The Skillful Leader: Confronting Mediocre Teaching

by Alexander D. Platt, Robert Fraser, Wayne Ogden, Caroline Tripp, Robert G. Fraser

Overview

Based on The Skillful Teacher framework, this book is targeted to evaluators and supervisors who want a field-tested tool kit of strategies to improve, rather than remove, underperforming teachers. The text includes valuable legal notes and a model contract, case studies, assessment tools, and personal accounts of leaders in action.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781886822078
Publisher:	Research for Better Teaching, Incorporated
Publication date:	01/01/2000
Pages:	228
Sales rank:	865,312
Product dimensions:	8.30(w) x 10.80(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 - Introduction
Chapter 2 - Confronting Institutional Mediocrity
Chapter 3 - Profiles of Mediocrity
Chapter 4 - Selecting Data Sources
Chapter 5 - Describing Strengths and Problems
Chapter 6 - Designing an Improvement Plan
Chapter 7 - Model Contract Language
Chapter 8 - A Principal Confronts Mediocre Teaching
Chapter 9 - Detecting and Preventing Mediocrity in New Teachers
Chapter 10 - Evaluation in the Early 2000s
Epilogue - Voices of the Students
Appendix A - The 3C's Supervisor's Survey on Competence, Conviction, and Control
Appendix B - Unpromising Institutional Practices Survey
Appendix C - Grading Your Evaluation Procedures
Appendix D - Grading Your Evaluation Procedures (Annotated Version)
Appendix E - Improvement Plan Worksheet
Appendix F - Model Final Summary Evaluation Report Form
Appendix G - Performance Roles of Teacher and Related Competencies

Editorial Reviews

"The greatest contribution of this volume is the presentation of a rich repertoire of specific, field-tested ideas and strategies which any dedicated supervisor can employ to transform the mediocre teacher into the skillful teacher."
—Founding Director, The Principals' Center, Harvard University

Roland S. Barth

"Provides policymakers, superintendents, principals, teachers, and others with a first-rate comprehensive guide to selecting, developing, supervising, and evaluating teachers to make sure that all students have quality instruction."
—Superintendent, Boston Public Schools

Thomas Payzant