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Supporting and Sustaining Teachers' Professional Development
A Principal's Guide
March 2005 | 168 pages | Corwin
"Tallerico empowers principals with her view that leaders matter and demonstrates how their influence is expanded when they focus their attention on high-quality professional learning that continuously improves teaching, student learning, and relationships within the school community."
—Dennis Sparks, Executive Director
National Staff Development Council
"Although there are many resources for building administrators to learn models and implementation issues for quality professional development, few I've seen have compiled as handy a resource as this one."
—Karla Reiss, Founder, Consultant, and Coach
The Change Place
Nurture teacher development through focused and realistic approaches!
Although school administrators consider supporting and sustaining teachers' professional development a priority, more pressing day-to-day imperatives often eclipse this goal. Supporting and Sustaining Teachers' Professional Development specifically targets busy school principals who want practical suggestions for how to balance these everyday administrative tasks while encouraging teachers' professional growth.
Focusing on seven questions selected for their relevance to school administrators, this essential reference summarizes the practical implications of the latest research and theory on the topic of teacher development. Organized around three key elements of current NSDC national standards, this resource for new, veteran, and aspiring school leaders will illustrate how to:
—Dennis Sparks, Executive Director
National Staff Development Council
"Although there are many resources for building administrators to learn models and implementation issues for quality professional development, few I've seen have compiled as handy a resource as this one."
—Karla Reiss, Founder, Consultant, and Coach
The Change Place
Nurture teacher development through focused and realistic approaches!
Although school administrators consider supporting and sustaining teachers' professional development a priority, more pressing day-to-day imperatives often eclipse this goal. Supporting and Sustaining Teachers' Professional Development specifically targets busy school principals who want practical suggestions for how to balance these everyday administrative tasks while encouraging teachers' professional growth.
Focusing on seven questions selected for their relevance to school administrators, this essential reference summarizes the practical implications of the latest research and theory on the topic of teacher development. Organized around three key elements of current NSDC national standards, this resource for new, veteran, and aspiring school leaders will illustrate how to:
- Emphasize research and practice
- Provide rationales that explain and justify the encouragement of professional development
- Link teachers' professional development to student learning
- Interpret national standards for professional development and apply them practically
List of Tables
List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Part I: Determining Content
1. How Should Adult and Student Learning Be Linked?
2. How Can Professional Development Be Evaluated?
Part II: Designing Professional Development Processes
3. Which Models Best Suit Your Goals?
4. What Do We Know About Effective Practices?
Part III: Creating Supportive Contexts
5. How Can Leaders Focus Improvement Efforts?
6. How Are More Enabling Cultures Shaped?
7. How Can Resources Be Optimized?
8. Summing Up
Glossary
References
Index
"Although there are many resources for building administrators to learn models and implementation issues for quality professional development, few I've seen have compiled as handy a resource as this one."
The Change Place
"Tallerico empowers principals with her view that leaders matter and demonstrates how their influence is expanded when they focus their attention on high-quality professional learning that continuously improves teaching, student learning, and relationships within the school community."
National Staff Development Council