Empowering Teachers: What Successful Principals DoSAGE Publications, 2001 - 201 sider The ideas presented in this book are drawn from a study of highly successful principals of schools affiliated with the League of Professional Schools. Chapter 1, "Sharing Governance," presents an overview of the literature on professional development and a description of the study. Chapter 2, "Trusting the Experts: Teachers," focuses on trust as the foundation for shared governance and teacher empowerment. Chapter 3, "Creating Instruction-Oriented Structures That Help Teachers Do Their Best," examines the importance of structuring schools to encourage teacher collaboration and access to decision making. Chapter 4, "A Cornucopia of Supportive Resources," explores how principals use resources such as staff development to enhance teachers' instructional capabilities. Chapter 5,"Encouraging Autonomy and Innovation," reviews extending autonomy and encouraging innovation as strategies to enhance instructional capabilities. Chapter 6, "Modeling Personal Dimensions," highlights the effects of such personal characteristics of principals as optimism, caring, honesty, friendliness, and enthusiasm. Chapter 7, "About Risk and Threat," argues for reducing risk and threat to teachers. Chapter 8, "Valuing and Rewarding Good Work," explains the benefits of rewarding teachers. Chapter 9, "Helping Solve Problems," discusses the importance of adopting a problem-solving orientation. Chapter 10, "Providing Leadership That Is Facilitative and Democratic," presents a portrait of a successful shared-governance principal and considers the future of instruction-oriented, facilitative-democratic leadership in schools. (Contains approximately 300 references.) (TEJ) |
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... focus that is broad and extends even well beyond instruction : " Our focus is not just on trying to im- prove classroom practice . We have this other side of our efforts whereby we've tried to change the organizational culture that af ...
... focus that is broad and extends even well beyond instruction : " Our focus is not just on trying to im- prove classroom practice . We have this other side of our efforts whereby we've tried to change the organizational culture that af ...
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... focus of work in schools . Improvement efforts , driven by empowered professionals , should unerringly maintain this focus . 2. Developing a common vision is a process , one that is different in each school . In some schools , the ...
... focus of work in schools . Improvement efforts , driven by empowered professionals , should unerringly maintain this focus . 2. Developing a common vision is a process , one that is different in each school . In some schools , the ...
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... focus on the policy and management domain rather than on instructional matters ; its mission is less oriented to instruc- tional improvement than are other models . The School Improvement Team is a school site council of teach- ers and ...
... focus on the policy and management domain rather than on instructional matters ; its mission is less oriented to instruc- tional improvement than are other models . The School Improvement Team is a school site council of teach- ers and ...
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| Tittel | Empowering Teachers: What Successful Principals Do |
| Forfatter | Joseph Blase |
| Utgave | 2, illustrert |
| Utgiver | SAGE Publications, 2001 |
| Original fra | University of Michigan |
| Digitalisert | 25. jan 2010 |
| ISBN | 0761977325, 9780761977322 |
| Lengde | 201 sider |
| Eksporter sitat | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |