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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Verhoef, Nellie C.; Coenders, Fer; Pieters, Jules M.; van Smaalen, Daan; Tall, David O. – Professional Development in Education, 2015
This study focuses on mathematics teachers' professional development through elements of Japanese lesson study. The teachers designed a research lesson with regard to sense-making of the derivative using the integration of GeoGebra. In the second year of the four-year lesson study project, seven secondary school teachers--from different Dutch…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Mathematics Teachers, Geometric Concepts
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Bakah, Marie A. B.; Voogt, Joke M.; Pieters, Jules M. – Professional Development in Education, 2012
While teachers and administrators in polytechnics in Ghana have categorically expressed the growing need for the former's knowledge and skills to be updated in the era of polytechnic transformation, little attention has been paid to the subject. This study reports a professional development intervention organised for 16 engineering teachers…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Professional Development
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Visser, Talitha C.; Coenders, Fer G. M.; Terlouw, Cees; Pieters, Jules M. – Professional Development in Education, 2012
Schools are increasingly integrating multidisciplinary education into their programmes. The Minister of Education, Culture and Science has introduced a new, integrated science subject in secondary education in the Netherlands, called Nature, Life and Technology (NLT). This research note describes the design of a generic model for a professional…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Foreign Countries, Professional Development, Program Design