This compact resource highlights the essential role of professional development in bringing about systemic change that benefits student achievement. The book offers practical methods for designing, promoting, and assessing change and stresses the important role that learning transfer plays in academic improvement and lifelong learning. The new features in this substantially updated revision include: a focus on the site-based professional developer's role as a champion for change in a student-centered learning community; a framework that guides professional developers through three stages of implementation; attention on assessing low-performing students' learning needs as the starting point for creating sustainable change that improves academic achievement schoolwide; emphasis on mediated learning experiences and skillful coaching for adult learners as they gather information and implement new approaches
- ISBN10 1452298742
- ISBN13 9781452298740
- Publish Date 2 September 2008 (first published 1 June 1995)
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Publish Country US
- Publisher SAGE Publications Inc
- Imprint Corwin Press Inc
- Edition 2nd Revised edition
- Format eBook
- Pages 128
- Language English