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Powerful Professional Development
Building Expertise Within the Four Walls of Your School
Diane Yendol-Hoppey(0)
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Achieve effective, on-site teacher development without breaking the budget!
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.
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.