Reflective Practice for Educators: Professional Development to Improve Student Learning

by Karen F. Osterman, Robert B. Kottkamp

Overview

Written for teachers, administrators, and professional development specialists in schools and universities, this book is an educators’ guide to reflective practice. In clear, accessible language, the authors explain the potential to create meaningful change in schools and show you how to integrate reflective practice effectively into the daily work of schools.

The book:

- Explains reflective practice as a professional development strategy and its importance for school reform
- Offers ideas and practical strategies to facilitate collaborative, data-based inquiry, dialogue, and problem-solving in schools
- Describes reflective practice in action and illustrates its power to create meaningful change in classrooms
- Shows how reflective practice is an important step in creating professional learning organizations

Reflective practice has the potential to renew your sense of optimism, commitment, and efficacy as you learn how to support meaningful professional growth, shape a culture of learning, and make important changes in students’ learning.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781632205681
Publisher:	Skyhorse
Publication date:	06/23/2015
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Karen F. Osterman is currently Professor and Chairperson in the Department of Foundations, Leadership, and Policy Studies at Hofstra University. She received her BA from Emmanuel College, an MPIA at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, and a Ph D from Washington University. Her teaching and research focus broadly on motivation in a social context with particular emphasis on organiza-tional structures and processes that affect the workplace behavior of adults and students. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Management Science, Journal of School Public Relations, Journal of School Leadership, Education and Urban Society, Newsday, Phi Delta Kappan, Review of Educational Research, and Urban Education. Recent work explores the way that school and classroom policies and practices affect the quality of peer relationships, bullying, student violence, and disengagement from learning.

Robert B. Kottkamp is Professor Emeritus, Department of Foundations, Leadership and Policy Studies, Hofstra University. He received his BA from De Pauw University and both MAEd and Ph D from Washington University. Dr. Kottkamp has coauthored five books, the latest being, Reflective Practice for Educators: Professional Development to Improve Student Learning (2^nd Edition) with Karen F. Osterman. His chapter with Edith A. Rusch, The Landscape of Scholarship on the Education of School Leaders, 1985–2006, is forthcoming in the Handbook of Research on Leadership Preparation. He maintains a keen interest in the continuing development of the Let Me Learn Process® and in researching its processes and effects. Professor Kottkamp is fortunate to have chaired the doctoral research of coauthors, Dr. Chris Johnston and Dr. Bonnie Dawkins; creating this book together as peers has been a wonderfully fulfilling learning experience.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
1. Reflective Practice, School Reform, and Professional Development
2. Engaging in Reflective Practice: A Cycle of Experiential Learning
3. Gathering Data: The Keystone of Reflective Practice
4. Facilitating Reflective Practice in the Workplace
Key Assumptions and Beliefs
Key Strategies
5. The Problematic Student
6. Bullying and Victimization in the Classroom
7. Teachers and Kids as Reflective Practitioners of their Learning
8. Reflective Practice for Empowerment
References
Index

Editorial Reviews

Anyone serious about leading the reform of teaching and learning in our schools should read this book. Kottkamp and Osterman reframe the conversation about what it means to lead a learning organization. Their reflective processes hold promise for educators as they struggle together to create new possibilities for student learning.

Nelda Cambron-Mc Cabe

Anyone serious about leading the reform of teaching and learning in our schools should read this book. Kottkamp and Osterman reframe the conversation about what it means to lead a learning organization. Their reflective processes hold promise for educators as they struggle together to create new possibilities for student learning.

Nelda Cambron-McCabe