Professional Development: Planning and Design

Professional Development: Planning and Design
ISBN-10
0873551850
ISBN-13
9780873551854
Series
Professional Development
Category
Education
Pages
181
Language
English
Published
2001
Publisher
NSTA Press
Author
Patricia Bowers

Description

There's got to be more to professional development than in-service workshops. This thoughtful book paves the way to change. It shows the circumtances under which professional development has the most impact on student learning, reviews programs that work, and offers practical ideas about how profesional development can sustain science education reform. The following topics are addressed: changing professional development to help with standards-based reform; building a professional development program; and using achievement data and assessmet tools to modify teaching practices. This book emphasizes the need for professional development to be a continuting process in which each activity builds on a previous one to create a conjoined program of adult learning. The final step in all develoment is placing new stategies into practice. To this end, the authors examine current state and national standards and reform, and relate them to the TIMSS study. This book also outlines essential principles of development and gives advice on how to plan professional development activities using online resources.

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