As a secondary analysis of the SITES 2006 data, the present paper focused on the exploration of the factors associated with the impact of ICT-use on students’ 21st-century skills as perceived by teachers, in which students’ 21st-century skills included information-handling skills, problem-solving skills, self-directed learning skills, collaborative skills, communication skills, ICT skills, and ...

Actor-network theory is a way of describing and understanding the complexity of social change. This article explores its relevance to understanding teacher change in mathematics education by considering a single teacher change narrative. This is centred on a veteran teacher of mathematics who participated in a teacher led, teacher-educator-supported professional development project. The project...

Professional Development is critical for improving and maintaining teacher quality and the effect flows on into the classroom. Factors influencing the success of Professional Development activities include potential for workplace change, the diverse effect and understanding of adult learning principles, subject specificity, effective mentoring and the relevance of the presented material. Releva...

This paper explores the possibilities and limitations of the AITSL Performance and Development Framework (Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership, 2012b) as a vehicle for authentic teacher professional learning. It suggests that the Framework offers a range of implementation possibilities, from surveillance of teaching practice at one end of the spectrum to ongoing and generativ...

Background : Identity is closely related to the professional development of teachers in teaching and learning. Teachers primary school do not have only one identity, because they work as class teachers. Mathematics subjects taught, so that also a mathematical identity learning do. Objectives This study aims explain aspects teachers, seen from their identity. Design type research was qualitative...

Topic area focus. As part of the Southwestern Regional Educational Laboratory’s (REL Southwest) fast-turnaround projects, the American Institutes for Research (AIR) will conduct a systematic review of research-based evidence on the effects of professional development on growth in student learning. The main focus of the review will be how students’ achievement in three core academic subjects (En...

This paper describes my practitioner inquiry as a newly qualified teacher, initially used form of teacher learning, but ultimately became the reason I remained in physical education (PE) teaching profession. In Scotland, early-career PE teachers are encouraged to embody role teacher–researcher and pursue Career-Long Professional Learning (CLPL) opportunities that nourish creative enquiring disp...

BACKGROUND Researchers have yet to fully explore and adequately measure Professional Identity (PI) in nursing. OBJECTIVES This paper aims to examine the psychometrics of five measures of PI and compare these results in first and third year nursing students. As a consequence of utilising multiple self-assessed survey tools this study also examines common methods bias. DESIGN The study utilis...

We examine the impact of teacher professional development on knowledge growth and subsequent knowledge retention. Specifically we use English Language Arts teacher content and pedagogy assessments to determine whether the California Professional Development Institutes significantly improve teacher content knowledge and whether teachers retain that knowledge six months after the institutes are c...

• This paper argues that research on teacher professional development could be integrated with validated theoretical models of educational effectiveness research (EER). A dynamic integrated approach (DIA) to teacher professional development is proposed. The methods and results of a study comparing the impact of the DIA and the Holistic Reflective Approach (HA) to teacher professional developmen...