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Professional Learning Conversations Lorna M. Earl

Professional Learning Conversations By Lorna M. Earl

Professional Learning Conversations by Lorna M. Earl


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This volume provides informed arguments, theory and practical examples based on research about what it looks like when educators, policy makers, and even students, try to rethink and change their practices by engaging in evidence-based conversations to challenge and inform their work.

Professional Learning Conversations Summary

Professional Learning Conversations: Challenges in Using Evidence for Improvement by Lorna M. Earl

This volume provides informed arguments, theory and practical examples based on research about what it looks like when educators, policy makers, and even students, try to rethink and change their practices by engaging in evidence-based conversations to challenge and inform their work. It allows the reader to experience these conversations. Each story reveals the depth of thinking that change requires, showing that change requires new learning and new learning is hard.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements and Contributing Authors,- Acknowledgements,- Contributing Authors,- Chapter 1: Understanding How Evidence and Learning Conversations Work,- Chapter 2: Raising Student Achievement in Poor Communities Through Evidence-Based Conversations,- Chapter 3: Structuring Talk about Teaching and Learning: The Use of Evidence in Protocol-Based Conversation,- Chapter 4: Leadership for Evidence-Informed Conversations,- Chapter 5: A Cross Grade Learner Conversation,- Chapter 6: Evidence Informed Conversations Making a Difference to Student Achievement,- Chapter 7: Honey, Wooden Spoons and Clay Pots: The Evolution of a Lithuanian Learning Conversation,- Chapter 8: Learning to Think and Talk from Evidence: Developing System-Wide Capacity for Learning Conversations,- Chapter 9: Learning Conversations Stillborn: Distrust and Education Policy Dialogue in South Africa,- Chapter 10: Using Conversations to Make Sense of Evidence: Possibilities and Pitfalls.- References,- Index.

Additional information

NPB9781402069161
9781402069161
1402069162
Professional Learning Conversations: Challenges in Using Evidence for Improvement by Lorna M. Earl
New
Hardback
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
2008-03-20
132
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