The Professional Development of Teachers: Practice and Theory

Part 1: The Issues and Some Attempted Solutions. Abbreviations and notes. 1. Introduction. 2. Evolving principles: experience of two large scale programmes. 3. Professional development for cognitive acceleration: initiation. 4. Professional development for cognitive acceleration: elaboration. Part 2: Empirical Evidence. 5. Measurable effects of cognitive acceleration. 6. Testing an implementation model. 7. A long term follow up of some CASE schools. 8. Teachers in the school context. 9. Making the process systemic - evaluation of an authority programme. Part 3: Modelling Professional Development. 10. Researching professional development: just how complex is it? 11. Elaborating the model. 12. Evidence based policy? References. Index.