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What Every Teacher Should Know About the Profession and Politics of Teaching

By: Donna E. Walker Tileston

The classroom teacher's concise guide to accountability issues in the era of No Child Left Behind!

Quality teaching and quality professional development in today's professional learning community require an insider's up-to-date understanding of accountability to stakeholders. The topics covered in this savvy little guide include:

Testing and the move to standards
School choice
Finding resources
Ways to communicate
Working with colleagues
Being supervised
The parent-teacher conference
The changing face of education
Changing ideas about the teaching process
Keeping up as a teaching professional
Vocabulary pre-test, post-test, and summary
Bibliography and index

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Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9780761931263
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2003
Page Count: 96
Publication date: March 19, 2014

Price: $23.95

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The classroom teacher's concise guide to accountability issues in the era of No Child Left Behind!

Testing and the move to standards
School choice
Finding resources
Ways to communicate
Working with colleagues
Being supervised
The parent-teacher conference
The changing face of education
Changing ideas about the teaching process
Keeping up as a teaching professional
Vocabulary pre-test, post-test, and summary
Bibliography and index

Author(s)

Donna E. Walker Tileston

Donna Walker Tileston is a veteran teacher and administrator. She is currently the president of Strategic Teaching and Learning, a consulting firm that provides services to schools throughout the United States and worldwide. Donna’s publications include Ten Best Teaching Practices: How Brain Research, Learning Styles, and Standards Define Teaching Competencies (2000), which has been on Corwin's bestseller list since its first year in print, in addition to the ten-volume award-winning series What Every Teacher Should Know, now in its second edition. Other recent titles are Teaching Strategies for Active Learning (2006), Teaching Strategies that Prepare Students for High Stakes Tests (2008), and Closing the Poverty and Culture Gap (2009). Donna received her BA from the University of North Texas, her MA from East Texas State University, and her EdD from Texas A & M University-Commerce. She may be reached at www.whateveryteachershouldknow.com

Table of Contents

About the Author

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Vocabulary Pre-Test

1. The Politics of Teaching

Accountability and Testing

Flexible Use of Federal Resources

School Choice

Quality Teachers and Quality Teaching

2. Being Part of a Learning Community

The Big Machine Approach

Accountability to the Larger System

Finding Resources

Working With Colleagues

Being Supervised

Quality Professional Development

3. Working With Parents

Begin at the Beginning

Ways to Communicate

The Parent-Teacher Conference

What If?

4. What Does the Future Hold?

The Changing Face of Education

The Move to Standards

Changing Ideas About the Teaching Process

The Teacher as a Professional: Why It Matters

How Can You Keep Up?

Vocabulary Summary

Vocabulary Post-Test

References

Index

Other Titles in: Teaching Methods & Learning Styles

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