Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-207) and index.
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Foreword By Michael Fullan -- Preface to the 3rd Edition -- Part I: Linking Staff Development and Student Achievement -- Chapter 1: Student Learning as the Goal: Learning by Everyone as an Ethos -- Chapter 2: Testing the Proposition: Cases in Point -- Chapter 3: Sources of Tested Content: Inquiries on Teaching and Learning -- Part II: The Structure of Staff Development -- Chapter 4: Choosing Content: Teaching Students How to Learn -- Chapter 5: Designing Training and Peer Coaching: Our Needs for Learning.
About the Authors -- Search this Book.
Chapter 6: Implementation: Moving from Workshops to the Classroom -- Chapter 7: Inquiry and Evaluation: Learning What Our Students Are Learning -- Part III: People, Organization, and Leadership -- Chapter 8: People and Initiatives: Studying States of Growth -- Chapter 9: Creating Communities in Districts and Schools: The Organizational Aspects of Growth Environments -- Chapter 10: Three Studies and Their Implications for Leadership: Ethos, Ethos, and Ethos -- Chapter 11: National Standards: The Fit with Aspirations for Student Achievement -- References and Bibliography -- Index.
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In 1980, Bruce Joyce and Beverly Showers predicted that staff development would become a human resource development system designed to change the nature of education, the status of school personnel, and the relationship between the two. In this third edition of their popular book, Student Achievement Through Staff Development, the authors offer an expanded guide to making that prediction a reality. Through case studies of successful programs, evidence from research, and illustrations from their extensive experience, Joyce and Showers help educators design programs that measurably improve studen.