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Educational Leadership, 2011
This article first presents findings from a report from the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education and the National Staff Development Council titled "Professional Development in the United States: Trends and Challenges." The report raised the issue of the "intensity" of professional development--that is, the number…
Descriptors: Expertise, Foreign Countries, Professional Development, Teaching Methods
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Ham, Vince – Educational Leadership, 1997
A New Zealand survey found that elementary and secondary teachers were concerned about four key technology management issues: planning, access, technical support, and professional development. Teachers recommended that principals have a clear, democratically constructed policy on the place of educational technologies in the school curriculum,…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
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Pajak, Edward; Hooghoff, Hans – Educational Leadership, 1992
Education support structure in the Netherlands is designed to ensure responsiveness to schools' needs and to avoid emergence of self-serving bureaucracy. National Institute for Curriculum Development was founded in 1975 to work with teachers and colleges of education to develop new curricula and instructional materials. Regional agencies located…
Descriptors: Centralization, Curriculum Development, Educational Administration, Elementary Secondary Education