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 | | Teaching as the Learning Profession : Handbook of Policy and Practice by Linda Darling-Hammond (Editor), Gary Sykes (Editor) ISBN-10: 9780787943417 ISBN-10: 0-7879-4341-X ISBN-13: 9780787943417 ISBN-13: 978-0-7879-4341-7 Paperback 1999-06-29 Jossey-Bass Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description "No education topic is more important than how to raise the quality of teaching in America's schools. This book eloquently makes the case for reshaping teacher preparation and professional development to enhance student learning." --Bob Chase, president, National Education Association Leading educational thinkers and researchers deliver an in-depth overview of the issues and challenges facing the teaching profession today. This book is the first in over a decade to synthesize the most important research in the fields of teaching and teacher education. This research is also the basis for recommAndations found in What Matters Most, a landmark report from the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future. The authors explore promising approaches to both policy and practice in teacher learning. They also provide the substance behind policy recommAndations, examining the implications of school reforms for teaching, current knowledge about teacher preparation, and the kinds of learning opportunities teachers will need. Teaching as the Learning Profession includes case studies of innovative approaches to school improvement, principles for better staff development, proposals for the reform of unions, and practical as well as conceptual advice on recruitment, licensing, redefining the teaching career, enhancing diversity, developing leadership, and expanding such innovations as networks and other sustained forms of teacher-to-teacher learning. | ||
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Very good guide book for teacher development This is a VERY GOOD book for anyone interested in Teacher develoment. It has guidelines on how to start teacher development in schools. It also includes real cases of how to organize schools for better teacher professional development. These examples and guidelines help me to reflect my own teaching and re-examine educational instutiutes and policy in a more systematic and constructive way. It is good for individual development, teachers' book-club, or as a textbook for coureses of teaching and education. You definitely can get something out of it! | ||