"Top Ten Reasons...for Site-Based Staff Development"
#10
With Reading First, the early literacy component of NCLB, coaches are mandated as part of professional development requirements for each grant.
(Education Act, 2001)
#9
Coaching teachers in their practice is the most powerful means to increase their knowledge and improve their practice. (Costa/Garmston, 1994)
#8
The most expensive professional development experience is the one that teachers do not transfer to their classroom. (Pete/Fogarty, 2002)
#7
Adult learning is too often reduced to pulling together hundreds of teachers to listen to an expert pontificate on a given subject. (Sweeney, 2003)
#6
The people closest to the problem have the greatest chance of solving the problem. (Deming, 1992)
#5
How a staff training is designed is the most important factor leading toward success. (Joyce/Showers1997)
#4
If the subject is relevant, learners connect emotionally and emotions lead to cognition, to transfer and changes in practice. (Goleman, 1999)
#3
Adults are practical learners. They want to know that what they are learning is connected to what is happening in their school/district. (Knowles, 1989)
#2
A well-trained, highly qualified and quality minded teacher is the number one determinate in the success of students. (Sanders 2001)
#1
Reason for Site Based Staff Development . . Site-based staff developers never get lost driving in from the airport!
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