What Makes Professional Development Effective? Results From a National Sample of Teachers
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...This evidence comes from case-study data (e.g., Cohen, 1990), correlational analyses conducted with nationally representative teacher data (e.g., Garet et al., 2001; T. M. Smith et al., 2007), quasi-experiments (Banilower, Heck, & Weiss, 2005), longitudinal studies of teachers (e.g., Cohen & Hill,…...
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...Opportunities for teachers to engage in active learning are also related to the effectiveness of professional development (Garet et al., 2001; Loucks-Horsley et al., 1998)....
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...The effects of the structure of the learning opportunity on teacher change—for example, whether it was a workshop or study group—were fully explained by the features of the activity (Desimone, Porter, et al., 2002; Garet et al., 2001)....
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...…(2007) cite casestudy research to show that we have already identified what might contribute to high-quality professional development, but indicate that before the Garet et al. (2001) study, we had no empirical evidence of the relative value of specific features of professional development....
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...Furthermore, knowing how to facilitate and support these types of changes is much less familiar to staff developers who typically have been concerned with facilitating firstorder change ( Garet, Porter, Desimone, Birman, & Yoon, 2001 )....
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...This same sentiment has been expressed in recent professional development literature (e.g., Garet et al., 2001; Howard, McGee, Schwartz, & Purcell, 2000; Putnam & Borko, 2000), including that related to technology development (Niederhauser & Stoddart, 2001; Pedersen & Liu, 2003; Windschitl, 2002; Windschitl & Sahl, 2002)....
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...This same sentiment has been expressed in recent professional development literature (e.g., Garet et al., 2001; Howard, McGee, Schwartz, & Purcell, 2000; Putnam & Borko, 2000), including that related to technology development (Niederhauser & Stoddart, 2001; Pedersen & Liu, 2003; Windschitl, 2002;…...
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...71 Garet et al., 2001 72 On a survey item in the 2003-04 SASS Teacher Questionnaire in which teachers were asked to indicate their top priorities for further professional development, content-related professional development was listed most commonly (23 percent of teachers) as the top priority, followed by classroom management (18 percent), teaching students with special needs (15 percent), and using technology in the classroom (14 ......
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...Cohen & Hill, 2001; Garet et al., 2001; Desimone et al., 2002; Penuel, Fishman, Yamaguchi, & Gallagher, 2007; Saxe, Gearhart & Nasir, 2001; Supovitz, Mayer & Kahle, 2000 10 Garet et al., 2001 ...
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...Cohen & Hill, 2001; Garet et al., 2001; Desimone et al., 2002; Penuel, Fishman, Yamaguchi, & Gallagher, 2007; Saxe, Gearhart & Nasir, 2001; Supovitz, Mayer & Kahle, 2000 10 Garet et al., 2001...
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...5 Stein, Smith, and Silver, 1999 6 Knapp, 2003; Cohen & Hill, 2001; Desimone et al., 2002; Garet et al., 2001; McGill-Franzen et al., 1999; Supovitz, Mayer & Kahle, 2000, Weiss & Pasley, 2006...
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...15 Elmore & Burney, 1997; Cohen & Hill, 2001; Garet et al., 2001; Penuel, Fishman, Yamaguchi, & Gallagher, 2007; Supovitz, Mayer & Kahle, 2000 16 Supovitz, Mayer, & Kahle, 2000...
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...…general pedagogy or teaching practices, such as classroom management, lesson planning, or grouping methods; and some are intended to improve what Shulman (1987) has termed “pedagogical content knowledge”—teaching practices in specific content domains, such as teaching multidigit addition in…...
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