Teachers in Professional Communities: Improving Teaching and Learning

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Teachers College Press, Jul 24, 2008 - Education - 120 pages

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, capacity, content, commitment, and challenge—the authors examine selected research studies, personal reflections, and five cases that were especially commissioned for this volume in order to uncover new insights and understandings. The text begins with essays on research and long-term development projects and concludes with vignettes that address the following questions:

  • What is the context of your program?
  • How does your program deal with facilitating both competence and the building of community?
  • What are the challenges, and how has your program dealt with them?

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Contents

Introduction
1
Contexts and Commitments
7
Developing Capacities
18
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Ann Lieberman,Lynne Miller
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Bibliographic information

TitleTeachers in Professional Communities: Improving Teaching and Learning
School Reform
the series on school reform
AuthorsAnn Lieberman, Lynne Miller
EditorAnn Lieberman
Editionillustrated
PublisherTeachers College Press, 2008
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedOct 14, 2008
ISBN0807748900, 9780807748909
Length120 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Education / Educational Policy & Reform / General
Education / Professional Development
Education / Teacher Training & Certification
  
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