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Moving from Teacher Isolation to Collaboration
Enhancing Professionalism and School Quality
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2013
Summary
Teaching embodies many roles -- in the classroom through teacher-student interactions, and beyond the classroom through teacher-adult interactions. This book explains and demonstrates how collaboration and teamwork can help enhance professionalism and school quality by overcoming teachers' isolation in the classroom, in the school, and in their work. The contributing authors address: historic patterns of isolation; why collaboration is crucial for vibrant and sustained professionalism; principles of successful team collaboration in schools and other sectors; school districts' structure and support for collaborative teams; forces that motivate or restrain teachers' ability to collaborate; how teachers in grade-level teams perceive the quality of their training and support; team members' perceptions of their work in departments; teachers' use of evidence of student learning to improve teacher and organizational learning; and teacher-principal collaboration from the perspectives of exemplary teachers. These chapters provide insight into the complexity of teachers' roles, and indicate the necessity to build collaboration within the school and beyond.
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Edition
1/2013
Copyright Year
2013
ISBN-Print
978-1-4758-0269-6
ISBN-Online
978-1-4758-0272-6
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
212
Product Type
Monograph
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Preface No access
Chapter One. Teaching as a Profession—and More: Why? And How? No access Pages 1 - 16
Chapter Two. Restricted Professionalism of Teachers: Implications for Collaboration No access Pages 17 - 34
Chapter Three. Rejuvenating Teacher Teams: Back to Basics No access Pages 35 - 48
Chapter Four. Organizational Design in Support of Professional Learning Communities in One District No access Pages 49 - 80
Chapter Five. Influences on Teacher Sharing and Collaboration No access Pages 81 - 100
Chapter Six. Teaming to Break the Walls of Isolation: Collaboration in Elementary Grade Level Teams No access Pages 101 - 126
Chapter Seven. Collaboration in Middle School Departments: A Work Group Effectiveness Perspective No access Pages 127 - 156
Chapter Eight. Professional Learning Communities Using Evidence: Examining Teacher Learning and Organizational Learning No access Pages 157 - 182
Chapter Nine. Teacher-Principal Collaboration: Partnerships or Power Plays? No access Pages 183 - 202
Epilogue. Overcoming Teacher Isolation: Collaboration, Professionalism, and School Quality for the Future No access Pages 203 - 210
