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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... involvement also allowed teachers to be cre- ative , to avoid standard solutions or bureaucratic approaches to complex problems , and to achieve personal and social freedom . Maxine Greene ( 1988 ) , the respected educator - philosopher ...
... involvement also allowed teachers to be cre- ative , to avoid standard solutions or bureaucratic approaches to complex problems , and to achieve personal and social freedom . Maxine Greene ( 1988 ) , the respected educator - philosopher ...
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... involvement in formal shared decision - mak- ing structures is the enhancement of teachers ' reflective orientation . We found that teachers become actively involved in considering their actions and the impacts of those actions on ...
... involvement in formal shared decision - mak- ing structures is the enhancement of teachers ' reflective orientation . We found that teachers become actively involved in considering their actions and the impacts of those actions on ...
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... involvement to create more effective schools . We also note that principals will inevitably encounter some diffi ... involved , and it cannot solve all of a school's problems . Tips for Initiating Shared Governance Structures : A Baker's ...
... involvement to create more effective schools . We also note that principals will inevitably encounter some diffi ... involved , and it cannot solve all of a school's problems . Tips for Initiating Shared Governance Structures : A Baker's ...
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