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Results indicate three major barriers of implementing inductive phase of PDI in Thailand contexts, which include: students’ English reading and grammar skills; students’ inference skill; and teachers’ inductive teaching expertise. The study suggests solutions to tackle these barriers, which include creating a guided graphic organizer ...
The PDI aligns the professional learning cycles of four key groups of educators—center leaders, direct supervisors, teachers, and assistant teachers—to transform centers into learning organizations collaboratively focused on excellence and on generating improvement through strong organizational conditions, including job-embedded professional
US Department of Education to develop, implement, refine, and study a job-embedded Early Childhood Education Professional Development Initiative (ECE PDI) for early childhood administrators and teachers. Through 3 core PD strategies or “contexts for learning” (i.e., learning Labs, coaching, and
The PDI aimed to build: (1) teachers' capacities with ambitious instruction; that is, intentionally designing standards-aligned, data driven instruction, and deliberately implementing evidence-based "general" pedagogical practices such as those measured by the Classroom Assessment Scoring System; and (2) administrators' systemic supports for ...
The centerpiece of this practical guide is Personal Digital Inquiry (PDI), a framework developed by Julie Coiro and implemented in classrooms by her co-authors, Elizabeth Dobler and Karen Pelekis. Clear, detailed examples offer ideas for K-5 teachers and school librarians to support their teaching.
There is a useful distinction between traditional “professional development” and professional learning, which is intended to result in system-wide changes in student outcomes. Professional development, which “happens to” teachers, is often associated with one-time workshops, seminars, or lectures, and is typically a one-size-fits all ...
This paper investigates the impact of a two-year professional development program on teacher self-efficacy for inquiry-based instruction. The program utilizes scientist-teacher partnerships to develop content knowledge, inquiry-based instruction, and leadership skills for in-service STEM teachers.
Professional development, also known as professional education, is learning that leads to or emphasizes education in a specific professional career field or builds practical job applicable skills emphasizing praxis in addition to the transferable skills and theoretical academic knowledge found in traditional liberal arts and pure sciences education.