Reviews for Whole-Faculty Study Groups: Creating Professional Learning Communities That Target Student Learning

The average rating for Whole-Faculty Study Groups: Creating Professional Learning Communities That Target Student Learning based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-11-17 00:00:00 Stephen Newland The ideal structure and purpose of professional development. PD should be content focused, collaborative, and prolonged using active learning and models and feedback. Our group discussion of this book focused on how important active learning is to successful PD. Linda Darling-Hammond is a legend in PD: "We're not at a place where we realize we can't just say, "I taught it and the students didn't learn it," as though that constitutes teaching. It's like saying, "The operation was a success, but the patient died." We are aware now that looking at what works for different students -- and there will be different things that work for different students -- is part of learning to teach, and critiquing one's practice and reflecting on what's working and what's not working."

Review # 2 was written on 2011-05-18 00:00:00 Marc Tosca Another example of the problem with liberalism. A government monopoly run by a union of government employees with no incentives to innovate or succeed results in failure. American education has declined since the 1960s when Libs hijacked it. Money is not the problem for at least three reasons. First, the money spent does not actually improve student learning. Second, real spending (meaning inflation-adjusted dollars) has increased somewhere between 3 and 8 times what it was 50 years ago with no tangible benefits. Third, other countries that perform much better on international tests spend less per pupil than the U.S. America must introduce competition into the educational system to lower costs and get a better product: educated children. School vouchers are the answer.