Author: Kris Lawrence HallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Dealing with the Incompetent Teacher, Or, The Dance of the Lemons
Author: Kris Lawrence HallHow to Deal With Teachers Who Are Angry, Troubled, Exhausted, or Just Plain Confused
Author: Elaine K. McEwanPublisher: Corwin Press
ISBN: 1452237182
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Use Assertive Intervention techniques to help difficult teachers become positive and energetic professionals! How to Deal With Teachers Who are Angry, Troubled, Exhausted, or Just Plain Confused is an indispensable handbook for educators hoping to manage, shape, and improve teacher behaviors with the ultimate goal of improving student achievement and performance. This resource offers case studies from principals who have successfully managed dysfunctional and low-performing teachers, scripts for achieving effective communication, and a culture-builder′s toolkit with exercises and assessments. In this research-based text, best-selling author Elaine McEwan introduces a new approach-Assertive Intervention-for dealing with a principal′s most pressing challenge: How to manage difficult teachers effectively while empowering them as professionals. Assertive Intervention strategies show administrators, staff developers and mentors how to: Confront difficult teachers with calm and confidence Conduct an Assertive Intervention meeting Energize and motivate teachers Significantly improve interactions with troubled teachers Build a positive school culture This invaluable tool provides practical tools that can be put into practice immediately, and can be used with classroom teachers across all levels.
The Incompetent Teacher
Author: Edwin M. BridgesPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134987773
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
A revised edition of this book on teacher incompetence which, using research information, offers an analysis of the types of administrative response: tolerance of poor performance, salvage attempts and induced exits.
The Marginal Teacher
Author: C. Edward LawrencePublisher: Corwin Press
ISBN: 1412914744
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Updated Edition of Bestseller! Simplify complicated teacher dismissals by doing your homework! Are you faced with the difficult task of teacher evaluations? Does the burden of proof fall to you in cases of teacher dismissals? For over a decade, principals have turned to The Marginal Teacher as a resource for ensuring instructional competency in their schools. This third edition of The Marginal Teacher offers timely solutions for successfully dealing with marginal teachers. Lawrence illustrates the proper actions that principals should integrate into the evaluation processes to successfully gather documentation to help improve or terminate an ineffective teacher. Complete with tools and resources to streamline the evaluation process, you'll find: An updated PC or Mac CD-ROM with customizable forms, checklists, calendars, and teacher dismissal documentation Understanding the evaluation process, procedures, policies, and new legislation Handling nontenured teacher,dismissal Integrating classroom observation techniques Dealing with teacher misconduct Incorporating action steps for conducting the school level dismissal meeting Let this time-tested guide ease the difficult task of teacher dismissal.
Managing the Incompetent Teacher
Author: Edwin M. BridgesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
An eight-step organizational approach to the problem of identifying, remediating, and, if necessary, dismissing incompetent teachers is described. Addressed to school superintendents, the eight steps are as follows: (1) establish "excellence in teaching" as a high priority for the district, (2) adopt and publish reasonable criteria for evaluating teachers, (3) adopt sound procedures for determining whether teachers satisfy these criteria and apply these procedures uniformly to teachers in the district, (4) provide unsatisfactory teachers with remediation (assistance) and a reasonable time to improve, (5) establish and implement procedures for ensuring that appraisers have the requisite competencies, (6) provide appraisers with the resources needed to carry out their responsibilities, (7) hold appraisers accountable for evaluating and dealing with incompetent teachers, and (8) provide incompetent teachers with a fair hearing prior to making the dismissal decision. The District Evaluation Practices Inventory, included, is a guide for districts that wish to implement the approach. A seven-page bibliography completes the monograph. (FWR)
Effective Teacher Evaluation
Author: Kenneth D. PetersonPublisher: Corwin Press
ISBN: 145228086X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Enrich the quality of teaching and learning in your school with meaningful teacher evaluations! Effective teacher evaluation is at the core of improving the quality and value of education and principals bear the responsibility of implementing a teacher evaluation program that helps develop highly qualified teachers and promotes high academic standards. In their easy-to-use handbook, evaluation experts Kenneth D. Peterson and Catherine A. Peterson offer a fresh, innovative look into teacher evaluation methods, focusing on three central areas: 1) increasing the amount of objective data, 2) increasing teacher involvement, and 3) increasing the technical and sociological quality of the evaluation process. This excellent resource provides specific "how-to" methods to help principals: Use the best objective evidence available Put the teacher at the center of the process Use multiple data sources Use data sources which vary by individual teacher Incorporate student achievement data Inspire ongoing teacher reflection and analysis Use the specific strategies and best practices in this practical guide to help inspire quality teaching and high academic achievement!
