Concept information
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sociology of education
educational process: societal perspectives
training
vocational education and training
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sociology of education
educational process: societal perspectives
training
vocational education and training
Preferred term
professional development
Definition(s)
- Professional development refers to processes designed to enhance educators' knowledge, skills, and attitudes for the purpose of improving students' learning. Terms that have been used synonymously in the past include staff development, in-service education, on-the-job training, adult learning, and continuing education. [Source: Encyclopedia of Educational Leadership and Administration; Professional Development]
Broader concept(s)
Narrower concept(s)
- African American Vernacular English
- assessment
- autism
- block scheduling
- Bloom's taxonomy
- Carnegie Unit
- character education
- class size
- coeducation
- common school movement
- competency-based education
- comprehensive school reform
- continuing professional development
- cooperative learning
- curriculum controversies
- developmentally appropriate practices
- differentiated instruction
- differentiated staffing
- direct instruction
- experiential learning
- guidance and school counseling
- inquiry-based learning
- learning packages
- legal education
- mastery learning
- minimum competencies
- modular scheduling
- peace education
- performance-based assessment
- play school movement
- problem-based learning
- programmed instruction
- project learning
- reading recovery
- Sesame Street
- Teacher Institutes
- teacher training
- values clarification
- web-based teaching
- Winnetka Plan
- year-round schools
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URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-D79WWKK7-3
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