Teaching in America: The Slow RevolutionHarvard University Press, 30. juni 2009 - 288 sider If the essential acts of teaching are the same for schoolteachers and professors, why are they seen as members of quite separate professions? Would the nation's schools be better served if teachers shared more of the authority that professors have long enjoyed? Will a slow revolution be completed that enables schoolteachers to take charge of their practice--to shoulder more responsibility for hiring, mentoring, promoting, and, if necessary, firing their peers? This book explores these questions by analyzing the essential acts of teaching in a way that will help all teachers become more thoughtful practitioners. It presents portraits of teachers (most of them women) struggling to take control of their practice in a system dominated by an administrative elite (mostly male). The educational system, Gerald Grant and Christine Murray argue, will be saved not by better managers but by better teachers. And the only way to secure them is by attracting talented recruits, developing their skills, and instituting better means of assessing teachers' performance. Grant and Murray describe the evolution of the teaching profession over the last hundred years, and then focus in depth on recent experiments that gave teachers the power to shape their schools and mentor young educators. The authors conclude by analyzing three equally possible scenarios depicting the role of teachers in 2020. |
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... administrators rang the bells. Although teachers often complied only symbolically once the classroom door was closed since the super- visers couldn't watch everybody all the time, they were treated as functionaries, not as professionals ...
... administrators rang the bells. Although teachers often complied only symbolically once the classroom door was closed since the super- visers couldn't watch everybody all the time, they were treated as functionaries, not as professionals ...
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... administrators' union, which charged that the teachers were usurping administrators' powers, and attacked by the rearguard within their own union who did not believe teachers should take responsibility for rooting out incompetence. Adam ...
... administrators' union, which charged that the teachers were usurping administrators' powers, and attacked by the rearguard within their own union who did not believe teachers should take responsibility for rooting out incompetence. Adam ...
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... administrators, who applied the principles of scientific management in order to build a massive educational enterprise. They were white Protestant males who assumed the leadership with religious fervor in the belief that only universal ...
... administrators, who applied the principles of scientific management in order to build a massive educational enterprise. They were white Protestant males who assumed the leadership with religious fervor in the belief that only universal ...
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... administrators” was the top choice checked in 1991 (by 16 percent of all public school teachers), although only 11 percent targeted administrators in 1996, perhaps reflecting more shared governance. Heavy work load and lack of mate ...
... administrators” was the top choice checked in 1991 (by 16 percent of all public school teachers), although only 11 percent targeted administrators in 1996, perhaps reflecting more shared governance. Heavy work load and lack of mate ...
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3 The Essential Acts of Teaching | 31 |
4 Three Questions Every Teacher Must Answer | 57 |
Florences Story 18901920 | 76 |
Andrenas Story 19601990 | 103 |
The Rochester Story 19871997 | 141 |
8 The Progress of the Slow Revolution throughout the Nation | 182 |
9 Teaching in 2020 | 213 |
Research Methods | 239 |
Acknowledgments | 269 |
Index | 271 |
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Teaching in America: The Slow Revolution Gerald Grant,Christine E. Murray Ingen forhåndsvisning tilgjengelig - 2002 |
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