Teachers as Self-directed Learners Active Positioning through Professional Learning /

• Main Author: Smith, Kathleen (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Self-Study of Teaching and Teacher Education Practices, 18
• Subjects: Education.; Teaching.; Teaching and Teacher Education.; Professional & Vocational Education.; Learning & Instruction.

This book redefines teacher in-service education as being less about participation in a program and more about the opportunity for teachers to experience a process of learning that is personally meaningful and contextually relevant to their own teaching practice. The research presented here reveals...

Table of Contents:

• Section 1 Teacher Professional Development - Who owns the Learning?
• Chapter 1 Teachers as Learners - Building an Alternative Landscape
• Chapter 2 Sewing the Seeds for Potential Growth
• Chapter 3 PD and PL: Navigating the Divide
• Chapter 4 Shifting Accepted Routines of Practice
• Section 2 Teachers as Self-directed Learners: Active Positioning through Program Design
• Chapter 5 Program Operational Features enabling Teachers to be Active Decision Makers
• Chapter 6 The Role of a Learning Facilitator
• Chapter 7 A New Way of Operating: Emerging Challenges for Traditional Practice
• Section 3 Teachers as Self-directed Learners: Active Positioning through Learning Experiences
• Chapter 8 The Teacher Perspective: The Value and Impact of Learning Experiences
• Chapter 9 The Facilitator Perspective: The Decisions and Actions that strategize Teacher Self-directed Learning
• Chapter 10 Teacher Learning: The Challenges of Passive and Intentional Disconnection
• Section 4 Explicating Teacher Learning-Going beyond Tasks
• Chapter 11 Teacher Decision Making: Teacher Learning
• Chapter 12 Implications for Approaches to Teacher Learning
• Chapter 13 Teacher Self-directed Learning: Further Insights.