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THE PRACTICE: Professional development should be connected to a comprehensive change process focused on improving student learning.
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Content Presented By:
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National Partnership for Excellence & Accountability in Teaching
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What is it?
Improving teacher capabilities without changing the conditions that influence the opportunities to use these capabilities is often counter-productive. These conditions include time and opportunities to try new practices, adequate funding, technical assistance, and sustained central office follow through. Thus, unless professional development is designed as part of a larger change process, it is not likely to be effective.
Questions to Think About
- What kinds of practice opportunities are effective in having professional
development instruction affect student outcomes?
- What does an overall change process contribute to the effectiveness of
professional development? What factors in the change process are essential?
Boosting? Complementary?
- What is possible with professional development when it is part of a larger
change process? What form does it take?
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