in-service training

Provides descriptions and discussion of the practices and issues of professional development for mathematics and science educators, examining the thinking of designers, and illuminating their purposes, strategies, triumphs, and failures.

Explains how study groups can offer teachers an opportunity for professional growth in the midst of the frantic school environment and offers effective tips for organizing and maintaining study groups.

"... explores professional learning communities from a teacher's perspective. Focused chapters survey effective and collaborative team actions, instructional practices that enhance teacher efficiency, and the role teacher judgment and classroom context play in determining instructional outcomes."--From Amazon.

Presents a four-part framework designed to help principals more effectively supervise and evaluate a teacher's performance.

A teacher's guide to on-the-job training.

Demonstrates five types of journals for use by professional learning communities, each of which provides a framework to promote continuous learning and improved student achievement.

Presents more than sixty tools designed to help teachers at any grade level develop an effective formative assessment process that will help them focus on learning goals, evaluate current work in relation to those goals, and reach those goals.