A successful professional development program in history: What matters?
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In this paper, a successful Professional Development Program for improving students' understanding of historical time, consisting of a training and the implementation of Timewise, a teaching approach in which timelines were used consistently, was carried out with 16 elementary school teachers in grades 2 (ages 7-8) and 5 (ages 10-11).About:
This article is published in Teaching and Teacher Education.The article was published on 2018-10-01 and is currently open access. It has received 21 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Curriculum & Professional development.read more
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Table 1 Overview of participating schools, teachers and students. 
Fig. 2. Timeline of the PDP with the instruments that were used to answer the research questions. 
Table 6 Individual teachers' instructional behavior in observations and logs (n¼ 16). - Objectives: mean of the scores on the 5 objectives for the extent to which teachers focused on the objectives (1¼ not or only once; 2¼ repeatedly). - Students' engagement: mean of the scores to what extent teachers actively engaged students in reaching the objectives (1¼ no engagement; 2¼ active engagement). 
Table 7 Mean student learning gains resulting from the difference between pre- and post-test and the time teachers spent on Timewise and regular history lessons (n¼ 16). 
Fig. 1. Conceptual framework for studying the effects of professional development on teachers and students (Desimone, 2009, p.185). 
Table 3 Teachers' beliefs about the teaching of the understanding of historical time before and o
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Theorizing Historical Consciousness
TL;DR: In this paper, Seixas and Torpey discuss the relationship between history education and historical awareness, and present a theoretical framework for comparing history education with historical knowledge and historical distance.
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A new framework for teachers’ professional development
TL;DR: In this article, a working framework for optimal teacher professional development (PD) is proposed, based on assessment, research scale, duration, comprehensiveness, dissemination, context, support and control, and collaboration.
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Investigating Teachers’ and Educational Leaders’ Perceptions and Practices on the Effectiveness of a Teacher-led Professional Development Model in Abu Dhabi Private Schools
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated educators' perceptions of the value of teacher-led professional development (TLPD), and explored their notions on its impactful instructional benefits, and found that teachers perceive TLPD to be effective for: 1) collaboration; 2) meeting school-wide priorities; 3) building leadership capacity; 4) creating professional learning communities; thus, consolidating effective school leadership.
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English as a foreign language teachers’ professional success in the Chinese context: The effects of well-being and emotion regulation
Jian Fan,Yongliang Wang +1 more
TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper inspected the role of well-being and emotion regulation in Chinese EFL teachers' professional success and found a strong, favorable connection between wellbeing, emotion regulation, and professional success.
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Improving Impact Studies of Teachers’ Professional Development: Toward Better Conceptualizations and Measures
TL;DR: The authors argue that the use of a common conceptual framework would elevate the quality of professional development studies and subsequently the general understanding of how best to shape and implement teacher learning opportunities for the maximum benefit of both teachers and students.
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Facilitating Optimal Motivation and Psychological Well- Being Across Life's Domains
Edward L. Deci,Richard M. Ryan +1 more
TL;DR: Self-determination theory (SDT) differentiates motivation, with autonomous and controlled motivations constituting the key, broad distinction as mentioned in this paper, and has been applied in varied cultures and in many life domains, and research is reviewed that has related autonomous and controlling motivation to education, parenting, work, health care, sport, and close relationships.
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In Search of Subjectivity—One's Own:
TL;DR: The authors argue that researchers should systematically seek out their subjectivity, not retrospectively when the data have been collected and the analysis is complete, but while their research is actively in progress.
Reviewing the evidence on how teacher professional development affects student achievement
TL;DR: This paper found that teachers who receive sub-stantial professional development (an average of 49 hours in the nine studies) can boost their students' achievement by about 21 percentile points, and the effect size was fairly consistent across the three content areas reviewed.
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What Makes Professional Development Effective? Strategies That Foster Curriculum Implementation:
TL;DR: This article used a sample of 454 teachers engaged in an inquiry science program to examine the effects of different characteristics of professional development on teachers' knowledge and their ability to implement the program.