Job-embedded learning is viewed as learning that is essential for schools to function at high levels. Job-embedded learning requires that participants plan and reflect upon their professional activities and practice.
Workshops are only one way to provide staff development.
Without extensive follow-up, workshops will not lead teachers to change their practice. But there is research that indicates that other ways of learning have potential for improving teacher effectiveness and leading to improved student learning. Learning will occasionally happen in workshops but most of it will occur as teachers plan lessons together, examine their students' work to find ways to improve it, observe one another teach, and plan improvements based on various data. Those of us concerned about teacher expertise must take leadership in designing such a system for learning. One of the most promising new approaches to professional growth in education is job-embedded learning, learning that occurs as teachers and administrators engage in their daily work activities.