Sharon Conley, Bruce S. Cooper

Moving from Teacher Isolation to Collaboration (eBook, PDF)

Enhancing Professionalism and School Quality

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Teaching embodies many roles -- in the classroom through teacher-student interactions, and beyond the classroom through teacher-adult interactions. This book explains and demonstrates how collaboration and teamwork can help enhance professionalism and school quality by overcoming teachers' isolation in the classroom, in the school, and in their work. The contributing authors address: historic patterns of isolation; why collaboration is crucial for vibrant and sustained professionalism; principles of successful team collaboration in schools and other sectors; school districts' structure and support for collaborative teams; forces that motivate or restrain teachers' ability to collaborate; how teachers in grade-level teams perceive the quality of their training and support; team members' perceptions of their work in departments; teachers' use of evidence of student learning to improve teacher and organizational learning; and teacher-principal collaboration from the perspectives of exemplary teachers. These chapters provide insight into the complexity of teachers' roles, and indicate the necessity to build collaboration within the school and beyond.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798765185926
• Artikelnr.: 74842212

Autorenporträt

Sharon Conley, PhD, is professor of education in the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education at University of California, Santa Barbara.

Bruce S. Cooper, PhD, is professor of educational leadership and policy at Fordham University Graduate School of Education in New York City.

Conley and Cooper are also the editors of Finding, Preparing, and Supporting School Leaders: Critical Issues, Useful Solutions; and Keeping and Improving Today's School Leaders: Retaining and Sustaining the Best.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents PREFACE Bruce S. Cooper & Sharon Conley Chapter 1:
Teaching as a Profession - and More: Why? and How? Bruce S. Cooper &
Carolyn Brown Chapter 2: What has Prevented Teachers From Being Full
Professionals? Mary Antony Bair Chapter 3: Rejuvenating Teacher Teams: Back
to Basics Terrence E. Deal & Donna Redman Chapter 4: Organizational Design
in Support of Professional Learning Communities in One District Scott C.
Bauer, S. David Brazer, Michelle Van Lare, & Robert L. Smith Chapter 5:
Influences on Teacher Sharing and Collaboration Tanya F. Cook & Vivienne
Collinson Chapter 6: Teaming to Break the Walls of Isolation: Collaboration
in Elementary Grade Level Teams J. John Dewey & Sharon Conley Chapter 7:
Collaboration in Middle School Departments: A Work Group Effectiveness
Perspective Sharon Conley & Frank C. Guerrero Chapter 8: Professional
Learning Communities Using Evidence: Examining Teacher Learning and
Organizational Learning Michelle D. Van Lare, S. David Brazer, Scott C.
Bauer, & Robert L. Smith Chapter 9: Principal-Teacher Collaboration
Vivienne Collinson EPILOGUE: Collaboration, Professionalism, and School
Quality for the Future Bruce S. Cooper ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS