Evaluating Professional Development

Evaluating Professional Development

Author: Thomas R. Guskey

Publisher: Corwin Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780761975618

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Explains how to better evaluate professional development in order to ensure that it increases student learning, providing questions for accurate measurement of professional development and showing how to demonstrate results and accountability.


The Professional Development of Teachers: Practice and Theory

The Professional Development of Teachers: Practice and Theory

Author: Philip Adey

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2007-05-08

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 0306485184

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Hopkins, Bruce Joyce, Michael Huberman, Matthew Miles, and Virginia Richardson. But we have chosen to present our own experience and empirical data first and then, in Part 3, to show how this experience and data relates to models which have been proposed by others. We will address here methodological issues concerned with collecting and interpreting evidence of relationships amongst the many individual and situational factors associated with PD, and re-visit the arguments about ‘process-product’ research on PD. In the light of our experience, we will interrogate models of PD which have been proposed by others and attempt to move forward our total understanding of the process of the professional development of teachers for educational change. In conclusion, we will look at some current national practice in professional development, concentrating on the recent English experience of introducing ‘strategies’ into schools but referring also, by way of contrast, to the situation in the United States. WHAT’S THE PROBLEM? Why has the professional development of teachers already exercised so many good minds for so long? And how can we justify adding another book to this field? The answer to both questions must lie in the continuing demand from society in general (at least as interpreted by politicians and newspaper editors) for improvements in the quality of education.


Primary School Management: Learning from Experience

Primary School Management: Learning from Experience

Author: Eric Briault

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-09-02

Total Pages: 97

ISBN-13: 1135799849

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Issues raised include: improving the quality of pupils' learning experience; effective staff organisation; development of policy and management of resources; and establishing good relationships between the head, the school and the community.


International Perspectives on Teacher Education

International Perspectives on Teacher Education

Author: Donald K. Sharpes

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-09-10

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 1000057216

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The preparation of suitably qualified teachers is vital for political, social and economic growth in developing countries. Some major problems have been caused by the enormous growth in primary enrolment and by the need to train more teachers without reducing standards, exacerbated by the fact that in many cases the structure of teacher education is still in its formative stages. However, these problems can lead to innovative options and solutions. Originally published in 1988, this book reports on research and practice in teacher education around the world. It examines, for example, what happens to teacher education at times of great social change or political unrest, as in South Africa or Cyprus, how programmes in, for example, Nigeria or China approach minority education and how teachers are prepared for the teaching of indigenous populations such as the Saskatchevan Indians in Canada. These examples of international teacher education practice are presented within a specific national, regional and cultural context and provide important perspectives on the traditional views of how teachers are and should be prepared and professionally maintained. The book will be of interest to all involved in teacher education, adult education and curriculum design as well as to students of development studies.


Managing Professional Development in Education

Managing Professional Development in Education

Author: Derek Glover

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-07-08

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 1135728097

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This work evaluates and attempts to produce a model for effective professional development. It contrasts the work in Britain with that in other countries, with case studies and exercises to illustrate points, highlighting good practice.


Routledge Revivals: Further Education Today (1979)

Routledge Revivals: Further Education Today (1979)

Author: Leonard Cantor

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-11-22

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 1351376446

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First published in 1979, this critical review covers further education in England and Wales, giving an overview of its administrative framework. Cantor and Roberts examine education for the sixteen to nineteen age group, giving details on school and college structure as well as an analysis on course and certification developments. The study examines different subjects in the English and Welsh higher education system, including chapters on technician and business education, as well as art, agriculture, and management education. This revised third edition of the original work also looks at teacher education, staff development, research and curriculum development, taking steps to imagine what would happen to education in England and Wales after the decade of the 1980s.