Professional Development Schools: Weighing the EvidenceProfessional Development Schools offers a close-up, comprehensive look at the state of professional development schools in the United States today. The vision of an ideal professional development school (PDS) is drawn from the best-known P-12 practices and optimum sites for preparing novice teachers. This "ideal" PDS would continually generate, test, and refine new knowledge and organizational structures. Abdal-Haqq poses the following questions regarding whether the PDS is performing its intended role: Is the PDS improving the curriculum, instruction, and structure of P-12 schools through professional development of educators? and Is it making substantive, positive differences in students' learning levels? To find answers, the author examines substantial amounts of evidence from various sources: student interviews and follow-up studies with teacher education graduates; surveys with preservice teachers on attitudes, beliefs, and self-efficacy; and reviews in student journals. Abdal-Haqq also investigates the important questions of time and money. She explores the kinds of additional fiscal and human resources necessary to start up and sustain a PDS. |
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Weighing the Evidence Ismat Abdal-Haqq. high school settings . A majority of these sites are public schools , but there are parochial and private schools among them ( Fish- baugh & Rose , 1997 ) . PDSs are being planned or implemented in ...
Weighing the Evidence Ismat Abdal-Haqq. high school settings . A majority of these sites are public schools , but there are parochial and private schools among them ( Fish- baugh & Rose , 1997 ) . PDSs are being planned or implemented in ...
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Weighing the Evidence Ismat Abdal-Haqq. ratory schools . They lost their student teaching function to public schools because their somewhat cloistered atmosphere could not emulate public school classrooms ; furthermore , the promise of ...
Weighing the Evidence Ismat Abdal-Haqq. ratory schools . They lost their student teaching function to public schools because their somewhat cloistered atmosphere could not emulate public school classrooms ; furthermore , the promise of ...
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... school districts . The evaluation , completed in 1994-1995 , employed a variety of formative and sum- mative assessment ... public school personnel consider program graduates to be better pre- pared for the role of teacher and teacher ...
... school districts . The evaluation , completed in 1994-1995 , employed a variety of formative and sum- mative assessment ... public school personnel consider program graduates to be better pre- pared for the role of teacher and teacher ...
Contents
Student Learning and Inquiry | 31 |
Finding Time Finding Money | 44 |
Professional Development Schools and School Reform | 53 |
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