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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
EDUCATION 461:4
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TRENDS AND DEVELOPMENTS IN IN-SERVICE EDUCATION
Fall Semester, 1990
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Instructor: ?
Peter Coleman
Wednesdays ?
Office: ?
MPX8662
16:30 - 20:20 p.m. ?
Phone: ?
291-3622 (office)
Location: MPX 7504
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291-3395 (messages)
PREREQUISITES:
Educ 405 or equivalent.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
The objectives of the course are to provide students with a range of information
drawn from current research on in-service education, which includes both
personal professional development 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 personal and school-level planning for staff
development with confidence.
OUTLINE OF TOPICS
The course is organized in five sections:
A. Professional Development: Serving Individual Teacher Needs
1.
Classroom as workplace:
This section will examine classrooms as
workplaces and the demands they make upon teachers, and the training
consequences for individual teachers.
2. Teaching as a
profession:
This section will examine the characteristics of
teaching as a profession, and the training consequences of these
characteristics 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 district context within which the school
functions; and school quality.
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development and school change:
This section will examine teacher
work in schools and staff development programs at the school level.
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Teacher evaluation and teacher development:
Teacher development might
be served by careful evaluation, reflecting what is known about effective
practice.
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REQUIRED TEXT
Lieberman, A. (1988). Building a professional culture in schools. New York:
Teachers College Press. ISBN 0-8077-2900-0.
RECOMMENDED READING
Joyce, B., & Showers, B. (1988). Student achievement through staff develoDment.
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.
Lanier, J.E., & Little, J. (1986). Research on teacher education. In M.C. Wittrock
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(Ed.), Handbook of research on teaching. New York: NY: Macmillan.
