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The Impact Of Teacher Autonomy On Technology Skills Development Among K-12 Stem Educators During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Yuanlu Niu, Yi-Jung Lee, Beixi Li Jan 2024

The Impact Of Teacher Autonomy On Technology Skills Development Among K-12 Stem Educators During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Yuanlu Niu, Yi-Jung Lee, Beixi Li

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This study aims to explore factors that have affected teacher autonomy in professional development and its impact on the development of technology skills among K-12 STEM teachers during the COVID-19 pandemic.


Effective And Necessary Professional Development For Science Teachers As States Adopt Ngss, Anne M. Krebs Jan 2017

Effective And Necessary Professional Development For Science Teachers As States Adopt Ngss, Anne M. Krebs

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This roundtable will explore the efficacy of professional development opportunities designed to support science teachers during the transition to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).


Graduate Students And Teaching: Are We Preparing Future Adult Education Professors To Teach?, Catherine A. Cherrstrom, Dominique T. Chiup Jun 2012

Graduate Students And Teaching: Are We Preparing Future Adult Education Professors To Teach?, Catherine A. Cherrstrom, Dominique T. Chiup

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What do we know about how graduate students are being prepared to teach? The purpose of this roundtable is to present findings from a research study and a model for graduate student professional development related to teaching. We also seek participant contributions and feedback.


Certification For What? Practitioner Perspectives On The Changing Landscape Of Adult Literacy Education, Suzanne Smythe Jun 2011

Certification For What? Practitioner Perspectives On The Changing Landscape Of Adult Literacy Education, Suzanne Smythe

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The responses of 63 adult literacy educators to an online survey suggest that professional development and training to meet the diverse contexts and practices in the field must attend to the embedded inequalities in access to quality literacy education for low income learners, and the marginalization of adult literacy work, which persists even as successive governments hail the importance of literacy education for citizenship and employment.


Transformative Professional Development In Unlikely Places: Twitter As A Virtual Learning Community, Kathleen P. King Jun 2011

Transformative Professional Development In Unlikely Places: Twitter As A Virtual Learning Community, Kathleen P. King

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This case study reveals new dimensions of transformative learning occurring through informal learning opportunities. The research results demonstrate that the individual’s learning spans understanding, networking, professional identity development, and transformative learning. Specifically, virtual online communities facilitated through social media provide professional networks and social relationships beyond the scope of the individual’s usual interactions and experience. Discussion and recommendations include using social media and virtual communities as instructional strategies for graduate studies and continued learning beyond formal education. The educational significance includes facilitating transformative learning in informal learning contexts, and using social media and online communities for professional learning.