Learning to Be Teacher Leaders : A Framework for Assessment, Planning, and Instruction

Learning to Be Teacher Leaders examines three integrated components of strong pedagogy - assessment, planning, and instruction - within a framework emphasizing the knowledge, skills, and dispositions that can empower teachers to become teacher leaders within their schools. Woven throughout are a student-centered stance toward assessment, planning, and instruction and a teacher-centered stance toward leadership. At the same time, the text recognizes the outside factors that can challenge this approach and provides strategies for coping with them. Combining the what, why, and how of teaching, the research-based concepts are presented in a pragmatic format, relevant across grade levels, classrooms, and content areas. Designed to be specifically helpful in supporting success of national licensure assessments, this comprehensive text brings together in one place the important features of learning to be an effective teacher and becoming a teacher leader who continues to grow and develop within the profession. Using this book as a guide and resource, preservice and and beginning teachers will focus on the most important factors in teaching, resulting in strengthening their pedagogy and developing a language that helps them move forward in terms of agency and advocacy. A Companion Website provides additional resources for instructors and students. -- from back cover.