What Every Teacher Should Know About the Profession and Politics of Teaching (Tileston, Donna Walker. What Every Teacher Should Know About--, 10.)

The classroom teacher′s concise guide to accountability issues in the era of No Child Left Behind ! Quality teaching and quality professional development in today′s professional learning community require an insider′s up-to-date understanding of accountability to stakeholders. The topics covered in this savvy little guide include: Testing and the move to standards School choice Finding resources Ways to communicate Working with colleagues Being supervised The parent-teacher conference The changing face of education Changing ideas about the teaching process Keeping up as a teaching professional Vocabulary pre-test, post-test, and summary Bibliography and index Cover; Contents; About the Author; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Vocabulary Pre-Test; Chapter 1 - The Politics of Teaching; Accountability and Testing; Flexible Use of Federal Resources; School Choice; Quality Teachers and Quality Teaching; Chapter 2 - Being Part of a Learning Community; The Big Machine Approach; Accountability to the Larger System; Finding Resources; Working with Colleagues; Being Supervised; Quality Professional Development; Chapter 3 - Working with Parents; Begin at the Beginning; Ways to Communicate; The Parent-Teacher Conference; What if? Chapter 4 - What Does the Future Hold?The Changing Face of Education; The Move to Standards; Changing Ideas about the Teaching Process; The Teacher as a Professional: Why it Matters; How can You Keep up?; Vocabulary Summary; Vocabulary Post-Test; References; Index No Child Left Behind and accountability to stakeholders require the up-to-date coverage found here on topics such as the politics of teaching and the changing the face of education. In January 2002, President Bush signed into law the No Child Left Behind Act, which was heralded as the most significant education reform in decades. "The classroom teacher's concise guide to accountability issues in the era of No Child Left Behind."--Jacket