Author: Deborah M. Netolicky
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 100054690X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 146
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Emerging from an education world that sees professional learning as a tool to positively shape teaching practice in order to improve student learning, Transformational Professional Learning elucidates professional learning that is transformational for teachers, school leaders, and schools. Written from the unique ‘pracademic’ perspective of an author who is herself a practising teacher, school leader, and researcher, this book articulates the why and the what of professional learning. It acts as a bridge between research and practice by weaving scholarly literature together with the lived experience of the author and with the voices of those working in schools. It covers topics from conferences, coaching, and collaboration, to teacher standards and leadership of professional learning. This book questions the ways in which professional learning is often wielded in educational settings and shows where teachers, school leaders, system leaders, and researchers can best invest their time and resources in order to support and develop the individuals, teams, and cultures in schools. It will be of great interest to teachers, leaders within schools, staff responsible for professional learning in school contexts, professional learning consultants, professional learning providers, and education researchers.
Author: Margery B. Ginsberg
Publisher: Corwin Press
ISBN: 1452230781
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 185
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Motivation is foundational to learning This book’s bold new vision for professional learning emphasizes the importance of intrinsic motivation and respect for cultural diversity. Knowing that culture and motivation are inseparable influences on learning, Margery B. Ginsberg provides practical steps for teaching and learning that are grounded in the reality of students' lives. The program’s processes include: Shadowing students to help sharpen teachers’ understanding of student motivation. Conducting home visits to better connect with students’ lives and families Collaborating with other teachers to design lessons Analyzing data in collaboration with students, families, and community members
Author: Leslie James Pereira
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9460911382
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 257
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How can the idea of leadership be understood in the context of modern day schools? What can contemporary perspectives on knowledge and the nature of its acquisition offer the practicing educator? Between the 'Real' and the 'Imagined' examines the essence of what it means to be a leader.
Author: Tonia Flanagan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781947604377
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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"Schools are constantly trying to improve. Every quality educational institute out there strives to better itself so that it can better its students. A common form of betterment for these institutions is the professional learning community, and with Transformative Collaboration: Five Commitments for Leading a Professional Learning Community, authors Tonia Flanagan, Gavin Grift, Kylie Lipscombe, Colin Sloper, and Janelle Wills tap into school improvement via the PLC process's collaborative nature. This book explores five collaboration-based commitments that ultimately work toward improving any PLC and helping its students receive the education they deserve. One commitment provides a framework for collaboration in a PLC, while others tackle school structure, trust, and more. PLCs are built on collaboration, and Transformative Collaboration uses that concept to help schools become the best possible avenues of learning"--
Author: Mary A. Hooper
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317361873
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 279
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Creating Capacity for Learning and Equity in Schools provides a comprehensive guide for aspiring and practicing leaders to strengthen their capacity to create high levels of learning and equity. Chapters explore key theories and research, provide resources for developing personal and organizational leadership capacity, and guide leaders through a reflective process to help them link theory and practice. Hooper and Bernhardt’s model for excellence and equity provides a pathway for educators to create and sustain learning communities in schools. Exploring three leadership approaches—Instructional, Adaptive, and Transformational—this textbook prepares and develops leaders to engage school communities through effective instructional leadership, data-informed decision-making, and a vision for learning and equity for all. Special Features: Theory to Practice (T2P) Framework—A series of structured exercises help readers review and reflect on existing organizational practices and develop new action plans. Case Studies—Encourage individual reflection and collective discussion on key leadership scenarios. Examples in Action—Challenge readers to analyze new connections and leadership processes. A companion website—Includes additional resources and tools for instructors to facilitate activities in the classroom.
Author: Mary H. Moen
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 214
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This book shows how LIS schools and professional organizations can help information professionals to continue their education after finishing formal programs to keep up with the growing demands of the field. As technology rapidly advances, the need for continuing education increases at an accelerating rate. Within 10–12 years of completing formal education, most information professionals' knowledge and skills become out of date, leaving them only half as able to meet the new demands of the profession. Additionally, the increase in online education programs for LIS students can limit their connection with practicing professionals and, in some locations, their engagement with diverse populations. LIS schools and professional development organizations, however, can support professional development in new and exciting ways. Readers will learn how faculty in LIS schools are innovating their courses and providing continuing education experiences. Taking advantage of the benefits of online, digital, and experiential learning projects, they are creating meaningful, collaborative learning opportunities between students and practitioners in the field. The book also addresses how social media tools can help online students experience interactive community learning and network within the profession before they start their positions.
Author: Wayne Melville
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9460911714
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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This book conceptualises professional learning as the engagement of teachers in a virtues-based personal reflection and/or public discourse around the episteme, techne and phronesis in the spaces ‘in-between’ the metaphors of understanding community: meanings, practice, and identity.
Author: Miriam B. Raider-Roth
Publisher: Teachers College Press
ISBN: 0807758159
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 177
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In this book, Raider-Roth offers an innovative approach to teacher professional development that builds on the intellectual strength and practical wisdom of practitioners. Focusing on nurturing relationships between and among participants, facilitators, subject matter, texts, and the school environment, this book helps educators create a repertoire of teaching approaches founded on sustained, deep, democratic, local, and active learning. The author demonstrates that, within the context of trustworthy relationships, teachers can better connect with all that they know about teaching, learning, and their own identities. This, in turn, enables them to act on what they know in the best interest of their students and leads to the kinds of lasting change and commitment that can move the teaching profession beyond training for a particular skill set. Book Features: Examples showing how the work of relational learning communities can improve teachers’ practice. A focus on the cultural dimension in professional development for teachers. A view of teaching and learning as deeply relational and transformative. Strategies to help facilitators and participants create processes to best support a fertile learning environment.
Author: Kevin Perks
Publisher: Teachers College Press
ISBN: 0807769541
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 225
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"The burden to lead education improvement efforts in local communities should not fall solely on the shoulders of district and school leaders. Nor should they have to reinvent the wheel at every turn. This book is designed to be a valuable resource for education leaders who are charged with rapidly improving their schools and districts. In these pages, readers will find guidance, support, and resources across a range of topics and issues that they are likely dealing with including guidance on how to be an improvement leader, how to support teacher and staff development, how to ensure high quality instruction is taking place, and how to foster a positive and inclusive culture for improvement. Although this book does seek to address every challenge or topic that a district or school leader is likely to face, it addresses many issues leaders are or will soon be wrestling with"--
Author: Weipeng Yang
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
ISBN: 2832531962
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 121
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