Leadership for Teacher Learning: Creating a Culture Where All Teachers Improve So That All Students Succeed, Packaging May Vary - Softcover

Dylan Wiliam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1941112269 ISBN 13: 9781941112267

Publisher: Solution Tree Press, 2016

Synopsis

Effective leaders inspire growth and improved performance in those they lead.The United States workforce will change significantly in the coming decades. Today’s students need teachers to prepare them to thrive in a constantly changing world. In turn, teachers need leadership that encourages them to grow in their practice.Leadership for Teacher Learning explores the correlation between teacher quality and student achievement. Drawing from evidence-based research findings, distinguished author and leading formative assessment authority Dylan Wiliam clearly and concisely explains how formative assessment, when applied properly, helps to create a structured and rigorous learning environment that increases student achievement. He also presents compelling research to give readers a clear picture of: * Which changes in classroom practice are most likely to impact student achievement * Formative assessment’s use in differentiated instruction (DI) and response to intervention (RTI) * How to select and support group leaders to ensure productive collaboration * Strategies to integrate formative assessment into teacher evaluation Tackling many of the toughest questions faced by school and district leadership, Wiliam discusses why efforts to change classroom practice have been relatively unsuccessful—and explores specific classroom tactics that do tend to raise student achievement, illustrating how significantly a teacher’s work impacts student learning.

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About the Author

Dylan Wiliam is one of the world's foremost education authorities. He has helped to successfully implement classroom formative assessment in thousands of schools all over the world, including the United States, Singapore, Sweden, Australia, and the United Kingdom. A two-part BBC series, "The Classroom Experiment," tracked Dr. Wiliam's work at one British middle school, showing how formative assessment strategies empower students, significantly increase engagement, and shift classroom responsibility from teachers to their students so that students become agents of and collaborators in their own learning.

Review

"Dylan's exhaustive and impeccable scholarship presents the most compelling and advanced argument for embracing the practice of classroom formative assessment." -- Rick Stiggins "assessment consultant, author of Revolutionize Assessment"

"Few academics can digest a complex array of research findings, draw coherent conclusions from that research, then describe these conclusions in a manner comprehensible to mere mortals. For school leaders and educational policymakers, this is mandatory reading." -- W. James Popham "professor emeritus at UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, author of Classroom Assessment"

About this edition

• Publisher: Solution Tree Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1941112269
• ISBN 13: 9781941112267
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 290