Teachers continuous formation in schools organized in cycle


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A formação de professores vem assumindo posição de destaque nas discussões relativas às políticas públicas, bem como nas investigações e publicações da área. O estudo da questão da formação continuada de professores envolve um número considerável de autores que aponta a insuficiência da formação inicial para o desenvolvimento profissional do professor e a necessidade de se levar em conta o saber do professor e a escola como lócus de formação docente. Esse consenso põe em destaque a necessidade de se pensar uma formação continuada que valorize tanto a prática realizada pelos docentes no cotidiano escolar quanto o conhecimento que provém das pesquisas realizadas na universidade, de modo a articular teoria e prática na formação e na construção do conhecimento profissional do professor. Tendo essa perspectiva como pano de fundo, procurei, neste trabalho, caracterizar a formação continuada de professores que acontece na escola fundamental pública do municípiodo Rio de Janeiro. A suposição inicial é a de que essa formação acontece em experiências formalizadas de educação continuada, mas também, e, especialmente, no cotidiano do espaço escolar. Nesta perspectiva, o foco da pesquisa esteve dirigido à formação continuada que acontece no interior da escola, nos diferentes momentos e instâncias em que há trocas entre professores e destes com outros profissionais da escola. Para realizar o objetivo de caracterizar a formação continuada de professores, procurei investigar e cotejar a formação continuada de professores em escolas de ensino fundamental organizadas em ciclos, nas dimensões macro e mesossocial de análise. Na dimensão macrossocial, foram utilizados os dados do SAEB 2001 (Sistema Nacional de Avaliação da Escola Básica) para descrever e explorar algumas das características da formação continuada oferecida pelas escolas públicasmunicipais freqüentadas pelos alunos cariocas. Na dimensão mesossocial, foi feito um estudo de caso da formação continuada oferecida numa escola pública de ensinofundamental do nosso município.




Continuous School Improvement


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"A hallmark volume by one of the nation′s most accomplished school improvement scholars. This is the most thoroughly researched, well-crafted, and useful volume on continuous improvement available. Smylie does for ′continuous improvement′ what Fullan did for change." —Joseph Murphy, Professor Vanderbilt University Discover what it takes to create lasting, positive change for your school, your teachers, and your students! Focusing on school change that improves teaching and learning, this guide for principals integrates evolutionary change theory with the research on continuous improvement. Mark A. Smylie begins with a succinct overview of organizational change that provides readers with the foundation they need to embark on a school change initiative. Interviews with educators involved with organizational change provide insightful examples and first-person responses to the challenges inherent in school change. Continuous School Improvement also addresses the major implementation problems that leaders face, such as: Building trust Creating a culture of mutual responsibility Building support Setting goals Responding to teachers′ stress in the face of change




The Continuing Professional Development of Educators


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The aim of this book is to take a critical look at continuing professional development policy and practice from a broad European perspective, examining both values and paradigms. In turn, it is hoped this will highlight models and concepts and how these relate to cultural contexts, which will develop lessons to be learned. This issue is tackled from across professions and from several European countries. Not only has a generic European perspective been put forward, but so have perspectives from both northern and southern Europe with a touch of North America to add a little spice. This is an eclectic mix of views and standpoints which are inextricably linked by the editors’ and authors’ profound belief that only through continuing professional development can progress be achieved at both an individual and an organisational level. It is hoped this book will provide some answers, be informative and stimulate positive debate among both academics and practitioners.




Professional Learning Communities at Work


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Provides specific information on how to transform schools into results-oriented professional learning communities, describing the best practices that have been used by schools nationwide.




Teacher Agency


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Recent worldwide education policy has reinvented teachers as agents of change and professional developers of the school curriculum. Academic literature has analyzed changes in how teacher professionalism is conceived in policy and in practice but Teacher Agency provides a fresh perspective on this issue, drawing upon an ecological theory of agency. Using this model for understanding agency, Mark Priestley, Gert Biesta and Sarah Robinson explore empirical findings from the 'Teacher Agency and Curriculum Change' project, funded by the UK-based Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Drawing together this research with the authors' international experiences and perspectives, Teacher Agency addresses theoretical and practical issues of international significance. The authors illustrate how teacher agency should be understood not only in terms of individual capacity of teachers, but also in respect of the cultures and structures of schooling.




New Teacher Education for the Future


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Serves to provide readers with an international understanding of how researchers and practitioners in different countries address some essential issues and initiatives in teacher education and development; what they have found from their known and applied research and what the implications are of which are crucial to coping with challenges from the ongoing developments in teacher education.




The SAGE Handbook of Management Learning, Education and Development


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The scholarship of management teaching and learning has established itself as a field in its own right and this benchmark handbook is the first to provide an account of the discipline. Original chapters from leading international academics identify the key issues and map out where the discipline is going. Each chapter provides a comprehensive and critical overview of the given topic area, highlights current debates and reviews the emerging research agenda. Chapters embrace the study of organizations as a whole, the concepts of individual and collective learning, the delivery of formal management education and the facilitation of management development. Through consideration of these themes the Handbook analyzes, promotes and critiques the contribution of management learning, education and development to management understanding. It will be an invaluable point of reference for all students and researchers interested in broadening their understanding of this exciting and dynamic new field.




Research in Education


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Continuing Professional Development of TESOL Practitioners


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This textbook serves as a current and comprehensive resource on effective Continuing Professional Development (CPD) for TESOL practitioners in various contexts around the world at various stages in their careers. The practices described by language teachers, teacher educators and professional development providers in this book offer a vision of critical issues to consider when designing and evaluating professional development opportunities. Effective professional development requires careful planning informed by the realities of the local context and the specific needs of the teachers. This textbook is designed to support those who provide professional development opportunities by presenting global perspectives on professional development for a range of teaching contexts at different language levels. Each chapter includes a discussion about the type and source of support available in the given context, as well as a reflection on the challenges that exist for both teachers and CPD providers. These insights serve to help CPD designers and providers as they problematize teacher development opportunities in their context. Each chapter concludes with a synthesis of the strengths of CPD in the local context and a discussion of future directions that target opportunities for transformation and improvement. This volume celebrates teachers, teacher educators and CPD providers around the world. High-impact practices are presented from fifteen countries: Cameroon, Canada, Costa Rica, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Malta, New Zealand, Norway, Oman, Qatar, South Africa, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Tanzania and the United States of America.