Presentation
Getting professional development right
Professional learning for teachers and school leaders
Publication Date
1-1-2005
Disciplines
Abstract
This paper examines the Western Australian Getting it Right reform as a strategy for professional learning and compares it with research on the characteristics of effective PD. The Getting it Right Strategy is clearly a comprehensive and well-resourced reform strategy with its main emphasis on building professional capacity among teachers and principals. The data we gathered as part of the evaluation, through school and classroom observations, interviews and surveys, left us in no doubt that the strategy was highly regarded by teachers and principals and was having a significant impact on practice. This paper will focus mainly on GiR work focused on improving numeracy teaching.
Citation Information
Lawrence Ingvarson. "Getting professional development right" (2005) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/lawrence_ingvarson1/27/
ISBN: 0864316844