| 625 | Friday, April 15, 2005 |
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| 10:15 AM-12:15 PM | Convention Center:E270 |
| Research Consortium |
| High Quality Professional Development Leaving No Physical Educator Behind |
| Providing high quality professional development has become a cornerstone of federal and state education policies as school districts are required to provide professional development for teachers (Armour & Yelling, 2004; NCTAF, 2003; Rink & Murray, 2003, Ward, 1999). Professional development budgets focus on helping teachers of core academic subjects but physical education is not listed as a core subject in federal legislation. The national standards and accountability movement that is part of this educational reform agenda has substantively impacted physical education teachers. Professional organizations like NASPE, NCATE, and the NBPTS have sought to clarify what high quality teachers should know and be able to do. Such reforms have resulted in increasing calls for professional development for teachers. However, the design, provision and effectiveness of professional development in physical education is understudied (Armour & Yelling, 2004) with growing dissatisfaction of individual approaches to physical education professional development (Rink & Murray, 2003; Ward, 1999). The symposium will describe recent efforts in an ongoing professional development collaborative with an urban school district that was funded by two Physical Education for Progress grants. Researchers will discuss a series of studies that have looked at (1) factors influencing teacher change, (2) impact of professional development on teacher practices, and (3) teacher dialogue as a component of professional development. A fourth presentation will present principles for high quality professional development based on a synthesis of our collaborative experience and the professional development literature. An education scholar, with interests in urban school improvement and teacher professional development, will critique the project. |
Keyword(s): leadership development, professional development
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| Presider: Mary O'Sullivan, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH |
| Panelist: Steve Tozer, The University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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Speakers: |
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Impacting Teacher Change: Enhancers and Inhibitors to the Change Process in Urban Secondary Physical Education
Pamela A. Bechtel, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH |
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Instructional Alignment From Professional Development Learning to Teaching Behavior
Bomna Ko, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH and Tristan Wallhead, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY |
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Teacher Dialogue as Professional Development
Phillip Ward, Mary O'Sullivan, Dena Deglau, Kimberly A. Bush and Quimi Segarra-Roman, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH |
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Principles of High Quality Professional Development: Lessons Learned
Mary O'Sullivan, Dena Deglau and Phillip Ward, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH |
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