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Building Efficacy In Early-Career Teachers: An Applied Research Study On The Role Of Professional Development On Teacher Efficacy, Duncan Gray
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Teacher efficacy is closely connected to student achievement and teacher retention. The applied research explored how rethinking certain aspects of professional development would impact the efficacy of the teachers in an upper elementary building. The research program included two distinct components. School administrators redesigned after school professional development sessions in order to allow teachers to facilitate their own learning and lead sessions on areas of interest. The second component was a structural model that alloearly-career educators to visit other classrooms. Both of the components shosome promise for increasing teachers’ sense of efficacy, but the response from the after-school sessions was …
Effective Response To Intervention In Middle School, Angela Mechelle Ellison
Effective Response To Intervention In Middle School, Angela Mechelle Ellison
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This applied mixed methods program evaluation sought to increase student proficiency in mathematics at a rural middle school in central Mississippi. The program focused on improving student achievement through effective professional development. Quantitative and qualitative data was used to gage the program’s effectiveness. Research supporting an effective Response to Intervention Model, professional learning communities, and teacher development was cited and used to construct the program’s implementation framework.