Bestseller!

The Power of Teacher Teams
With Cases, Analyses, and Strategies for Success

Vivian Troen - Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA
Katherine C. Boles

Foreword by Richard F. Elmore, Includes a companion DVD with video case studies and CD-ROM with reproducibles and supplemental cases

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November 2011 | 248 pages | Corwin

How to successfully improve teaching and learning with teacher teams

While most educators believe working in teams is valuable, not all team efforts lead to instructional improvement. Through richly detailed case studies, The Power of Teacher Teams demonstrates how schools can transform their teams into more effective learning communities that foster teacher leadership. The benefits of successful teacher teams include:

Improved performance for both teachers and students
Meaningful professional development
Group adoption of a new curriculum
Shared insights into student work
Better classroom management
Support for new teachers
New roles for teacher leaders
Opportunities for mentor support

School leaders will find guidelines, methods, and concrete steps for building and sustaining effective teacher teams. Also included are one DVD with video case studies and one CD with reproducibles. The most important reason for building teacher teams is to enhance student learning through improved instruction—and that story is at the heart of this book.

Available Formats

ISBN: 9781412991339 Paperback w/DVD & CD Suggested Retail Price: $47.95 Bookstore Price: $38.36

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Photo Credits

List of Figures

Foreword

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

1. Read This First

2. Get Ready for Better Teams

3. What Makes a Good Team, What Makes a Team Good?

4. Instructional Leadership: Principals and Teacher Leaders

5. Team Development and Strategies for Success

6. Teaching Cases

References

Index

Free resources

Webinar: The Power of Teacher Teams

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Key features

· A complete sourcebook on building and sustaining effective teacher teams.

· Includes a collection of richly-detailed teaching cases for collaborative analysis.

· Video case studies give teams opportunities to observe other teams in action and enable the teams to analyze the challenges and successes of team meetings.