ED454205 SP040080
Title: Teachers Caught in the Action: Professional Development That Matters. The Series on School Reform.
Author(s): Lieberman, Ann, Ed.; Miller, Lynne, Ed.
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 2001
ISBN: 0-8077-4099-3
Available from: Document Not Available from EDRS.
Availability: Teachers College Press, 1234 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027 (paperback: ISBN-0-8077-4099-3, $23.95; hardcover: ISBN-0-8077-4100-0, $53). Tel: 212-678-3963.
Language: English
Document Type: Book (010); Collected works--General (020)
Geographic Source: U.S.; New York
Journal Announcement: RIENOV2001
Target Audience: Practitioners; Teachers
This collection of papers focuses on what is known and practiced in professional development. Part 1, "The Purposes of Professional Development," includes (1) "Educational Purposes and Teacher Development" (Maxine Greene); (2) "Going Public: The Imperative of Public Education in the 21st Century" (Carl D. Glickman and Derrick P. Alridge); (3) "Professional Development in Pursuit of School Reform" (Judith Warren Little); and (4) "Beyond Certainty: Taking an Inquiry Stance on Practice" (Marilyn Cochran-Smith and Susan L. Lytle). Part 2, "Contexts, Strategies, and Structures for Professional Development," includes (5) "Teacher Learning at the Intersection of School Learning and Student Outcomes" (Jacqueline Ancess); (6) "Teachers Engaged in Evidence-Based Reform: Trajectories of Teacher's Inquiry, Analysis, and Action" (Milbrey W. McLaughlin and Joel Zarrow); (7) "School-University Partnership as a Venue for Professional Development" (Lynne Miller); (8) "Professional Learning through Assessment" (Beverly Falk); (9) "Lessons from an Inquiring School: Forms of Inquiry and Conditions for Teacher Learning" (Laura Stokes); (10) "The Narrative as an Experience Text: Writing Themselves Back In" (Anna Richert Ershler); (11) "When Teachers Write: Of Networks and Learning" (Ann Lieberman and Diane Wood); (12) "Teacher Research and Professional Development: Purposeful Planning or Serendipity" (Sarah Warshauer Freedman); and (13) "Students' Work and Teachers' Learning" (Joseph P. McDonald). (SM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement; College School Cooperation; Educational Change; Elementary Secondary Education; *Faculty Development; Inquiry; Interpersonal Communication; Partnerships in Education; Personal Narratives; Public Education; Teacher Collaboration; Teacher Evaluation; Teacher Improvement; Teacher Researchers
