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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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Earl, Lorna M. (Editor), Timperley, Helen. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
Series:Professional Learning and Development in Schools and Higher Education ; 1
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505 0 # |a Acknowledgements and Contributing Authors. Acknowledgements. Contributing Authors -- 1: Understanding How Evidence and Learning Conversations Work -- 2: Raising Student Achievement in Poor Communities Through Evidence-Based Conversations -- 3: Structuring Talk about Teaching and Learning: The Use of Evidence in Protocol-Based Conversation -- 4: Leadership for Evidence-Informed Conversations -- 5: A Cross Grade Learner Conversation -- 6: Evidence Informed Conversations Making a Difference to Student Achievement -- 7: Honey, Wooden Spoons and Clay Pots: The Evolution of a Lithuanian Learning Conversation -- 8: Learning to Think and Talk from Evidence: Developing System-Wide Capacity for Learning Conversations -- 9: Learning Conversations Stillborn: Distrust and Education Policy Dialogue in South Africa -- 10: Using Conversations to Make Sense of Evidence: Possibilities and Pitfalls -- References. Index. 
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