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Breaking Barriers: Campus Leaders Commitment to Technology Integration
(2013-08)
This paper critically analyzed the school reform movement of technology integration from the campus leaders’ perspectives. Leaders need to be committed to this global change in order for students to be successful in the ...
Teachers’ Awareness of and Engagement with Online Resources for Professional Development, Growth, and Support
(2016-05)
This dissertation examined teacher awareness of and engagement with online resources for professional development, growth, and support. This qualitative case study was situated in a large, urban, economically disadvantaged ...
Elementary Science Teacher Development of Pedagogical Content Knowledge Through Professional Development: An Exploratory Study
(2012-05)
Pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) – a form of knowledge that allows teachers to most effectively pass their content knowledge on to students – is a useful theoretical construct, but has yet to be translated into an ...
Teacher Retention through Fund for Teachers Fellowships
(2012-05)
Researchers have identified that experienced teachers are essential to raising student achievement and that effective professional development is a key element in both retaining classroom teachers and raising student ...
A Case Study on Video-based Professional Development
(August 201)
Pearson and Gallagher’s (1983) Gradual Release of Responsibilities Model suggests the starting point of teaching is modeling. As teacher expertise is essential in supporting good instruction, teachers need modeling of ...
TEACHERS' PERCEPTION CONCERNING USE OF WEB 2.0 APPLICATIONS FOLLOWING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
(2012-12)
Web 2.0 technologies have recently gained prominence as having the potential to bring about transformative effects in education. Many school districts have embraced innovative technology applications by increasing accessibility ...
Knowledge and Characteristics of Emerging Mathematics Teacher Leaders: Becoming a School-based Middle School Teacher Leader
(2011-05)
Mathematics teacher leaders and their capacity to facilitate significant change
within secondary mathematics classrooms on a campus is affected by mathematics,
pedagogical content, curricular, and contextual knowledge. ...
The Impact of Classroom Learning Labs and an English Workshop Model of Instruction on Teacher Knowledge and Practice
(2012-05)
This narrative inquiry attempts to uncover and discover experiences secondary educators had while navigating a new instructional model, specifically its core concepts and ideas, design and structure, tensions and ...
STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES AND ADVANCED PLACEMENT PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: IMPLICATIONS FOR SCHOOL LEADERS
(2014-12)
Educational leaders are faced with the challenge of preparing more students than ever to be college ready. Many school districts in the US have turned to offering the Advanced Placement (AP) program to add rigor to the ...
Female Leadership and New Teacher Professional Development
(2012-08)
This paper is a self-study that researched women’s ways of knowing and female leadership. Through four episodes, my first year teaching story was shown to be, and defined as a cover story. I examined differences between ...