Purpose The purpose of this paper is to increase the knowledge principals' professional development (PD) by focusing on arrangements that shape a PD practice initiated enhance instructional leadership. Design/methodology/approach draws findings from three-year initiative in Swedish school district. data consist field notes and semi-structured interviews with principals managers. Theoretically, ...

Head Start’s Ninth National Research Conference, Creating Connections: Linking Policy, Practice, and Research across Early Childhood Development, Care, and Education occurred in June, 2008 in Washington, D.C. This biannual conference brings together practitioners, researchers, administrators and policy makers involved in Head Start, early childhood, childcare, and health care to share research ...

For many years, the only way to attain an education in software engineering has been through the school of hard knocks. A common lament among experienced software developers is that colleges don’t teach students the skills they need to perform effectively on the job. What is needed to give software developers a better start? Formal professional education has traditionally been divided into thre...

Nursing the unconscious patient can be a challenging experience. Unconscious patients have no control over themselves or their environment and thus are highly dependent on the nurse. The skills required to care for unconscious patients are not specific to critical care and theatres as unconscious patients are nursed in a variety of clinical settings. Nursing such patients can be a source of anx...

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There is increasing political and consumer pressure on professions, which have a degree of monopoly of service, to ensure that their members are competent to practise. One means of maintaining competence is the requirement of professionals to undertake professional development activities throughout their practising careers. Options reviewed are: voluntary attendance at continuing education acti...

Osteomalacia is a musculoskeletal condition that results in soft bones due to ineffective mineralisation. Nurses have a unique opportunity to improve awareness of osteomalacia and reduce its incidence through health education. Multidisciplinary management is important to minimise the effect of osteomalacia on activities of daily living and reduce the risk of fracture due to poor mineralisation ...

An essential component of professional development activities involves ongoing and systematic evaluation procedures. Few efforts have been made to evaluate the results of professional development beyond the brief responses requested at the conclusion of workshops which assess participant reaction to the session (see box). It is an especially critical time for the adult education field to emphas...