The Curiosity of School
Author: Zander ShermanPublisher: Penguin Canada
ISBN: 0143186493
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
It's one thing we all have in common. We've all been to school. But as Zander Sherman shows in this fascinating, often shocking account of institutionalized education, sending your kids off to school was not always normal. In fact, school is a very recent invention. Taking the reader back to 19th-century Prussia, where generals, worried about soldiers' troubling individuality, sought a way to standardize every young man of military age, through to the most controversial debates that swirl around the world about the topic of education today, Sherman tells the often astonishing stories of the men and women-and corporations-that have defined what we have come to think of as both the privilege and the responsibility of being educated. Along the way, we discover that the SAT was invented as an intelligence test designed to allow the state to sterilize "imbeciles," that suicide in the wake of disappointing results in the state university placement exams is the fifth leading cause of death in China, and that commercialized higher education seduces students into debt as cynically as credit card companies do. Provocative, entertaining-and even educational-The Curiosity of School lays bare the forces that shape the institution that shapes all of us.
The New School Management by Wandering Around
Author: William A. StreshlyPublisher: Corwin Press
ISBN: 1452283621
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Achieve success step by step The topic of management by wandering around is not new, but the authors′ approach is fresh and timely. This current rendition based on the original work by Frase and Hetzel gives new and seasoned administrators smart, practical advice about how to "wander around" with purpose and develop a more interactive leadership style. This text cites more than 20 well-constructed research studies that show how management by wandering around produces desirable outcomes, including: Higher student achievement Improved school culture Higher teacher efficacy Management by wandering around is not a rigid, linear process: it is a combination of proven methods and a flexible, organic approach to the whole of leadership. Topics covered include developing meeting agendas, supervising instruction, dealing with marginal teachers, and creating safe campuses. The bottom line? If you want to accomplish more, start by getting out more—and this book shows you how to make it count.
No Excuses
Author: Stephan ThernstromPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439127042
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Black and Hispanic students are not learning enough in our public schools, and their typically poor performance is the most important source of ongoing racial inequality in America today—thus, say Abigail and Stephan Thernstrom, the racial gap in school achievement is the nation's most critical civil rights issue and an educational crisis; it's no wonder that "No Child Left Behind," the 2001 revision of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, made closing the racial gap in education its central goal. An employer hiring the typical Black high school graduate or the college that admits the average Black student is choosing a youngster who has only an eighth-grade education. In most subjects, the majority of twelfth-grade Black students do not have even a "partial mastery" of the skills and knowledge that the authoritative National Assessment of Educational Progress calls "fundamental for proficient work" at their grade. No Excuses marshals facts to examine the depth of the problem, the inadequacy of conventional explanations, and the limited impact of Title I, Head Start, and other familiar reforms. Its message, however, is one of hope: Scattered across the country are excellent schools getting terrific results with high-needs kids. These rare schools share a distinctive vision of what great schooling looks like and are free of many of the constraints that compromise education in traditional public schools. In a society that espouses equal opportunity we still have a racially identifiable group of educational have-nots—young African Americans and Latinos whose opportunities in life will almost inevitably be limited by their inadequate education. When students leave high school without high school skills, their futures—and that of the nation—are in jeopardy. With successful schools already showing the way, no decent society can continue to turn a blind eye to such racial and ethnic inequality.
Collective Bargaining in Education
Author: Jane HannawayPublisher: Harvard Education Press
ISBN: 1612500080
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
This timely and comprehensive volume will spur and strengthen public debate over the role of teachers unions in education reform for years to come. Collective bargaining shapes the way public schools are organized, financed, staffed, and operated. Understanding collective bargaining in education and its impact on the day-to-day life of schools is critical to designing and implementing reforms that will successfully raise student achievement. But when it comes to public discussion of school reform, teachers unions are the proverbial elephant in the room. Despite the tremendous influence of teachers unions, there has not been a significant research-based book examining the role of collective bargaining in education in more than two decades. As a result, there is little basis for a constructive, empirically grounded dialogue about the role of teachers unions in education today.