A study of school-based staff development
Institution: | University of Canberra |
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Year: | 1980 |
Keywords: | school-based staff development; Duffy Primary School; ACT; Australian Capital Territory |
Record ID: | 1509986 |
Full text PDF: | http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20061031.123052 |
This study is concerned with school-based staff development. It looks briefly at the reasons for this development, emanating from changes in society and schools. First it traces the growth of school-based staff development overseas and in Australia. A variety of approaches to school-based staff development activities is demonstrated by a selection of case studies in the United Kingdom, United States and Australia. The study then examines staff development provisions in the ACT education system, a system based on the philosophy of participatory decision making. It then looks closely, by means of description and questionnaire, at staff development in a particular school in this system, Duffy Primary School. The study concludes with recommendations and a model for staff development in schools. The writer implemented a school-based model of staff development at Duffy Primary School independent of other current theories and practices on school-based staff development. His most recent reading and research outlined in this study have confirmed the basic soundness of the school-based model of staff development.