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Teaching As Leadership: The Highly Effective Teacher's Guide to Closing the Achievement Gap |  | Authors: Teach For America, Steven Farr
Creators: Wendy Kopp, Jason Kamras
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
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Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 7.4 x 0.8
ISBN: 0470432861
Dewey Decimal Number: 371.102
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Publication Date: February 2, 2010
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A road map for teachers who strive to be highly effective leaders in our nation's classrooms Teach For America has fought the daunting battle of educational equity for the last twenty years. Based on evidence from classrooms across the country, they've discovered much about effective teaching practice, and distilled these findings into the six principles presented in this book. The Teaching As Leadership framework inspires teachers to: Set Big Goals; Invest Students and Their Families; Plan Purposefully; Execute Effectively; Continuously Increase Effectiveness; Work Relentlessly. The results are better educational outcomes for our nation's children, particularly those who live in low-income communities. - Inspires educators to be leaders in their classrooms and schools
- Demystifies what it means to be an effective teacher, describes key elements of practice and provides a clear vision of success
- Addresses the challenges every teacher, in every classroom, faces on a daily basis
An accompanying website includes a wealth of tools, videos, sample lessons, discussion boards, and case studies.
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 Great book to have July 27, 2010
Jenny J.J.I. (That Lives in Carolinas)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
My husband is planning on teaching partime online so I thought to grab this book for good reference and it is! So far he enjoys this book and fine it to be a good read, plus he have recommended it to all his friends in education. Especially those who have retired from public schools and are now working with colleges in teacher training programs.
This should be required reading for all college students who are considering education as a major. Apart from that, this book has given him great ideas to try in his effort to be the best teacher he can be.
This is a must have for new teachers. I cannot say this strongly enough.
The tips given in this book will put you on the road to success with simple
attention to how you run a classroom.
Inspiring and Practical Information for Teaching Methods for Highly Effective Teaching for Under-Achieving (and All) Schools July 19, 2010
christinemm - The Thinking Mother (Connecticut, United States)
TEACHING AS LEADERSHIP is a book for teachers explaining teaching methods with practical information that can be put into practice right now (if only the teachers are willing and allowed to make the change). With Teach for America (TFA), college graduates agree to teach for a couple of years (even when their major was not education) in order to do service to discount their student loans. They work in cities where kids are underprivileged, they've been labeled as failing and they are at-risk. I have heard in the media that these are places that are hard to lure union teachers to work in so TFA has been welcomed in to help out.
The book starts off trying to convince the reader that these kids who have failed, have imperfect home lives, low incomes, really are capable of learning and excelling at school. This teaching method not only teaches at grade level it works to raise each learner up from the point at which they are behind. Students can make multiple-grades advancement in one year with these methods. This book is an attempt to boost the reader's confidence that these kids are not lost causes and that the teachers possess more power to effect change than they may believe (even with constricted budgets or broken down classrooms).
Once that pep talk is over the book launches into a detailed explanation of the `core values' of TFA. The book's website lists their core values (if you want to learn more about what is in the book). This book expands each item in the framework in detail. Case studies are given to illustrate the ideas. Sidebar quotes tempt the skimming reader to stop skimming and read the whole thing instead.
Before reading this book I didn't know that TFA has a certain teaching method that is completely different than what is normally done in public schools. I'd heard of TFA in the media and assumed they taught by whatever method the schools told them to, boy was I wrong! This TFA method is not winging it by any means. The method is taught to the TFA teachers in a short training period then the TFA teachers are thrown into the fire.
The most surprising thing to me is that a TFA teacher uses their method in a classroom right next door to a union paid, experienced teacher using the same old, same old way that isn't working. Despite no extra money and the building being in whatever state of imperfection or disrepair that it may, students in the TFA classroom suddenly are learning more and scoring higher on tests. There is an attitude change and a new positive outlook on learning within the children. They are said to make multiple year's strides in one school year using the TFA teaching methods.
I see this TFA initiative as a kind of back door education reform but happening in limited locations and only in certain classrooms within one school building. What a shame that a more wide-sweeping reform is not happening across our nation.
