Education Week: Professional Development: Leverage for Learning

Professional Development: Leverage for Learning

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This series—launched in the July 27, 2005, issue of Education Week—examines the new and evolving approaches to professional development in education at a time of increased expectation on teachers to meet the "highly qualified" mandates of the No Child Left Behind Act.

Educators See Classroom Visits as Powerful Learning Tool

July 26, 2005 Seven Louisiana districts are seeking to make principals better observers of teaching with a technique called “walkthroughs.” Administrators in each system are being trained to coach school leaders on what to look for, and how to use what they see to plan professional development in their schools.

Teachers Flocking to Online Sources to Advance and Acquire Knowledge

July 26, 2005 The possibilities of online learning for educators have been dazzling, and over the past decade a slew of providers have rushed to create Web-based opportunities for more and better professional development—and institutional gain.

States and Districts Send Literacy Coaches to the Rescue

July 26, 2005 In the movement to improve reading instruction, many states and districts are building an army of specialists to help teachers apply research to practice.

Pressure Builds for Effective Staff Training

July 26, 2005 Many national policymakers and experts believe that professional development, which teachers often have regarded as wasted time, is potentially an important tool for improving student learning. But as often happens in education, the research on such programs and their effectiveness hasn’t kept pace with the rhetoric.

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