Help teachers move past the grind of daily survival to the fulfillment of career-long professional development! Imagine someone telling you that, within three years, your new teachers would leave the profession for which they trained so hard. That's what is happening to 30% of today's promising new teachers who are not given the mentoring, ......
Help teachers move past the grind of daily survival to the fulfillment of career-long professional development! Imagine someone telling you that, within three years, your new teachers would leave the profession for which they trained so hard. That's what is happening to 30% of today's promising new teachers who are not given the mentoring, ......
Moving Beyond Management Through Relationships, Relevance, and Rigor
Discover powerful ways to connect with your students! All too often, managing a classroom means gaining control, dictating guidelines, and implementing rules. Designed for any teacher struggling with student behavior, motivation, and engagement, Developing a Learning Classroom explores how to create a thriving, learning-centered classroom through three critical concepts?relationships, relevance, and rigor. Discover how you can: Develop an interactive learning mindset Create a safe environment where students question, explore, and discover Uncover a student's learning profile as well as your own teaching style Use student input to create classroom practices and procedures Apply brain-based instructional strategies to keep students engaged Use student surveys and a personal education plan to improve learning environments Filled with classroom stories, starter worksheets, and action steps, this book reveals the secrets to transforming an ordinary classroom into an extraordinary learning community!
Cheating is a problem that affects all teachers. This no-nonsense approach to cheating is essential reading for all teachers, principals, and policy makers. Practical classroom examples show how cheating occurs, how it can be detected, and how it can be deterred. Gregory Cizek, esteemed scholar and former classroom teacher, combines key findings ......
A New Architecture for Professional Development in Schools
The purpose of Designs for Learning is to propose a set of design principles for expanding and legitimizing learning opportunities for teachers and other professional educators in schools. Using the metaphor of architecture, Designs for Learning proposes new designs for creating learning spaces for professional educators that challenge the boundaries, forms, and purposes of traditional design, delivery, content, and outcomes of professional development. Building on empirical research and exemplary practices, Designs for Learning provides examples of professional learning expressed in this new architecture in its most natural setting-- in schools and classrooms. Formal and informal professional learning, beyond the school are also included in the landscape for professional learning.
Designing the School Leader's Portfolio provides school leaders with a practical guide to developing a data-based leadership growth plan. Linking leadership growth to school improvement goals, the author provides tools for: Creating a personal growth plan; Targeting goals and action steps; Defining a collaborative school assessment and action plan; and Incorporating standards.
This book provides guidance, tips, and suggestions for planning professional events that will result in substantial learning for participants. Written for professionals with all levels of experience and is based on the authors experiences with designing and conducting meetings.
Divided into sections that represent the key features of effective services for gifted and talented students, this is a comprehensive and authoritative source of practical information for schools and districts charged with the daunting task of developing and/or enhancing G/T programs and services.
Empower your teachers as partners in professional learning--and see student achievement soar! Are you ready for a professional learning program that makes a lasting difference in the quality of teaching within your school or district? Janice Bradley, a highly-respected educator shows how to promote your faculty's professional growth and accountability through job-embedded learning. This breakthrough book enables education leaders to Work collaboratively with faculty to develop and implement a five-part plan for professional learning designed to meet your school's unique needs Connect professional learning with practices that have the greatest positive effect in the classroom Link professional development to teacher evaluation in a manner that builds trust Learn best practices from schools that implemented Bradley's methodology, and benefit from user-friendly strategies and tools Say goodbye to top-down programming that's quickly forgotten, and discover an approach that empowers and inspires your faculty at all levels of experience. "It's hard to imagine a simple, five-step process that could integrate all of Learning Forward's seven professional learning standards, yet that is exactly what Janice Bradley has done in the book, Designing Schools for Meaningful Professional Learning." -Patricia Roy, Senior Consultant Learning Forward Center for Results "I've never experienced professional learning such as this! Taking part in collaborative learning with my team gave me the opportunity to explore questions and curiosities about my students that have been buried in years of district-driven professional development. Now my colleagues and I research together in order to create a learning environment every child deserves." -Kathryn Million, First-Grade Dual Language Teacher Las Cruces, NM
