What makes teacher professional development work? The influence of instructional resources on change in physical education

Engaging Students in Physical Education: Key Challenges and Opportunities for Physical Educators in Urban Settings

“…Visual aids can be used to promote self-efficacy. As an example, teachers have reported greater participation among African-American girls in PE activities when presented with images/posters of black female athletes (McCaughtry, Martin, Kulinna, & Cothran, 2006). …”

The influences of professional development on teachers' self-efficacy toward educational change

“…These questions have been tackled from a variety of directions including, how teachers react to National Curriculum mandates (Curtner-Smith, 1999), how faithfully teachers implement new curricula (Ennis et al, 2005), how teachers emotionally experience the change process (McCaughtry et al, 2006a), and school/institutional mechanisms that facilitate and inhibit change (Rovegno & Bandhauer, 1997;McCaughtry et al, 2006) to identify just a few. One thing that seems most clear is that how teachers think and feel about new curricula and the change process are perhaps the strongest indicators of whether teachers will eventually enact curriculum reform (Curtner-Smith, 1999;McCaughtry et al, 2006b). However, to date, most research on the ways that teachers perceive and enact curricular reform has taken a qualitative and sociological perspective.…”

Teachers’ Perspectives on the Use of Pedometers as Instructional Technology in Physical Education: A Cautionary Tale

“…Maintaining a positive emotional connection with students is paramount in teachers' work (Hargreaves, 1998) and influences most of their thinking about teaching (McCaughtry, 2004(McCaughtry, , 2005. It also shapes and shades how they learn new educational innovations (McCaughtry et al, 2006a;McCaughtry, Martin, Hodges Kulinna & Cothran, 2006b). In this study, using pedometers was both a relational boom and bust.…”