teachers

Discusses the importance of training, supporting, and retaining new teachers, presents a step-by-step process for structuring an induction program, and features a list of replicable induction programs.

Presents over one hundred tips for new teachers and their mentors, grouped in the categories of classroom management, planning, instruction, professionalism, motivation and rapport, and a teacher's influence.

Offers advice to instructional leaders on how to best work with teachers to improve classroom teaching and learning, describing different methods of classroom assistance, formats for observations, and approaches to working directly with teachers.

Offers advice on how to create staff development programs that measurably improve student achievement,and includes case studies of successful programs, data from related research, and concept illustrations.

Describes the steps that need to be taken in order to create a curriculum map for schools; includes sample maps, essential questions, and other related topics.

Shares the teaching strategies of some of the country's best high school educators, providing real-life examples and tactics for teaching reading and writing, math, science and technology, social studies and geography, and visual arts and physical education, and including tips on incorporating technology throughout the curriculum, and handling special needs.

Presents a comprehensive study into the changes necessary to building and maintaining a challenging school environment that will attract and keep highly qualified teachers.

An introduction to Performance-Based Supervision and Evaluation that explains how the data-driven and teacher-directed approach can be used to build educators' analytical and instructional capacity to address the needs of their students.

Presents projects and advice from award-winning elementary teachers around the country, covering teaching philosophies, instructional methods, technology, parental involvement, scheduling, and other topics.

Presents comments from experienced teachers on good ways to run both elementary and secondary classrooms and deal with non-classroom issues, covering ten topics including classroom discipline, relations with parents and colleagues, assessing student work, motivating students, and dealing with heavy teaching loads without enough preparation time.