Activities and Investigations for Grade 6-12 Teachers
Ways to Think About Mathematics will fill the gap between what the math teachers learned in college and what they are required to teach in today's classrooms. The book will be divided into five modules that focus on algebraic, geometric and statistical ideas. The book uses immersion in content to help secondary mathematics teachers improve their ......
Activities and Investigations for Grade 6-12 Teachers
Ways to Think About Mathematics will fill the gap between what the math teachers learned in college and what they are required to teach in today's classrooms. The book will be divided into five modules that focus on algebraic, geometric and statistical ideas. The book uses immersion in content to help secondary mathematics teachers improve their ......
The Learning Communities Guide To Improving Reading Instruction, book, with its rich collection of tools to assess and improve practice, identify and apply new approaches, improve and add to the instructional repertoire, will measurably help both teachers and instructional leaders and ultimately benefit students. The authors bring deep background ......
Both research and common sense verify that teachers make a difference not only in what students learn about content but in what students learn about life. Grounded in theory and research on adolescent growth and development and teacher-student interactions, this important new book gives classroom teachers guidelines, strategies, and real-life examples of how to build and enrich close and trusting teacher-student relationships based on dignity and respect. Key topics include setting high expectations for students, conveying confidence in student capabilities, creating classroom rituals and traditions, networking with family and community, developing strong interpersonal skills, identifying relational resources, and communicating appropriate caring and respect in the classroom in ways that elicit positive student response. Features teacher quotes, conversations, profiles, resources, and an inventory for assessing teacher-student relationships
Collaborative Peer Coaching introduces the 2+2 performance appraisal method, which has demonstrated great success in: reducing teachers' levels of anxiety and self-doubt; increasing teacher job-satisfaction; increasing meaningful contact and collaboration between teachers; allowing for administrator participation in a less threatening context than the traditional performance appraisal
How Teachers (and Students) Can Find Their Way & Keep From Getting Lost
A Compass for the Classroom provides guidance, support, and inspiration. The book presents a new model of reflection using the metaphor of a compass, with directional points of humility, honesty, love, and faith. It is a guide to finding one's way in life by always considering the four points in our decisions and views. The book provides teachers with something to feed the spirit to succeed in the somewhat selfless struggle that educators take on to help students learn and thrive. It includes examples of the compass points in action in classrooms, as well as assessment checklists for teachers and students.
A Practitioner's Guide to Design and Implementation
There is much debate about and interest in the development of academic standards. However, there is little agreement on what the standards are, or even what the term `standards' represents. This book explains in clear language exactly what different experts mean by standards. The author then lays out a simple framework and step-by-step process to develop and implement standards for the students in schools.
Assessing Elementary and Secondary School Teachers
"The New Handbook of Teacher Evaluation" is a comprehensive look at the process of selecting, assessing and developing teachers. Successor to the "Handbook of Teacher Evaluation", this volume expands on its predecessor in many ways. In the decade since publication of the first handbook, the profession of teaching has undergone major changes, including a greater awareness and insistence on teacher accountability, increases in teacher testing and certification requirements, and the development career ladder plans and other incentives toward excellence in the profession. At the same time, the political, social and organizational factors that affect the performance and evaluation of teachers have been the subject of intensive scrutiny. Reflecting these changes in the field, the new handbook includes the contributions of over 30 of the leading experts in this area, and reflects current practices, issues and controversies related to evaluation of teachers at the elementary and secondary level.
The authors of this volume make an impassioned plea for dramatic changes in the content, processes and structures of school districts in the United States. Using examples to illustrate their controversial model, they provide a guide for the systematic planning of high-performance learning activities for an improved education system.
