Model Strategies in Bilingual Education: Professional Development

摘要

This report illustrates research-supported principles of professional developmentwith the experiences of communities of scholars, practitioners, and teachers aspirants at selected sites. Project personnel often provided formal evaluation results supporting claims of effectiveness, but this study was not itself an evaluation of outcomes. Each project team has used the insights of research and experience as well as available resources to develop and implement plans that address the need of the community it serves, and each makes continual adjustments, from term to term and year to year, in light of project outcomes. Most project staff are still developing outcome data sets that will demonstrate project effectiveness, and none claim that their models are fully refined. They frequently credited colleagues in other projects and locales for ideas, designs, and materials that contributed to their own growing success.