Response to Section IV: What's Needed Now: Issues of Professional Development School Accountability and Sustainability in Today's Complex Educational Environment

Abstract

The concept of Professional Development Schools assumes that improving teaching ultimately depends on providing teachers with opportunities to contribute to the development of knowledge in their profession, to form collegial relationships beyond their immediate working environment, and to grow intellectually as they mature professionally. The idea of such collaborative sites also recognizes that the university-based research and instruction in education must have strong roots in the practice of teaching if they are to maintain their intellectual vitality and credibility with the profession. Professional Development Schools, then, would provide a structured partnership for developing the teaching profession and ultimately improving students’ learning. (Holmes Group, 1986)

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