Description
Book SynopsisTeacher professional development is often promoted as a panacea for improving schools but it rarely lives up to its promise. This book develops an approach to professional learning that has motivated teachers and resulted in impressive improvements in student learning, particularly for students who traditionally underachieve in school. As the underpinning research shows, the approach has proven successful in several countries with consistently positive outcomes.
The book begins by identifying the shifts that need to happen for the power of professional learning to be realized in promoting student engagement, learning and well-being. Some shifts in thinking include:
- Moving from professional development to professional learning
- Putting student learning at the heart of professional learning
- Focusing on the knowledge and skills to be learned rather than the forms of delivery
- Focusing on the double-demand of being both immediately practical and developing underlying pr
Table of Contents
From Professional Development to Professional Learning
Finding Out about students
Building teacher knowledge
Checking New Opportunities for students
School leaders as Leaders of Learning
Bringing the Parts of the Cycle Together
System Support for Professional Learning
Keeping it all going
