`Outlines a systematic method that helps professional educators focus their energies on lasting professional growth. Strategies and templates assist teachers in reflecting on their own professional performance, setting their own learning targets, and managing their own progress toward greater professional success' - Scott Estes, Principal Glendale School, East Peoria, IL Recognising that student achievement is intrinsically linked to high-quality teaching, Jodi Peine offers an invaluable guide that helps educational leaders strengthen teachers' instructional practice with an individualised and robust professional development process. The author provides administrators and staff developers with step-by-step guidance for designing, implementing, and sustaining a professional growth plan. Grounded in research at elementary, middle, and high school levels, the process is delivered in manageable sections with reproducible forms for every step. With a refined method that includes formal data analysis, this guidebook: - Demonstrates how participants can develop their own goals and action plans - Provides current terminology and topics for individual growth plan development - Examines steps to take after completing first-generation professional growth plans - Helps redefine school improvement efforts to produce enduring systemic change The Educator's Professional Growth Plan, Second Edition, provides a targeted approach that accommodates the unique needs of individual teachers. Within a supportive context, educators can assume responsibility for their own learning, witness changes in their professional practice, and realise substantive gains in student performance.

Book Information
ISBN 9781412949316
Author Jodi Peine
Format Hardback
Page Count 256
Imprint SAGE Publications Inc
Publisher SAGE Publications Inc
Weight(grams) 940g