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How Professional Development Schools Can Help to Create Friendly Environments for Teachers to Integrate Theory, Research, And Practice (Report)

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Title: How Professional Development Schools Can Help to Create Friendly Environments for Teachers to Integrate Theory, Research, And Practice (Report)
Author : Childhood Education
Release Date : January 01, 2010
Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 217 KB

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The professional development school (PDS) model has much to offer preservice teachers, inservice teachers, and P-12 students. The PDS learning community, formed through the collaboration of a college-based teacher preparation program with its P-12 partners, emerged in the 1980s from the work of the Holmes Group. The Holmes Group proposed the formation of multi-purpose school-university partnerships, comparable to the teaching hospitals of medical schools, with a focus on both education and research (Harris & van Tassell, 2005). Recently, "a new consensus has emerged" that teacher quality is the key factor in student achievement and educational improvement (Cochran-Smith, 2006, p. 106). PDSs provide an ideal way to sustain the commitment and knowledge of classroom teachers and college faculty through their involvement in inquiry and reflective practice (Shroyer, Yahnke, Bennett, & Dunn, 2007). Resources associated with PDS networks can help to overcome concerns about time, rewards, bureaucracy, and budgets (Trachtman, 2007), so that teachers feel supported in their professional development efforts.