[DOWNLOAD] "Toward a Common Understanding: Identifying the Essentials of a Professional Development School." by Childhood Education * Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Toward a Common Understanding: Identifying the Essentials of a Professional Development School.
- Author : Childhood Education
- Release Date : January 22, 2008
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 197 KB
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About 20 years ago, the interface between P-12 schools and schools, colleges, and departments of education (SCDEs) began a transformation that has changed dramatically how future teachers are prepared. While various catalysts can be cited (e.g., the 1983 report A Nation at Risk; the work of the Holmes Group), the work of teacher preparation has never been the same. Our ongoing world of "theory into practice" is now increasingly dominated by standards and accountability. Everyone, P-12 and SCDEs included, exists in a world of standardized assessment and high-stakes testing. What NCLB is to P-12 schools, Title II and other mandates have become to SCDEs. The interactions between schools and SCDEs mandate communication and collaborative effort, as schools are no longer "places" where student teachers are assigned, but rather are partners in the many aspects of candidate preparation. Within these last 20 years, professional development schools (PDSs) have emerged and become, for many, the sine qua non of teacher preparation and professional development. In some partnerships, the PDS also has become a site where other professionals (e.g., administrators, counselors) are integrated participants; in some instances, the mentoring and induction of new teachers is a part of the PDS. However, the vast majority of PDSs are primarily devoted to the professional development of preservice candidates, with the professional development of inservice teachers often an unplanned byproduct of the relationship. As suck the term "professional development school" has been used to describe almost every form of "partnership" between P-12 schools and SCDEs. What is or is not a PDS has become something defined by the eye of the beholder.