Professional kinship using social media tools: Bridging and bonding to develop teacher expertise

The purpose of this collective case study research was to discover the impact school culture, internal factors, and state flow have upon motivating a teacher develop teaching expertise. This designed determine why how individual teachers can nurture their existing factors increase motivation seek expertise development explore may encourage or limit One major finding concerned experts choose professional learning experiences build networks based on perceived weaknesses in content, pedagogy, social-emotional attributes. They improve student through key factor Teacher-Student Kinship representing an almost family-like relationship. Expert bond with peers within school, but also bridge outside school. bonding bridging become more accessible use various social media technological tools from YouTube Twitter. other technology has allowed Professional enhance practice regardless location proximity community. These findings hold implications for theory, practice, future particularly realm quality change mindset towards profession standards education.