Oran Tkatchov, Mary Tkatchov

Proactive Professional Learning

Creating Conditions for Individual and Organizational Improvement

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In America, the average person will spend 90,000 hours at work, or about a quarter of his or her adult life. Job satisfaction, then, can have an enormous influence on quality of life. Unfortunately, many in the workforce will spend all or a portion of their work life feeling stagnant and lacking passion for their job. The choices organizational leaders make about staff development can influence the organization's success. Being proactive and intentional about how professional learning opportunities are selected and incorporated into the learners' professional lives will optimize the benefits for employers, employees, and the students, customers, or clients they serve. The topic of this book, proactive professional learning, is a way to create a rewarding, highly effective work environment that makes people want to get the most out of their work experience, and in doing so, optimize the effectiveness of the organization that employs them.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 106
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 319g
• ISBN-13: 9781475850161
• ISBN-10: 1475850166
• Artikelnr.: 57575439

Autorenporträt

Oran Tkatchov's career has included such roles as a middle school teacher, high school teacher and charter school director. He has spent the last 15 years directing, presenting and providing professional development in the areas of special education, leadership and organizational improvement for various agencies and businesses. Mary Tkatchov has devoted almost two decades to the education field as a former high school teacher and adult educator, and she is currently working in assessment development for Teachers College at Western Governors University. She presents at national conferences and writes articles about education and assessment in higher education.

Inhaltsangabe

Dedication Preface Introduction                Chapter 1. Why Proactive
Professional Learning is Necessary in Every Profession Chapter 2. Learning
Theory in Professional Learning Chapter 3. Types of Professional Learning:
Choices, Choices, Choices Chapter 4. Proactive Professional Learning Trait
#1: Targeted Chapter 5. Proactive Professional Learning Trait #2:
Data-Driven Chapter 6. Proactive Professional Learning Trait #3:
Job-Embedded Chapter 7. Proactive Professional Learning Trait #4: Continual
Chapter 8. Conferences and Workshops as Professional Learning Chapter 9.
Observation as Professional Learning Chapter 10. Book Study as Professional
Learning Chapter 11. Action Learning as Professional Learning Chapter 12.
Individually Guided Learning as Professional Learning Chapter 13. Mentoring
as Professional Learning Chapter 14. The Proactive Professional Learning
Plan: Putting All the Parts Together Chapter 15. Change and Resistance in
Professional Learning Bibliography