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THE PRACTICE: Professional development should be primarily school-based and built into the day-to-day work of teaching.
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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?
Teachers learn from their work. Learning how to teach more effectively on the basis of experience requires that such learning be planned for and evaluated. Learning needs arise and should be met in real contexts. Curriculum development, assessment, and decision-making processes are all occasions for learning. When built into these routine practices, professional development powerfully addresses real needs.
Questions to Think About
- What formal and informal activities, and structures support the reflection
teachers need to do to learn from their day-to-day practice?
- How does curriculum development change when it is viewed as professional
development?
- How do conversations about needs, decisions, ideas and insights become
routine at a grade level? Within departments? In schools? In districts?
- Under what circumstances does assessment data provoke teacher growth?
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