The educator's professional growth plan : a process for developing staff and improving instruction / / Jodi Peine ; cover designer, Rose Storey

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910797474503321
• Autore: Peine Jodi
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Thousand Oaks, California : , : Corwin Press, , 2008; ©2008
• ISBN: 1-4522-9379-1; 1-4522-9719-3
• Edizione: [Second edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (257 p.)
• Disciplina: 370.113
• Soggetti: School administrators - In-service training; Educational leadership
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Publisher's Acknowledgments; About the Author; Introduction; Evolution of the Professional Growth Plan Process; Questioning Teacher Evaluation and Professional Development; Redefining School Improvement; Establishing New Priorities; Empowering Teachers; Recognizing Teachers as Learners; The Professional Growth Plan: Designing a Tool for Staff Development; A How-To Guide to Implementing the Growth Plan Process; How to Use This Book; All Learning is Local; Chapter 1 - Professional Growth: Defining the What, Why, Who, and How; What is Professional Growth?What is a Professional Growth Plan?; What is the Professional Growth Plan Process?; Why Use the Professional Growth Plan Process?; Building on the Foundation of Knowledge and Experience; Providing Learning Opportunities; Shaping a Learning Community; Who can Use a Growth Plan?; Group Growth Plans; Who can Lead the Professional Growth Plan Process?; How to Implement the Professional Growth Plan Process Successfully; Encouraging New Traditions in Professional Growth; Chapter 2 - Managing the Professional Growth Plan Process; Operational Issues; Allocating Resources; Resource Allocation ConsiderationsAvailable Resources Versus Needs-A Balancing Act; Typical Resource Needs; Acquiring Additional Resources; ; Who Has the Time?; Organizing People, Events, and Information; Forms-How can They Help?; Forms Track the Growth Plan Process; Forms Facilitate Communication; Forms Provide Documentation; The Problem with Forms; Introducing the Process to Staff; Soliciting Participants; Professional Growth Plan Participant Blackline Master Guide; The Professional Growth Plan Format; Explanation of Professional Growth Plan Components; The Role of Participant Blacklines; The School Leader as Coach and AdvisorChapter 3 - Identifying Areas for Professional Growth; The First of Four Phases; Targeting Professional Growth; Conducting a Personal Needs Assessment; Comparing Current Practices to Established Professional Performance Standards/Best Practices Research; Reviewing and Understanding Professional Performance Standards and Best Practices Research; Examining Relevant Student Performance Data; Facilitating Data Analysis; Linking Practice and Performance; Needs Assessment and the School Leader; The Needs-Assessment Conference; Common Needs-Assessment Conference ProblemsThe Needs-Assessment Conference Record; If Needs Assessment is Not Feasible; Choosing a Topic: Focusing the Professional Growth Plan; A Collaborative Growth Plan; Logistics of a Group Plan; Chapter 4 - Designing the Professional Growth Plan; The Second Phase: Plan Design; What's in Store; Guiding the Design Process; Establishing Professional Goals; Where Do Goals Come from?; What Makes a Good Goal?; Establishing Learner-Centered Goals; Can Goals Change?; Establishing the Questions; Creating the Essential Question; The Pursuit of Answers; Creating Related Questions
• Sommario/riassunto: Offers school leaders guidance for designing and implementing a sustainable professional growth process, demonstrates how participants can develop individual action plans, and helps redefine school improvement efforts.

Holistic Pedagogy : The Self and Quality Willed Learning / / by Carlo Ricci, Conrad P. Pritscher

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910484965103321
• Autore: Ricci Carlo
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015
• ISBN: 9783319149448; 331914944X
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2015.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (231 p.)
• Collana: Critical Studies of Education, , 2543-0475 ; ; 1
• Disciplina: 370.905
• Soggetti: Learning, Psychology of; Teachers - Training of; Instructional Psychology; Teaching and Teacher Education
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Chapter 1. Getting It - Evaluating Teachers and Learning -- Chapter 2. Another Major Problem. - Theories Are Not Physical -- Aspects of Science -- Chapter 3. The Process of Coming to Know. - What Is Evident About Evidence? Chapter 4. Structuring Learning -- Ordering -- The Study of Genes and Learning -- School Malpractice -- Chapter 5. Quality Learning and Productive Perplexity -- Between Specialization and Generalization -- Noticing Problems -- Gene Study and Schooling -- Resiliency -- The Power of Self-determined Neuroplasticity -- Chapter 6. Throwing Tea in Schooling’s Harbor -- The Content of Processing and the Processing of Content -- Chapter 7. Instructions for Instructing -- A Kind of Schooling: A Kind School -- Alexander Inglis as a Continual Problem -- Chapter 8. Quality Teaching and Uncommon Ways -- Measuring the Process of Measuring -- Quality Teaching and Effective Teaching -- Quality Learning and Abstractions -- Chapter 9. “It” Is Difficult To Say -- Words and Quality Learning -- Explaining Quality Learning -- The Teacher: Not the Subject -- Quality Willed Learning and Present Experience.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book illuminates what must always be at the heart of powerful ; schooling and authentic learning. Its focus is on free learning, with an emphasis on early East Asian thought as a vehicle through which learning may emerge. The volume describes learning as helping the learner become more conscious, more aware. As such the authors explain how quality learning encompasses all learning that is chosen by the learner. It is non-judgmental and their idea is that if learning is done by choice then direct harm will be mitigated because quality, willed learning is not just about the individual, but includes others — it is community focused as well as self-determined. In the first part of the volume the authors look specifically at how quality willed learning can inform the state and how it can protect the rights of children. The second part looks at what quality willed learning can mean to leaders. In the last part the authors look at what it can mean for teachers and finally what it can meanfor the learners themselves.