The Diagnostic Teacher: Constructing New Approaches to Professional Development

by Solomon, Mildred Z.

• ISBN13: 9780807738627
• ISBN10: 080773862X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-05-01
• Publisher: Teachers College Pr

Summary

This provocative new volume from one of the nation's leading educational think tanks presents in-depth portraits of teachers, professional development staff, and researchers working together to deepen teacher's professional capacities and students' learning experiences. Ranging across subject areas and grade levels, The Diagnostic Teacher describes a variety of powerful classroom and school-based strategies that help students achieve and teachers thrive. The final two chapters define a set of underlying features shared in common by these diverse examples. The result is a rich and inspiring blueprint for how school leaders can revitalize the profession of teaching, while developing more inquiry-oriented, constructivist classrooms.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Arthur L. Costa
Introduction	xv
Mildred Z. Solomon
Acknowledgments	xxi
Reconstructing Teaching: Interactions Among Changing Beliefs, Subject-Matter Knowledge, Instructional Repertoire, and Professional Culture in the Process of Transforming One's Teaching	1	(21)
Barbara Scott Nelson
Teaching to the Big Ideas	22	(26)
Deborah Schifter
Susan Jo Russell
Virginia Bastable
Doing Research, Taking Action, and Changing Practice with Collaborative Support	48	(30)
Molly Lynn Watt
Daniel Lynn Watt
Crafting a Sharper Lens: Classroom Assessment in Mathematics	78	(26)
Mark Driscoll
Talking in School: Constructive Conversations for Written Language	104	(29)
Maureen Keohane Riley
Catherine Cobb Morocco
From Expert to Novice: The Transformation from Teacher to Learner	133	(29)
Ada Beth Cutler
Faye Nisonoff Ruopp
Principals as Colleagues in the Reshaping of Science Teaching and Learning	162	(25)
Carolee S. Matsumoto
Teacher Inquiry Groups: Collaborative Explorations of Changing Practice	187	(14)
James K. Hammerman
Professional Development Through Interdisciplinary Curriculum Design	201	(30)
Judith M. Zorfass
The Diagnostic Teacher	231	(16)
Mildred Z. Solomon
Catherine Cobb Morocco
Revitalizing Professional Development	247	(22)
Catherine Cobb Morocco
Mildred Z. Solomon
Afterword	269	(4)
Janet Whitla
About the Contributors	273	(6)
Index	279