Teaching the next generation of teachers : preparing for the practice of learning communities in secondary school / Rich Waters.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Waters, Rich, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

High school teaching--United States.

High school teaching.

High school teachers--United States.

High school teachers.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (176 pages)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, 2016.

Summary:

This book will serves as a practical, how-to guide so secondary school students can begin to experience working in a professional learning community as they strive to improve the schools they are in right now. In doing this, the book adheres to the idea that 'student leadership now is the best preparation for teacher leadership later.' It will help aspiring teachers move away from the many stale traditions in schooling as they re-conceive of the profession in ways that will make it more personally satisfying while acknowledging that the work of teachers in the 21st century must necessarily be.

Contents:

Developing a vision: helping students imagine themselves in a school of the future

Your students' leadership: it begins with a new mindset

Your students' careers: staying with the past or leading into the future

Teachers learn and teach twenty-first-century skills

Teachers recognize quality levels in learning

Teachers invite students to share their voices

Teachers facilitate greater individualization of study

Teachers investigate students' learning engagement

Teachers elicit intrinsic motivation and "knowing myself as a learner"

Teachers stop the game of school

The story of Jane

Let's imagine a twenty-first-century secondary school.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed Novermber 25, 2016).

ISBN:

1-4758-2917-5