What Every Teacher Should Know About the Profession and Politics of Teaching
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Education
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Leadership Development
Parenting & Families
Standards & Accountability in Education
Teaching Methods
Product details
- ISBN 9780761931263
- Weight: 140g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 11 Dec 2003
- Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The classroom teacher′s concise guide to accountability issues in the era of No Child Left Behind!
Quality teaching and quality professional development in today′s professional learning community require an insider′s up-to-date understanding of accountability to stakeholders. The topics covered in this savvy little guide include:
- Testing and the move to standards
- School choice
- Finding resources
- Ways to communicate
- Working with colleagues
- Being supervised
- The parent-teacher conference
- The changing face of education
- Changing ideas about the teaching process
- Keeping up as a teaching professional
- Vocabulary pre-test, post-test, and summary
- Bibliography and index
Donna Walker Tileston is a veteran teacher and administrator. She is currently the president of Strategic Teaching and Learning, a consulting firm that provides services to schools throughout the United States and worldwide. Donna’s publications include Ten Best Teaching Practices: How Brain Research, Learning Styles, and Standards Define Teaching Competencies (2000), which has been on Corwin′s bestseller list since its first year in print, in addition to the ten-volume award-winning series What Every Teacher Should Know, now in its second edition. Other recent titles are Teaching Strategies for Active Learning (2006), Teaching Strategies that Prepare Students for High Stakes Tests (2008), and Closing the Poverty and Culture Gap (2009). Donna received her BA from the University of North Texas, her MA from East Texas State University, and her EdD from Texas A & M University-Commerce. She may be reached at www.whateveryteachershouldknow.com
