[PDF] School Focused Staff Development eBook

Author : Sara Bubb
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 36,7 MB
Release : 2010-02-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 1849200254

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Great staff make great schools, and by choosing your staff carefully and helping them to develop, you will make a significant impact on the lives of the young people in your care. The school workforce isn't only teachers these days, and good staff development must take into account everybody working in the setting. As a practical guide to developing your staff, this book offers an inspirational and exciting view of the transformative power of highly motivated personnel. It summarizes the most recent research that sets staff development in context, and then provides examples of good practice and successful ideas from a range of schools, colleges and local authorities. The authors address practical considerations, as well as management and leadership implications, to help devise strategies for developing the school workforce in order to become more learning-centred and student focused. Topics covered include: - why staff development matters - leading staff development - being strategic - finding time for staff development - identifying needs and planning for impact - evaluating the impact of staff development With an emphasis on practical and research-based perspectives, this book offers tried and tested strategies for successful and rewarding staff development that, most importantly, can contribute to improving student outcomes. This book is particularly relevant to those responsible for leading and managing staff development in schools, colleges and at local authority level. It is also useful for anyone working towards higher degrees in Education Leadership and Management, Mentoring-Coaching and the new qualifications for leaders of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and the Masters in Teaching and Learning (MTL). Sara Bubb is involved in many aspects of staff development, leads the national Advanced Skills Teachers (AST) network, and lectures and researches at the Institute of Education, University of London. Peter Earley is Professor of Educational Leadership & Management at the London Centre for Leadership in Learning, Institute of Education, University of London.

Author : Dennis Sparks
Publisher : Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 12,85 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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The authors explain how results-driven education, systems thinking, and constructivism are shaping the new staff development.

Author : Sally J. Zepeda
Publisher : Eye On Education
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 10,22 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Career development
ISBN : 9781883001698

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This book examines the role of the school principal in instructional improvement and staff development. Included are discussions of job-embedded learning, models of staff development, and action research.

Author : Richard Blackwell
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 35,53 MB
Release : 2003-07-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 0335224318

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This book focuses on strategic staff development in higher education, a sector in which it has been largely viewed as an operational activity with little organizational relevance. The book demonstrates how staff development needs to be based on modern theories of 'organizational learning', aligning itself with institutional and departmental needs as well as the wants and needs of individual staff. The book takes a broad definition of staff development and seeks to cover all aspects of the academic role and the interests of all staff. The traditional focus on teaching and learning is covered but not to the exclusion of other aspects or the interface between different roles. In order to achieve a strategic focus, authors are drawn from a range of backgrounds, including senior staff with strategic leadership roles. The book is, therefore, directed to a wider readership than the community of staff development professionals and designed partly to challenge the dominant discourse and established priorities of staff developers. Towards Strategic Staff Development in Higher Education seeks to combine scholarly review of relevent literature with practical strategies and suggestions for the intended readership, principally senior staff, heads of department and staff development professionals.

Author : Linda E. Martin
Publisher : Guilford Publications
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 19,86 MB
Release : 2014-04-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 1462515274

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This comprehensive handbook synthesizes the best current knowledge on teacher professional development (PD) and addresses practical issues in implementation. Leading authorities describe innovative practices that are being used in schools, emphasizing the value of PD that is instructive, reflective, active, collaborative, and substantive. Strategies for creating, measuring, and sustaining successful programs are presented. The book explores the relationship of PD to adult learning theory, school leadership, district and state policy, the growth of professional learning communities, and the Common Core State Standards. Each chapter concludes with thought-provoking discussion questions. The appendix provides eight illuminating case studies of PD initiatives in diverse schools.

Author : Richard DuFour
Publisher : Solution Tree
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,25 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781879639607

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Provides specific information on how to transform schools into results-oriented professional learning communities, describing the best practices that have been used by schools nationwide.

Author : National Staff Development Council (U.S.)
Publisher :
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 26,24 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Middle school teachers
ISBN :

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Describes standards for professional development that emphasize improvements in student learning as a primary outcome.