Authentic Professional Learning
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Authentic Professional Learning
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Author : Ann Webster-Wright
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2010-08-05
Authentic Professional Learning written by Ann Webster-Wright and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-05 with Education categories.
There is considerable and growing interest in professionals learning across their working lives. The growth in this interest is likely premised upon the increasing percentage of those who are being employed under the designation as professi- als or para-professional workers in advanced industrial economies. Part of being designated in this way is a requirement to be able to work autonomously and in a relatively self-regulated manner. Of course, many other kinds of employment also demand such behaviours. However, there is particular attention being given to the ongoing development of workers who are seen to make crucial decisions and take actions about health, legal and ?nancial matters. Part of this attention derives from expectations within the community that those who are granted relative autonomy and are often paid handsomely should be current and informed in their decisi- making. Then, like all other workers, professionals are required to maintain their competence in the face of changing requirements for work. Consequently, a volume that seeks to inform how best this ongoing learning can be understood, supported and assisted is most timely and welcomed. This volume seeks to elaborate professional learning through a consideration of the concept of authentic professional learning. What is proposed here is that, in contrast to programmatic approaches towards professional development, the process of continuing professional learning is a personal, complex and diverse process that does not lend itself to easy prescription or the realisation of others’ intents.
Teacher Professional Learning In An Age Of Compliance
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Author : Susan Groundwater-Smith
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2010-10-28
Teacher Professional Learning In An Age Of Compliance written by Susan Groundwater-Smith and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-28 with Education categories.
Teacher Professional Learning in an Age of Compliance: Mind the Gap examines ways in which practice-based inquiry in educational settings, in a number of different countries and contexts, can transcend current ways of working and thinking such that authentic professional learning is the result. The authors contend that education policy, under pressure from a number of quarters, is retreating into a standardized, audited, and backward-looking arena, with the advances of more progressive educational philosophy being rolled back. In an age where practitioner inquiry and action research have often been ‘hijacked’ for the purposes of broad-based policy implementation, this book offers a rationale for reclaiming the critical edge so fundamental to inquiry-based professional learning. It examines the potential of inquiry-based forms of teacher professional learning to contribute to the growth of professional knowledge for and about teachers’ work. The authors intend that the book will assist in building new forms of professional knowledge that go beyond the current compliance model – engineered from less enduring materials – to inform a new model with its foundations in a strong ethical and moral framework. They also believe that this new model, if implemented, will help to reverse today’s conservative educational trends and make teacher professional development a force for genuine progress once again. They have consciously moved away from the celebratory tone of much of the academic reporting of teacher professional learning, adopting instead a genuinely critical edge. In covering a wide range of policies and practices from across the international spectrum, they have allowed themselves the freedom to engage in serious epistemological arguments about the nature of professional knowledge, as well as how it is constructed and employed.
Professional Learning From Classroom Based Inquiries
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Author : Jyoti Rookshana Jhagroo
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-09-29
Professional Learning From Classroom Based Inquiries written by Jyoti Rookshana Jhagroo and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-29 with Education categories.
This book provides authentic practice-based inquiries by pre-service teachers. Their reflective narratives showcase their individual inquiries as they navigated their self-chosen professional learning journeys through the teaching as inquiry framework. The narratives advance what it means to be a reflective practitioner in practice and highlight necessary dispositional skill sets to attain valuable professional learning through inquiry. Through an inquiry stance, pre-service teachers are liberated from being knowledge consumers to local knowledge producers relevant to their practice. The dissonance this shift creates, negates the ‘comfortable doing’ of teaching to make the act of teaching authentic, relevant, and powerful.
Becoming A Professional
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Author : Lesley Scanlon
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2011-06-27
Becoming A Professional written by Lesley Scanlon and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-27 with Education categories.
This book is founded on the idea that ‘becoming’ is the most useful defining concept for a new ‘professional’ class whose members understand that development in their working lives is an open-ended, lifelong process of refinement and learning. In a world where being a ‘professional’ is an increasingly indistinct notion and where better education and technology are challenging ‘professional’ norms, it is imperative that we no longer think in terms of an exclusive, ‘Anglo-American’, knowledge-rich class of workers. Exploring the implications of this insight for professions including nursing, teaching, social work, engineering and the clergy, this volume aims to encourage informed debate on what it means to be a ‘professional’ in this globalised 21st century. The book argues that ‘becoming’ a professional is a lifelong process in which individual professional identities are constructed through formal education, workplace interactions and popular culture. The book advocates the ‘ongoingness’ of developing a professional self throughout one’s professional life. What emerges is a concept of becoming a professional different from the isolated, rugged, individualistic approach to traditional professional practice as represented in popular culture. It is a book for the reflective professional.
