Professional development : planning and design / Jack Rhoton and Patricia Bowers, editors.

Includes bibliographical references.

National Science Education Standards as a catalyst for change : the essential role of professional development / Rodger W. Bybee and Susan Loucks-Horsley -- Professional development designed to change science teaching and learning / Susan Loucks-Horsley and Katherine E. Stiles -- If we want to talk the talk, we must also walk the walk : the nature of science, professional development, and educational reform / Norman G. Lederman, Fouad Abd-El-Khalick, and Randy L. Bell -- A continuum of standards for science teachers and teaching / Steven W. Gilbert -- Alphabet soup for science teachers : making sense of current national science education reform initiatives / Angelo Collins -- Using ENC and ERIC to plan for professional development / Thomas Gadsden, Jr., and Kimberly S. Roempler -- Pathways to the science Standards / Juliana Texley -- The professional development of science teachers for science education reform : a review of the research / Julie Gess-Newsome -- Science teacher professional development : a researcher's perspective / Jane Butler Kahle and Mary Kay Kelly -- The Colorado College integrated natural sciences program (CC-ISTEP) : putting into practice some essential principles of teacher development / Paul J. Kuerbis and Keith Kester -- It's all about choices : science assessment in support of reform / Margaret A. Jorgensen -- Defining teacher quality through content : professional development implications from TIMSS / William H. Schmidt -- The teacher speaks : using achievement data to modify teaching practice / Judy K. Sink.

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There?s got to be more to professional development than in-service workshops. This thoughtful book paves the way to change. It shows the circumstances under which professional development has the most impact on student learning, reviews programs that work, and offers practical ideas about how professional development can sustain science education reform.

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