We examine in-service high school teachers' journals to explore the emerging themes in a mathematics content course for their professional development. We use a sociocultural perspective and characterize journals as signifying teachers' communication and written discourses about their thinking and experiences in the course. We use applied thematic…

Digital technology has significantly transformed education, requiring teacher educators to develop robust digital competencies to navigate 21st-century classrooms. Digital competence, defined by the European Commission's DigComp framework, includes information and data literacy, communication and collaboration, digital content creation, safety,…

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the experience and challenges faced by female in multi-tasking, combing full-time academic work with being an entrepreneur; the impact on professional practice and personal development. Becoming an entrepreneur can be a challenging and daunting task, but it can also come with good experience in managing own…

Primary mathematics leadership has become a focus for improving the teaching of mathematics within Australian primary schools. Much of the training and support for those in the role have concentrated on content knowledge, rather than leadership training. There are currently no guidelines or standards in place to support the complex and…

School districts across the United States are turning to mathematics teacher leaders (MTLs) to support the teaching and learning of mathematics. And yet, what does research seem to say about MTLs? In this paper, we report findings from an exploration of PME-NA proceedings between 1984 and 2019 to examine the role of MTLs. In particular, we examine…

The quality of teachers is an important factor in the achievement of educational goals, and this is why Wokocha (2013) asserts that the quality of the teacher could be determined through intellectual competence, mastery of content, teaching experience, skills and dissemination of knowledge. Thus, one of the best ways to raise the quality of…

The purpose of this research is to identify the problems faced by teachers with gifted/talented children. The study was conducted in 2017-2018 academic year and includes the teachers of the children whose children are gifted/intelligent. In addition to the demographic information of the teachers in the study, the perspective of the society as a…

In this study, we examine how inservice secondary mathematics teachers working together on a contextualized problem negotiate issues arising from the ill-structured nature of the problem such as what assumptions one may make, what real-world considerations should be taken into account, and what constitutes a satisfactory solution. We conceptualize…

Identity and roles are lenses through which teachers perceive, interpret, and understand the tasks and complexities of their practice (Dolloff, 2007). Empirical research on identity in music education that suggests music educators balance and negotiate multiple identities and roles simultaneously (Austin, Isbell, & Russell, 2010; Bernard,…

This study examined teachers' perceptions of the teacher evaluation process within a district that implemented a national teacher evaluation model. Within this teacher evaluation model, teachers are evaluated by administrators, as well as teacher leaders. Evaluators utilize a detailed rubric to assess teacher performance in the context of student…

Constant advancement in technology demands that all users upgrade their competence for relevance. In most cases, the degree and the strategies needed for such upgrading are usually lacking to guide one's effort against waste of resources, energy and time. This research studied capacity building index of lecturers and strategies for effective adult…

In faculties of education of recently developed universities of applied sciences in the Netherlands, student research supervisors for Bachelor's programmes are charged with a complicated task. They are expected to supervise students in conducting research within the context of a system that has yet to define research for its own purposes, to…

The process of change and its effect is documented in this dissertation research project through the eyes of classroom teachers and the effect that the changes had on them personally, practically, and professionally. The three areas of simultaneous systemic change were: reduction of class size, technology integration, and collaborative leadership…

This paper examines the role of teachers and organizational structures in implementing a growth mindset initiative in three urban high schools in the southwestern United States. Drawing from a larger study of a locally-designed initiative, we use a longitudinal, case study approach to study evidence of how understanding of growth mindset…

The potential benefits of teacher leadership are widely acknowledged; however, the conceptualization of this construct is in need of theoretical development and analytic clarification. The purpose of this mixed methodology study was to operationalize distinct types of teacher leadership into an organized typology, based on case studies of teacher…