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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480988403321

Autore

Tileston Donna Walker

Titolo

What every teacher should know about the profession and politics of teaching / / Donna Walker Tileston ; acquisitions editor Faye Zucker ; copy editor Kristin Bergstad ; cover designer Tracy E. Miller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Thousand Oaks, California : , : Corwin Press, , 2004

©2004

ISBN

1-4833-6028-8

1-4833-6247-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (89 p.)

Collana

What Every Teacher Should Know About

Disciplina

371.1

Soggetti

Teaching - United States

Teachers - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""About the Author""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Vocabulary Pre-Test""; ""Chapter 1 - The Politics of Teaching""; ""Accountability and Testing""; ""Flexible Use of Federal Resources""; ""School Choice""; ""Quality Teachers and Quality Teaching""; ""Chapter 2 - Being Part of a Learning Community""; ""The Big Machine Approach""; ""Accountability to the Larger System""; ""Finding Resources""; ""Working with Colleagues""; ""Being Supervised""; ""Quality Professional Development""; ""Chapter 3 - Working with Parents""; ""Begin at the Beginning""

""Ways to Communicate""""The Parent�Teacher Conference""; ""What if?""; ""Chapter 4 - What Does the Future Hold?""; ""The Changing Face of Education""; ""The Move to Standards""; ""Changing Ideas about the Teaching Process""; ""The Teacher as a Professional: Why it Matters""; ""How can You Keep up?""; ""Vocabulary Summary""; ""Vocabulary Post-Test""; ""References""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

<div>   No Child Left Behind and accountability to stakeholders require the up-to-date coverage found here on topics such as the politics of teaching and the changing the face of education. </div>