teachers

Provides descriptions and discussion of the practices and issues of professional development for mathematics and science educators, examining the thinking of designers, and illuminating their purposes, strategies, triumphs, and failures.

Explains how study groups can offer teachers an opportunity for professional growth in the midst of the frantic school environment and offers effective tips for organizing and maintaining study groups.

Examines the potential improvement to schools that strengthened relationships between teachers, parents, and principals could produce, discussing communication, teachers and principals as learners, and how to build a "community of learners.".

Contains over five hundred ideas and strategies designed to inspire teachers and students.

The author goes behind-the-scenes with a professional teacher, learning some of the projects, challenges, and rewards of the job, along with the educational requirements and social skills necessary.