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Teachers Take Charge of Their Learning:
Transforming Professional Development for Student Success
This report asserts that continuous teacher learning is the key to helping students achieve high standards of learning and that the profession itself must take responsibility for weaving continuous learning into the fabric of the teaching job. The report recommends four necessary actions for school transformation:
- Find time for continuous professional development. To keep up with change, teachers need the time to collaborate with their colleagues and to update their knowledge and skills-as professionals in other fields are required to do.
- Help teachers assume responsibility for their own professional development and for ensuring teacher quality.
- Develop partnerships to enhance teachers' knowledge and skills, including partnerships with parents (their most important partners), higher education institutions, museums, libraries, and businesses.
- Reallocate existing and appropriate new revenues sufficient to guarantee standards-referenced,quality teaching and learning in every public school.
The full report and the executive summary are available online free of charge:
Teachers Take Charge of Their Learning was made possible by support from the George Gund Foundation, Pew Charitable Trusts, and John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, as well as NEA members, who annually contribute to The NEA Foundation's work. |
