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Magnusson, Debbie; Hopkins, Jeff – Education Canada, 2011
From August 2009 to January 2010, fourteen educational leaders in B.C.'s School district #64 chose to participate in an individualized educational leadership coaching initiative. These participants were coached to develop and focus on specific goals and objectives of their own choosing, often related to school goals or, in some cases, personal…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Communication Skills, Instructional Leadership, Educational Objectives
D'Andrea, Vaneeta; Gosling, David – Open University Press, 2005
The emergence of the discourse around learning and teaching is one of the more remarkable phenomena of the last decade in higher education. Increasingly, universities are being required to pay greater attention to improving teaching and enhancing student learning. This book will help universities and colleges achieve these goals through an…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Higher Education, Educational Objectives, Teacher Improvement
Gibboney, Richard A.; Gould, John M. – 1987
This document describes and assesses an ongoing systematic approach to educational renewal through staff development that has been in progress for the past four years in two school systems--Eastern Lancaster County School District and William Tennent High School, both in Pennsylvania. The essential characteristic of the staff development learning…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Dialogs (Language), Educational Assessment, Educational Improvement
Sherman, Renee; Dlott, Mike; Bamford, Heather; McGivern, Jennifer; Cohn, Marisa – 2003
Program and professional development staff in adult education currently employ a variety of strategies to select professional development materials, but generally lack a systematic selection approach. Selections are often based on familiarity rather than quality or how well-suited the materials are to the learning goals of instructors and the…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Adult Education, Adult Educators, Educational Objectives
Garrick, John – 1998
This book examines the rhetoric surrounding the notion of informal learning in order to expand debate about the uses of informal learning in workplaces and about attempts to "recognize" it through competency-based standards. The following topics are among those discussed in the book's eight chapters: (1) the nature of informal learning…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Competence