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Continuing Professional Development: A Practical Guide for Teachers and Schoolsreviewed by Robert V. Bullough, Jr. - 1999 Title: Continuing Professional Development: A Practical Guide for Teachers and Schools Author(s): Anna Craft Publisher: Routledge/Falmer, New York ISBN: 041523770X, Pages: 210, Year: 2001 Search for book at Amazon.com Based on an Open University postgraduate module written by Rob
Bollington and Anna Craft, Continuing Professional
Development is just what the subtitle claims, a "Practical
Guide"—a workbook written for teachers and providers of
in-service teacher education. The book is divided into three parts,
"Theories of teacher and school development," "Evaluating
professional development," and "Planning future professional
development." As the titles and their sequence suggest, a
central aim of the book is to assist teachers to think
systematically about their past professional development in
order to achieve more effective future development.
To accomplish this and additional aims, teachers are instructed
to ask their students to engage in twenty-eight "tasks," beginning
with compiling, and then analyzing a "record of recent substantial
professional development . . . [they] have undertaken, whether as a
provider or as a participant" (p. 9). Next, students should be
asked to read a text "based on a list of 'megatrends' in education
written by Naisbitt and Aburdene . . . [who] provide a
challenging agenda for... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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