 Professional Development Schools: Schools for Developing a Professionreviewed by Patricia Bonner - 2006  Title: Professional Development Schools: Schools for Developing a ProfessionAuthor(s): Linda Darling-Hammond(Ed.) Publisher: Teachers College Press, New York ISBN: 0807745928, Pages: 240, Year: 2005 Search for book at Amazon.com The reissue of Professional Development Schools edited by Linda Darling-Hammond provides a helpful history of the early emergence of Professional Development Schools during the 1980s and 1990s. A realistic portrayal of the problems, conflicts, and successes of what requires an intense collaborative effort between university teacher educators and K-12 teachers and administrators is transparently and convincingly portrayed through case studies of seven professional development school efforts at elementary, middle, and high schools in locales ranging from California and Washington state to New York, South Carolina, and Maine. The Introduction by Darling-Hammond and the stories of schools, teachers, administrators, and university faculty in the throes of implementing Professional Development School endeavors make a convincing but unvarnished case for a PDS approach, not only for the preparation of pre-service teachers but also for the effective, ongoing professional development and improvement of practice for early, mid-, and late-career classroom teachers. An underlying theme of... (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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