Continuing Professional Development: A Practical Guide for Teachers and Schools (Educational Management)

✍ Scribed by Anna Craft

• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 269
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This text will enable teachers to analyze their own experience of in-service work. It offers tools for evaluating a focused aspect of work, and will help teachers to: explore models of in-service provision; develop understandings of professional and institutional development; develop understanding of the principles of appraisal and review; review and describe their own in-service work; develop and apply criteria for evaluating the quality and value of in-service work; and identify appropriate areas for future in-service work. The book will be particularly useful to teachers and heads, and will be of interest to all those responsible for managing professional development at school.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of figures......Page 8
List of tables......Page 9
Preface......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 13
Introduction to Part I......Page 18
Models of professional development and provision......Page 21
Principles of appraisal......Page 49
Principles of professional and institutional development......Page 62
Teachers, pupils, effectiveness and improvement......Page 81
Evaluation and professional development......Page 97
Introduction to Part II......Page 108
Evaluation methodology: planning your data collection......Page 111
Methods of evaluating professional development......Page 138
Developing and applying criteria......Page 164
Evaluation methodology: handling data......Page 171
Introduction to Part III......Page 182
Using professional development evaluation to identify appropriate future CPD......Page 185
Personal learning as a professional......Page 207
Learning individuals, learning schools......Page 227
Megatrends in CPD......Page 243
Appendix: The gender debate in professional development......Page 247
References......Page 256
New references for this edition Index......Page 266