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He, Ye; Ouyang, Qiuyu; Zhang, Hanxuan – Educational Research and Development Journal, 2022
To support the increasing numbers of Chinese language programs in the United States, there is a need to recruit and support highly qualified teachers. In this study, we described an online professional learning community (PLC) among a small group of Kindergarten Chinese teachers. All the teachers were visiting teachers with prior teaching…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Second Language Learning, Communities of Practice, Chinese
Xie, Xiuye; Chen, Yung-Ju – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2023
Purpose: Social media has become a popular platform for forming professional learning communities (PLCs) for educators. However, few studies have been conducted to understand physical educators' behaviors in these social media-based PLCs. This study aimed to investigate physical educators' help-seeking behaviors in a social media-based PLC on…
Descriptors: Physical Education Teachers, Communities of Practice, Social Media, Help Seeking
Tam, Angela Choi Fung – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2023
This two-year longitudinal study explores whether a professional learning community (PLC) helps shift language teachers' beliefs about implementing play-based learning. Ten practitioners from a preschool participated in this case study. Data were collected through interviews and observations of participants' practices engaged in the PLC. The…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Preschool Education, Beliefs, Play
Kotas, Jacqueline; Bridi, Julia; Garrity, Sarah M. – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2023
Using data from a 2-year empirical project in an urban school within the United States, this article describes how educators of preschool, transitional-kindergarten and kindergarten (PreK-TK-K) altered perceptions and practices as a result of participating in a purposefully crafted professional learning community using collaborative enquiry.…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Kindergarten, Urban Schools, Teacher Attitudes
Felicia M. Vinces – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Preschool programs, as they have rapidly become more academically oriented, are squarely centered in a debate about developmentally appropriate practices in early childhood. Nature-based preschools are increasingly embraced by parents as a healthy choice compared to more academically focused programs. The Whitaker Preparatory School, a pseudonym,…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Preschool Education, Outdoor Education, Learning Processes
Vijayadevar, Sukuna; Thornton, Kate; Cherrington, Sue – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2019
Leadership in early childhood education has been promoted as a collaborative process in which all teachers, rather than just the positional leader, are involved. Collaborative leadership practices are not well understood within the marketised Singapore early childhood education context. Beyond mandatory leadership training, little is known about…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Preschool Teachers, Leadership Training, Instructional Leadership
Keung, Chrysa Pui Chi; Yin, Hongbiao; Tam, Winnie Wing Yi; Chai, Ching Sing; Ng, Clement Ka Kit – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2020
This study examined the relationships between leadership practices, professional learning communities, teachers' efficacy beliefs and perceptions of whole-child development in the context of kindergarten education. A sample of 2120 teachers from 153 Hong Kong kindergartens participated in a questionnaire survey. The results showed that principals'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Kindergarten, Teacher Attitudes
Domingo-Segovia, Jesús; Bolívar-Ruano, Rosel; Rodríguez-Fernández, Sonia; Bolívar, Antonio – Learning Environments Research, 2020
The analysis of professional community is a good indicator of the degree of professional and institutional development of a school. The Professional Learning Community Assessment--Revised (PLCA-R) is one of the most internationally-recognised instruments for evaluating professional learning and collegiality in primary and secondary schools.…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Elementary Secondary Education, Test Construction, Translation
Soares, Fernanda; Galisson, Kirsten – Comparative Education Review, 2021
Professional learning communities (PLCs) are becoming increasingly popular, in a recognition that teachers' knowledge is situated in teachers' daily experiences and best acquired through ongoing practice and reflection. This study examines the relationship between participation in PLCs and teaching practices and tests specific aspects of a PLC…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Communities of Practice, Preschool Teachers, Elementary School Teachers
Kosanovich, Marcia; Phillips, Beth; Willis, Karli – Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast, 2020
Children entering kindergarten and grade 1 vary greatly in their emergent literacy skills. Because preschool teachers can help set the foundation of literacy skills related to school readiness, one way to address those gaps is to build teachers' capacity to apply evidence-based strategies in language and literacy instruction. "Professional…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Grade 1, Emergent Literacy, Literacy Education
Kosanovich, Marcia; Phillips, Beth; Willis, Karli – Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast, 2020
Children entering kindergarten and grade 1 vary greatly in their emergent literacy skills. Because preschool teachers can help set the foundation of literacy skills related to school readiness, one way to address those gaps is to build teachers' capacity to apply evidence-based strategies in their language and literacy instruction.…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Kindergarten, Grade 1, Preschool Teachers
Kosanovich, Marcia; Phillips, Beth; Willis, Karli – Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast, 2020
Children entering kindergarten and grade 1 vary greatly in their emergent literacy skills. Because preschool teachers can help set the foundation of literacy skills related to school readiness, one way to address those gaps is to build teachers' capacity to apply evidence-based strategies in their language and literacy instruction.…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Literacy Education, Communities of Practice, School Readiness
Kosanovich, Marcia; Phillips, Beth; Willis, Karli – Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast, 2020
Children entering kindergarten and grade 1 vary greatly in their emergent literacy skills. Because preschool teachers can help set the foundation of literacy skills related to school readiness, one way to address those gaps is to build teachers' capacity to apply evidence-based strategies in their language and literacy instruction.…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Preschool Teachers, Literacy Education, Teaching Methods
Kosanovich, Marcia; Phillips, Beth; Willis, Karli – Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast, 2020
"Professional Learning Community: Emergent Literacy" was developed to support preschool teachers through collaborative learning experiences in a literacy professional learning community (PLC). PLCs are a form of professional development in which small groups of educators with shared interests work together with the goals of expanding…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Literacy Education, Faculty Development, Communities of Practice
Russell, Jennifer Lin; Bryk, Anthony S.; Peurach, Donald J.; Sherer, David; LeMahieu, Paul G.; Khachatryan, Edit; Sherer, Jennifer Z.; Hannan, Maggie – Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 2021
A burgeoning set of education-related organizations join networks each year, reflecting a shared belief that problems in education are too complex for any one educator or organization to solve on their own and that collaboration can support educational improvement. The goal of this paper is to describe how networked improvement communities (NICs)…
Descriptors: Social Structure, Communities of Practice, Problem Solving, Guidelines