Lessons in school improvement from sub-Saharan Africa : developing professional learning networks and school communities

Why do programmes of continuing professional development and Learning (CPDL) for teachers so frequently fail to deliver sustained improvement in children's social behaviour and academic performance? How can schools that prioritise the most disadvantaged children in one of the world's poore...

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Main Authors: Mason, Miriam, (Author), Galloway, David, (Author)
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021.
Series: Emerald Professional Learning Networks Series
Subjects:
Teachers > Training of > Sierra Leone.
School improvement programs > Sierra Leone.
Education, Professional Development.
Educational strategies & policy.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
ISBN: 9781801175043
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxiv, 202 pages).

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245 1 0 |a Lessons in school improvement from sub-Saharan Africa :  |b developing professional learning networks and school communities /  |c authored by Miriam Mason (EducAid, Sierra Leone), David Galloway (Durham University, UK). 
264 1 |a Bingley, U.K. :  |b Emerald Publishing Limited,  |c 2021. 
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300 |a 1 online resource (xxiv, 202 pages). 
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490 0 |a Emerald Professional Learning Networks Series 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-190) and index. 
505 0 |a Foreword / Dr. David Moinina Sengeh -- Part I -- Chapter 1. Introduction and background -- Chapter 2. Planning school improvement and the role of plns -- Chapter 3. Evaluation -- Chapter 4. Impact evaluation -- Chapter 5. Process evaluation -- Chapter 6. Conclusions -- Part II. Appendix -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Preliminary discussions and engagement meeting -- Chapter 3. Intensive literacy week -- Chapter 4. Intensive numeracy week -- Chapter 5. Additional high priority activities -- Chapter 6. Support for implementation: Putting learning from cpdl into practice -- Chapter 7. Evaluation -- Chapter 8. Conclusions. 
520 |a Why do programmes of continuing professional development and Learning (CPDL) for teachers so frequently fail to deliver sustained improvement in children's social behaviour and academic performance? How can schools that prioritise the most disadvantaged children in one of the world's poorest countries consistently achieve among the best academic results in the country? How can teachers in these schools, most of whom have received little or no formal training, provide CPDL that leads to improvement in other schools? These questions are as relevant in high income countries as in Sierra Leone, where the research for this book was carried out. Lessons in School Improvement from Sub-Saharan Africa addresses them head-on by describing the planning, delivery and evaluation of a school improvement programme in which development of professional learning networks (PLNs) was a key component. The evaluation showed that children whose teachers had taken part in the programme made significantly more progress in attendance, literacy and behaviour than children in control schools. The book's professional relevance is strengthened by an accompanying Practitioners' Manual with full details of the CPDL. This enables replication of the results and provides a guide for future school improvement programmes and PLNs, both in low and high income countries.  
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650 0 |a School improvement programs  |z Sierra Leone. 
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650 7 |a Educational strategies & policy.  |2 bicssc 
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700 1 |a Galloway, David,  |e author. 
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