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Improving the quality of biology and mathematics teaching through action research

One of the most important features of effective professional development concerns the participating teachers’ individual difference factors and their needs, as well as students’ learning processes and their conceptual understanding of the subject matter. In this professional development program the teachers were treated as collaborators, whose role was to help researchers to test a new model of instruction, rather than as practitioners whose instruction needed improvement. Regarding the action research plan we have formed two groups of teachers – one for biology and the other for mathematics teachers. While visiting schools, we recorded initial videos of their instruction and initiated online collaboration with them via the Moodle system. In the school year 2020/2021, taking into account the epidemiological measures that suggest limited physical contact, we opted for online professional development. We continued to develop our professional development program through open source applications, such as Moodle and Zoom, where teachers participated in online learning communities. It has been shown that such professional development enables the provision of quality feedbacks and allows teachers to participate in the analysis of teaching videos.

action research ; teaching ; online professional development

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