Six degrees of school improvement : empowering a new profession of teaching

Amidst the contentious debates about teacher effectiveness, most people believe that unions, education colleges, charter networks, consulting agencies, textbook publishers, test producers, professional associations, teachers, and researchers disagree with one another about the most essential school...

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Main Author Purinton, Ted (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, 2011.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806616695
DOI10.1108/978-1-61735-368-0
Physical Description1 online resource (xvi, 272 pages) : illustrations

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505 0 |a Preface -- Part I. A manifesto for a collaborative profession of teaching -- Chapter 1 -- Introduction -- Chapter 2. The great debate that misses the point -- Chapter 3. The foundations of a collaborative profession of teaching -- Part II. Shifting governance over instructional means to the profession -- Chapter 4. The tentacles of control -- Chapter 5. A small world after all? -- Part III. Equipping a collaborative profession -- Chapter 6. Diffusing good instruction -- Chapter 7. Getting the word out Part IV. Cementing comprehensive connections within the profession -- Chapter 8. Networks of outsider influence and diffusion -- Chapter 9. Networks for professional -- Chapter 10. Knowledge transfer and practice accountability Part V. Conclusion -- Chapter 11. Toward collaborative professionalism in education references -- About the author. 
506 |a Plný text je dostupný pouze z IP adres počítačů Univerzity Tomáše Bati ve Zlíně nebo vzdáleným přístupem pro zaměstnance a studenty 
520 |a Amidst the contentious debates about teacher effectiveness, most people believe that unions, education colleges, charter networks, consulting agencies, textbook publishers, test producers, professional associations, teachers, and researchers disagree with one another about the most essential school reforms. Though all these groups do certainly have their own interests and perspectives, they also all desire to see that students are better prepared for a competitive world. What if all these groups worked together for that very goal? What would happen if all reform work in PK-12 education centered on the improvement of teaching? Would teachers be treated differently? Would they respond to their work in more innovative ways? Would it change the quality of education that children in the United States receive?Six Degrees of School Improvement: Empowering a New Profession of Teaching provides glimpses of this realistic approach to American education reform with an eye toward what the system might look like in one to two generations from now. The book makes a solid case for "collaborative professionalism," a system that binds professionals together under a common set of understandings about the ways in which children and adolescents learn content knowledge and acquire skills. It argues that popular approaches to school improvement circumvent teachers and thus further de-skill and disempower the very people responsible for student learning in classrooms. Most importantly, the book provides very clear guidance on building a system of collaborative professionalism among teachers. 
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