Teachers in Professional Communities: Improving Teaching and Learning

by Lynne Miller and Ann Lieberman

Book Overview

Based on their research and many years of lived experience in schools, the authors have become convinced that teachers learn best within their own work communities. In this volume, they explore what research and practice have to tell us about how such communities grow and develop, and how to negotiate the inherent tension between improving competence and building community. Using five themes that emerged from their studies of practice--context,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807748897
• ISBN13: 9780807748893
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.8"