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Teacher Education and Professional Development

2014

Professional development

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What Teaching Means, Tanya Baker, Daniel Boster, Marni Valerio, Susan R. Adams Jul 2014

What Teaching Means, Tanya Baker, Daniel Boster, Marni Valerio, Susan R. Adams

Susan Adams

Join the editors of What Teaching Means: Stories from America’s Classrooms, as well as several teacher-consultants/authors whose essays are featured in the text. We will talk about the book, hear some essays from it, and talk about its audiences and uses in writing project work.


Creating Conditions For Transforming Practicing K-12 Mainstream Teachers Of English Language Learners, Susan R. Adams, Kathryn Brooks Jul 2014

Creating Conditions For Transforming Practicing K-12 Mainstream Teachers Of English Language Learners, Susan R. Adams, Kathryn Brooks

Susan Adams

Critical incident reflection journal writing provides a rich source for identifying high impact components of Project Alianza, a graduate course for mainstream secondary teachers funded by a US Department of Education Title III Professional Development grant. In this narrative pilot study featuring one strand of existing data, the co-authors, who are also co-instructors and co-researchers, begin the first rounds of analysis to identify emerging key conditions and contributing factors featured within specialized graduate courses for encouraging dispositional change and professional efficacy toward English language learners (ELLs) in practicing K-12 mainstream educators. Using Mezirow’s adult transformational learning theory (1991), Kegan’s stage …


Overview Of Uls Leadership Development Program, Karen S. Calhoun Jan 2014

Overview Of Uls Leadership Development Program, Karen S. Calhoun

Karen S Calhoun

Describes the leadership development program for selected librarians and staff in the University Library System, University of Pittsburgh. Prepared for an informal, brief presentation for the ACRL Personnel Administrators and Staff Development Discussion Group at the 2014 ALA Midwinter meeting.


Standards-Based Professional Learning And Certification: By The Profession, For The Profession, Lawrence C. Ingvarson Dec 2013

Standards-Based Professional Learning And Certification: By The Profession, For The Profession, Lawrence C. Ingvarson

Dr Lawrence Ingvarson (Consultant)

This chapter presents a model for a standards-based professional learning and certification system, a system controlled and provided by the teaching profession itself. It is a model of a highly educated profession, capable of defining research-based standards for effective teaching, promoting the development of its members toward those standards, and providing a rigorous and respected process for recognizing and certifying those who reach them. It is a model that calls for the teaching profession to be entrusted with the responsibilities of a profession; one of these is the responsibility and resources to establish its own standards-based professional learning and certification …