Inspiring Professional Growth: Empowering Strategies to Lead, Motivate, and Engage Early Childhood Teachers - Softcover

MEd Susan MacDonald

Softcover

ISBN 10: 087659822X ISBN 13: 9780876598221

Publisher: Gryphon House, Inc., 2019

Synopsis

Youve probably seen it: frustration builds, teacher turnover rises, staff meetings become insufferable, indifference breeds throughout the school. Spark change! When your staff feels supported and empowered to grow and develop their skills, your program and the children will thrive. Inspiring Professional Growth, the follow-up to Inspiring Early Childhood Leadership, addresses the need for offering nurturing and empowering professional development. This book provides leaders with a framework to create a system that supports teachers throughout their careers.

About this title

From the Back Cover

You’ve probably seen it: frustration builds, teacher turnover rises, staff meetings become insufferable, indifference breeds throughout the school. The solution? Exploring new ways to engage and motivate teachers. 

When your staff feels supported and empowered to grow and develop their skills, your program and the children will thrive. Implementing key concepts—collaboration, individualized professional-development plans, and team goals—can completely revolutionize your program. 

In this follow-up to her book Inspiring Early Childhood Leadership, author Susan MacDonald, MEd, addresses the need for offering nurturing, encouraging, and empowering professional development. Featuring easy-to-use tips, research-based strategies, leadership vignettes, and interactive and reflective exercises, Inspiring Professional Growth provides leaders with a framework to create a system that supports teachers throughout their careers.

Learn how to: 

• Acquire new leadership skills
• Gain confidence in your leadership role
• Establish a growth culture
• Work with and nurture even challenging staff members
• Cultivate collaboration and collective goal setting
• Facilitate meaningful professional development

Inspiring Professional Growth will guide you to experience firsthand the many benefits, from better child outcomes to increased teacher retention, of creating a nurturing and empowering workplace.

About the Author

Susan MacDonald, MEd, is the founder of Inspiring New Perspectives, a consultancy focused on empowering educational leaders to create programs that respect and nurture possibilities within each child, parent, and teacher. She has been developing and delivering inspirational courses and workshops for more than 25 years. She has served as director of a Reggio-inspired preschool program, as adjunct faculty at Lesley University and Wheelock College, and as a Commonwealth of Massachusetts licensing supervisor. She holds a masters degree in instructional design and professional coaching certifications.

Edition details

• Publisher: Gryphon House, Inc.
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 087659822X
• ISBN 13: 9780876598221
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 128