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
Tabla de materias
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Vocabulary Pre-Test
1. The Politics of Teaching
Accountability and Testing
Flexible Use of Federal Resources
School Choice
Quality Teachers and Quality Teaching
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
3. Working With Parents
Begin at the Beginning
Ways to Communicate
The Parent-Teacher Conference
What If?
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
Sobre el autor
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 Ed D from Texas A & M University-Commerce. She may be reached at www.whateveryteachershouldknow.com
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