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The ultimate new teacher's guide to surviving and thriving in the
classroom, Smart from the Start is the springboard to help you
establish and improve your practice in meaningful ways.Teachers
have a wide range of responsibilities—not all of which can be
addressed in teacher preparation programs—and for new and
returning educators especially, it can be daunting to think about
all that is required throughout the school year. This book provides
more than 100 easy-to-incorporate tools spread across six major
points of concern: * Beginning of the year: set up your classroom
and establish rules and procedures. * Classroom management:
establish a healthy learning environment. * Instructional planning:
lead high-quality lessons and anticipate students' diverse needs. *
Student engagement: motivate students and maintain their quality of
learning. * Assessment: align assessment with curriculum and
instruction and build rubrics and tests. * Teacher well-being: find
the joy in teaching and take care of yourself. Your first few years
of teaching don't have to be formidable or confusing. James H.
Stronge, Jessica M. Straessle, and Xianxuan Xu have synthesized
decades of research to identify and carefully consider the
attributes of the job that especially relate to new teachers. With
Smart from the Start, you can take your first steps into teaching
with confidence and create a classroom environment that will
benefit your students.
What does it take to be a good school principal? No two principals
work exactly the same way, but research shows that effective
principals focus on a core set of factors critical to fostering
success among all students.In this second edition of Qualities of
Effective Principals, James H. Stronge and Xianxuan Xu delineate
these factors and show principals how to successfully balance the
needs and priorities of their schools while continuously developing
and refining their leadership skills. Throughout the book, the
authors provide practical tools and extensive research that will
help principals * Assess, exhibit, and harness instructional
leadership to meet a school's goals. * Foster and sustain an
effective school climate for learning. * Select, support, and
retain high-quality teachers and staff. * Manage school resources
effectively and efficiently. * Create, maintain, and strengthen
internal and external community relationships. * Define their role
in student achievement. This book also includes practical skills
checklists, along with quality indicators and red flags for
effective leadership. Qualities of Effective Principals, 2nd
Edition, is an excellent resource for both experienced and new
principals committed to developing and leading strong schools that
help all students succeed.
Superintendent evaluation is a unique process that is often
neglected but critical in this era of accountability. This
invaluable guide provides an overview of the entire process,
including: crafting board policy, criteria for good policy, and
prototype policy. It identifies the unique challenges posed by the
evaluation process and describes a three-tiered model of
evaluation. This model is anchored in the professional standards
for superintendency established by the American Association of
School Administrators (AASA), the National School Boards
Association (NSBA) Key Work of School Boards, the Interstate School
Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC) Standards, and the National
Technology Standards for School Administrators. Numerous sample
forms are included to assist school districts in creating a
customized evaluation protocol to enhance performance. Suggestions
on next steps for the reader conclude the book and additional
resources are described in the annotated bibliography. This
handbook will be of interest to superintendents, school board
members, and professionals involved in the development and support
of superintendents.
Research surrounding teacher quality and teacher effectiveness has
continued to grow and become even more prominent as teaching has
become more professionalized globally and countries have invested
more comprehensively in teacher education, certification, and
professional development. To better understand teacher
effectiveness, it is important to have a global viewpoint to truly
understand how beliefs and practices vary in each country and can
lead to different characterizations of what makes an effective
teacher. This includes both cross-cultural commonalities and unique
differences in conceptualization of teacher effectiveness and
practices. With this comprehensive, international understanding of
teacher effectiveness, a better understanding of best practices,
teacher models, philosophies, and more will be developed.
International Beliefs and Practices That Characterize Teacher
Effectiveness identifies, shares, and explores the predominant
conceptual understandings of beliefs and practices that
characterize effective teachers in different countries. This book
provides international and cross-cultural perspectives on teacher
effectiveness and examines the prominent philosophies of teaching
and pedagogical practices that characterize teachers in selected
countries. Each chapter includes a background, such as history and
undergirding philosophy within each country, effective teacher
models, prominent applications of teacher effectiveness practices,
and special or unique features of teaching in the specific
countries mentioned. This book is essential for practicing
educators in various countries, teacher educators, faculty, and
students within schools and colleges, researchers in international
comparative studies, organizations engaged in international
education, and administrators, practitioners, and academicians
interested in how teacher effectiveness is characterized in
different countries and regions across the world.
Every teacher seeks to be an effective teacher. Every teacher wants
to have a positive, remarkable, and lasting influence on students'
lives. But what makes for an effective teacher? What role does
teacher preparation play in teacher effectiveness? What do
effective teachers do during planning, instruction, and assessment?
How do they create a learning environment that engages and supports
students? And how do effective teachers interact with their
students to promote the best opportunities and results for all? In
Qualities of Effective Teachers, 3rd edition, James H. Stronge
explores these questions and more as he synthesizes the literature
on teacher effectiveness. The result? A research-based framework
for effective teaching that addresses: Professional knowledge.
Instructional planning. Instructional delivery. Assessment.
