Author(s): Michael Bezzina

Learning and Teaching Professional Development

This book is for teachers. Tall ones, short ones, old ones, young ones, leaders and passionate classroom practitioners, primary and secondary. It's for any teacher who wants an opportunity to focus squarely on how to continue to improve their practice. Whether you like to learn on your own, with a small group of colleagues, or in a school or faculty group, there is something for you in this book.
It puts practitioners in touch with their deepest motivations as educators, taps into experience and research, and provides reflective and collaborative tools to deepen understanding and refine practice. It addresses such issues as what good learning looks like, how accountability can create blindspots, how to make data a means and not an end in itself, and the power of professional collaborative cultures.
The book can be used as a resource for individuals, but will be much more powerful if shared with colleagues. It is designed so that it can be used a section or a chapter at a time - but in the ideal world would form a resource for an extended exploration of improved practice. It is well grounded without being scholarly, and written in an accessible way - challenging assumptions and testing out the way in which we give expression (and sometimes fail to give expression ) to our highest ideals as teachers.
If you are looking for a chance to refocus and recharge your practice - individually or collectively - this may very well be the book for you.