Full Description
Open up a new world of learning and engage students with these powerful ideas!
This book helps you empower teachers and students to regain control of their own teaching and learning journey. With this helpful guide, cultivate enthusiasm for learning by changing the power dynamic and putting the reins back into the hands of students. Administrators and teachers learn to:
Cultivate the experts at your school
Create an environment of trust and collaboration
Give students and staff a voice
Includes real-life stories from other connected educators! Transform the learning experience and create lasting change with this breakthrough volume of the Connected Educators Series!
The Corwin Connected Educators series is your key to unlocking the greatest resource available to all educators: other educators. Being a Connected Educator is more than a set of actions: it's a belief in the potential of technology to fuel lifelong learning. "Pernille has shared what it takes to create an environment that nurtures growth for students and staff."
—Nicholas Provenzano, The Nerdy Teacher
TheNerdyTeacher.com
@TheNerdyTeacher
"Pernille makes a case for the need to change from a traditional hierarchical approach of control to a shared, empowering approach. This book outlines steps that administrators can take to share leadership in their schools and teachers can take to share the responsibility of learning with the students."
—William Chamberlain, Teacher
Noel Elementary School
Contents
Preface by Peter DeWitt
Introduction
I. The Need to Empower Our Schools
1. The Empowered Principal as Role Model
Obstacles
Benefits of Change
Plan of Action
2. Revitalizing the Staff Meeting
Obstacles
Benefits of Change
Plan of Action
3. Cultivating the Expert Within
Obstacles
Benefits of Change
Plan of Action
4. Small Moment Professional Development
Obstacles
Benefits of Change
Plan of Action
II. The Need to Empower Our Teachers and Our Students
5. The Empowered Classroom
Obstacles
Benefits of Change
Plan of Action
6. Classroom Set Up to Signal Change
Obstacles
Benefits of Change
Plan of Action
7. Empowered Self - Empowered Learning
Obstacles
Benefits of Change
Plan of Action
Conclusion
