Overview
- Helps find new ways to build teacher capacity and promote school-based educational change
- Focuses on strategizing the design features of in-service teacher learning programs
- Provides examples of effective methods to promote interactive feedback and professional dialogue with teachers
Part of the book series: Self-Study of Teaching and Teacher Education Practices (STEP, volume 18)
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This book redefines teacher in-service education as being less about participation in a program and more about the opportunity for teachers to experience a process of learning that is personally meaningful and contextually relevant to their own teaching practice. The research presented here reveals that teachers have the capacity to think and work differently, yet are rarely provided with opportunities to exercise active decision-making about their personal learning needs. Creating and implementing such an approach involves reimagining all aspects of the learning experience so that teachers are free to articulate their own learning needs and actively work to determine what matters most for their professional practice.
The book breaks new ground by drawing from research related to an in-service program where teachers, their experience and professional thinking were deliberately positioned at the centre of the learning experience. Using this evidenced-based approach, it focuses not only on the learning achieved, but also the conditions that enabled teachers to undertake such learning.
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Teacher Professional Development: Who Owns the Learning?
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Teachers as Self-Directed Learners: Active Positioning Through Professional Learning
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Positioning Teachers as Self-Directed Learners
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Explicating Teacher Learning: Going Beyond Tasks
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Teachers as Self-directed Learners
Book Subtitle: Active Positioning through Professional Learning
Authors: Kathleen Smith
Series Title: Self-Study of Teaching and Teacher Education Practices
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3587-6
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-3586-9Published: 10 March 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9914-4Published: 08 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-3587-6Published: 06 March 2017
Series ISSN: 1875-3620
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1850
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 183
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: Teaching and Teacher Education, Professional & Vocational Education, Learning & Instruction