What?! Another New Mandate? : What Award Winning Teachers Do When School Rules Change

by Randi Stone

• ISBN13: 9780761945055
• ISBN10: 0761945059
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-10-30
• Publisher: Corwin Pr

Summary

This dynamic resource demonstrates how imaginative teachers adjust to changes in today's classroom.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Who Should Read This Book	ix
Acknowledgments	ix
About the Author	xi
About the Contributors	xiii
Teachers Staying on Top of Changes	1	(7)
Professional Development Has Shaped Me and My Classroom	1	(3)
Kay Wallace
Teachers Go Back to School	4	(2)
Steven T. Jackson
Keeping Up With Change	6	(2)
Caryn Smith Long
Philosophies of Change	8	(20)
Self-Reflection: Looking Over Your Own Shoulder	8	(2)
Susan Barr
Change Doesn't Have to Hurt	10	(2)
Allison Gregerson
I Am a Teacher and I Would Be None Other	12	(6)
Lynn Kaufman
Changing Students' Attitudes About Failure With One Word: Overload	18	(2)
Jeff McAdoo
Embracing Change	20	(2)
Jim Brown
Immersion to Inspiration	22	(2)
Erika Reynolds
Facing the Old and New	24	(2)
Peter Riffle
Why Are We Here?	26	(2)
Jeff McAdoo
Changes in Curriculum and Instruction	28	(25)
Education Issues and Trends	28	(1)
Colleen Cooper
Making Less Into More	29	(3)
Cindy Albert
Thinking, Changing, Rearranging: A Compass Toward Affective Teaching	32	(1)
Colleen Cooper
Student-Centered Objectives: Solid Grounds in the Tides of Change	33	(3)
MaryEllen Daneels
Changes in Instruction: Change Is Not Always Easy	36	(4)
Kristen Dewitt
Standards-Based Instruction	40	(2)
Michelle Mash
Successfully Teaching a High-Poverty Student Population	42	(2)
Kimberly Allen
Changes in Curriculum and Instruction	44	(5)
Carmella Ettaro
More Changes in Curriculum and Instruction	49	(1)
Lloyd Barber
Mainstreaming of New Populations	50	(3)
Karen Quillen
Putting Education to the Test	53	(7)
Introduction of New Tests and High-Stakes Tests	53	(3)
Caryn Smith Long
New Mandates for Testing	56	(1)
Avalyn Balliet
A High-Stakes Test	57	(3)
Sharon Jeffery
Changes in Funding, Class Size, School Populations, and More	60	(27)
Funding Issues	60	(4)
Percy Hill
Changes in Class Size and Teaching Load	64	(3)
Claude Archer
Teaching in a Multiage Classroom	67	(4)
Lynn Clark
A Community of Learners	71	(8)
Luis Soria
Who Says Standards Have to Be Boring?	79	(3)
Rosalyn L. Pollard
Inclusion of New Populations	82	(2)
Avalyn Balliet
Parents: A Natural Resource	84	(3)
Cindy Albert
Math, Science, and Technology in the Next Millennium	87	(34)
Change Can Be a Good Thing	87	(5)
Gerald Friday
Success With School Technology	92	(3)
Colleen Cooper Ashworth
Introduction of New Technologies	95	(2)
Carmella Ettaro
Reflection Leads to Change	97	(3)
Linda Seeger
Going Bookless in Earth Science	100	(2)
Sharon Jeffery
Science Teaching Is a Profession---Not a Job!	102	(5)
Mary Harris
Are We Teaching the Right Things?	107	(5)
Gerald Friday
Let the Science Standards Be Your Guide	112	(4)
Vincent Carbone, Jr.
Using Innovations	116	(2)
Sharon Jeffery
A New Teaching Innovation	118	(3)
Gerald Friday
When the Unthinkable Happens: Teachers Talk About September 11, 2001	121	(16)
Thoughts on September 11th	121	(2)
Carmella Ettaro
Kindergartners Face the Tragic Day	123	(2)
Michelle Mash
The Power of Dialogue	125	(1)
Mary Daneels
Helping Students Cope	126	(1)
Lloyd Barber
Care for Our Children	127	(3)
Percy Hill
September 11, 2001---``It's No Movie''	130	(1)
Sharon Jeffery
Not Another Normal Day	131	(2)
Vincent Carbone, Jr.
September 11, 2001: Reaction	133	(4)
Steven T. Jackson
Index	137