Academic Conferences for School and Teacher Leaders (eBook)

Arthur L. Costa, Eli Johnson (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2014
120 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4422-3341-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Academic Conferences for School and Teacher Leaders proves an invaluable tool for educators and educational administrators who are tasked with the toughest decisions facing our struggling school system today, and is an ideal fit for courses in educational leadership and supervision of instruction. When structured effectively, academic conferences can transform schools and help educational leaders mine the excellence of every student in their classrooms, and this book is an essential guide for any leader whose goal is to do just that.

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Academic conferences increase collaboration and support collegial dialogue between teachers, principals, and district administrators, while providing a forum for education professionals to consider school practices old and new, and plan ways to best utilize them all in the future. This book, by experienced educators Eli Johnson and Arthur L. Costa, is about encouraging and enhancing these necessary, but often neglected, conversations as a means of helping educators identify the ways that innovative teaching strategies can best connect positive classroom outcomes to the long-term plans, learning goals, and academic purposes of a school and district.Academic Conferences for School and Teacher Leaders proves an invaluable tool for educators and educational administrators who are tasked with the toughest decisions facing our struggling school system today, and is an ideal fit for courses in educational leadership and supervision of instruction. When structured effectively, academic conferences can transform schools and help educational leaders mine the excellence of every student in their classrooms, and this book is a necessary guide for any leader whose goal is to do just that.

Autor

Eli Johnson is a Classroom Teacher, School Principal, Director of Curriculum & Instruction, and Assistant Superintendent of Instruction. He has served as a consultant to the California Department of Education supporting early literacy, English language professional development, and math/science partnerships.Art Costa is a Professor of Education, Emeritus, from California State University, Sacramento, where he taught graduate courses to teachers and administrators in curriculum, supervision, and the improvement of instruction. He is the author of The Enabling Behaviors, Teaching for Intelligent Behaviors and Supervision for Intelligent Teaching; and is co-author of Cognitive Coaching and Techniques for Teaching Thinking.

Inhalt

Table of ContentsPreface1 – Academic Conferences for Teachers and School Leaders2 – Academic Conferences for Classroom Teachers3 – Key Principles of Classroom-Teacher Academic Conferences4 – How to Conduct Classroom-Teacher Academic Conferences5 – Academic Conferences for School Administrators6 – Key Principles of School-Administrator Academic Conferences7 – How to Conduct School-Administrator Academic Conferences8 – Leading and Sustaining Academic ConferenceAppendixReferenceAbout the Authors

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.6.2014
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Schulbuch / Allgemeinbildende Schulen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Berufspädagogik
• ISBN-10: 1-4422-3341-9 / 1442233419
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4422-3341-6 / 9781442233416