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Hunzicker, Jana – Online Submission, 2010
This article summarizes current research on effective professional development and offers a checklist for school leaders to use when designing learning opportunities for teachers. Effective professional development engages teachers in learning opportunities that are supportive, job-embedded, instructionally-focused, collaborative, and ongoing.…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Professional Development, Program Effectiveness, Educational Research
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Lloyd, Margaret; Cochrane, Janet – Australian Educational Computing, 2006
Professional development for teachers is often described as a journey. This paper, using the findings from a small-scale study interrogating professional development in ICT, offers the alternate metaphor of an interwoven Celtic knot to explain this phenomenon. It will show how the four key elements identified as being critical to creating the most…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Information Technology, Staff Development, Professional Development