Five flaws of staff development and the future beyond From: Journal of Staff Development | Date: July 1, 2007| Author: Hargreaves, Andy | Copyright National Staff Development Council Summer 2007. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

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STUDENT LEARNING and development do not occur without teacher learning and development. Not any teacher development will do, though. The old flaws of weak and wayward stafF development are well-known - no staff development, in which trial and error are assumed to be enough; staff development that's all ideas and no implementation, i.e. the professor's prerogative; staff development that is offered only off-site and is disconnected from practice; staff development that is...

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