The Let Me Learn professional learning process experience: A new culture for professional learning

Transformative Learning Theory: A Possibility for Teachers’ Professional Development

Based on the transformative learning theory, it was sought to develop a procedure for helping teachers develop professionally. 13 elementary school teachers in one of the boys schools in Tehran’s district one participated in a workshop consisting of ten sessions and then interviewed. The content of the sessions was drawn from the theoretical basis of the study. Further field observations led to...

Professional Development Experience: a learning activity for pharmacy residents.

KELLY M. SMITH, PHARM.D., is Associate Professor, Pharmacy Practice and Science, University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy, Lexington, and Director, Pharmacy Practice Residency Program, University of Kentucky Chandler Medical Center (UKCMC), Lexington. AMANDA M. BALL, PHARM.D., is Pharmacy Practice Resident; E. ZACHARY RAMSEY, PHARM.D., is Pharmacy Practice Resident; and JOHN A. ARMITSTEAD, M....

Framing a Professional Learning Culture: A Case Study

Teachers have always been engaged in the business of learning. The increasingly rapid changes in knowledge underpinning the nature, structure and practices of society, however, now means that they are having to spend increasing amounts of time on their own learning: finding out about changing policies, procedures and practices related to curriculum, teaching and learning that are central to the...

Language Learning Materials Development for Teachers’ Professional Development

Coursebooks are normally written to contain information, instruction, exposure, and activities that learn- ers at a particular level need to enhance their communicative competence in the target language. Howev- er, many global course books make attempts to include content, topics, and texts that do not disadvantage any learner around the world. That is why global course books normally do ...

Professional Learning in Sonography