in grades preK-12. Developed collaboratively with…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Reading Instruction, Teacher Educators, Faculty Development