While there are many courses and tutorials online, learning from a book is still one of the best ways to greatly improve your skills. Below I have selected top Professional Development books.
- Understanding by Design: Professional Development Workbook (2004)
- Personalized PD: Flipping Your Professional Development (2015)
- The Four O’Clock Faculty: A Rogue Guide to Revolutionizing Professional Development (2017)
- Professional Development (Volume 1) (2011)
- Professional Development (2019)
- From Staff Room to Classroom: A Guide for Planning and Coaching Professional Development (2017)
- Role Professional Nursing Practice (2018)
- Improving Instruction Through Supervision, Evaluation, and Professional Development: Second Edition (2018)
- The Doctor of Nursing Practice: A Guidebook for Role Development and Professional Issues (2017)
- Enhancing Professional Practice: A Framework for Teaching, 2nd Edition (Professional Development) (2007)
- Professional Development That Sticks: How do I create meaningful learning experiences for educators? (ASCD Arias) (2016)
- Models of Professional Development: A Celebration of Educators (2009)
Understanding by Design: Professional Development Workbook (2004)
Understanding by Design Professional Development Workbook extends the ideas presented in Understanding by Design (UbD) by focusing on professional development and the practical matters of curriculum design. The Workbook is a guide for Understanding by Design workshops and undergraduate and graduate courses, as well as further independent exploration.
Personalized PD: Flipping Your Professional Development (2015)
What should professional development look like? Can all teachers get exactly what they need? How do we energize every individual to realize their full potential?Personalized PD: Flipping Your Professional Development helps answer these questions and more. Seven authors from throughout the United States start from the accurate premise that teachers are learners. Like all learners, teachers learn at different paces and start in different places.
The Four O’Clock Faculty: A Rogue Guide to Revolutionizing Professional Development (2017)
Author Rich Czyz is on a mission to revolutionize professional learning for all educators. In The Four O’Clock Faculty, Rich identifies ways to make PD meaningful, efficient, and, above all, personally relevant. This book is a practical guide that reveals why some PD is so awful and what you can do to change the model for the betterment of you and your colleagues.
Professional Development (Volume 1) (2011)
This top-selling book will serve as the compass and road map to your school’s professional development journey.
Professional Development (2019)
This comprehensive and authoritative book serves as the road map to your school’s professional development journey. Written for principals, professional development directors, other district leaders, and teacher leaders, Professional Development: What Works shows you how to plan and implement programs that promote teacher growth.
From Staff Room to Classroom: A Guide for Planning and Coaching Professional Development (2017)
The tips and tricks you need to know to make transfer happen!
Role Professional Nursing Practice (2018)
Role Development in Professional Nursing Practice, Fifth Edition focuses on the progression of the professional nursing role. The major themes addressed throughout the text include: teamwork and collaboration, communication, leadership, quality improvement and safety, evidence based practice and informatics.
Improving Instruction Through Supervision, Evaluation, and Professional Development: Second Edition (2018)
In this second edition of Improving Instruction Through Supervision, Evaluation, and Professional Development we’ve maintained the conceptual framework while updating sections to provide the most recent research on instructional strategies that have the most promise of helping all students learn.
The Doctor of Nursing Practice: A Guidebook for Role Development and Professional Issues (2017)
The Doctor of Nursing Practice: A Guidebook for Role Development and Professional Issues, Fourth Edition is a comprehensive guidebook for role development of the DNP student. This text covers potential roles of the DNP graduate, including leader, clinician, educator, ethical consultant, and health policy advocate.
Enhancing Professional Practice: A Framework for Teaching, 2nd Edition (Professional Development) (2007)
The framework for teaching is a research-based set of components of instruction that are grounded in a constructivist view of learning and teaching. The framework may be used for many purposes, but its full value is realized as the foundation for professional conversations among practitioners as they seek to enhance their skill in the complex task of teaching.
Professional Development That Sticks: How do I create meaningful learning experiences for educators? (ASCD Arias) (2016)
How can we approach professional development in a thoughtful way, keep teachers motivated, and make the process worthwhile? It’s a truth that school leaders can t deny: teachers tend to think of PD as a distraction from the real work of the classroom as something to get through instead of an opportunity to engage, learn, and grow as professionals. Too often, they’re absolutely right.
Models of Professional Development: A Celebration of Educators (2009)
An in-depth resource for designing and implementing effective professional development! Identifying the major models of professional development, this comprehensive resource shows educational leaders how to design and implement professional development to meet the needs of any school. The authors analyze types and variations of models and provide concrete guidelines for implementing and evaluating a program.
Best Professional Development Books Worth Your Attention
We highly recommend you to buy all paper or e-books in a legal way, for example, on Amazon. But sometimes it might be a need to dig deeper beyond the shiny book cover. Before making a purchase, you can visit resources like Library Genesis and download some professional development books mentioned below at your own risk. Once again, we do not host any illegal or copyrighted files, but simply give our visitors a choice and hope they will make a wise decision.
Handbook of Research on Global Issues in Next-Generation Teacher Education (Advances in Higher Education and Professional Development) by
Author(s): Jared Keengwe, Justus G. Mbae, et al. |
ID: 2355867, Publisher: igi global, Year: Feb 16, 2016, Size: 10 Mb, Format: pdf
Reflective Practice for Coaches: A Guidebook for Advanced Professional Development
Author(s): Iain McCormick
ID: 3600498, Publisher: Routledge, Year: 2023, Size: 3 Mb, Format: pdf
Professional Ethics for Research and Development Activities
Author(s): Dag Slotfeldt-Ellingsen
ID: 3665526, Publisher: Springer, Year: 2023, Size: 7 Mb, Format: pdf
Please note that this booklist is not definite. Some books are absolutely chart-busters according to The Wall Street Journal, others are composed by unknown authors. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant links you could recommend? Leave a comment if you have any feedback on the list.