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Leadership for Learning – Learning for Leadership: The Impact of Professional Development

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Professional Development, Stephan Gerhard HuberThere seems to be a broad international agreement about the need for school leaders to have the capacities required to improve in their schools the teaching of teachers for the learning of pupils. Hence, school leaders need to have a profound knowledge of learning. In this respect, (continuous) professional development (PD), of a formal and an informal kind, plays an important part in the professionalisation of school leaders and teachers as professionals. In this chapter, international trends and recommendations for PD will be presented. These have been derived from results of an international comparative study of the PD landscape for educational leadership personnel in 15 countries, as well as from expert meetings on international conferences covering leadership training and development. Extensive literature reviews confirm the development of PD over the last few decades. Recently, in the professional development of school leaders ‘course formats’ in PD are not any longer exclusively the focus of attention, but other formats and approaches have been developed. Hence, the use of multiple learning approaches and of different modes and types of learning in PD will be described. The central question of all PD is that of its impact. What influences effectiveness? How can effectiveness be provided and made visible? A framework for empirical research and evaluation according to theoretical principles is introduced that can be used to formulate a theoretical framework for conducting research, for evaluation, and for practice, for use at the school level (in particular for school leadership), in order to provide an overview of various important aspects.

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Huber, S.G. (2011). Leadership for Learning – Learning for Leadership: The Impact of Professional Development. In: Townsend, T., MacBeath, J. (eds) International Handbook of Leadership for Learning. Springer International Handbooks of Education, vol 25. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1350-5_36

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