Learning to Be Teacher Leaders: A Framework for Assessment, Planning, and Instruction

by Amy D. Broemmel, Jennifer Jordan, Beau Michael Whitsett

Overview

Learning to Be Teacher Leaders examines three integrated components of strong pedagogy—assessment, planning, and instruction—within a framework emphasizing the knowledge, skills, and dispositions that can empower teachers to become teacher leaders within their schools. Combining the what, why, and how of teaching, the research-based concepts, presented in a pragmatic format, are relevant across grade levels, classrooms, and content areas. Designed to support success on national licensure assessments, this text brings together in one place the important features of learning to be an effective teacher, and becoming a teacher leader who continues to grow and develop within the profession. Taking a student-centered approach to instruction, it also recognizes the outside factors that can challenge this approach and provides strategies for coping with them. Using this book as a guide and resource, pre-service and beginning teachers will focus on the most important factors in teaching, resulting in strengthening their pedagogy and developing a language that helps them move forward in terms of agency and advocacy. A Companion Website provides additional resources for instructors and students.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781317621096
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/20/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	210
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

Amy D. Broemmel is Associate Professor, Department of Theory and Practice in Teacher Education, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA.

Jennifer Jordan is Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Theory and Practice in Teacher Education, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA.

Beau Michael Whitsett is Graduate Teaching Associate, Department of Theory and Practice in Teacher Education, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Introduction—Framework: Our vision of effective teaching

Section 1: Assessment

Chapter 2: What is Assessment?

Chapter 3: Purposes of Classroom Assessment

Section 2: Planning

Chapter 4: Levels of Planning

Section 3: Instruction

Chapter 6: Establishing the Instructional Environment

Chapter 7: Academic Language

Chapter 8: Questioning and Feedback

Chapter 9: Engagement

Section 4: Teacher Leadership

Chapter 10: Thinking

Chapter 11: Action

Chapter 12: Pulling It All Together: Being a Professional

Index