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Wakefield, Wendy – Teacher Development, 2022
To facilitate transfer of teachers' learning into classroom practice, science and engineering teacher professional development (PD) experiences should increase teachers' content knowledge, disciplinary practices, and pedagogical strategies. As this can be difficult within traditional PD contexts, this study is a qualitative investigation of hybrid…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Research Training, Teacher Researchers, Science Teachers
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Morabito, Nancy P. – Science Educator, 2018
Increasing emphasis on students' understanding of the practices of science and engineering necessitates that teachers themselves possess a strong understanding of these practices. Unfortunately, a teacher's potentially limited engagement in science and engineering practices throughout his or her own education may impede his or her understanding of…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Teacher Researchers, Summer Programs, Faculty Development
Weiss, David Mark – ProQuest LLC, 2018
An educational researcher sought to collaborate with a classroom instructor to introduce problem-based learning as a new teaching intervention. First, a classroom instructor was approached to consider how a problem-based learning instructional approach might fit with their existing curriculum plan. The researcher and the classroom teacher used a…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Problem Based Learning, Educational Researchers, Teachers
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Laffey, Evelyn H.; Cook-Chennault, Kimberly; Hirsch, Linda S. – American Journal of Engineering Education, 2013
In addressing the nation's need for a more technologically-literate society, the Rutgers University Research Experience for Teachers in Engineering (RU RET-E) is designed to: (1) engage middle and high school math and science teachers in innovative "green" engineering research during the summer, and (2) support teachers in integrating…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Program Effectiveness, Engineering
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Irvine, Naomi; Carmichael, Patrick – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2009
Participants with teaching and research experience across eight disciplinary areas were introduced to the idea of "threshold concepts" and were then invited to identify potential threshold concepts in their own disciplines through small-scale research activities. Participants conceptualized their involvement in different ways: for some it provided…
Descriptors: English Literature, Educational Research, Reflection, Faculty Development
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Klein-Gardner, Stacy S.; Johnston, Megan E.; Benson, Lisa – Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research, 2012
This phenomenological study examined the impact of Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) teacher-developed curriculum on teaching styles and strategies at two RET sites with common Legacy Cycle training. The study was conducted to assess and document program-specific and National Science Foundation (NSF) goals related to classroom practices and…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Teacher Researchers, Curriculum Development, Teaching Styles