Sentence examples for professional development efforts from inspiring English sources

But developers and leaders of science professional development efforts are hampered in designing and implementing such PD opportunities by the dearth of research that follows the pathway of impact of PD programs on teacher knowledge, teaching practice, and student learning in rigorous comparison with other PD approaches.

The advent of standards is bringing heretofore separate ministries together to develop inter-disciplinary consensus regarding what young children should know and be able to do; ministries that had not worked together are developing joint early learning and development standards and professional development efforts to foster their use.

To date, the Intel teacher professional development efforts, have trained over ten million teachers in more than 70 countries worldwide.

Intel has combined advocacy for policy reform, leadership, curriculum standards and assessment, sustained professional development efforts, information and communications technology, support of research and evaluation, and sustainable resourcing to help countries create an effective approach to 21st century education.

"PIs may also find it useful to track the career pathways of postdocs after the appointment … to document successes that may have resulted from their professional development efforts," Leinen's letter continued.

This paper summarizes respondent's perceptions of (1) how these classrooms are initiated; (2) which classroom features are helpful, non-essential, and unhelpful; (3) how professional development efforts support SCALE-UP instructors; and (4) how the classroom indirectly affects the department and/or institution.

And that discussion and education should be integrated into existing department meetings and other professional-development efforts.

There are some encouraging signs, though, among them the growth of the National Writing Project, a professional-development effort that began at the University of California at Berkeley almost 30 years ago and has expanded to 175 sites nationwide, where teacher networks are fostered at five-week summer sessions on writing.

Professional development (PD) efforts have improved acceptance and pedagogical practice related to the theory of evolution in high school biology teachers.

He also developed new Foundation programs in public policy and the professional development of teachers, efforts that remain central to the Foundation's work today.

Figure 1 depicts the layers of research and development on professional development that comprise efforts aimed at instructional improvement at scale.