Personal/Professional Direct Service Models: Helping People Do Their Thing

Here we discuss the largest complex professional development model ever organized in the United States. There are probably a great many participants in workshops on designated staff development days. Learning communities of groups of teachers in schools have become common. All teachers are visited by principals or [Page 40]district supervisors, some of whom coach the teachers intensively. But in terms of changes in roles and relationships, nothing like the organization of teachers to give one-on-one professional/personal support to other teachers has happened in the history of school ...