Never Underestimate Your Teachers: Instructional Leadership for Excellence in Every Classroom - Softcover

Jackson, Robyn R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1416615288 ISBN 13: 9781416615286

Publisher: ASCD, 2013

Synopsis

Any teacher can be a master teacher.

So says Robyn R. Jackson, author of the best-selling Never Work Harder Than Your Students and Other Principles of Great Teaching.

In this book for school leaders, Jackson presents a new model for understanding teaching as a combination of skill and will and explains the best ways to support individual teachers' ongoing professional development. Here, you'll learn how to meet your teachers where they are and help every one of them—from the raw novice to the savvy veteran, from the initiative-weary to the change-challenged to the already outstanding—develop the mindset and habits of master teachers. Real-life examples, practical tools, and strategies for managing time and energy demands will help you build your leadership capacity as you raise the level of instructional excellence throughout your school.

To move your school forward, you must move the people in it. If you want a master teacher every classroom, you must commit to helping every teacher be a master teacher. That work begins here.

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From the Back Cover

Any teacher can be a master teacher.

So says Robyn R. Jackson, author of the best-selling Never Work Harder Than Your Students and Other Principles of Great Teaching.

In this book for school leaders, Jackson presents a new model for understanding teaching as a combination of skill and will and explains the best ways to support individual teachers' ongoing professional development. Here, you'll learn how to meet your teachers where they are and help every one of them from the raw novice to the savvy veteran, from the initiative-weary to the change-challenged to the already outstanding develop the mindset and habits of master teachers. Real-life examples, practical tools, and strategies for managing time and energy demands will help you build your leadership capacity as you raise the level of instructional excellence throughout your school.

To move your school forward, you must move the people in it. If you want a master teacher every classroom, you must commit to helping every teacher be a master teacher. That work begins here.

Edition details

• Publisher: ASCD
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1416615288
• ISBN 13: 9781416615286
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 174