Strengthening And Enriching Your Professional Learning Community
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Author : Geoffrey Caine
language : en
Publisher: ASCD
Release Date : 2012-05-29
Strengthening And Enriching Your Professional Learning Community written by Geoffrey Caine and has been published by ASCD this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-29 with Education categories.
How can educators create a collective method of professional development that results in the genuine, sustained teacher learning essential to improving student achievement? That question is at the heart of this comprehensive and practical guide to process learning circles, a unique and powerful way to develop, strengthen, and enrich professional learning communities. Authors Geoffrey and Renate N. Caine have dedicated more than 20 years to researching how people learn naturally. From this foundation, they describe in detail how process learning circles work, and they provide readers with a clear understanding of how powerful and successful this approach to professional learning can be. Along the way, they explore * The three critical elements of great professional development * How to create a field of listening * The logistics and phases of process learning circles * Tips for success as a process leader * The effects of individual differences and group dynamics * Principles for developing a process that works Examples from schools that have implemented process learning circles provide evidence of the method's success, and the authors also include an explanation of 12 underlying brain/mind learning principles, guidelines for using online tools, and broader suggestions for how to move from teaching for memorization to teaching for understanding. Written with both teachers and administrators in mind, Strengthening and Enriching Your Professional Learning Community: The Art of Learning Together is an essential guide to professional learning and development that works.
Professionals Learning In Community To Improve The Intellectual Quality Of Students Thinking
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Author : Jennifer Ellen Kunze
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Professionals Learning In Community To Improve The Intellectual Quality Of Students Thinking written by Jennifer Ellen Kunze and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with categories.
Connecting Inquiry And Professional Learning In Education
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Author : Anne Campbell
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-03-07
Connecting Inquiry And Professional Learning In Education written by Anne Campbell and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-07 with Education categories.
How might inquiry enhance the professional practice of student and practising teachers, teacher educators and other practitioners? What effect might this have on the learning of young people in and outside of the classroom? Based on the findings of an international colloquium and drawing upon a range of practices from the UK, USA, Canada, Europe and Australia, this book is designed to make explicit the connections between Practitioner Inquiry and Teacher Professional Learning in Initial Teacher Education and Ongoing Teacher Professional Development. Considering issues such as the relationship between practitioner inquiry and pedagogical content knowledge whether it is possible to scale up from small local and intensive innovations to more broadly-based inquiry inquiry’s role in professional identity, both individual and communal prevailing socio-political contexts and consequences for social policy formation. It brings together writers who work in designing teacher education courses, and those who are practice-based researchers and policy makers. Crucially, many of these writers inhabit both spheres, and their accounts of how they successfully combine their multiple roles will prove vital reading for all those involved in examining and improving practice leading to enhanced teacher professional learning.
Intentional Interruption
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Author : Steven Katz
language : en
Publisher: Corwin Press
Release Date : 2012-10-03
Intentional Interruption written by Steven Katz and has been published by Corwin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-03 with Education categories.
We interrupt this program to bring meaningful change to professional learning! Big ideas can sometimes get stuck on the way to becoming real change. The authors explain the secret to getting unstuck: interrupting the status quo of traditional activity-based professional development to help educators embrace permanent changes in thinking and behavior. You can enable true learning by: Building a focus on learning, collaborative inquiry, and formal and informal instructional leadership in schools Recognizing the psychological processes involved in adult learning, and overcoming the psychological biases and barriers to change Using tools and strategies such as critical friend relationships, learning conversations, task sheets, and protocols
Learning Through Teaching
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Author : Susan Mary Landt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Learning Through Teaching written by Susan Mary Landt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with categories.
Nurturing Authentic Professional Learning
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Author : Kerri Lynn Miller Pruden
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Nurturing Authentic Professional Learning written by Kerri Lynn Miller Pruden and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Early childhood education categories.