Discover the qualities that yield exceptional performance and far-reaching success!
As all educators increasingly face the pressures of accountability, filling our schools with effective teachers skilled at fostering outstanding academic achievement has never been more important. In this quick-read resource, Elaine Mc Ewan explores the ten characteristics that lead to success in the classroom, increased school morale, satisfied parents, and eager, high-achieving students.
This highly organized and user-friendly guide shares practical insights into these ten crucial traits through real-life examples, experiences, research, and personal reflections from students, parents, and educators at all levels.
Administrators will value the numerous tools that Ten Traits of Highly Effective Teachers provides for hiring, coaching, mentoring, and motivating effective teachers, while new and experienced teachers will be inspired to fully embody the ten traits and renew their zeal for teaching.
Special features include:
- Numerous graphic organizers to clearly illustrate the ten traits
- More than 50 interview questions based on the ten traits to help administrators and teachers prepare for the all-important interview process
- Dozens of exercises for principals to use to energize experienced teachers, empower new teachers, and nurture the ten traits
- Examples from research that highlight the relationship between the traits and student achievement
विषयसूची
Preface
About the Author
1. Who Is the Effective Teacher?
2. Personal Traits That Indicate Character: What an Effective Teacher Is
3. Teaching Traits That Get Results: With-It-Ness and Style
4. Teaching Traits That Get Results: Motivational Expertise
5. Teaching Traits That Get Results: Instructional Effectiveness
6. Intellectual Traits That Demonstrate Knowledge, Curiosity, and Awareness
7. Hiring Highly Effective Teachers
8. Mentoring New Teachers: How to Retain the Effective Teachers You Hire
9. Energizing and Empowering Experienced Teachers
Conclusion
Resource A: Graphic Organizers
Resource B: List of Ten Traits With Definitions
Resource C: Interview Questions
Resource D: Recommended Reading List
Resource E: Exercises to Energize Experienced Teachers
References
Index
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Elaine K. Mc Ewan is an educational consultant with The Mc Ewan-Adkins Group, offering professional development for educators to assist them in meeting the challenges of literacy learning in Grades Pre K-6. A former teacher, librarian, principal, and assistant superintendent for instruction in several suburban Chicago school districts, Elaine is the award-winning and best-selling author of more than three dozen books for educators. Her Corwin Press titles include Raising Reading Achievement in Middle and High Schools: Five Simple-to-Follow Strategies for Principals, Second Edition (2006), Seven Strategies of Highly Effective Readers: Using Cognitive Research to Boost K-8 Achievement (2004), Ten Traits of Highly Effective Principals: From Good to Great Performance (2003), Making Sense of Research: What’s Good, What’s Not, and How to Tell the Difference (2003), Seven Steps to Effective Instructional Leadership, Second Edition (2003), Teach Them ALL to Read: Catching the Kids Who Fall through the Cracks (2002), and Ten Traits of Highly Effective Teachers: How to Hire, Mentor, and Coach Successful Teachers (2001). Mc Ewan was honored by the Illinois Principals Association as an outstanding instructional leader, by the Illinois State Board of Education with an Award of Excellence in the Those Who Excel Program, and by the National Association of Elementary School Principals as the National Distinguished Principal from Illinois for 1991. She received her undergraduate degree in education from Wheaton College and advanced degrees in library science (MA) and educational administration (Ed D) from Northern Illinois University.
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