Learning environment. Professionalism. Stronge also examines
characteristics of effective teachers of at-risk students and
high-ability students. To bridge the gap between research and
practice, he includes checklists of skills and positive qualities
associated with effective teacher performance as well as red flags
that indicate that teachers may not be reaching their full
potential in the classroom. This resource is for any educator
interested in improving teaching. It offers research-based advice
for teachers who wish to improve their own performance, as well
guidance for teacher leaders and supervisors, school administrators
and department heads, staff development specialists, teacher and
administrator educators, human resource specialists, and education
policymakers and their staffs. Anyone who has a vested interest in
students and their success can gain valuable insight and practical
tools to ensure positive outcomes for all students. New to the 3rd
edition: Introduction of the Framework for Effective Teaching and
its six domains-professional knowledge; instructional planning;
instructional delivery; assessment; learning environment;
professionalism. Chapter vignettes updated to illustrate the
domains of the Framework for Effective Teaching. Updated reference
charts at the end of chapters, keyed to the subdomains of the
Framework for Effective Teaching and expanded to include references
for 21 century teachers. Twenty-nine sidebars interspersed
throughout chapters that provide state-of-the-art supplementary
text on effective teaching practices and research findings. Updated
Teacher Skills Assessment Checklist, keyed to the domains of the
Framework for Effective Teaching. Updated Part 2 presents positive
qualities and red flags associated with effective teachers, keyed
to the domains of the Framework for Effective Teaching. More than
1,000 entries in the References.
For years, students in the United States have lagged behind
students in many other countries on such measures of achievement as
the PISA and TIMSS assessments. In an increasingly globalized
world, such a gap is worrisome. Armed with statistics, examples,
and cautionary tales from Scandinavia to Japan, James H. Stronge
and Xianxuan Xu have written a book that can help educators better
prepare students and close that gap. In What Makes a World-Class
School and How We Can Get There, you will find: Careful analysis of
recent international assessment results-what they mean and what can
be done to improve them. In-depth profiles of high-achieving
education systems around the globe-their histories, their lessons
learned, and what they can teach educators and policymakers in the
United States. Strategies for aligning successful educational
approaches from international systems to U.S. schools-which
strategies to use, in which subjects, and with which students.
Transformative ideas for cultivating a truly world-class system of
schooling-both simple and complex ways to raise the bar for all
students, no matter what their background. Educators in every
country must ensure that their students are as prepared as possible
to lead a future generation of citizens. This thought-provoking and
copiously researched book provides educators with a blueprint for
radical improvement based on the hard-learned experiences of their
peers around the world.
This invaluable resource demonstrates how to foster the development
of highly qualified teachers through designing and implementing a
solid teacher evaluation system. The connection between teacher
evaluation fostering school improvement and the development of
highly qualified teachers is receiving more attention than ever
before. Just as there is a rational connection between school
improvement and teacher performance, there is a necessary and
rational connection between supporting and growing highly qualified
teachers through effective evaluations and improving relationships
in the school. In this updated edition, top-selling author James H.
Stronge and his colleagues synthesize current teacher evaluation
research and blend it with practice, highlighting how to: o design
a sound teacher evaluation system o assess teacher performance
thoroughly and accurately o implement a successful teacher
evaluation system o incorporate student performance data, teaching
portfolios, and classroom observation into evaluation By aligning
teaching performance and improvement goals with your school's
mission, this text demonstrates how you can effectively encourage
teachers to achieve a high standard of instruction at all levels.
In Linking Teacher Evaluation and Student Learning, researchers
Pamela D. Tucker and James H. Stronge show that including measures
of student achievement in teacher evaluations can help schools
focus their efforts to meet higher standards. You'll see how four
school systems have built such measures into their evaluation
programs in these distinct ways: Documenting how desired learning
outcomes translated into actual student learning. Tracking progress
on key content standards. Setting annual quantifiable goals for
students' academic progress. Analyzing changes in students'
achievement test scores. The authors explore the strengths of each
approach, offer insights from teachers and administrators, and
describe practical ways to incorporate similar measures of student
learning into your own evaluation program. Detailed appendixes
provide hands-on tools and resources to help you adapt these
approaches to your school's particular needs. For any school that
is working to meet higher standards, linking teacher evaluation to
measures of student learning is a powerful way to refocus
professional development and improve student achievement.
`This is a good and needed book. I would buy it, and recommend it
to a wide range of educators.' -Kenneth D. Peterson, Professor,
Portland State University `The authors have amassed a tremendous
amount of information and assembled it into a very readable book
that is an excellent resource.' -Randel Beaver, Superintendent,
Archer City School District, TX Attract and retain the
highest-quality teachers through competitive compensation programs!
While many working in the teaching profession cite intangible
rewards as reasons for staying in the profession, concrete rewards
such as salary, benefits, and working conditions are inextricably
linked to recruiting, motivating, and retaining highly-qualified
teachers. This timely text examines the fundamental link between
teacher pay and teacher quality as well as the extent to which it
is aligned with student achievement. Existing compensation models
are reviewed in order to provide a practical, research-based
approach for developing a comprehensive, best-practice teacher
compensation system. School administrators can use these
synthesized, innovative findings to: Determine the most practical
compensation model for achieving their school's objectives Examine
different pay options used across the country Connect their
school's compensation program to organizational goals Discover how
to attract and retain high-quality teachers
`This is a good and needed book. I would buy it, and recommend it
to a wide range of educators.' -Kenneth D. Peterson, Professor,
Portland State University `The authors have amassed a tremendous
amount of information and assembled it into a very readable book
that is an excellent resource.' -Randel Beaver, Superintendent,
Archer City School District, TX Attract and retain the
highest-quality teachers through competitive compensation programs!
While many working in the teaching profession cite intangible
rewards as reasons for staying in the profession, concrete rewards
such as salary, benefits, and working conditions are inextricably
linked to recruiting, motivating, and retaining highly-qualified
teachers. This timely text examines the fundamental link between
teacher pay and teacher quality as well as the extent to which it
is aligned with student achievement. Existing compensation models
are reviewed in order to provide a practical, research-based
approach for developing a comprehensive, best-practice teacher
compensation system. School administrators can use these
synthesized, innovative findings to: Determine the most practical
compensation model for achieving their school's objectives Examine
different pay options used across the country Connect their
school's compensation program to organizational goals Discover how
to attract and retain high-quality teachers
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