Supporting K–12 Teachers' Online Teaching Self-Efficacy With an Online Professional Development Program (Poster 19)

• In Event: AERA Poster Session Ten
  In Poster Session: Online Teaching and Learning SIG Poster Session

Abstract

In response to the pandemic, K12 districts implemented online professional development (PD) programs to support teachers’ online teaching skills and knowledge. Many of these programs however, over relied on content delivery and failed to provide an online learning environment ripe for developing teachers’ self-efficacy. We designed and implemented an online PD program focused on application and community building to lessen the bridge between content and practice, and to increase teachers’ Online Teaching Self-Efficacy (OTSE). We present findings from an explanatory mixed-methods study of 61 classroom teachers in a MidAtlantic public school district. The goal was to understand how and why participating in this PD program led to an increase in OTSE. This paper concludes with contributions for online teacher PD.

Authors

• Virginia Byrne, Morgan State University
  Presenting Author

• Donna L. Wiseman, University of Maryland
  Non-Presenting Author

• Diane Jass Ketelhut, University of Maryland
  Presenting Author

• Keyshawn Adrian Moncrieffe, Morgan State University
  Non-Presenting Author

• Beatrix Randolph
  Non-Presenting Author