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This tool for professional development provides both a conceptual and procedural framework on which educators can develop electronic portfolios. It provides practical, how-to information for the creation of e-portfolios as a tool for professional progression. This resource explains the benefits of the electronic portfolio and examines the three critical questions of portfolio development: What did I do? What did I learn? What will I do next? It then pulls all of the information together into a successful e-portfolio format. The supplemental chapters guide educators through organization, presentation and production considerations, hardware and software issues, and portfolio design. This book is a one-stop-shop for creating a professional electronic portfolio of which all educators, veteran or up-and-coming, can be proud. ... Read more

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A thought-provoking textbook written for students enrolled in graduate Higher Education and Student Affairs Masters and PhD programs, College Organization and Professional Development focuses on the framing of critical issues in organization practice, the gaps between moral beliefs and actions, and improving equity within organizations. It can be used as a text in Organization, Leadership and Professional Practice courses that seek to integrate a focus on moral leadership and reflection practice. This breakthrough text seeks to revolutionize how we understand ethical practice and provides a new theory that informs practice within organizations. Unlike the majority of Organization textbooks currently available which lack social contextual understanding of moral issues and social justice, this text encourages the use of action research to inform and support change in professional practice.

Students will find the pedagogical exercises useful for reflecting on their own goals, examining their own practices, and testing new intervention methods within their organizations and communities of practice. Reflective assignments are suggested for readers to help them engage in a process of reflective analysis of professional practice.

This textbook is organized into three parts:

Part I: Focuses on the foundations for moral reasoning in practice, introduces the framework used in the book and encourages introspection and reflection as an integral part of professional practice.

Part II: Focuses on frames of professional development, both as frames of reasoning and as developmental pathways, focusing methods of learning moral reasoning and changing organizations that support just practice.

Part III: Focuses on challenges of building communities of practice that support social-critical changes and environmental consciousness.

This book can also be used in graduate programs across professional fields including Teacher Education and Business. Practicing professionals and those academics at different stages in their careers who wish to reflect on the gaps between their moral values and their actions in work situations will also find this text informative and useful. The chapters include fundamental and insightful guidance for reflection on the topics raised and discussed.

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This text specifically targets busy school principals who want practical suggestions grounded in national NSDC standards for balancing everyday administrative tasks while encouraging teachers' professional growth. ... Read more

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This new edition of a best-selling book provides an up to date overview of Continuing Professional Development (CPD), combined with a guide to best practice.

Changes include:

- expanded sections on the professional

development of support staff and the

wider school workforce (particularly

important in the light of workforce

remodelling) and the evaluation of CPD

- more on making sure that professional

development has an impact, and

provides good value for money

- the common core of skills and

knowledge for the children's workforce,

the newstandards for qualified teacher

status, induction, threshold, excellent

teachers and advanced skills teachers as

well as those for higher level teaching

assistants.

Drawing on the latest research, the contents include:

- a clear explanation of CPD and latest

developments;

- practical tips on how to lead and

manage CPD for a range of staff in

schools - identifying training needs,

designing and implementing

programmes and evaluating their impact;

- detailed guidance on CPD for staff at

different stages of their careers.

Written in a clear readable style it covers the latest standards and offers examples of current good practice. It is an essential professional reference for all those responsible for leading and managing professional learning in schools (headteachers, deputies, CPD and staff development coordinators) and Local Authorities (LAs). It will also prove invaluable to training providers and universities.

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Make science teaching better for every student. Help learners from different backgrounds and with different learning styles by developing new skills, resources, and knowledge. This book discusses the ways in which professional development can help you handle equity and diversity issues in the classroom. Among the topics:How professional development can help teachers motivate and increase participation by women and minorities in scienceUsing professional development to promote changeProfessional development s role in leadership development and reform ... Read more

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This book integrates knowledge from professional development and school improvement to describe frameworks that can increase the capacity of individuals, teams, and organizations to grow and develop. The text argues that both professional development and school improvement should have as their primary purpose the improvement of teaching and learning. Eleven frameworks for professional development are presented, along with strategies for integrating multiple frameworks in comprehensive programs. School leader development is addressed as a prerequisite for professional and school development.

Customer Reviews (2)

Great for Educational Leaders!
I purchased this book 3 years ago for my dissertation program and still use it!

Blech
This book is hardly useful to the educational administrator.Much of the book deals with the design of a professional development program.With the advent of school improvement plans in the 1990s all schools should have PD programs as part of their school improvement plan.A better use of the book would be to highlight effective PD practices and show how to transition to successful practices when in an effective program.

The prose is dry and often hard to follow, and the book tends to repeat itself often.Highly not recommended, both by myself and my professor who has over 20 years of professional development experience. ... Read more

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This volume provides informed arguments, theory and practical examples based on research about what it looks like when educators, policy makers, and even students, try to rethink and change their practices by engaging in evidence-based conversations to challenge and inform their work. It allows the reader to experience these conversations. Each story reveals the depth of thinking that change requires, showing that change requires new learning and new learning is hard.

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Professional Learning Conversations
Well worth reading - great to have a NZ flavour.Well done to the researchers / authors. ... Read more

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Teaching and teacher education are moral rather than technical or instrumental endeavors. Providing a detailed description of a highly innovative master's program for practicing teachers, the authors demonstrate that a moral vision can be enacted in practice, despite constraints and challenges. Any serious attempt to change practice will of course be unwieldly, contentious, and subject to sudden shocks and reversals, but it will also yield successes. ... Read more

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Husby provides a job-embedded professional development process that satisfies both individual needs of teachers and organizational demands for academic improvement. ... Read more

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Presents an introduction to the processes and skills needed in managing educational establishments. The book offers both theoretical and practical perspectives on the key components of professional development, linking reflection and knowledge with skills and capabilities. ... Read more

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Generate systemic change with practical methods for designing professional development experiences that result in a high level of transfer into the classroom and sustainable improvement. ... Read more

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Penny Freppon reveals the struggle and joy of learning to teach and the kind of instruction that teacher development creates. ... Read more

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What is professional development and how does it differ from in-service and staff development? Findout in this comprehensive analysis. This book belongs in every professional`s library. ... Read more

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research on adult learners
The text has sound research evidence on the change process as well as illistrative charts that lend well to presentaiton formats.The need to validate training techniques and on the job coaching support is vital is enhanced through this work. ... Read more

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On most campuses, new faculty members are neglected resources - overloaded, unsupported and uninformed - whose development often proceeds without guidance. In this book, the author offers proven support strategies to help new faculty members thrive as teachers, writers and colleagues. ... Read more

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Helps you design, conduct, and support an effective professional development program for science and math teachers. Packed with strategies to help you identify the specific professional development needs of your staff and create learning opportunities that go beyond common inservice programs.This is professional development you can customize to fit your teachers and students!

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Good Resource
This book provides models for professional development that are alternatives to the one-shot, day-long workshop.There are specific examples given for each model.

While the models and examples are notrevolutionary, I still found them to be good reminders of what's effective. In this sense, it has been a helpful planning guide for me. ... Read more