Designs for Learning: A New Architecture for Professional Development in Schools [Paperback]

This insightful guide offers straightforward explanations of the past, present, and future of professional development programs.

This insightful guide offers straightforward explanations of the past, present, and future of professional development programs.

Paul Bredesons application of architectures principles of function, structure, and beauty to professional development policies and processes offers a unique and highly stimulating perspective sure to alter the thinking and work of researchers and practitioners alike. Creating artful designs for learning with structural integrity that appropriately meet the needs of educators and the students they teach should be the concern of professional developers at all levels. Intellectually evocative and practically grounded, this book acknowledges teachers as individuals and lifelong learners vitally engaged in their world and their profession. It should be at the top of the reading list for teachers, principals and anyone involved in planning, implementing or evaluating professional learning in and beyond schools.Preface
List of Tables and Figures
About the Author
Part I: Redesigning Professional Learning for Educators
1. Breaking the Box: New Designs for Professional Learning in Schools
2. Building Beneath the Surface: Footings and Foundations for Professional Development
3. Creating a Professional Learning Community
Part II: Creating Learning Spaces In and Beyond Work
4. Professional Development As Work: Essential Work for Educators
5. Professional Development In Work: Continuous Learning in Classrooms and Schools
6. Professional Development At Work: Benefits and Drawbacks to Workplace Learning
7. Professional Development Outside of Work: Creating Support for Off-Site Learning
8. Professional Development Beylã;