Teaching as leadership: the highly effective teacher's guide to closing the achievement gap

Since its inception in 1990, Teach For America has worked hard to determine the common strategies and methods of teachers who lead their students to phenomenal, life-changing academic gains. They have seen that teachers who successfully level the playing field for their students are operating in their classrooms as the most effective leaders would operate in any context. While these principles focus on successful teachers on the frontlines of the achievement gap,they are completely applicable to the challenges every teacher, in every classroom, faces on a daily basis. Teaching As Leadership offers concrete guidancefor educators working to raise their students' academic performance. Distilled in a six-principle framework, each step clearly and thoroughly outlines strategies that work: Set Big Goals Invest Students and their Families Plan Purposefully Execute Effectively Continuously Improve Effectiveness Work Relentlessly These principles are integral to student success, and to the teacher's confidence and well-being. This book offers a roadmap that inspires educators to obsess over these very attainable characteristics of leadership. It demystifies what highly successful teachers do, and provides a clear vision of these habits through anecdotes, examples of practice, and sample lesson plans. An accompanying website provides additional nuts and bolts tools through video, sample lessons, discussion boards, and case studies.

• ISBN: 978-0-470-43286-0
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 352
• Fecha Publicación: 16/02/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés