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

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

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