ABSTRACT

This comprehensive and authoritative book serves as the road map to your school’s professional development journey. Written for principals, professional development directors, other district leaders, and teacher leaders, Professional Development: What Works shows you how to plan and implement programs that promote teacher growth. Full of helpful case studies, useful resources, and templates, this book guides you in creating an effective, job-embedded professional development program that moves ideas to action.

Special Features in this Revised Edition:

  • Revised discussion on supporting and providing learning opportunities for adults
  • New "Cases from the Field" and "Notes from the Field" amplify best practices and serve to narrow the gap between research and practice
  • Updated and expanded coverage of professional job-embedded learning help leaders keep pace with advancements
  • Suggested readings support digging deeper into topical areas found within the chapters

part 1|87 pages

Foundations of Job-embedded Professional Learning

chapter 1|17 pages

Championing Professional Learning

chapter 2|16 pages

Professional and Job-embedded Learning

chapter 3|19 pages

Adult Learning and Professional Growth

chapter 4|18 pages

Framing Professional Learning Efforts

chapter 5|15 pages

Assessing Professional Learning

Did Things Stick?

part 2|119 pages

Processes and Models that Support Job-embedded Professional Learning

chapter 6|19 pages

Learning Communities

chapter 7|18 pages

Coaching

chapter 8|16 pages

Collaborative Teacher Development

Teacher Study Groups, Whole-faculty Study Groups, and Book Studies

chapter 9|12 pages

Critical Friends

chapter 10|14 pages

Lesson Study

chapter 11|14 pages

Action Research

chapter 12|15 pages

Portfolios

chapter 13|9 pages

Stepping Up to the Plate