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

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Format: Trade Paperback
Author: Yendol-Hoppey, Diane
ISBN: 9781412979757
Condition: Used
Dimensions: 9.90 x 0.50
Number Of Pages: 200
Publication Year: 2010

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

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