Enhancing Teacher Performance
A Toolbox of Strategies to Facilitate Moving Behavior from Problematic to Good and from Good to Great
By (author) W. George Selig, Linda D. Grooms, Alan A. Arroyo, Michael D. Kelly, Glenn L. Koonce, Herman D. Clark Jr.
Not available to order
Publication date:
08 April 2016Length of book:
182 pagesPublisher
Rowman & Littlefield PublishersISBN-13: 9781475817898
Exemplary schools have at their core outstanding principals and teachers. This book enables school leaders to enhance teacher performance to move from problematic to good or better yet, from good to great. Serving as a reference tool, the authors identify 38 common challenges or opportunities to use their Individualized Intervention Strategy System (IISS). To most effectively correct any of these problematic attitudes or behaviors, leaders first assess the teacher’s stage of motivation and behavior style before selecting from one or more of their 304 strategies ranging from slightly to extremely intrusive.
Questions to Ponder and case studies serve to not only help leaders look at themselves in terms of their strengths and weaknesses in working with their staffs but also to illustrate the IISS in action. A toolbox of strategies, Enhancing Teacher Performance can be used as a text or on-the-run. The goal is to provide you, the school leader, a way forward in creating an encouraging milieu in your school, working alongside teachers in a true partnership to increase student learning.
Questions to Ponder and case studies serve to not only help leaders look at themselves in terms of their strengths and weaknesses in working with their staffs but also to illustrate the IISS in action. A toolbox of strategies, Enhancing Teacher Performance can be used as a text or on-the-run. The goal is to provide you, the school leader, a way forward in creating an encouraging milieu in your school, working alongside teachers in a true partnership to increase student learning.
Acknowledging that it is often difficult to lead in the midst of complex tensions and crises, Enhancing Teacher Performance provides foundational principles, insightful guidelines, and practical suggestions as to how to best handle common situations such as handling complaints, building teacher motivation, and dealing with the problematic teacher. At the end of each chapter, the authors provide thought-provoking questions that can be used for self-reflection and classroom discussion. The text is not a series of unrelated chapters, but rather is an integrated guide wherein each chapter connects to previous sections and builds a holistic, relational approach culminating in specific individualized intervention strategies linked to some of the most common teacher problems. Enhancing Teacher Performance will prove to be an invaluable resource to anyone committed to improving their school.