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Systematic support for improving education and learning in further and higher education, has moved to centre stage in recent years. This is reflected in the increasing membership of professional bodies. Most new staff are encouraged to engage in staff development programmes, but receive little training to do so. This book has been written to meet this need: it is a practical handbook that introduces the key issues in staff and educational development, ideal for any education professional in the early years of their career at further or higher education level.
This book focuses on strategic staff development in higher education, a sector in which it has been largely viewed as an operational activity with little organizational relevance. The book demonstrates how staff development needs to be based on modern theories of 'organizational learning', aligning itself with institutional and departmental needs as well as the wants and needs of individual staff.
National Standards put forward by the Teacher Training Agency serve to emphasize the importance of good resource management within schools. National Standards put forward by the Teacher Training Agency serve to emphasize the importance of good resource management within schools. This book, contains essential factual material, provides a wide range of professional development activities to support schools in their own improvement journey, aims to provide new opportunities for teachers and management to reflect critically on and improve teacher and pupil autonomy, and shows how the benefits of resource management can make an impact on pupils' classroom experience.
A handbook to help university and college managers in their planning, delivery and evaluation of staff development, this text focuses on the manager's role and responsibilities in respect of all staff and concentrates on the full cycle of planning, execution and review of staff development.