Taking Charge of Curriculum: Teacher Networks and Curriculum Implementation (Series on School Reform) - Softcover

Adams, Jacob E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807739480 ISBN 13: 9780807739488

Publisher: Teachers' College Press, 2000

Synopsis

How do teachers adapt to the demands of curriculum change and new educational standards? How do they learn what is expected of them? In this pathbreaking work, Jacob Adams examines how a promising new professional structure, the teacher network, helped teachers implement a novel and challenging high school mathematics curriculum and how it fostered teachers' determination and ability to get the job done, when traditional staff development supports did not. Beginning with an in-depth examination of the demands of policy on practice, the author concludes with a practice-based model for professional development and curriculum implementation. An important contribution to the discourse on standards, school improvement, and professional development, this volume covers timely topics that are crucial to the understanding of how teachers can work most effectively in this time of curricular change.

About this title

About the Author:

Jacob E. Adams, Jr. is an associate professor of education and public policy at Peabody College, Vanderbilt University, and a research fellow with the Peabody Center for Education Policy. He also serves as chairman of the board of directors of the Kentucky Institute for Education Research.

Synopsis:

An examination of how a new and promising professional structure, the teacher network, helped teachers to implement a novel and challenging high school mathematics curriculum, and how the network focused teachers' determination and ability to get the job done.

About this edition

• Publisher: Teachers' College Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0807739480
• ISBN 13: 9780807739488
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240