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Informationen zum Autor By Harold Kwalwasser Klappentext Renewal offers a clear picture of how to move away from the mass-production style of education that most schools offered throughout the twentieth century to a new, more innovative, and flexible model that can meet this country's promise of truly educating every child and preparing each of them for the challenges ahead. Zusammenfassung Renewal offers a clear picture of how to move away from the mass-production style of education that most schools offered throughout the twentieth century to a new, more innovative, and flexible model that can meet this country's promise of truly educating every child and preparing each of them for the challenges ahead. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction Part One - The Basics Ch. 1 - Management Theory 101 Ch. 2 - Human Relations 101 Ch. 3 - Politics 101 Part Two - Leaders Ch. 4 - Superintendents Ch. 5 - Principals Part Three - Teachers Ch. 6 - A Brave New World Ch. 7 - Keeping - and Working with - Those You have Ch. 8 - Training New (and More) Teachers Inside the System Ch. 9 - The Rest of Your Life: Good Teachers always get better: The Professional Learning Community Ch. 10 - Training New (and more) Teachers: Working the Pipeline into the Classroom Ch. 11 - Creating more Alternative Training and Certification Programs Ch. 12 - What is a Good Teacher: Evaluation in a Professional World Ch. 13 - Tenure Ch. 14 - Motivating Teachers: Is Pay the Be All and End All? Ch. 15 - The Coleman Report Effect on Motivation: Do Teachers have low Expectations of Poor Kids? Ch. 16 - The Special Challenge of Hard-to-Staff Schools Part Four - Customers Students Ch. 17 - Do not lose Sight of the Student Ch. 18 - Seeing Every Child for Who They are, not Who We Assume Them to be: Replacing One Curriculum Taught One Way Ch. 19 - Ending a System Designed to Lose Track of Kids: Paying Attention to Real Students, Not to the Assumptions We Make About Them Ch. 20 - Assessing Students: Never Letting Them Fall too far Behind Parents Ch. 21 - Parents: One Half of a Confused Partnership Ch. 22 - Parents: Long-Ignored Consumers and Owners Part Five - The Template: The Things High-Performing Schools Have in Common Ch. 23 - Six Beliefs Ch. 24 - Eight Practices Ch. 25 - A Case Study in What It Takes to Fail Ch. 26 - The Things not Done Part Six - Beyond the School District: The Role of the States and Federal Governments Ch. 27 - The Role of the States Ch. 28 - The Role of the Federal Government Postscript - The Future of the American Public School System Ch. 29 - The System of Schools We Want: The Education System We Need Appendix I - The Principles of a Citizens' Movement for Better Education Appendix II - A Proposed School "Disclosure Document" ...
