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Teaching, Leading, and Learning in Pre K-8 Settings Strategies for Success

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ISBN-10: 0618416099

ISBN-13: 9780618416097

Edition: 2nd 2005

Authors: Rita A. Jensen, Therese J. Kiley

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Teaching, Leading, and Learning encourages pre-service and in-service teachers to question the "why, what, when, and how" of instructional strategies. The text combines theory and current research with practice in order to help teachers understand the performances, dispositions, and knowledge base required for success. Teachers are encouraged to consider the "big-picture variables": professional development, teachers as leaders, the intangibles of teaching, parents and families, and working creatively within the system. With an emphasis on meeting current standards, each chapter includes marginal icons that reference INTASC (Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium)…    
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Book details

List price: $208.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: CENGAGE Learning
Publication date: 6/25/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 8.25" wide x 10.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English

Note: Each chapter includes New Teachers Talk
Setting the Stage
Strategies for Teacher Leaders
School Daze: What Do You Remember About School?
Why Choose Teaching?
What Challenges Do Teachers Face?
What Makes Teachers Effective?
What Makes Teachers Leaders and Decision Makers?
What Skills Do Teacher
Leaders and Decision Makers Need?
Teaching, Leading, & Learning Concepts
What Role Do Teacher Leaders and Decision Makers Play?
Teaching, Leading, & Learning Concepts
Applying the Skills and Roles of Leadership and Decision Making
What Steps Can You Take Now?
Take a Personal Strengths Inventory
Why Does Instructional Decision Making
Need to Be Situation-Specific?
Professional Development Strategies: Charting Your Own direction
It's Good to Have a Plan!
The Power of Reflection
Teaching, Leading, & Learning Concepts
Charting Your Course for Lifelong Learning
The Five-Question Professional Development
Plan Teaching, Leading, & Learning Concepts
Teaching, Leading, & Learning Concepts
Portfolios: Documenting Your Professional Growth
What Should Your Portfolio Contain?
Teaching, Leading, & Learning Concepts
What Teaching Standards Should Be Represented in Your Professional Teaching Portfolio?
Teaching, Leading, & Learning Concepts
Where Do You Go From Here?
Creating a Climate for Learning
Strategies for Promoting Social and Emotional Learning
What Do Effective Teachers
Look Like? Teaching, Learning, & Learning Concepts
Teaching, Leading, & Learning Concepts
Teaching, Leading, & Learning Concepts
Becoming Emotionally Literate Teaching, Leading, & Learning Concepts
When Does Emotional Literacy Begin?
Instructional Strategies for Promoting Social and Emotional Learning
Why Should Teachers Be Concerned About Their Own Emotional Literacy?
Teaching, Leading, & Learning Concepts
Collaborating with Parents to Promote
Emotional Literacy
Creating the Context for Emotional Literacy Programs
Professional Ethics for Educators: What Are They and Why Are They Important for Effective Teaching?
Teaching, Leading, & Learning Concepts
Strategies for Designing
Productive Learning
Environments Seeing the Big Picture: Organizational Culture and Environment
Defining and Designing Learning
Environments Setting the Social-Emotional Tone of Leaning Environments
Creating Responsive Learning
Environments That Accommodate Diversity
Arranging the Physical Learning Environment
Evaluating Classroom Learning
Environments Teaching, Leading, & Learning Concepts
Instructional Guidance Strategies: Moving Beyond Classroom Management
What Is Instructional Guidance?
Goals of Instructional Guidance
Instructional Guidance Approaches
Organizing the Learning
Environment to Guide Learners
What You Should Know About Rules or Learning Community
Expectations (LCE) Goodness of Fit
Finding Your Leading and Teaching Voice
You Make the Call--Again
Instructional Approaches, Planning, and Evaluation
Instructional Strategies and Approaches
Why Use a Variety of Instructional Approaches?
Theories and Frameworks That Guide Decisions
About Instructional Strategies
Teaching, Leading, & Learning Concepts
Thinking Strategies
Teaching, Leading, & Learning Concepts
Choosing Instructional Strategies and Approaches
Building an Instructional Strategies
Repertoire What Role Can Questions
Play in the Teaching/Learning Process?
What Do You Need to Know to Use Questions Effectively?
Curricular Planning Strategies: Seeing the Big Picture
What Is a Curriculum?
Curriculum Challenges and Opportunities
Curriculum Articulation Approaches to the Curriculum Design Process
The Context and Components of Unit Planning
Teaching, Leading, & Learning Concepts
Teaching, Leading, & Learning Concepts
Creating Cross-Curricular Connections
Some Basic Structures for Curricular Integration
Teaching, Leading, & Learning Concepts
Teaching, Leading, & Learning Concepts
The Role of Collaboration in Integrative Unit
Planning Issues
Surrounding Integrative Units Planning: Process and Product
Instructional Planning
Strategies: Designing Daily Lessons
Levels of Instructional Planning
The Instructional Planning Process
Three Phases of Instructional Planning and Decision Making
Instructional Time An Instructional Aside: The Lesson Plan Book
Five Questions to Guide Instructional Planning
Teaching, Leading, & Learning Concepts
Yeah, but Real Teachers Don't Plan That Way!
Teaching, Leading, & Learning Concepts
Teaching, Leading, & Learning Concepts
Teacher Planning Recommendations
Assessment and Evaluation Strategies
What Are Assessment and Evaluation?
Looking Back, Looking Forward--Joining an Assessment Revolution in Progress
What Purposes Do Assessment and Evaluation Serve?
Measuring Assessment Quality
Assessing the Quality of Your Assessment Program
What Do Teachers Need to Know and Be Able to Do to Assess and Evaluate Students?
Teaching, Leading, & Learning Concepts
Performance Assessment and Authentic Assessment
Portfolios Teaching, Leading, & Learning Concepts
Checklists and Rubrics Teacher
Observation Surveys, Interviews, and Student-Teacher Conferences
Assessment of Learners: Norm-Referenced and Criterion-References Tests
Grading and Report Cards
A Final Word on Assessment and Evaluation: No Crystal Ball
Change and Professional Growth
Strategies for Change and Moving Forward
Creating a Culture of Collaboration
Examples of Collaboration and Coping with Change
The Only Constant
Is Change National Standards, Goals, and Recommendations: The Origins of Education
Reform Welcome to the Revolution of Education Reform!
Standards for Teachers' Licensure and Development
A Nation at Risk Current Educational Goals
Assisting New Teachers
Teacher Induction
Making Magic, Making Mistakes, or Making Misery