Professional Development: What Works: Volume 1 - Brossura

Zepeda, Sally J.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1596671939 ISBN 13: 9781596671935

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2011

Riassunto

This top-selling book will serve as the compass and road map to your school’s professional development journey. A comprehensive and authoritative resource you will go to again and again, this book helps guide principals, directors of professional development, school/district committees, and other leaders in creating an effective professional development program that moves ideas from knowledge to action.

Topics include:

• Learning Communities
• Job-Embedded Learning
• Coaching
• Teacher Study Groups
• Critical Friends
• Lesson Study
• Portfolios
• And more!

Additionally, this book features helpful case studies, useful forms and templates, sample agendas, and other invaluable resources for professional development.

The second edition contains the following enhancements:

• Expanded coverage of job-embedded learning, which is a cost-effective way for administrators to enhance professional development with their staff
• More information on the theoretical grounding of professional development with applications that can be readily adapted for use in schools
• Updated references and figures to reflect newly published literature on the topics covered
• User-friendly tabs, so you can find and return to your favorite sections time after time

Su questo libro

Contenuti

What's New
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Free Downloads
Foreword
Introduction
1 Getting Ready to Champion Professional Development
2 Evaluating and Assessing Professional Development
3 Focusing on Adult Learning: Releasing the Conditions for Professional Growth
4 Framing Professional Development Efforts
5 Learning Communities
6 Job-Embedded Learning
7 Coaching in the Context of Professional Development
8 Collaborative Teacher Development: Teacher Study Groups, Whole-Faculty Study Groups, and Book Studies
9 Critical Friends Groups
10 Lesson Study
11 Learning Circles
12 Action Research
13 Portfolios
14 Are We There Yet?
References
Index

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1596671939
• ISBN 13: 9781596671935
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 352
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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