Full Description
The classroom teacher's concise guide to accountability issues in the era of No Child Left Behind!
Quality teaching and quality professional development in today's professional learning community require an insider's up-to-date understanding of accountability to stakeholders. The topics covered in this savvy little guide include:
Testing and the move to standards
School choice
Finding resources
Ways to communicate
Working with colleagues
Being supervised
The parent-teacher conference
The changing face of education
Changing ideas about the teaching process
Keeping up as a teaching professional
Vocabulary pre-test, post-test, and summary
Bibliography and index
Contents
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Vocabulary Pre-Test
1. The Politics of Teaching
Accountability and Testing
Flexible Use of Federal Resources
School Choice
Quality Teachers and Quality Teaching
2. Being Part of a Learning Community
The Big Machine Approach
Accountability to the Larger System
Finding Resources
Working With Colleagues
Being Supervised
Quality Professional Development
3. Working With Parents
Begin at the Beginning
Ways to Communicate
The Parent-Teacher Conference
What If?
4. What Does the Future Hold?
The Changing Face of Education
The Move to Standards
Changing Ideas About the Teaching Process
The Teacher as a Professional: Why It Matters
How Can You Keep Up?
Vocabulary Summary
Vocabulary Post-Test
References
Index
