A New Architecture for Professional Development in Schools
The purpose of Designs for Learning is to propose a set of design principles for expanding and legitimizing learning opportunities for teachers and other professional educators in schools. Using the metaphor of architecture, Designs for Learning proposes new designs for creating learning spaces for professional educators that challenge the boundaries, forms, and purposes of traditional design, delivery, content, and outcomes of professional development. Building on empirical research and exemplary practices, Designs for Learning provides examples of professional learning expressed in this new architecture in its most natural setting-- in schools and classrooms. Formal and informal professional learning, beyond the school are also included in the landscape for professional learning.
A Practical Approach to Helping New and Experienced Staff
"Teachers Mentoring Teachers is timely, practical, and engaging-a welcome addition to the literature on retaining and providing meaningful professional development for teachers." Sandra R. Hurley, Associate Dean Program Director, Literacy Education The University of Texas at El Paso A comprehensive source for mastering mentoring and ......
"Assessment help for teachers on way," was the front-page headline of Education Week on May 8, 2002, as Ed Week announced the planned publication of this important volume, which has been approved by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). This comprehensive framework was created by the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational ......
What Award Winning Teachers Do When School Rules Change
Take classroom changes in stride with these ingenious ideas! Today's classrooms exist in an ever-changing world. In addition to new adopting technologies, schools are constantly introducing changes in curriculum, instruction, testing, and advanced requirements for professional development. Many teachers are uncertain how to incorporate these ......
Discovering Programs for Talent Development outlines the changes that have been made in the conventional wisdom of programming for the gifted and talented, discusses the emerging thinking about talent development,. Discovering Programs for Talent Development offers strategies for discovering "hidden" programmes, and presents sixty-five such ......
Site-based management is currently a hot topic in education. This book provides administrators, teachers, parents and community members with the group decision-making skills necessary to successfully implement site-based management in their schools.
Designing and Developing Programs for Gifted Students presents the insights and experience of practitioners in the field of gifted education to explore how gifted programs work, what they can do for families, and the steps others have taken to develop successful programs in different environments. This joint publication with the National ......
Extending the Challenge in Mathematics is designed to help the general education mathematics teacher challenge his/her student(s) with mathematical promise. By providing math teachers with ready-to-use activities and the tools to create their own activities that will add depth to the standard curriculum, Extending the Challenge in Mathematics will ......
