Official school leaders and classroom teachers striving to be the best will learn how to put the school's goals and priorities into practice by selecting the right structure for differentiating teacher professional learning to improve outcomes for students. This comprehensive guide provides powerful tools needed to ensure that competent, caring, qualified professionals who want to improve teaching and learning are in every classroom.
Key Features
- Implementing the technical and procedural skills needed to support teacher learning while observing, assessing, and evaluating instruction.
- Identifying appropriate relational skills for communicating and working with teachers.
- Applying the best interpersonal approach to stretch each teacher based on their own developmental level.
- Making the most of teachable moments with immediate response skills.
- Understanding how to support teachers' social-emotional wellness as an essential component of improving practice.
Additional Information
In addition, each chapter provides detailed scenarios and case studies that illustrate exceptional leadership, and the Appendixes offer connections to dozens of promising practices.
We are in a new era of teaching and learning, and a new kind of leader is needed to guide successful and extraordinary schools. Leadership for Learning: How to Bring Out the Best in Every Teacher gives K–12 leaders the powerful tools they need to ensure that competent, caring, qualified professionals who want to improve teaching and learning are in every classroom.
Specifications
New to this edition:
- New material on developing leaders' pedagogical skills.
- Information as to the kinds of conceptual, procedural, and emotional supports leaders can use when working directly with teachers.
- New research.
