State Policy on Professional Development: Rethinking the Linkages to Student Outcomes.

Autor/inn/en	St. John, Edward P.; Ward, James G.; Laine, Sabrina W. M.
Institution	North Central Regional Educational Lab., Oak Brook, IL.
Titel	State Policy on Professional Development: Rethinking the Linkages to Student Outcomes.
Quelle	(1999), (32 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
ISBN	1-929800-06-1
Schlagwörter	Educational Finance; Educational Policy; Elementary Secondary Education; Faculty Development; Inservice Teacher Education; Policy Formation; Public Education; State Government; State Standards; Teacher Improvement; Indiana; Ohio + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsfonds; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Lehrerfortbildung; Politische Betätigung; Öffentliche Erziehung; Bund-Länder-Beziehung
Abstract	As policymakers focus their inquiries into professional education and the training of teachers, a preliminary framework, based on five questions, can guide them. These are: (1) Do state policies on professional development recognize the complexity of improving student outcomes? (2) Are state professional development programs linked to student outcomes in coherent ways? (3) Is there evidence that professional development programs can influence student outcomes? (4) Does the state have a method of accounting for subsidies for professional development? and (5) Does the state have a method of linking the subsidies for professional development and improvements in student outcomes? The paper presents a framework for identifying the linkages between professional development programs and student outcomes. A case study of the professional development of Indiana and Ohio, and how this development compares to other states in the region and to the national average, shows how agencies already make a substantial development through embedded subsidies. The latest wave of reforms, by contrast, have focused on specifically directed subsidies, with relatively little attention being paid to account for these embedded subsidies. Five questions are posed in order to help states that want to develop well-designed statewide professional development programs. (Contains 30 references.) (SM)
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC