Leadership for differentiating schools & classrooms / Carol Ann Tomlinson, Susan Demirsky Allan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tomlinson, Carol A.

Contributor:

Allan, Susan D.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Individualized instruction.

Educational leadership.

Classroom management.

School environment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (179 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Alexandria, Va. : Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Try going a week without hearing a call for a massive overhaul of our educational system. Parents, students, educators, bureaucrats, pundits . . . everyone says something must be done. But what? And who should do it?In this environment, school leaders must build bridges for change. As the system now stands, many students spend great portions of their lives feeling inferior if they struggle, invisible if they already know the material, problematic if they're not a child of the dominant culture, and perverse if they question the school agenda.This book explores how school leaders can develop responsive, personalized, and differentiated classrooms. Differentiation is simply a teacher attending to the learning needs of a particular student or small group of students, rather than teaching a class as though all individuals in it were basically alike.Expert educators teach individuals the most important things in the most effective ways. No single approach works with all students. Classrooms function best when teachers and students join to develop multiple avenues to learning. Until every student is growing and successful, our own growth is unfinished. The authors show how school leaders can encourage and support growth in our classrooms.

Contents:

""Cover ""; ""Title Page ""; ""Copyright ""; ""Table of Contents ""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Chapter 1: Understanding Differentiated Instruction: Building a Foundation for Leadership""; ""Chapter 2: Reasons for Optimism About Differentiation: Its Basis in Theory and Research""; ""Chapter 3: Lessons from the Literature of Change: What Leaders for Differentiation Need to Know""; ""Chapter 4: Establishing Conditions to Initiate Systemic Change""; ""Chapter 5: Practical Strategies for Implementing a Differentiation Growth Plan""; ""Chapter 6: Staff Development That Supports Differentiation""

""Chapter 7: Continuation of Systemic Growth Toward Differentiation""""Chapter 8: Communicating with Parents and the Public About Differentiation""; ""Chapter 9: Growth Toward Differentiation in Context: A Case Study of Change in Process""; ""Chapter 10: Planning for the “What� and the “How� of Differentiation""; ""Appendix""; ""References""; ""Index""; ""About the Authors""; ""Search this Book ""

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ISBN:

9786610931071

9781416612476

1416612475

9781280931079

1280931078

9781416601029

1416601023

9780871209238

0871209233

OCLC:

51534290