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Every school has teachers who consistently engage students and deliver high quality instruction. Every school also has teachers with varying ranges of ability. If all teachers could be like the best teachers, we would have significant improvement in every school. In this book, Todd Whitaker demonstrates how this can really be achieved.
List of contents
Part I: Can We Really Help All Teachers Become Like The Best Teachers? 1. First The Big Picture, Then The Real Picture 2. The Teacher Is The Variable That Matters The Most (By Far) 3. How Great Teachers Look At The World: Hint – You Can Do It Too. Part II: Hiring Exceptional Teachers 4. Two Core Ways To Increase Teacher Quality In Your Setting: Let’s Start With Hiring Highly Talented Teachers 5. The Number One Goal In Hiring 6. The Construction of Induction 7. Improve The Pool and Our Pool - Student Teaching Part III: Improving The Teachers We Have 8. Teaching The Teachers 9. The Specificity of Teaching Classroom Management 10. The Power of Proximity 11. The One Best Way 12. Teach Me How to Filter, Please 13. The Emotional Modes Part IV: Timeless Truths and New Learnings 14. The Learning Relationship 15. The Eyes (and Ears) Have It 16. Understanding High Achievers 17. The Bottom Line on How to Get to The Top
About the author
Todd Whitaker (@toddwhitaker) is a leading presenter in the field of education and has written 65 books including the bestseller What Great Teachers Do Differently. He is a former teacher, coach, principal, and professor of educational leadership.
Summary
Every school has teachers who consistently engage students and deliver high quality instruction. Every school also has teachers with varying ranges of ability. If all teachers could be like the best teachers, we would have significant improvement in every school. In this book, Todd Whitaker demonstrates how this can really be achieved.
