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Title: Culturally and Linguistically Complex Classrooms, In-Service Professional Development, and the Mediation of Mainstream Elementary School Teachers' Professional Subjectivities in the North Carolina Piedmont
Author: Siefert, Barbara
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Multicultural education, Education, English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers, Career development
Description: This dissertation study employed participatory methods of qualitative inquiry to understand how, in the setting of the North Carolina piedmont, a district-initiated multi-tiered professional development program mediated mainstream elementary schoo...

Title: DESIGNING AND IMPLEMENTING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TO SUPPORT CRITICAL SCIENCE CONSCIOUSNESS AMONG SCIENCE EDUCATORS
Author: Crabtree, Lenora
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Teachers--Training of, Science--Study and teaching
Description: Justice-oriented pedagogies support students’ sociopolitical, or critical, consciousness. Research reveals, however, that science educators, the majority of whom are white, struggle to enact these practices. The purpose of this Design-based Resear...

Title: Investigating the Influence of Literacy Coaching as Embedded PD on Teacher Instruction
Author: Mauzy, Katherine
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Reading
Description: Improving elementary student reading achievement has been a well-defined goal of many federal and state educational initiatives over the last several decades. To that end, vast amounts of resources have been funneled into professional development ...

Title: USING THE CONTEXTUALIZED INTERACTION MODEL TO EXAMINE CHANGES IN TEACHER BELIEFS
Author: Neale, Henry
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Education, Educational leadership, Curriculum planning
Description: With the increased importance placed on the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields throughout the world but particularly in the United States, research in mathematics education has become widely recognized as critical to e...

Title: Teaching the Teachers: A Case Study of Instructional Leader Professional Development
Author: Sykes, Melissa
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Teachers--Training of, Adult education, Continuing education
Description: The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore professional development from the perspective of instructional leaders to identify if the assumptions of Knowles’s (1990) Adult Learning Theory were present in the planning and implementation of...

Title: The Impact of Teachers' Knowledge and Professional Development Experiences on the Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices they Implement in Literacy
Author: Kavel, Rebecca
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Education, Education, Elementary, Reading
Description: ABSTRACT With substantial demographic shifts in the U.S. student population, today’s teachers educate growing numbers of students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds (Kena, Aud, & Johnson, 2010). While these students bring an ab...