Professional Learning Conversations: Challenges in Using Evidence for Improvement (Professional Learning and Development in Schools and Higher Education)

✍ Scribed by Lorna M. Earl, Helen Timperley

Year: 2008
Tongue: English
Leaves: 139
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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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