... with other teachers” ( Sun et al., 2013 , p. 362), thus transforming the school-site instruction through “systematic improvement of practice” ( Ermeling, 2010 , p. 388) with teachers taking an active role in their professional development ( Hiebert & Stigler, 2017 ; McComas, 2018 ; Rushton, 2016...

... designed an online professional development course that taught the foundational principles of both evolution and religion in order to assist secular and non-secular educators in helping their students overcome religious barriers to evolution. This course increased the confidence of science educators...

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...Paul Beardsley; Melissa Csikari; Ashley Ertzman; Meghan Jeffus Teachers are eager for professional development on teaching evolution, especially if it includes direct ties to relevant curricula and detailed lesson plans. Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s BioInteractive Online Professional Learning...

... with a group of GTAs about the relative cognitive demands of various laboratory activities. We propose that regularly scheduled meetings of discussion groups like this can help build learning communities among GTAs. We provide strategies to support GTAs' professional development and help them think critically...

... through a professional development workshop; and (3) evaluate participants on their affinities for, perceptions of, and attitudes toward wildlife and birds. The results suggested that the workshop was minimally effective in influencing positive responses or improvement in perceived knowledge about birds...

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... high school students with undergraduates, M.S. students, and Ph.D. students in various laboratories. To complement their laboratory research exposure, students also attended professional development seminars on résumé preparation, literature mining/searching, preparation of manuscripts, presentation...