Share Paper: Teacher participation in ongoing online professional development to support curriculum implementation: Effects of the GlobalEd 2 PD program on student affective learning outcomes
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Abstract: There is a growing interest in ongoing and just-in-time professional development (PD) opportunities that are delivered online for teachers who are implementing new curricula. We report on our efforts to build a multi-approach ongoing, online PD program that responds to teachers’ emergent needs while implementing GlobalEd 2 (www.globaled2.com), a multi-state, middle school, social studies curriculum. From a pilot study of 16 teachers, we develop metrics for identifying the levels of teacher participation in the ongoing PD program within two online spaces: weekly email bulletins and online journals. 315 students taught by these teachers responded to pre and post assessments on ...