| Author |
Title |
Publishing
Information |
Abstract |
| Ackland,
R. |
A
Review of the Peer Coaching Literature |
Journal
of Staff Development,Winter 1991
v12, n1 |
This
article focuses on peer coaching with teachers. The origins, characteristics,
and objectives of peer coaching are explored. Programs are divided into
two basic forms: coaching by experts and reciprocal coaching. Recommendations
for design and implementation are presented. The article includes a list
of specific topics related to peer coaching and resources for getting
more in depth information on them. It also includes a list of questions
a program or teacher should consider when setting up a peer coaching experience. |
| Barndt,
D. Belfiore, M.E. Handscome, J. |
English
at work: a toolkit for teachers |
Ontario,
Community Outreach, 1986
|
Helps
ESOL teachers prepare for teaching classes in various workplaces. |
Bingman,
B.
Bell, B. |
Teacher
as Learner: A Sourcebook for Participatory Staff Development |
Peppercorn
title 5602
www.peppercornbooks.com |
Brings
together materials, reflections, and activities on planning, facilitating,
and evaluating staff development, plus resources and activities. Incl
writings by practitioners, practical strategies, and excerpts from other
sources. |
| Daloz,
L.A. |
Mentor:
Guiding the Journey of Adult Learners |
Jossey-Bass,
1999 |
Drawing
on the myth of Mentor as companion and advisor to Odysseus, preeminent
educational mentoring expert Laurent A. Daloz uses the metaphor of the
mythic journey as a way of making sense of life's changes. He looks closely
at what good teachers and mentors actually do, and inspires post-secondary
educators to think of their work in fresh new ways. |
| Daloz,
L. A. |
Effective
teaching and mentoring |
Jossey-Bass,
1986 |
The
primary purpose of "Effective Teaching and Mentoring" is to
offere new perspectives for understanding adult learners and to suggest
in concrete, practical ways based on current developmental theory how
we can work more effectively to improve the quality of their educational
experience. Chapters include: "Three Useful Maps of How Adults Change
& Develop," "The Unsettling First Steps of and Educational
Journey," and "How Learning Changes the Learner" |
Lytle,
S.
Belzer, A.
Reumann, R. |
Invitations
to Inquiry: Rethinking Staff Development in adult Literacy Education |
Philadelphia,
National Center on Adult Literacy (NCAL), 1992
Download from: literacy.org/search/
detailed.html |
This
monograph introduces a model for inquiry-centered staff development in
which participants work collaboratively to conduct systematic inquiries
at their program settings, critically analyze current theory and research
from field-based perspectives, and make problematic the social, political,
and cultural arrangements that structure literacy learning and teaching
in particular contexts. |
| Owston,
R. |
Making
the Link: Teacher Prof Development on the Internet |
Portsmouth:
Heinemann |
Introduces
the Net as a powerfrul tool for developing collegial prof development
experiences. First explains the basic functions of Web browsers, email,
and search tools, and then shows how to use those tools to create a customized
PD action plan. Plans are based on building virtual prof communities and
conducting Net-based research. Includes research strategies, model plans,
etc. |
Rud,
A.G.
Oldendorf, W.P. eds. |
A
Place for Teacher Renewal: Challenging the Intellect, Creating Education
Reform |
New
York: Teachers College
ISBN: 0-8077-3146-3 |
A description of the activities of the North Carolina Center for the Advancement
of Teaching, a state-funded university-based program designed to renew
and retain teachers of all kinds. This is an exemplay teacher renewal
and staff development program that strengthens teachers' commitment to
their practice by offering them opporunities for intensive personal investigation
into topics inside and outside their specialties. |
Sticht,
T.
McDonald, B.
Erickson, P. |
Passports
to Paradise: The Struggle to Teaching and to Learn on the Margins of Adult
Education |
El
Cajon, CA: Applied Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, Inc., 1998 |
Tthe
factors that help make adult literacy programs work, and in some cases
not work. It looks closely at the adult literacy system in an inner city
community in San Diego. Report divided into three parts: Part 1, The Struggle
to Learn, focuses on barriers to participation in adult literacy education,
how situational factors play a role in persistence and program retention,
and how various instructional actors such as class size, erratic attendance,
and turbulence (people being added and subtracted from the class) affect
learning. Part 2, The Struggle to Teach, focuses on the voices of teachers
and their reflections on the struggle to teach in a marginalized education
system, how the dynamics of students' lives and classroom turbulence affects
their work, and the challenges to teaching posed by great diversity due
to cultural factors and different levels of language and literacy skills.
Part 3, The Struggle to Be Better, focuses on activities to try to make
the adult literacy education system more effective. |
| Video |
Captured
Wisdom, CD and Video |
National
Center for Adult Literacy (NCAL)
To Order:
www.ncrel.org/cw/al/
|
This
is an interactive multimedia resource designed to help inform educators
of successful technology integration practices in adult education environments.
Captured Wisdom shows innovative, replicable activities, discussed by
front-line classroom educators and learners so that other teachers can
feel they have had an opportunity to actually visit the classes and chat
directly with the learners and teachers about their work. |
| Website |
NCSALL
(The National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy) |
ncsall.gse.harvard.edu |
NCSALL
is a joint project between Harvard University’s Graduate School of
Education, World Education, Rutgers University Graduate School of Education,
Portland State University, and the Center for Literacy Studies at the
University of Tennessee. It’s mission is to improve the quality of
practice in adult basic education, adult ESOL, and adult secondary education
programs through the use of research. NCSALL conducts research on topics
such as persistence and retention in adult education programs, the impact
of gaining a GED, the use of multiple intelligences theory in adult education,
and adult reading components which seeks to group learners using components
of reading ability and give input to creating a better assessment tool
for low level readers who are adults. NCSALL has a special emphasis on
connecting research and practice via many routes which include the publications
“Focus On Basics” and the Annual Review of Adult Learning and
Literacy as well as the PDRN (Practitioner Dissemination and Research
Network). |
| Website |
The
Center for Literacy Studies |
cls.coe.utk.edu/ |
The
Center for Literacy Studies strengthens adult literacy education in order
to equip adults with the knowledge and skills they need to be lifelong
learners and effective members of their families, communities and workplaces.
The Center links theory and practice through research, professional development,
partnerships, and building and sharing the knowledge of the field. The
website contains links to professional development information as well
as special online collections on topics such as health and literacy, science
and numeracy, literacy and learning disabilities, and workforce education. |
| Website |
The
Center for Literacy Studies |
cls.coe.utk.edu/ |
The
Center for Literacy Studies strengthens adult literacy education in order
to equip adults with the knowledge and skills they need to be lifelong
learners and effective members of their families, communities and workplaces.
The Center links theory and practice through research, professional development,
partnerships, and building and sharing the knowledge of the field. The
website contains links to professional development information as well
as special online collections on topics such as health and literacy, science
and numeracy, literacy and learning disabilities, and workforce education. |
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