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Professional Development And The Impact On Teacher Growth And Development, Sherry Kathleen Segura
Professional Development And The Impact On Teacher Growth And Development, Sherry Kathleen Segura
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This study involved examining the beliefs of teachers at one urban elementary school regarding how professional development has helped them meet the needs of culturally and linguistically diverse students. This study included a series of in-depth interviews with three teacher leaders. The goal was to obtain consent from them to participate in this study at their school. With a qualitative approach, this study included a narrative inquiry method to illuminate teachers' perceptions of whether professional development had a positive impact on their instruction. A series of in-depth one-on-one interviews further shed insight on which types of professional development teachers felt …
Veteran Teacher Engagement In Site-Based Professional Development: A Mixed Methods Study, Biaze L. Houston
Veteran Teacher Engagement In Site-Based Professional Development: A Mixed Methods Study, Biaze L. Houston
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This research study examined how teachers self-report their levels of engagement, which factors they believe contribute most to their engagement, and which assumptions of andragogy most heavily influence teacher engagement in site-based professional development. This study employed a convergent parallel mixed methods design to study veteran teachers' perceptions of engagement in site-based professional development using the assumptions of andragogy as the theoretical lens. The study began with both a quantitative and qualitative phase that was conducted simultaneously. The quantitative data was collected to assess teachers' reported engagement and factors influencing engagement in an ideal state. Descriptive statistics were used to …