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Brock, Barbara L.; Grady, Marilyn L. – Corwin Press, 2007
Beginning teachers are often filled with self-doubt and questions regarding school culture and principals' expectations. This book helps one answer teachers' questions and gain strategies to prevent the isolation that many new instructors experience. Updated to meet the challenges facing new teachers today, this revision of the bestseller helps…
Descriptors: School Culture, Principals, Beginning Teachers, Beginning Teacher Induction
Gose, Michael – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2007
The stories, anecdotes, humor, and insights found in this book capture what it means to be a teacher. The book begins with common encounters that are the hallmark of the new-teacher experience, but continues into equally entertaining tales that come with years of working with students, parents, staff, faculty, and administrators. "What It Means…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Teaching (Occupation), Beginning Teachers, Teaching Conditions
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Wright, Mary C. – SUNY Press, 2008
In surveys, research university faculty often report that they value teaching more than their departments do. This incongruence holds implications for job satisfaction, stress, time spent on teaching, organizational continuity, and even student evaluations. Using an interactionist view of organizations, Mary C. Wright examines the reasons for this…
Descriptors: Research Universities, College Faculty, College Instruction, Value Judgment
Patterson, Jerry L.; Kelleher, Paul – Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2005
Getting fired, dealing with bitter disputes, having your competence or integrity challenged--these are experiences that educators have all the time. But what's the difference between educators who triumph over adversity versus those who succumb? Blending sage wisdom and research with real stories from educators, this book introduces you to three…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Integrity, Instructional Leadership, Teacher Characteristics
Barth, Roland S. – 1999
This booklet describes the work of teacher leaders. Section 1, "The Teacher Leaders," describes today's teacher leadership. Section 2, "What Is Teacher Leadership?" explains that all teachers have leadership potential, and when teachers lead, principals extend their own capacity, students live in a democratic community of…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Leadership, Principals
Draves, William A. – 1995
This book explores the external environment, how it affects learning, and what practical techniques can be used to enhance the learning environment. It is meant to be a guide for teachers, instructors, and presenters and for administrators and managers. Part I focuses on the learning environment and addresses how the view of learning in society is…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Audiovisual Aids, Classroom Techniques, Educational Environment
Hook, Sidney; And Others – 1977
A compilation of essays deals with two vital ethical issues: (1) in such matters as genetic research, human subject research, and behavior modification, the conflict between freedom in scientific research and protection of the immediate public; and (2) the question of whether ethical guidelines have to be developed for teachers, or academic…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Behavior Change, Ethics, Experiments
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). – 1974
This monograph includes three papers that discuss ways teachers can respond to new teaching and learning demands. Part 1, "Initial and Continuing Training of Teachers: New Trends and Concepts," examines (a) general principles of the development of teacher education, (b) implications of new trends and concepts for recruiting members of the teaching…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Size, Classroom Environment, Educational Administration
Blase, Joseph; Blase, Jo – 2003
This book exposes the various manifestations of mistreatment of teachers by principals, offering practical solutions for its prevention and correction. Information comes from a study involving interviews with elementary and secondary teachers from rural, suburban, and urban areas across the United States and Canada. The book provides tools…
Descriptors: Administrator Behavior, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Response, Leadership Qualities
Palmer, Parker J. – 1998
This publication explores the inner life of a dedicated teacher. It examines how the teacher's inner life shapes teaching and learning both positively and negatively, and guides teachers in a process of rigorous self-appraisal with the goal of recovering personal vocation and passion for teaching while enhancing the ability to make an impact in…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Personal Narratives, Self Evaluation (Individuals)
Swaim, Marty Shollenberger; Swaim, Stephen C. – 1999
This book presents the argument that teachers need more time for students, more time for planning, and more time for teaching. It claims that the United States should adopt and pay for the model used for public schools elsewhere in the world by having smaller classes, fewer classes per day for each teacher, and more work time for teachers to plan…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Workload
Fullan, Michael; Hargreaves, Andy – 1996
Paradoxically, although major forces in society are pushing for improvement in the American educational system, many teachers experience job overload, isolation, and increasing despair. This book is the first in a trilogy designed to help teachers and principals fight for fundamentally positive changes that will benefit themselves and their…
Descriptors: Collegiality, Educational Environment, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
Walsh, Edwina – 1995
Nearly three-fourths of public school teachers are women, yet the majority of the 132 people who sat on the 6 major school reform panels of the 80s were non-teachers and men. Women in education are, as President Bush would have said, "out of the loop," because positions of power belong to men. This book examines the status of K-12 teaching in the…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education, Females
Ritchie, Joy S.; Wilson, David E. – 2000
This book explores the power of narrative in understanding the complexities and contradictions of what it means to develop as a teacher. It argues that the development of a professional identity is inextricable from personal identity, suggesting that when teachers have the opportunity to compose their own stories of learning within a supportive…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Individual Development, Lesbianism
Brown, Jean E., Ed. – 1994
Arguing that censorship is not simply an attempt to control what is taught in the schools but also an infringement on the legal learning rights of students, this collection of essays offers insights into how censorship can come about, its impacts and repercussions, and the ways it might be fought. The collection stresses action rather than…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Censorship, Elementary Secondary Education, English Curriculum
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