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Working Together in Schools

A Guide for Educators
The long-term success of school improvement depends to a significant degree on the ability of those involved to participate in teamwork. This book explores various forms of collaboration in schools, including pairings, groups and committees, and suggests a framework for understanding how to build stronger working relationships.

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Product Details
  • Grade Level: PreK-12
  • ISBN: 9780803963788
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Year: 1996
  • Page Count: 184
  • Publication date: September 18, 1996
Price: $39.95
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"A book for our times—a useful and usable book that places collaboration at the center of school improvement. Donaldson and Sanderson make an important contribution to the building of professional community in schools."
Thomas J. Sergiovanni
Lillian Radford Professor of Educational Administration and Senior Fellow Center for Educational Leadership
Trinity University

Donaldson and Sanderson show you how to help your entire staff discover a common goal--improved learning for students—and move toward it together. The authors give you insightful, step-by-step guidance on exactly how to accomplish this. Learn how you can increase the effectiveness of your teaching staff so that every student benefits by improved learning.

Encourage teachers' personal growth by encouraging them to use creative teamwork to find alternate solutions to tough school problems. Bring staff together to address complicated school concerns as a group. Build your student-oriented school from the inside by encouraging everyone to work toward better instruction. This book is designed to help parents, teachers, principals, and other school staff work together more easily to teach kids better. Find out how collaboration can:

  • Build and reinforce common educational goals
  • Dramatically raise teaching levels
  • Boost teachers' leadership skills
  • Enrich your school's culture by keeping decision-making on site
  • Involve parents with their children's' education

Dozens of great, simple ideas and strategies help you turn common, pressing school challenges into opportunities for effective working together. Find out how bringing parents into the equation can further enhance students' learning experiences. Use the thoughtful, real-life examples provided in each chapter to build a unified teaching and learning community at your school. Let the down-to-earth, practical advice here help you and your staff begins working together more effectively--and your students will reap the reward of a better education.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Introduction

Why Work Together?

Collaboration

The Heart of Working Together

Giving and Recieving Help

The Consultative Pair

Pairing Up

The Team of Two

We Could Do It Together! The Self-Intiating Group

Appoint a Committee to Handle It! The Task Committee

Send It to the Curriculum Committee! The Standing Committee

Let's Team Up! The Teaching Team

Revitalizing Faculty Meetings

The Whole Staff

Collaboration

Making It Happen

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