Best Practices for Teacher Leadership: What Award-Winning Teachers Do for Their Professional Learning Communities / Edition 1

by Randi B. Sofman, Prudence H. Cuper

Overview

This collection chronicles the many ways in which teachers create professional learning communities through collaborations with colleagues, mentees, faculty groups, learners, families, and neighborhoods.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412915793
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	01/13/2006
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Randi Stone is the author of nine Corwin Press books: Best Practices for Teaching Reading: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do, Best Practices for Teaching Social Studies: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do, Best Practices for Teaching Writing: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do, Best Practices for Teaching Mathematics: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do, and Best Practices for Teaching Science: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do. She is a graduate of Clark University, Boston University, and Salem State College. She completed her doctorate in education at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.

Table of Contents

Preface
About the Authors
About the Contributors
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
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 “Cs” in Education: A Classroom, a Community, and Collaboration
Parent Involvement
Let’s Take It Outside: Creating a Community Learning Environment
Effective Parent Involvement in the Classroom
Billy: Every Family Is a Special Family
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
4. Mentoring and Sharing Professional Development
Give Me an “H”: 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
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
6. Empowering Students as Leaders
Each One, Teach One
To Russia With Love
Using Children’s Books in the High School Setting
Index

Editorial Reviews

"Three cheers for this wonderful book of stories from award winning teachers who are making a difference everyday in their classrooms around the country! These remarkable teacher leaders have much to share. Involving parents, building and implementing incredible learning projects, collaborating with colleagues, nurturing the gifts that each students brings, and above all, seeing the world through the eyes of a child, will have you wishing the stories that illustrate their 'how-to' great adventures would never end. This important book recognizes and celebrates regular classroom teachers who are performing everyday miracles. We need to spread the word about our successes! What gifted teachers! What a great read!

Candy Beal

"Knowledgeable advice in an engaging format. Personal essays shed light on topics important to all educators desiring to positively impact their professional communities."

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