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

by Randi Stone

• ISBN13: 9781412915809
• ISBN10: 1412915805
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-01-13
• Publisher: Corwin Pr

Summary

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

Table of Contents

Preface

About the Authors

About the Contributors

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

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

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

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

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

Empowering Students as Leaders

Each One, Teach One

To Russia With Love

Using Children's Books in the High School Setting

Index

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