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¶ … Professional Learning and Development -- the Teacher's Perspective
The recent debate over standards-based education has tended to focus upon student performance in regards to standardized testing and the rise of common core standards. However, an equally critical component of the question of improving our nation's schools is the training and education of teachers. Receiving a degree in education is only the beginning of the teacher's development as an educator. This proposed research project will examine teacher perceptions of professional development exercises and how they believe it has influenced their efficacy in the classroom and student performance.
According to the 2013 report issued by the Center for Public Education entitled Teaching the teachers, "recent education reforms have urged teachers to foster collaboration, debate and reflection amongst students, in order to develop cognitive processes like those called for in the new standards. Ironically, districts rarely apply these same learning techniques to developing teachers. At the same time, teacher's performance is increasingly tied to their students. This is a disparity that must be corrected" (Gulamhussein 2013). The report found that even experienced teachers struggled with implementing new approaches in the classroom: "studies have shown it takes, on average, 20 separate...
Often, there was inadequate support for teachers to make such needed shifts in their classroom pedagogy.
The most common form of teacher training was workshops (90% of the teachers in the report participated in this type of training) but this was found to be one of the least effective ways to improve instruction. One-on-one mentorship and coaching was deemed to be more helpful in which a 'master teacher' provides specific feedback on a teacher's performance in class. Overall, specificity was found to be the most useful aspect of training exercises. "Regardless of whether teachers are working with coaches or in professional learning communities, teachers need to be working with the content they teach. Teachers don't find professional development on generic topics useful" (Gulamhussein 2013).
Research method
This qualitative research study will take place at a single secondary school with 105 teachers. Professional development and training exercises are integrated into the approach of the school. The educators will answer questionnaires about the types of professional development and training they have received at the school and in the past and a select number will…
References
Baxter, P. & Jack, S. (2008). Qualitative case study methodology: Study design and implementation for novice researchers. The Qualitative Report, 13 (4): 544-559. Retrieved from: http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/QR13-4/baxter.pdf
Gulamhussein, A. (2013). Teaching the teachers. Center for Public Education. Retrieved from:
http://www.centerforpubliceducation.org/Main-Menu/Staffingstudents/Teaching-the-Teachers-Effective-Professional-Development-in-an-Era-of-High-Stakes-Accountability
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