Collaborative Partnerships for Capacity Building through Professional Development
Transforming Learning Environments: Strategies to Shape the Next Generation
ISBN: 978-1-78190-014-7, eISBN: 978-1-78190-015-4
Publication date: 4 October 2012
Abstract
The Southeast Ohio Teacher Development Collaborative (SEOTDC) represents a regional professional community-of-practice with leadership as a key component of educator and organizational capacity building. This chapter highlights the work of this collaborative partnership among five teacher preparation programs in Appalachian Ohio that responds to regional contexts in planning and delivering professional development. Individuals from representative public and private institutions of higher education, state and local educational agencies, and school districts engage in action planning to improve teacher preparation, professional development, and mentoring processes for educators. This is accomplished through recruitment, retention, identification, support, promotion, encouragement, and involvement in a variety of SEOTDC initiatives. Professional development to build educator capacities is considered in terms of people and their contributions, the synergies that are created during the process of collaboration, and organizational arrangements that are designed to support renewal, reform, and personal and interpersonal development. After setting the context within which SEOTDC operates, the chapter identifies concerns, solutions, and outcomes related to four collaborative initiatives.
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Citation
Barbara Trube, M., Prince, B.L. and Middleton, R.A. (2012), "Collaborative Partnerships for Capacity Building through Professional Development", Miller, F.S. (Ed.) Transforming Learning Environments: Strategies to Shape the Next Generation (Advances in Educational Administration, Vol. 16), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 81-105. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-3660(2012)0000016008
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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