Collaborative Reform and Other Improbable Dreams: The Challenges of Professional Development Schools(SUNY series, Teacher Preparation and Development)

Examines Professional Development Schools, or "teaching schools," and the myriad complex issues, from policy to personnel, that surround their operation.

Table of Contents:
Foreword Nancy Zimpher Introduction Context, Challenges, and Consequences: PDSs in the Making Marilyn Johnston Part I Contextualizing PDS Work and Roles Chapter 1 Too Valuable to Be Rejected, Too Different to Be Embraced: A Critical Review of School/University Collaboration Cynthia Dickens Chapter 2 A Clinical Educator: Redefining a Teacher's Role Rhonda Dailey-Dickinson Chapter 3 The Missing Voice of the Principal in School/University Collaboration Don Cramer and Marilyn Johnston Part II Elementary and Middle School PDSs Chapter 4 LEADS: An Evolving Program Patricia Enciso, Becky Kirschner, Theresa Rogers, and Barbara Seidl Chapter 5 Small Beginnings to a Collective Takeover: Collaboration, Integration, and Change in Our PDS Francee Eldredge, Kathleen Ibom, Marilyn Johnston, Lisa Maloney, and Mike Thomas Chapter 6 Middle School PDS: Moving beyond the Canvas Patti Brosnan, Diana Erchick, and Holly Thornton Part III Secondary PDSs Chapter 7 Afternoon the Honeymoon Is Over: What Seven Years of Collaboration Have Taught Us about School/University Collaboration in Social Studies and Global Education Sue Chase and Merry Merryfield Chapter 8 Perspectives on Personal Professional Development Steven L. Miller, Stanley Ray, Tim Dove, and Todd Kenreich Chapter 9 Students Learn Within and beyond the Walls: A Secondary PDS Barbara Levak, Anna Soter, and Dan Hoffman Chapter 10 The Growing of a School/University Partnership and the Preparation of Teachers for the Urban Context Beth Carnate, George Newell, Steven E. Hoffman, and Rachel Moots Chapter 11 Project Learn: Closing the Gap Barbara Thomson, Eugenie Maxwell, Lizbeth Kelley, and Beth Carnate Part IV Specialist and Subject Matter PDSs Chapter 12 The Ohio State University Technology in Education Professional Development School: TIE PDS William Gathergood and Keith Hall Chapter 13 A PDS Network of Teachers: The Case of Art Michael Parsons Chapter 14 Weaving a Web of Relationships Sandra Stroot, Mary O'Sullivan, And Deborah Tannehill Chapter 15 Inaugurating a Professional Development Network for Foreign and Second Language Educators: Flying the Plane and Repairing It at the Same Time Deborah Wilburn Robinson Chapter 16 The Special Education Professional Development School Gwendolyn Cartledge , John O . Cooper , Ralph Gardner III , Timothy E . Heron , William L. Heward , Richard D . Howell , and Diane M . Sainato Conclusion Tim Dove, Patti Brosnan, Don Cramer, and Marilyn Johnston Appendix PDS Publications Glossary of Terms and Acronyms Contributors Index

About the Author :
At The Ohio State University, Marilyn Johnston is Professor of Social Studies Education and author of Contradictions in Collaboration: New Thinking in School University Partnerships, Patti Brosnan is Associate Professor of Mathematics Education, Don Cramer is former PDS Principal and is currently Program Director for the Office of Professional Practices. Tim Dove is a middle school social studies teacher in Worthington, Ohio.

Review :
"Faculty at The Ohio State University and local school administrators and teachers have been working together since 1986 to change how we prepare new teachers and promote professional development. This has meant changing our institutions while working in them and studying both the process and outcomes as we go. The context, challenges, and consequences of this large scale reform are complex and uneven but some of the outcomes are clear: teacher education is done differently now, professors and teachers teach differently, and the schools and university have changed in significant ways." - Marilyn Johnston, from the Introduction "There are a number of sources that detail collaborative efforts but few books that explore the issues in such depth, and none that I am aware of that so clearly explicate the benefits and the difficulties of school/university work. This set of contributors builds a case study of a major effort, which to me is one of the strengths of the book." - Taffy Raphael, Oakland University