in-service training

Offers practical tips where teachers and administrators can work together to provide a positive learning environment for students and includes sample standards-based curriculum units for different content areas and grade levels, discussion questions, and assessment design tools.

Discusses literacy coaching and professional formats for coaches, such as collaborative resource management, content presentations, coplanning, study groups, demonstration lessons, peer coaching, and coteaching, and describes the roles, procedures, and responsibilities of each.

Offers school and district-level administrators practical strategies to help them set priorities and support practices that will help teachers become expert teachers by identifying five conditions that help teachers improve their skills.

Contains ten progressive workshops that may be used to teach Internet skills to educators, each with an overview, background notes, step-by-step procedures, and presentation slides, and includes a CD-ROM with instructional materials.