It also seems to me that the TFA attitude instilled in the students is more motivating and energizing than what is happening in middle class and upper class towns across our nation. If every school uses the TFA methods I can't imagine what our nation's children could accomplish.
This book is fantastic!
I'm a homeschooling mother and read these books to get inspiration for my home education teaching experience. One reaction I have is that what homeschooling parents like me are doing is actually outlined in this book as the optimal way to teach! Yet I had never seen it written out in one place like this. Much of this I have learned through experience and trial and error with my own kids or hearing a tidbit here and trying it then seeing how that worked in real life.
How to set goals, how to plan lessons to achieve that goal, and how to custom design an education is all here, in an attempt to persuade teachers to take on this way of teaching. The book also includes rubrics for measuring academic performance and outcomes.
I recommend Teaching As Leadership for any teacher who is looking fore new ideas to boost learning in the classroom (and for homeschooling parents too).
 Too peppy July 10, 2010
MH
As a veteran teacher, I found Teaching As Leadership to contain many good ideas and strategies that would be useful to teachers across the curriculum and across the experience spectrum. However, the reader is presented with way too many anecdotes and with a "cheerleader" tone (The tone grated on my nerves after a while). This book would be most useful to new teachers. I do feel that if the content were condensed and if the tone were scaled back, that I would have been more interested in the book. I did, however, find useful information on the [...] website.
Inspirational, focuses too much on new teachers and underserved schools June 16, 2010
M. Cordoba (USA)
The book is inspirational for any teacher or aspiring teacher. However, it will be even more so for those teachers who work in under-served (typically attended by minority, under-performing, poor) schools.
The methods are based on research and teachers involed in "Teach for America".
The book basically follows a few very good professors and tries to explain how the managed to make these struggling students outperform and be able to compete with others from more privileged backgrounds.
The teachers features here typically have 1 or 2 years of experience, but are dynamic and getting surprisingly good results.
The book is the focus was too much on under-served areas - which is commendable - but given that it's general techniques that could be used (for the most part) on any teaching setting, it may alienate some readers who don't fall in that category.
Obviously the teachers here are a very select group, the very best of an already select group with a roughly ~15% admittance (teachers for Teach for America).
A word of caution (which was expected for me) there is no clear path to follow. There is two decades of research, follows the best teachers, tries to set up and explain the steps and what the teachers did - but everything good is extremely custom for the environment, so taking things out of this to apply yourself is incredibly hard.
What teacher A did for example, would not have worked for teacher B in the book. Everything these teachers do is in response to the students and how to motivate their particular group.
The few things that the book tries to imply as universal are so vague as to be of little practical use, or are widely known and hard to implement. For example "Engaging students", "Earning their respect", etc...
Overall a very uplifting and positive book, with a lot of good information, but almost impossible to go from it to practical use. Maybe the inspiration and ideas it has can help some teachers to create their own solutions to improve the learning experience of their students.
good instruction but a flawed premise May 23, 2010
M. L Strickland (Marietta, GA USA)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
While I am not a teacher by profession, I am a teacher by temperament and inclination. I use teaching quite a bit in my job and I was a founding member of the Board of Directors of a successful private Christian school for 20 years. I hope to teach after I retire from my current profession.
In my work with our school, I came to some rather firm conclusions that lead me to disagree with what appears to be the basic premise of this book. The book insists that successfully educating our children is the sole responsibility of the teacher. My observations and active involvement over the years in education have convinced me that the parents, the educational institution itself and the Students themselves share in the responsibility. Without the support and encouragement of the school itself and of the parents, as well as the desire of the students to learn, successful teaching is impossible.
While placing the entire burden on the teacher is counterproductive, there is no question that the teacher has a strong responsibility to perform the job effectively. That is where this book can help. It gives a sound framework for developing a very effective teaching style. It does not attempt to give specific detailed instruction because, as the examples in the book illustrate, there are many different ways to implement the concepts in the book.
This book has some good ideas, but in my mind, it wrongly places the entire burden and sole responsibility for learning on the teacher. Instead of helping, this will only increase the stress for the teacher and will set the teacher up for failure. The information in this book will only be helpful if it is part of an overall strategy that addresses the responsibilities of the parents, school, and the student equally.
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