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Creating Learning Places for Teachers, Too
This book advances the premise that teachers, in addition to students, must be viewed as customers of the school. Teachers' jobs and work environments must therefore be redesigned for maximum professional growth and development. Unless teachers are supported in developing a quality work environment, efforts to improve schools will be marginally successful. Chapter 1 elaborates the concept of teachers and students as customers. The second chapter examines the motivation of teachers through "profound knowledge," knowledge that is essential for building a supportive workplace. Ways to increase teacher involvement are described in the third chapter. The process of "kaizen," or continuous improvement, is examined in chapter 4. The final two chapters offer strategies for consensus decision making and fostering continual learning for teachers. A total of 13 exhibits and 11 figures are included. Key concepts and terms are defined at each chapter's end. (LMI)
School Management by Wandering Around
Management by wandering around (MBWA) is the catalyst that brings teachers, aides, parents, and administrators together in the pursuit of excellent schools. MBWA is an active person-to-person process that relies on deeds, involvement, and participation to create better schools. The leader who embraces MBWA does not just talk about his philosophy, he lives it. The MBWA leader possesses an honest awareness of self and how he affects others. He creates and clarifies new visions. He encourages and empowers others to join in the quest to capture visions and transform them into reality. The MBWA leader is aware of the power, worth, and value of people. He actively pursues the school's mission with people.
Teacher Compensation and Motivation
Comprehensive compilation of information on alternative compensation and motivation systems.
Leaving No Child Behind
LEAVING NO CHILD BEHIND: 50 WAYS TO CLOSE THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP is an in-depth guide for schools and other educational organizations seeking to cope effectively with high stakes testing and to raise achievement to high performing levels for all students. Fifty specific strategies are provided to guide schools and educational systems in closing the achievement gap found between socio-economic and ethnic groups. Included are standards for 1) establishing a valid and clear curriculum to direct teaching, 2) providing assessment alignment to curriculum, 3) providing equality and equity, 4) using mastery learning and effective pedagogy, 5) establishing accountability, and 6) instituting effective system support for quality learning.
Avoiding Legal Hassles
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The Curriculum Management Audit
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The New School Management by Wandering Around
Achieve success step by step The topic of management by wandering around is not new, but the authors′ approach is fresh and timely. This current rendition based on the original work by Frase and Hetzel gives new and seasoned administrators smart, practical advice about how to "wander around" with purpose and develop a more interactive leadership style. This text cites more than 20 well-constructed research studies that show how management by wandering around produces desirable outcomes, including: Higher student achievement Improved school culture Higher teacher efficacy Management by wandering around is not a rigid, linear process: it is a combination of proven methods and a flexible, organic approach to the whole of leadership. Topics covered include developing meeting agendas, supervising instruction, dealing with marginal teachers, and creating safe campuses. The bottom line? If you want to accomplish more, start by getting out more—and this book shows you how to make it count.
The Three-Minute Classroom Walk-Through
Change the entire school culture with this collaborative method of supervision! For years, the classic supervision model has frustrated both principals and teachers by fostering superior-subordinate relationships, focusing on teacher conformity rather than growth, or producing checklist data that is irrelevant to the curriculum. The Three-Minute Classroom Walk-Through offers a practical, time-saving alternative that impacts student achievement by cultivating self-reliant teachers who are continuously improving their practice. Easy to understand and adopt, this method will answer the questions most important to principals: Is the work of my teachers aligned with the district curriculum? Are my teachers using research-based "best practices"? Are they choosing the instructional strategies that will promote student achievement? Also known as the Downey Walk-through, the method presented in The Three-Minute Classroom Walk-Through has been developed over a 40-year period, tested and refined in actual teaching environments, and taught internationally.
The SAGE Handbook of Educational Leadership
The SAGE Handbook of Educational Leadership is a landmark work with contributions from 37 internationally renowned scholars covering an extensive range of issues confronting the field of educational leadership and administration. The Handbook reviews how leadership was redefined by management and organizational theory in its quest to become scientific, then looks forward to promising theories, concepts, and practices that show potential for development and application. This Handbook represents the establishment of a new tradition in educational leadership. It thoroughly covers a broad range of issues pertaining to curriculum leadership, supervision, teacher evaluation, budgeting, planning, school design, and issues facing the principalship and the superintendency in the United States.
Top Ten Myths in Education
"The motives for manufacturing myths are not so much the theme of this book as are exposing and dispelling widespread current practices as myths. Frase and Streshly expose the myths that retard educational improvement and suggest reforms that would cost the taxpayer nothing."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
