Professional Learning Conversations Challenges in Using Evidence for Improvement

This volume provides informed arguments, theory and practical examples based on research about what it looks like when educators, policy makers, and even students, try to rethink and change their practices by engaging in evidence-based conversations to challenge and inform their work. It allows the...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Earl, Lorna M. (Editor), Timperley, Helen (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 2009, 2009
Edition:1st ed. 2009
Series:Professional Learning and Development in Schools and Higher Education
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Understanding How Evidence and Learning Conversations Work
  • Raising Student Achievement in Poor Communities Through Evidence-Based Conversations
  • Structuring Talk About Teaching and Learning: The Use of Evidence in Protocol-Based Conversation
  • Leadership for Evidence-Informed Conversations
  • A Cross-Grade Learner Conversation
  • Evidence-Informed Conversations Making a Difference to Student Achievement
  • Honey, Wooden Spoons, and Clay Pots: The Evolution of a Lithuanian Learning Conversation
  • Learning to Think and Talk from Evidence: Developing System-wide Capacity for Learning Conversations
  • Learning Conversations Stillborn: Distrust and Education Policy Dialogue in South Africa
  • Using Conversations to Make Sense of Evidence: Possibilities and Pitfalls