Download or read book Trusting Teachers with School Success written by Kim Farris-Berg and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lately, our nation's strategy for improving our schools is mostly limited to "getting tough" with teachers. Blaming teachers for poor outcomes, we spend almost all of our energy trying to control teachers' behavior and school operations. But what if all of this is exactly the opposite of what is needed? What if teachers are the answer and not the problem? What if trusting teachers, and not controlling them, is the key to school success? Examining the experiences of teachers who are already trusted to call the shots, this book answers: What would teachers do if they had the autonomy not just to make classroom decisions, but to collectively--with their colleagues--make the decisions influencing whole school success? Decisions such as school curriculum, how to allocate the school budget, and whom to hire. Teachers with decision-making authority create the schools that many of us profess to want. They individualize learning. Their students are active (not passive) learners who gain academic and life skills. The teachers create school cultures that are the same as those in high-performing organizations. They accept accountability and innovate, and make efficient use of resources. These promising results suggest: it's time to trust teachers.
Download or read book What Successful Teachers Do written by Neal A. Glasgow and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2009-01-08 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written for novice and seasoned professionals alike, this updated edition of a powerful bestseller provides research-based best practices and practical applications that promote strong instruction and classroom management. The authors translate the latest research into 101 effective strategies for new and veteran K-12 teachers. Updated throughout, and with an entirely new chapter on supporting reading and literacy, this edition presents the strategies in the following user-friendly format The Strategy: A concise statement of an instructional strategy What the Research Says: A brief discussion of the research to provide readers with a deeper understanding of the principles involved Classroom Application: How each strategy can be used in instructional settings Precautions and Possible Pitfalls: Caveats to help teachers avoid common problems Sources: A reference list for further reading What Successful Teachers Do is a valuable resource for strengthening teachers' professional development and improving student performance. Book jacket.
Download or read book What Successful Science Teachers Do written by Neal A. Glasgow and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2010-09-20 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This easy-to-use guide features 75 research-based strategies for teachers of students in Grades K–12. Engage your students' creativity and build their science literacy.
Download or read book Building Teachers Capacity for Success written by Pete Hall and published by ASCD. This book was released on 2008-12-22 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Educators know that teachers are a school's most essential strength. In Building Teachers' Capacity for Success, authors Pete Hall (winner of the 2004 ASCD Outstanding Young Educator Award) and Alisa Simeral offer a straightforward plan to help site-based administrators and instructional coaches collaborate to bring out the best in every teacher, build a stronger and more cohesive staff, and achieve greater academic success. Their model of Strength-Based School Improvement is an alternative to a negative, deficit-approach focused on fixing what's wrong. Instead, they show school leaders how to achieve their goals by working together to maximize what's right. Filled with clear, proven strategies and organized around two easy-to-use tools--the innovative Continuum of Self-Reflection and a feedback-focused walk-through model--this book offers a differentiated approach to coaching and supervision centered on identifying and nurturing teachers' individual strengths and helping them reach new levels of professional success and satisfaction. Here, you'll find front-line advice from the authors, one a principal and the other an instructional coach, on just what to look for, do, and say in order to start seeing positive results right now. Note: This product listing is for the Adobe Acrobat (PDF) version of the book.
Download or read book What Successful Teachers Do written by Mary C. Clement and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teachers who read A Dozen Things will be engaged with the personal stories of teaching, while also gaining strategies for success in their classrooms. A quick glance at the table of contents provides insight into the issues teachers face and how to thrive and succeed. Successful teachers prepare personally and professionally for their jobs. Strong teachers organize and manage a classroom, while planning to use a variety of effective teaching methods and strategies. Both new and veteran teachers use technology to their advantage, and know when to just use paper and pencil to teach. Successful teachers master how to assess student work with straightforward, usable evaluations, and not just the standardized tests. While striving to meet the needs of all students, effective teachers communicate with all stakeholders — especially the students! How do teachers keep their jobs from taking over their lives? They recognize that teaching is too difficult a job to do alone, and too important a job to do alone. They find strong colleagues for mentors and for local support networks. They join professional associations to stay current in their fields and to have a larger support network. This book leads teachers to reflect in a practical way about teaching and their success. Teachers need to remember why they entered this profession and to develop a simple philosophy for why they get up each morning to do the important work of teaching.
Download or read book What Successful Teachers Do written by Neal A. Glasgow and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work, the authors survey and distill the relevant research in education, psychology, and sociology and then focus on how that research addresses individual teaching and learning problems that are typically faced by classroom teachers.
Download or read book What Successful Teachers Do written by Neal A. Glasgow and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2009-01-08 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I cannot imagine any teacher who wants to be the best possible teacher not loving this book!" —Renee Peoples, Teacher/Math Coach West Elementary School, Bryson City, NC "This an exciting way for new teachers to really target the important strategies that successful teachers use, as well as for veteran teachers to confirm the things that they are already doing right!" —Mary Ann Hartwick, Coordinator, LESD/ASU Litchfield Elementary School District, Verrado, MS Avoid common classroom mistakes and develop your skills as an educator! Written for novice and seasoned professionals alike, this updated edition of a powerful bestseller provides research-based best practices and practical applications that promote strong instruction and classroom management. The authors translate the latest research into 101 effective strategies for new and veteran K–12 teachers. Updated throughout, and with an entirely new chapter on supporting reading and literacy, this edition presents the strategies in a user-friendly format: The Strategy: a concise statement of an instructional strategy What the Research Says: a brief discussion of the research to provide readers with a deeper understanding of the principles involved Classroom Application: how each strategy can be used in instructional settings Precautions and Possible Pitfalls: caveats to help teachers avoid common problems Sources: a reference list for further reading What Successful Teachers Do is a valuable resource for strengthening teachers′ professional development and improving student performance.
