Developing Learning Communities Through Teacher Expertise

By Giselle O. Martin-Kniep and Giselle O Martin-Kniep

Book Overview

Learn practical methods for developing a collaborative environment where teachers and administrators work together to enhance teachers′ practices, increase student learning, and produce valuable school processes.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761946179
• ISBN13: 9780761946175
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Corwin Publishers
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.5" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

A very good overview

This book is a great overview of what you need for school improvement and staff development. The author describes what a learning community is, how to develop one, and what problems you might have to overcome. The book gives professional standards to use as guidelines and shows you how to create an action plan for developing a learning community. The book gives you rubrics for professional presentation and self-assessmet. It promotes data-driven inquiry and action research to assess what needs to be done to develop or improve an existing learning community. The author describes how to turn events into reflective and evaluative opportunities. The author also suggests books to go to for more information on a topic. The only reason I'm giving this book 4 stars is because its usefulness depends on how much information you already know about learning communities. The good thing about this book is it covers a lot of information that you would otherwise have to read several books to get; the drawback to this book is that it gives only a limited amount of information on each topic. However, the author anticipated the need for more information by recommending books for further reading at the end of each chapter. Therefore, you can pinpoint your exact needs before you have to search through a lot of books and/or buy a lot of books you don't really need. I don't know of any other book of this type that does that. So, even if you already know about learning communities, this could still be a resource for you. You could use it to go to another book with more information on a particular topic.