Powerful Professional Development: Building Expertise Within the Four Walls of Your School

By Diane Yendol-Hoppey and Nancy Fichtman Dana

Book Overview

Achieve effective, on-site teacher development without breaking the budget

This essential guide to job-embedded staff development helps schools and districts move away from reliance on outside expertise, instead drawing on and developing the experience and skills of their own faculty. The authors provide a complete toolbox of school-based professional development (PD) strategies, with recommendations on which tools to use for different times and settings, guidelines for implementation, and extended examples of each tool in action for a full spectrum of proven, cost-effective PD models, including:

Book study and lesson study Action research and professional learning communities Coaching and co-teaching Webinars, podcasts, Open Space Technology, online communities, and much more

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1412979757
• ISBN13: 9781412979757
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Corwin Publishers
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.9" x 9.9"