Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2022

Publication Title

Teacher Learning and Professional Development

Volume

7

Issue

1

Pages

23-39

Abstract

Long-term professional development (PD) initiatives are scant in the extant literature. This study examines the impact of a year-long, face-to-face teacher PD provided for teachers from a high-need elementary school to improve their personal writing and writing instruction. A mixed-methods approach was used to collect and analyze data primarily from pre- and post-surveys and interviews. Statistical analyses suggest that teachers’ self-efficacy toward writing instruction was improved, but not self-efficacy toward their personal writing. Various means of how the year-long teacher PD influenced their self-efficacy were demonstrated through qualitative analysis. Implications of conducting teacher PD on writing instruction were discussed.

Rights

Copyright © 2022 Guang-Lea Lee, Terri Brodeur, Cherng-Jyh Yen, Tian Luo, Pauline Muljana.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License.

ORCID

0000-0002-8138-3722 (Luo), 0000-0003-0668-9083 (Muljana)

Original Publication Citation

Lee, G.-L., Brodeur, T., Yen, C.-J., Luo, T., & Muljana, P. S. (2022). The impact of a year-long professional development on teacher self-efficacy in personal writing and the teaching of writing. Teacher Learning and Professional Development, 7(1), 23-39. https://journals.sfu.ca/tlpd/index.php/tlpd/article/view/83

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