What is Teacher Professional Development

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Teacher instruction programs that help teachers to grow and learn as educators. Learn more in: A New Understanding of our Confusion: Insights from a Year-Long STEM Fellowship Program

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Effective, structured professional learning that results in changes in teacher practices and improvements in student learning outcomes. Learn more in: The Shared Work of Learning: Lifting Educational Achievement Through Collaboration

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Activities, programs, workshops, or seminars in which teachers participate to learn content- or skill-based information that is intended to help teachers on topics ranging from instructional practice to classroom management. The primary goal of teacher professional development is promoting student achievement. Learn more in: Professional Development for Quality Teaching and Learning: A Focus on Student Learning Outcomes

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Enhancing teacher’s capacity to facilitate meaningful learning. Learn more in: Quality Preparation of Mathematics and Science Teachers to Integrate ICT: Lessons from Learner-Centered Teacher Professional Development Approach

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The process of improving and increasing capabilities of teacher through access to education and training opportunities in the workplace. Learn more in: Teacher Education and Teacher Professional Development: Current Issues and Approaches

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The various processes by which teachers review, renew and extend their commitment as change agents to the moral purposes of teaching and by which they acquire and develop critically the knowledge, skills, planning and practice with students and colleagues through each phase of their teaching lives. Learn more in: Teacher Professional Development through Virtual Campuses: Conceptions of a ‘New’ Model

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The processes and activities designed to improve the professional knowledge, skills, and attitudes of teachers to enhance the learning of students. Learn more in: The Effect of Brain-Based Professional Development on Shifting English Language Teachers' Pedagogical Perceptions

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Involves structured professional learning with the goal of influencing teaching practices to improve student learning outcomes. In this chapter, course sessions, readings, and assignments provide teacher professional development opportunities. Learn more in: Hybrid Courses for Preparing Elementary Mathematics Specialists: Challenges, Successes, and Lessons Learned

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Can strengthen and deepen the teachers’ pedagogical competence as well as content knowledge. Learn more in: Assessing K-9 Teachers' Computational Thinking Skills