Improving Professional Learning

Reviews / Votes

"Ensuring effectiveness of professional development is essential for organizations to keep pace with continuing pervasive and rapid change. Improving Professional Learning is an immediately useful resource to meet this need, providing specific strategies for effective learning sessions, examples that show how others have implemented those strategies, and reflective guidelines to ensure appropriate implementation within individual contexts. These practical tasks are grounded in concepts developed from over 60 years of research on helping adults learn in a variety of professions, enabling leaders of professional learning to have confidence in the learning activities they offer. A must-read for leaders of professional learning everywhere!"

Jean E. Fleming, EdD, RN, President

American Association for Adult and Continuing Education

From the foreword:

"Dr. Alan Knox has provided leadership for this important area of scholarship and practice for decades, and brings all of his insights, experience, and research to help educational leaders improve professional learning. The 12 strategies that form the heart of the book are essential elements for anyone providing professional learning, from starting where the learner is, through the focus on active learning, and ending with providing feedback to learners and other stakeholders. Without a doubt, this book is a major contribution to support improved practice of professional learning and continuing professional education."

Ronald M. Cervero