Professional Development as Product Implementation Training: Controlling the Curriculum

• In Event: 68.061 - Roundtable Session 30
  In Roundtable Session: 68.061-4 - Co-Designing Research, Examining Teacher Performance Assessments, and Rethinking Professional Development

Abstract

The curriculum has long since represented a site of struggle, and attempts to exercise control over the curriculum have taken countless forms. Much less recognized has been the potential role of inservice teacher education to function as a method of both influencing teachers’ instructional practices and externalizing processes of generating stronger control over the curriculum. In this paper I argue that one effort to maintain tighter control over the curriculum by external stakeholders currently occurs through the use of required professional development for inservice teachers, as a result of the increasingly common practice of bundling professional development sessions with the sale of curriculum materials and programs marketed to schools and school districts.

Author

• Christopher B. Crowley, Wayne State University