Sleeter examines the effects on staff development by reporting a series of classroom observations and interviews, conducted over a two year period, involving a sample of 30 teachers who were participating in a staff development programme in multicultural education. She also discusses how educators should be thinking about school change and multicultural education in light of the sense teachers are making of it. It is aimed at PGCE/BA/BEd students/lecturers, specifically multicultural and teacher education courses and school administrators.

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A guide for developing teamwork, commitment, and a shared responsibility offers practical approaches to leading collaborative efforts including school committees and district-wide learning groups. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: "This book considers the possibilities of collaborative relationships between colleges and universities and public schools, particularly urban schools, through professional development schools. Starting with the impetus of the Holmes group, the book places the onus for reform of teacher education at the doors of higher education, and provides a thoughtful critique of the different cultures of these two institutions--higher education and public education...read more

Product Description: This study of six exemplary teachers who manage to excel while working in urban districts and schools with high student and teacher turnover, linked to problems of violence, provides a compelling model for the renewal of schools. What are exemplary teachers' beliefs about teaching and learning? How do exemplary teachers self-renew personally and professionally? Which personal and contextual factors enable and/or constrain their renewal? What are their visions for improving professional development for teachers? Signaling the importance of teachers' education as a continuous, career-long process enhanced by fostering dispositions and structuring contexts that support teachers as learners, this qualitative study will interest school teachers and administrators alike...read more

Product Description: This study of six exemplary teachers who manage to excel while working in urban districts and schools with high student and teacher turnover, linked to problems of violence, provides a compelling model for the renewal of schools. What are exemplary teachers' beliefs about teaching and learning? How do exemplary teachers self-renew personally and professionally? Which personal and contextual factors enable and/or constrain their renewal? What are their visions for improving professional development for teachers? Signaling the importance of teachers' education as a continuous, career-long process enhanced by fostering dispositions and structuring contexts that support teachers as learners, this qualitative study will interest school teachers and administrators alike...read more

Product Description: Any conception of staff development emerges from an understanding of teaching, schooling, and education. The way people define and think about staff development will be influenced inevitably by their philosophy of education: their values, beliefs, and their taken-forgranted assumptions about what is and what ought to be...read more