Fulfilling the Needs of Teachers: Five Stepping Stones to Professional Learning
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Publishing Details
Fulfilling the Needs of Teachers: Five Stepping Stones to Professional Learning
By (Author) Andrea L. Ray
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
18th June 2018
United States
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Teaching skills and techniques
370.711
Physical Properties
Hardback
290
Width 186mm, Height 254mm, Spine 24mm
830g
Description
Fulfilling the Needs of Teachers gives teacher educators the power to reach a teachers mind and soul. This book guides educators through a five-step process for creating design tasks. Design tasks are multi-dimensional professional learning activities that develop teachers understandings, skills, and abilities by presenting knowledge in a context that affects his or her beliefs, attitudes, and emotions.
Reviews
Until readingFulfilling the Needs of Teachers, my process for delivering professional development workshops to teachers had been based on personal observations, a short workshop, and my instincts. Lacking in my professional development plans were opportunities for teachers to grapple with new content and for teachers to create and analyze assessments for effectiveness of implementation. Dr. Rays system for working, implementing, and assessing new information provided insight into how to solve this problem. Particularly helpful were the authors conversations at the end of each section with Annie, who tended to ask the very same questions about the system as I did. -- Rebecca N. Reed, MAEEE, Social Studies Supervisor, Red Clay Consolidated School District, Wilmington, Delaware
I have read and re-read the chapters and made design tasks for the teachers to use this summer in their teacher training program. The classroom-centered tasks are an eye opener for teacher-centric to child-centric and the relevance to ecosystem processing connection in a class of (40-45) students which we follow. This book is going to be a treat and a helpful guide to teachers and the community. -- Veena Purwar, Director Versatile Scholars, Co-director Education Partners in India
Author Bio
Andrea L. Ray is a visionary in professional learning design. She believes passionately in the power of teachers to prepare children for future roles that do not yet exist.
