What Every Teacher Should Know About the Profession and Politics of Teaching

Donna Walker Tileston - Strategic Teaching and Learning, Dallas, TX

October 2003 | 96 pages | Corwin

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

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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

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