Reform of and as Professional Development

Two judgments frame current professional development concerns: teacher learning as the heart of any educational reform effort, and inservice training as sorely inadequate. Existing professional development resources are meager and ineffectively deployed. This article introduces a special "Kappa...

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Published in:Phi Delta Kappan 1996-03, Vol.77 (7), p.464-467
Main Author: Sykes, Gary
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
A "Kappan" Special Section on Professional Development and School Reform
Beginning Teachers
Creativity
Educational administration
Educational Change
Educational innovations
Educational Objectives
Educational reform
Educators
Elementary Secondary Education
English teachers
Evaluation
Inservice Education
Instructional development
Learning
Mathematics education
Professional Development
Teacher centers
Teacher education
Teachers
Teaching Methods
Training
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Summary:Two judgments frame current professional development concerns: teacher learning as the heart of any educational reform effort, and inservice training as sorely inadequate. Existing professional development resources are meager and ineffectively deployed. This article introduces a special "Kappan" section that explores promising alternative practices, focusing on underlying assumptions, descriptions, and emerging problems. (MLH)
ISSN:0031-7217
1940-6487