Enhancing Teachers’ Resilience through Teacher Professional Development

Enhancing educational effectiveness through teachers’ professional development

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Informal teacher communities enhancing the professional development of medical teachers: a qualitative study.

BACKGROUND Informal peer learning is a particularly powerful form of learning for medical teachers, although it does not always occur automatically in the departments of medical schools. In this article, the authors explore the role of teacher communities in enhancing informal peer learning among undergraduate medical teachers. Teacher communities are groups of teachers who voluntarily gather o...

Informal Teacher Communities Enhancing the Professional Development of Medical Teachers: a Qualitative Study

Examining Teachers’ Development through Past-Present-Aspirational Continuum of English Language Teachers’ Professional Identity

Professional development and professional identity of English language teachers have usually been explored separately in the research agenda. However, there might be a nexus of relationships between professional identity and professional development in the context of English language teaching. This study, therefore, explored how professional identity might contribute to professional development...

Improving Mathematics Teacher Practice and Student Learning through Professional Development

We propose to study how to provide, on a large scale, the professional development and continuing support teachers need to improve student achievement in mathematics. Over five years of a longitudinal study, we will examine how the use of specific research-based instructional strategies in the classroom— supported by professional development and highly rated curriculum materials—relate to lasti...