The Collaborative Teacher: Working Together As a Professional Learning Community

by Erkens, Cassandra

• ISBN13: 9781934009369
• ISBN10: 1934009369
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-07-01
• Publisher: Solution Tree

Summary

The time of exclusive top-down leadership is over; only teachers can transform education from inside the classroom. The Collaborative Teacher defines best practices of collaborative teacher leadership in a professional learning community. Specific techniques, supporting research, expert insight, and real classroom stories from experienced practitioners combine to illustrate how to work together for student learning, create a guaranteed and viable curriculum, and use data to reach all students. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Working Together for Student Learning	p. 9
The New Teacher Leader: Transforming Education From Inside the Classroom	p. 11
Creating Intentional Collaboration	p. 31
Teacher Talk: How Collaboration Gets to the Heart of Great Schools	p. 57
Creating a Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum	p. 77
Too Much to Teach: How to Identify What Matters Most	p. 79
Instructional Improvement From the Inside Out: Lesson Study at Work	p. 97
Connecting Curriculum Mapping to Assessment for Learning	p. 119
Using Data to Reach All Students	p. 135
Teaching in the Dark	p. 137
Common Assessments: Bridging the Gap Between Teaching and Learning	p. 159
An Integrated Response to Learning: Eight Strategies That Work	p. 179
Epilogue: A New Era of Spectacular Teachers	p. 199
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