Best practices for teacher leadership : what award-winning teachers do for their professional learning communities / / Randi Stone, Pru Cuper ; cover designer, Michael Dubowe

• Autore: Stone Randi
• Pubblicazione: Thousand Oaks, California : , : Corwin Press, , 2006; ©2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (193 p.)
• Disciplina: 371.2011
• Soggetto topico: Teacher effectiveness - United States; Effective teaching - United States; Educational leadership - United States
• Persona (resp. second.): CuperPrudence H.; DuboweMichael
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""About the Authors""; ""About the Contributors""; ""Chapter 1 - Leading through Collaboration with Colleagues""; ""Excellence in Education""; ""Operation Help Me! Collaboration: Or How I Survived My First Years of Teaching""; ""Professional Collaboration within an Inclusive Classroom Setting: How to Make It Work""; ""Using Staff Development to Implement a Schoolwide Reading Goal""; ""Statewide Teacher Training Networks""; ""Structured Freedom: Successful Schools through Collaborative Learning Communities""; ""Lifelong Teaching and Learning"" ; ""Scopes Trial and Error: A Lesson in Integrated Teaching""""Staff Development Initiatives within Faculty Groups""; ""Chapter 2 - Involving Community and Families""; ""Pioneer Days at Bowers Elementary School""; ""Using School/Community Partnerships to Teach History, Heroism, and Heritage""; ""Finding Your Lost Dutchman Mine""; ""The Three “Csâ€? in Education: A Classroom, a Community, and Collaboration""; ""Parent Involvement""; ""Letâ€?s Take it Outside: Creating a Community Learning Environment""; ""Effective Parent Involvement in the Classroom"" ; ""Billy: Every Family is a Special Family""""Chapter 3 - Encouraging Hands-on Learning in Science and Technology""; ""Students and Research: Using Students to Create a Science Research Program""; ""CELLLSS (Creating Experiences in Life, Learning, and Laboratory Science Skills) for Girls: Turning Middle and High School Girls on to Science""; ""Voyaging through Curriculum""; ""Teaming up for Success""; ""Growing Community Ties through Gardening""; ""Online Collaboration Benefits Students and Teachers: Classrooms Across the World""; ""Education Technology: Issues, Trends, and Leadership"" ; ""Promoting Student Interest in Life Science and Technology by Making Students Active Learners""""Chapter 4 - Mentoring and Sharing Professional Development""; ""Give Me an “Hâ€?: Homework Strategies""; ""Team Teaching from Two Perspectives""; ""Enriching and Extending Teaching through Professional Conferences""; ""Leading and Modeling Staff Development Initiatives within Faculty Groups and within the School""; ""Developing Interest in Reading Strategies Inside the Teaching Community""; ""Teaching is Not a Solitary Profession""; ""Professional Development: A Life-Changing Event"" ; ""Chapter 5 - Teaching with Passion""""Leading through Excitement""; ""Peeking through My Door""; ""The Music Underlying the Words: Classroom Climate""; ""Thank You, Mrs. Woodford""; ""They Believe""; ""Perception, Focus, and Attitude: Teachers Leading the Way""; ""Accepting the Challenge""; ""Chapter 6 - Empowering Students as Leaders""; ""Each One, Teach One""; ""To Russia with Love""; ""Using Childrenâ€?s Books in the High School Setting""; ""Index""
• Sommario/riassunto: This collection chronicles the many ways in which teachers create professional learning communities through collaborations with colleagues, mentees, faculty groups, learners, families, and neighborhoods.
• Titolo autorizzato: Best practices for teacher leadership
• ISBN: 1-4833-6375-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910815558103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II