SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
S
EDUCATION 461
-4
Trends and Developments In In-service Education
Fall Semester, 1989 ?
Instructor: ?
Peter Coleman
Tuesdays,
4:30 - 8:20 P.
M. ?
Office: ?
MPX
8662
Location: MPX 7500
Course Objectives:
The objectives of the course are to provide students with a range of information drawn from
current research on in-service education and staff development. It is expected that students will
considerably enlarge their knowledge of the literature in this field, and subsequently be able to
undertake school-level planning for staff development with confidence.
Outline of Topics:
The course is organized in four sections. They are:
A. Professional Development: Serving Individual Needs
1.
Classroom as workplace:
This section will examine classrooms as workplaces and the
demands they make upon teachers, and the training consequences for individuals.
2.
Teaching as a profession:
This section will examine the characteristics of teaching as a
profession, and the training consequences of these for individual teachers.
B. Staff Development: Serving System Needs
3.
Schools as social Institutions:
This section will examine two aspects of schools as social
institutions: the context within which the school functions and particularly governance aspects;
and school quality.
4.
Teachers and schools:
This section will examine teacher work in schools; teacher
leadership; and staff development programs at the school level.
For each section reference will be made to sections in the texts, and to other readings.
Course Texi
Required:
Lieberman, A. (1988). Building a professional culture in schools. New York: Teachers College
Press.
Recommended:
Joyce, B., & Showers, B. (1988). Student achievement throu
g
h staff develo
p
ment. New York:
Longman. ISBN 0-582-28409-0.
Wideen, M. F., & Andrews, I. (1987). Staff development for school improvement: A focus on the
teacher. Philadelphia, PA: Falmer. ISBN 1-85000-172-3.
Requirements:
Students are expected to complete a set of 2 or 3 in-class presentations on the readings, a
proposal for a Staff Development Program, and a term paper. The required and the
recommended texts, and the readings, provide ample information for meeting all these
requirements, including the term paper.
