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- Title: Barriers and Facilitators in Scaling up Research-Based Practices.
- Author : Exceptional Children
- Release Date : January 22, 2003
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 234 KB
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Over the last several years, special education researchers, policymakers, and others have lamented the gap between what we know from research about "what works" and what is actually implemented by teachers in practice (Carnine, 1997; Gersten, Morvant, & Brengelman, 1995; Gersten, Vaughn, Deshler, & Schiller, 1997; Kauffman, 1993; Malouf & Schiller, 1995; National Joint Committee on Learning Disabilities, 1999; Richardson, 1996; Stanovich & Stanovich, 1997). With a heightened focus in the field on trying to bridge this research-to-practice gap, many researchers have experienced more than a modicum of success in facilitating teachers' use of research-based methods (Abbott, Walton, Tapia, & Greenwood, 1999; Fuchs & Fuchs, 1998; Pressley & El-Dinary, 1997; Vaughn, Hughes, Schumm, & Klingner, 1998). We now know more about how to conduct professional development programs that support teachers' sustained implementation of new practices than we did a decade ago. Rather than the "sit and get" standalone workshops more prevalent in the past, successful efforts have focused on providing long-term support and including teachers as collaborators in the process. Teachers are no longer seen as mere "consumers of research findings," but rather now are recognized as "knowledge generators" (Gersten et al., 1997, p. 472). Yet less is known today about how to "scale up" or expand the implementation of research-based practices in order to facilitate widespread change. WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
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