The dilemmas of professional development

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 401-406

  Richardson, Virginia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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EID: 14544274000     PISSN: 00317217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003172170308400515     Document Type: Review

References (29)

1. The following sources have informed my work in this area: Patricia Anders and Virginia Richardson, "Research Directions: Staff Development That Empowers Teachers' Reflection and Enhances Instruction," Language Arts, vol. 68, 1991, pp. 316-21;
2. Tom Corcoran, "Schoolwork: Perspectives on Workplace Reform in Public Schools," in Milbrey McLaughlin, Joan Talbert, and Nina Bascia, eds., The Contexts of Teaching in Secondary Schools (New York: Teachers College Press, 1991), pp. 142-66;
3. Katherine Devaney and Lorraine Thorn, Exploring Teachers' Centers (San Francisco: Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development, 1975);
4. Michael Fullan, "Staff Development, Innovation and Institutional Development," in Bruce Joyce, ed., Changing School Culture Through Staff Development (Alexandria, Va.: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 1990), pp. 3-25;
5. Claude Goldenberg and Ronald Gallimore, "Changing Teaching Takes More Than a One-Shot Workshop," Educational Leadership, November 1991, pp. 69-72;
6. Gary Griffin, "Implications of Research for Staff Development Programs," Elementary School Journal, vol. 83, 1983, pp.414-27;
7. Bruce Joyce, "Prologue," in idem, pp. 1-3;
8. Judith Warren Little, "Norms of Collegiality and Experimentation: Workplace Conditions of School Success," American Educational Research Journal, vol. 19, 1982, pp. 325-40;
9. Susan Loucks-Horsley el al., Continuing to Learn: A Guidebook for Teacher Development (Andover, Me.: Regional Laboratory for Educational Improvement of the Northeast and Islands/National Staff Development Council, 1987);
10. Milbrey McLaughlin and Joan Talbert, Contexts That Matter (Stanford, Calif.: Center for Research on the Context of Secondary Teaching, 1993);
11. Mark Smylie, "The Enhancement Function of Staff Development: Organizational and Psychological Antecedents to Individual Teacher Change," American Educational Research Journal, vol. 25, 1988, pp. 1-30;
12. and Beatrice Ward, "Teacher Development: The Challenge of the Future," in Shirley Hord, Susan O'Neal, and M. Smith, eds., Beyond the Looking Glass (Austin: Research and Development Center for Teacher Education, University of Texas, 1985), pp. 283-312.
13. However, the research that exists suggests that an outside facilitator might be helpful. See Deirdre LeFevre and Virginia Richardson, "Staff Development and the Facilitator," Teaching and Teacher Education, vol. 18, 2000, pp. 483-500.
14. Virginia Richardson, "Teacher Inquiry as Staff Development," in Sandra Hollingsworth and Hugh Sockett, eds., Teacher Research and Educational Reform: 93rd NSSE Yearbook, Part I (Chicago: National Society for the Study of Education, University of Chicago Press, 1994), pp. 186-203.
15. A number of editions of de Tocqueville's classic work have been published. I used Richard D. Heffner's New American Library abridged edition from 1956, though I also referred to J.P. Mayer's complete edition, with a translation by George Lawrence, published by HarperCollins in 1969.
16. De Tocqueville, 1956, p. 193.
17. Ibid., p. 196.
18. Nel Noddings, "On Community," Educational Theory, vol. 46, 1996, pp. 245-67.
19. Michael Huberman, "The Professional Life Cycle of Teachers," Teachers College Record, vol. 91, 1989, pp. 31-58.
20. Virginia Richardson, "Professional Development in the Instruction of Reading," in Jean Osborn and Fran Lehr, eds., Literacy for All: Issues in Teaching and Learning (New York: Guilford Press, 1998), pp. 303-18.
21. De Tocqueville, 1956, p. 201.
22. Ann Berlak and Harold Berlak, Dilemmas of Schooling: Teaching and Social Change (New York: Methuen, 1981).
23. Virginia Richardson, ed., Teacher Change and the Staff Development Process:A Case in Reading Instruction (NewYork: Teachers College Press, 1994).
24. Gary D Fenstermacher, "The Place of Practical Arguments in the Education of Teachers," in Richardson, pp. 23-42.
25. Robert E. Slavin et al., Every Child, Every School: Success for All (Newbury Park, Calif.: Corwin, 1996).
26. M. Bruce King and Fred Newmann, "Will Teacher Learning Advance School Goals?," Phi Delta Kappan, April 2000, pp. 576-80;
27. and M. Bruce King, "Professional Development to Promote Schoolwide Inquiry," paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Montreal, 1999.
28. Information about this and other projects within the Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement can be found at www.ciera.org.
29. Noddings, p. 254.