Powerful Professional Development: Building Expertise Within the Four Walls of Your School - Softcover

Yendol-Hoppey, Diane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1412979757 ISBN 13: 9781412979757

Verlag: Corwin, 2010

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Achieve effective, on-site teacher development without breaking the budget!

This essential guide to job-embedded staff development helps schools and districts move away from reliance on outside expertise, instead drawing on and developing the experience and skills of their own faculty. The authors provide a complete toolbox of school-based professional development (PD) strategies, with recommendations on which tools to use for different times and settings, guidelines for implementation, and extended examples of each tool in action for a full spectrum of proven, cost-effective PD models, including:

• Book study and lesson study
• Action research and professional learning communities
• Coaching and co-teaching
• Webinars, podcasts, Open Space Technology, online communities, and much more

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Diane Yendol-Hoppey is the Director of the Benedum Collaborative and a Professor of Education at West Virginia University. The Benedum Collaborative is one of the oldest school/university partnerships in the nation. Diane spent the first thirteen years of her career in education teaching in Pennsylvania and Maryland. In her work at Penn State, the University of Florida, and West Virginia University, Diane focuses on job-embedded teacher professional development and the cultivation of teacher leadership. Her research explores how powerful vehicles for teacher professional development including teacher inquiry, professional learning communities, and coaching/mentoring can support school improvement. She has authored numerous studies which have appeared in such journals as Teachers College Record and Journal of Teacher Education. She is coauthor (with Nancy Fichtman Dana) of three books, The Reflective Educator's Guide to Classroom Research: Learning to Teach and Teaching to Learn through Practitioner Inquiry, The Reflective Educator's Guide to Professional Development: Coaching Inquiry-Oriented Learning Communities and The Reflective Educator's Guide to Mentoring: Strengthening Practice through Knowledge, Story, and Metaphor, all from Corwin Press.

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By presenting a variety of approaches and strategies, this book is an important guide to how to conduct professional development within schools

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Corwin
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1412979757
• ISBN 13: 9781412979757
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 198
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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