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The professional development schools handbook : starting, sustaining, and assessing partnerships that improve student learning /

As Professional Development Schools (PDS) become more prevalent, educators already involved with a PDS continually seek insight into how it can be improved, and those interested in starting a PDS are in need of specific guidance on how to get it right from the beginning. This manual is a resource to...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Teitel, Lee
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Corwin Press, ©2003.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Contents; List of Toolkit Entries; Foreword; Preface; Focusing the Standards on Student Learning; Why I Wrote This Book; How This Book is Organized; How to Use This Book; A Note on Leadership and Readership; Why is There So Much about Assessment in This Book?; Final Organizational Note; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Chapter 1
  • Introduction: History and Foundations of Professional Development Schools; The Roots and Contexts for Professional Development Schools; Principles, Beliefs, and Goals: The Coalescence of a Movement; Chapter Resources.
  • Chapter 2
  • Collaboration: Developing Joint Ownership of Student LearningOverview and History; Start-up Tasks and Challenges; Issues and Challenges in Sustainability; Assessment; Toolkit; Chapter Resources; Chapter 3
  • Structures, Resources, and Roles: Supporting Changes in the Learning Environment; Overview and History; Start-up Tasks and Challenges; Issues and Challenges in Sustainability; Assessment; Toolkit; Chapter Resources; Chapter 4
  • Learning Community: Improving Approaches to Teaching, Learning, and Leadership; Overview and History; Start-up Tasks and Challenges.
  • Issues and Challenges in SustainabilityAssessment; Documentation Example; Toolkit; Chapter Resources; Chapter 5
  • Diversity and Equity: Preparing a Diverse Group of Educators to Teach all Students; Overview and History; Start-up Tasks and Challenges; Issues and Challenges in Sustainability; Assessment; Diversity and Equity Assessment Template; Documentation Example; Toolkit; Chapter Resources; Chapter 6
  • Accountability and Quality Assurance: Assessing the Partnership and its Outcomes; Overview and History; Start-up Tasks and Challenges; Issues and Challenges in Sustainability; Assessment.
  • Accountability and Quality Assurance TemplateDocumentation Example; Toolkit; Chapter Resources; Chapter 7
  • Next Steps for Strengthening Your Professional Development School; Use Quick-Checks to Know Where You are and Where You Want to Go; Use Case Studies to Foster Communication; Conduct an Informal Self-Assessment; Conduct a Formal Self-Study Using the PDS Standards; Follow up Your Self-Study with a thoughtful Action Plan; Work with the Ideas of This Book as Part of a Network; Conclusion; Appendix A: Applying the Framework to Multiple School PDS Partnerships.
  • Appendix B: Using Cases to Facilitate Discussion of Partnership IssuesReferences; Index.