Professional Development: Planning and Design

Two leaders in education reform -- NSTA and NSELA -- join forces to highlight best practices in the effort to get better at teaching better science. For the thoughtful teacher, these are not "cookbooks, " but worthy companions on the road to greater classroom effectiveness. There's got to be more to professional development than in-service workshops. This thoughtful book paves the way to change. It shows the circumstances under which professional development has the most impact on student learning, reviews programs that work, and offers practical ideas about how professional development can sustain science education reform. Among the topics: -- Changing professional development to help with standards-based reform -- Building a professional development program -- Using achievement data and assessment tools to modify teaching practices