What Every Teacher Should Know About the Profession and Politics of Teaching
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Description
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
Contents
About the Author
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
Introduction
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 Summary
Vocabulary Post-Test
Vocabulary Post-Test
References
References
Index
Index
Additional materials
Description
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
Contents
About the Author
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
Introduction
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 Summary
Vocabulary Post-Test
Vocabulary Post-Test
References
References
Index
Index
Additional materials
What Every Teacher Should Know About the Profession and Politics of Teaching
October 2003 | 96 pages | Corwin
| Format | Published Date | ISBN | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paperback | 01/02/2026 | 9780761931263 | $37.95 |
| Lifetime | 01/02/2026 | 9781483360287 | $35.00 |
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
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