Download or read book Facilitator s Guide to What Successful Teachers Do written by Neal A. Glasgow and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Facilitator's Guide to accompany the best-selling book, What Successful Teachers Do, by Neal A. Glasgow and Cathy D. Hicks, has been designed to provide staff developers and educational leaders with all the tools needed to design a workshop or study group based on the authors' 91 key strategies for improving and reenergizing classroom practice. This Facilitator's Guide follows the book closely, and features chapter-by-chapter study questions, activities, journal writing, and practical applications for each section. Key topics from the book are examined, including discipline and classroom management, assessment, relating to students, working with special needs students, embracing diversity, and integrating technology in the classroom. In this essential resource, the authors follow up on the central themes from the book-the 91 strategies used by successful teachers-with clear examples for using them in instructional settings and tips for avoiding common pitfalls. questions, journal writing exercises, applications to daily practice, sample workshop agendas, timed activities, suggestions for working with both small and large group sizes, and workshop evaluation forms.
Download or read book The 3 Habits of Highly Successful Reading Teachers written by Megan Milani and published by Pembroke Publishers Limited. This book was released on 2000 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What distinguishes successful reading classrooms from those where struggling readers are left behind? The 3 Habits of Successful Reading Teachers starts with the premise that every student?even those who struggle the most?can learn to read. It guides teachers in providing daily practice with high-frequency words, letter sounds, and word-solving strategies, and includes formative assessment tools.
Download or read book The Power of Teacher Teams written by Vivian Troen and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While most educators believe working in teams is valuable, not all team efforts lead to instructional improvement. Through richly detailed case studies The Power of Teacher Teams demonstrates how schools can transform their teams into more effective learning communities that foster teacher leadership. The benefits of successful teacher teams include: improved performance for both teachers and students; meaningful professional development; group adoption of a new curriculum; shared insights into student work; better classroom management; support for new teachers; new roles for teacher leaders; and opportuniteis for mentor support.School leaders will find guidelines, methods, and concrete steps for building and sustaining effective teacher teams. Also included is a DVD with video case studies and one CD with reproducibles. The most important reason for building teacher teams is to enhance student learning through improved instruction, and that story is at the heart of this book.
Download or read book The Successful Teacher s Survival Kit written by Dale Ripley and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-12-14 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will show you the strategies and ideas that master teachers use to make their classes work, both for themselves and for their students. You too can become an exceptional teacher whose classroom is filled with learning and fun. This book will show you how.
Download or read book Successful Teaching written by Scott D. Richman and published by R&L Education. This book was released on 2013-03-08 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Successful Teaching: Practical Ideas to Make It Happen is written for all pre and inservice teachers, whether they are the 20 year veteran who needs a renewed sense of purpose, new to the profession, or planning to become a teacher. It will also serve as a resource for administrators wishing to help teachers discover the enjoyment of their teaching. This book is designed to be a reference to help teachers make their career more enjoyable and rewarding. Teachers can pick it up at anytime and find something new to add to their “bag of tricks.”
Download or read book Inspiring Teaching written by Sharon Feiman-Nemser and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The onesize-fits-all model of traditional teacher education programmes has been widely criticized, yet the most popular alternative - fast-track programs - have at best a mixed record of success. There is a third option: "grow-your-own" teacher preparation programmes tailored to specific school contexts and the needs of the populations they serve. In Inspiring Teaching, Sharon Feiman-Nemser and her colleagues investigate this "context specific" approach to teacher education.
Download or read book What Successful Literacy Teachers Do written by Neal A. Glasgow and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2007-05-02 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents easy-to-implement literacy strategies covering phonics, phonemics, and decoding; vocabulary, spelling, and word study; fluency, comprehension, and assessment; and technology, special learners, and family literacy.
Download or read book Cases of Successful Literacy Teachers written by Jan Lacina and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2010-02-08 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlighting practices used by exemplary literacy teachers in diverse schools across the nation Using teaching vignettes, cases for exploration, and research in the field, this text provides preservice and inservice teachers with effective, research-based literacy strategies they can use to improve their practice to best serve students from diverse backgrounds. The cases—based in urban, rural, and suburban settings—help teachers make connections between classroom challenges and the research literature that can help them to become problem solvers and reflective practitioners. Each chapter follows a consistent format in supporting the link between research and practice, and includes the following key features: Focus Questions: Help readers make associations between the chapter text and their prior knowledge and experiences Reading Research to Know: Relates a vignette to research in the field Inside the Classroom: Provides a detailed vignette of teacher instruction in literacy, followed by questions for discussion Summary of Strategies Used: Helps teachers connect the vignette to classroom practice Case for Exploration: Presents a classroom scenario, along with questions for discussion
Download or read book Success Secrets of Super Teachers written by Ernest Pierce. M.A. and published by Author House. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ernest D. Pierce is a teacher and counselor who holds BS and MA degrees in Education and Counseling from the University of Colorado. He has taught at all grade levels and created innovative education programs for students, teachers, and parents.
Download or read book What Successful Math Teachers Do Grades 6 12 written by Alfred S. Posamentier and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2013-07-05 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The math teacher's go-to resource—now updated for the Common Core! What works in math and why has never been the issue; the research is all out there. Where teachers struggle is the “how.” That’s the big service What Successful Math Teachers Do provides. It’s a powerful portal to what the best research looks like in practice strategy by strategy—now aligned to both the Common Core and the NCTM Standards. For each of the book’s 80 strategies, the authors present A brief description A summary of supporting research The corresponding NCTM and Common Core Standards Classroom applications Possible pitfalls Recommended reading and research
