’This book should be required reading for all teachers and administrators seriously seeking ways to engage teachers in their own professional development and learning.’
Rudolph F. Crew, Former Chancellor
New York City Schools
’The book is an action-oriented game plan to improve teachers′ performance-designed, initiated, and implemented by teachers. It tackles one of education′s toughest issues-teacher isolation.’
Anne Bryant, Executive Director
National School Boards Association
’The authors present a wonderfully simple idea for turning a school into a learning community. It is a powerful, growth-oriented strategy for creating instructional focus in a school.’
Roy D. Nichols, Jr., Superintendent of Schools
Troup County (GA) Board of Education
Dramatically enhance teaching and learning by reviving teacher collaboration!
Behind a simple equation, 2 + 2, lies a rich yet realistic approach to enhancing teaching and learning. As Collaborative Peer Coaching That Improves Instruction demonstrates, the current method of job appraisal consists of sporadic classroom visits from school administrators that frequently serve to reinforce teacher isolation rather than promote professional development. In contrast, the 2 + 2 method, a practice where teachers visit each other′s classrooms long enough to provide two compliments and two suggestions for improvement, has not only been proven to enhance teaching skills and student learning, but has also increased job satisfaction by reviving productive teacher collaboration.
Through the presentation of detailed case studies that illustrate the authors′ actual experience implementing the program at an inner city school, this work chronicles how the 2 + 2 method:
The 2 + 2 program is much more than a simple equation; it is a powerful tool that can revolutionize a school′s approach to teaching and learning.
Innehållsförteckning
Foreword – David C. Berliner
Prologue
Acknowledgments
Introduction
About the Authors
1. The Performance Appraisal Paradox
2. The Fine Art of Feedback: An Interlude
3. What Is 2 + 2 Anyway?
4. The Feedback Dilemma
5. The 2 + 2 Pilot
6. 2 + 2 Takes Shape
7. 2 + 2: A Matter of Leadership
8. 2 + 2 Takes Off
9. Beyond the 2 + 2 Basics: A Second Interlude
10. Institutionalizing 2 + 2
Epilogue: Two Years Later
2 + 2 for Teachers: Frequently Asked Questions
Index
Om författaren
Alyce C. Le Blanc, Ph.D., is the Curriculum Specialist for the School of Education at Capella University. In addition to teaching, she has developed numerous instructor-led graduate courses for web-based online delivery in the School of Education. Alyce has a particular interest in teacher preparation programs and currently has a lead role in the development of a new teacher leadership masters program at Capella University.
Alyce initially studied music at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, and later at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik where she graduated with distinction in Piano Performance. She was a prizewinner in several international piano competitions.
She furthered her studies at the University of Southern California, where she earned an M.S. in Systems Management, later completing her Ph.D. in Urban Services/Education at Old Dominion University. She has subsequently taught at Oberlin College, Old Dominion University, and National-Louis University in Germany. She has been active in teacher preparation programs, school reform issues, and has been a consultant to teachers and education leaders in the Czech Republic and China, as well as in the US. She was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and was recently presented the Harold Abel Outstanding Faculty Award at Capella University.
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