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Empowering Teachers to Build a Better World
Fernando M. Reimers
2020
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This open access book presents a comparative study on how large-scale professional development programs for teachers are designed and implemented. Around the world, governments and educators are recognizing the need to educate students in a broad range of higher order cognitive skills and socio-emotional competencies, and providing effective opportunities for teachers to develop the expertise needed to teach these skills is a crucial aspect of effective implementation of curricula which include those goals. This study examines how large-scale efforts to empower teachers for deeper instruction have been designed, how they have been implemented, and their outcomes. To do so, it investigates six programs from England, Colombia, Mexico, India, and the United States. Though all six are intended to broaden and deepen students’ curricular aspirations, each takes this expansion of curricular goals in a different direction. The ambitious education reforms studied here explicitly focus on building teachers’ capacity to teach on a broader set of goals. Through a discerning analysis of program documents, evaluations, and interviews with senior leaders and participants in the programs, the book identifies the various theories of action used in these programs, examines how they were implemented, and discusses what they achieved. As such, it offers an indispensable resource for education leaders interested in designing and implementing professional development programs for teachers that are aligned with ambitious instructional goals.
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Keywords
- Central / national / federal government policies
- Central government
- Central government policies
- Comparative teacher education
- Curriculum planning & development
- curriculum studies
- designing teacher professional development
- District based teacher professional development
- Education
- education policy
- Educational Policy and Politics
- Educational strategies & policy
- Higher & further education, tertiary education
- implementing teacher professional development
- large scale professional development programs
- Mastery Math reform in England
- National education reforms and teacher professional development
- open access
- Organization & management of education
- Politics & government
- Social research & statistics
- Society & Social Sciences
- Sociology
- Sociology & anthropology
- Sociology of Education
- supporting teacher knowledge development
- supporting teacher pedagogical development
- Teacher education and deeper learning
- Teacher education and twenty first century skills
- Teacher professional development in Cambodia
- Teacher professional development in Colombia
- Teacher professional development in India
- Teacher professional development in USA
- Teacher Professional development Mexico
- Teacher Training
- Teaching and Teacher Education
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-2137-9Editions