Powerful Professional Development: Building Expertise Within the Four Walls of Your School

Diane Yendol-Hoppey, Nancy Fichtman Dana

Research output: Book/ReportBook

Abstract

This essential guide to job-embedded staff development helps schools and districts move away from reliance on outside expertise, instead drawing on and developing the experience and skills of their own faculty. The authors provide a complete toolbox of school-based professional development (PD) strategies, with recommendations on which tools to use for different times and settings, guidelines for implementation, and extended examples of each tool in action for a full spectrum of proven, cost-effective PD models, including:

Book study and lesson study
Action research and professional learning communities
Coaching and co-teaching
Webinars, podcasts, Open Space Technology, online communities, and much more
Original languageAmerican English
Place of PublicationThousand Oaks, CA
Number of pages200
StatePublished - Feb 9 2010
Externally publishedYes

Disciplines

  • Engineering Education
  • Political Science

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