Teachers have questions too! In a world of high-stakes exams, crowded classrooms, and ever fewer resources, new teachers don’t have time to start from scratch. Written by a highly experienced teacher and staff developer, this guide shows how to prepare for the first day of school; ways to use a textbook and not to use; presentation tips that keep students active and involved; how to work with parents; and much more. • Covers both the elementary and secondary school level, with specific tips for each • Great resource for those who come to teaching as a second career • Author is an experienced classroom teacher of all levels: elementary, secondary, and college • Experienced teachers will find the tips, cautions, and real-life stories from experienced classroom teachers helpful
Growing and Developing Professionally
In this timely collection, leading education scholars challenge market-based models of school improvement and argue that merely holding teachers accountable for scores on end-of-the-year exams will not lead to educational improvement.
Assessing Teacher Effectiveness: Developing a Differentiated Model
Using a tried-and-tested, five-step model for applying the methods effectively in the classroom, Mike Bell shows how you can improve learning and eliminate time-consuming, low effect practices that increase stress and workload.
The Skillful Leader II: Confronting Conditions that Undermine Learning
This book centers on the fact that needed improvements in our schools will not occur unless education is able to attract and retain great teachers in the school s classrooms.
Teacher Quality 2.0 is a volume in the Educational Innovation series. "Recent changes in the state and federal stance toward teaching have been nothing short of a policy revolution.
But many think that any smart and determined person can, in short order, be an effective teacher. In this collection of informed and provocative essays, Sharon Feiman-Nemser reminds us that there are no shortcuts.
To this end, reliance on the appraisal of teachers has gained favour with policy makers across a wide range of countries.This book uses a research project on teacher performance appraisal in Kenya to analyse and reflect on the education ...
Teachers are bombarded with advice about how to teach. The Fundamentals of Teaching cuts through the confusion by synthesising the key findings from education research and neuroscience to give an authoritative guide.