Most professional development activities focus on individual teachers, such as mentoring or
the use of portfolios. However, new developments in higher education require teachers to …

Increasingly, teacher involvement in collaborative design of curriculum is viewed as a form
of professional development. However, the research base for this stance is limited. While it is …

Collaborative design positively affects both professional development and the
implementation of curriculum change, because teachers develop competencies and practice …

This exploratory, embedded single study examined the experiences of middle grades
teacher design teams over 10 months as they were immersed in the development of …

This study examined the relationships between pre-service science teachers' teaching self-
efficacy, locus of control, attitude towards science teaching and teaching anxiety. A …

Issue-based learning is a pedagogical approach that features learning opportunities
contextualized in compelling, societal issues that face students in their lives beyond school …

The aim of this study is to develop more understanding about strategies to support teachers'
professional development in curriculum innovations, in which pedagogy and content change …

Self-efficacy is a topic of great interest in elementary preservice and inservice teacher
education given that elementary teachers often have low self-efficacy for STEM teaching. In …

This paper assesses the relationship between participation in two tertiary science courses
and the science teaching efficacy beliefs (STEBs) of one cohort of preservice elementary …

Previous research studies in early childhood teacher education have indicated that teacher
candidates are not adequately prepared to demonstrate the knowledge and skills needed to …