The Collaborative Teacher: Working Together as a Professional Learning Community

The time of exclusive top-down leadership is over! Only teachers can transform education from inside the classroom, and this book defines best practices of collaborative teacher leadership. Specific techniques, supporting research, expert insight, and real classroom stories illustrate how to work together for student learning, create a guaranteed and viable curriculum, and use data to inform instruction. Benefits: Define and implement best practices for collaborative teacher leadership in a PLC. Discover how to work together for student learning and how to create a guaranteed and viable curriculum. Explore the many ways data can be utilized to inform instruction. Use common assessments to bridge the gap between teaching and learning. Contents: Foreword by Rebecca DuFour Introduction by Richard DuFour Part One: Working Together for Student Learning Chapter 1: The New Teacher Leader: Transforming Education From Inside the Classroom Chapter 2: Creating Intentional Collaboration Chapter 3: Teacher Talk: How Collaboration Gets to the Heart of Great Schools Part Two: Creating a Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum Chapter 4: Too Much to Teach: How to Identify What Matters Most Chapter 5: Instructional Improvement From the Inside Out: Lesson Study at Work Chapter 6: Connecting Curriculum Mapping to Assessment for Learning Part Three: Using Data to Reach All Students Chapter 7: Teaching in the Dark Chapter 8: Common Assessments: Bridging the Gap Between Teaching and Learning Chapter 9: An Integrated Response to Learning: Eight Strategies That Work Epilogue: A New Era of Spectacular Teachers
ASIN: 1934009369
VSKU: 56JPTK0015ZK_ns
Condition: Acceptable
Author/Artist:Erkens, Cassandra|Jakicic, Chris|Jessie, Lillie|Dennis King|Sharon V. Kramer|Thomas W. Many|Mary Ann Ranells|Ainsley B. Rose|Susan K. Sparks|Eric Twadell
Binding: Paperback