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Quantum Learning & Instructional Leadership in Practice

By: John Parks Le Tellier

Take your leadership style to a whole new level!

This inspiring handbook will show you how to upgrade performance, create durable motivation, and renew energy levels. Using evidence-based strategies, Le Tellier provides principals and teachers with a catalog of practiced "moves," or actions that create an empowering classroom climate, reinforce content, and increase or sustain motivation. Learn to:

Improve teaching effectiveness
Improve student motivation
Strengthen student character
Implement and support leadership in the classroom
Renew teachers' energy and passion for their profession

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Grade Level: K-12
ISBN: 9781412939904
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2006
Page Count: 232
Publication date: October 27, 2006

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Take your leadership style to a whole new level!

"Very powerful and user-friendly. If this book is carefully and intentionally implemented in schools, student performance will improve and principals and teachers can help eliminate achievement gaps."
-Steve Hutton, Educational Consultant
Villa Hills, KY

Even the best principals and teachers need additional inspiration and energy to motivate students and even themselves. This inspiring handbook guides principals and teachers in upgrading their performance in the classroom and schoolwide. Using evidence-based strategies, John Parks Le Tellier provides a catalog of practiced "moves" to help create an empowering classroom climate, reinforce content, and increase or sustain motivation.

Le Tellier offers four connections to becoming a highly effective leader. The Context Connection creates the "moves" to establish empowering classroom context; the Cognitive Connection updates educators on the latest breakthroughs in neuroscience; the Character Connection establishes character education's importance to leadership practice; and the Classroom Connection develops strategies for accelerating learning, strengthening classroom management, and upgrading energy. Each chapter includes Leadership Notes that show you how specific moves can be used for Leadership initiatives. Learn to:

Improve teaching effectiveness
Improve student motivation
Strengthen student character
Implement and support leadership in the classroom
Renew teachers' energy and passion for their profession

Author(s)

John Parks Le Tellier

Table of Contents

About the Author

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Leadership and Motivation

Leadership

Motivation and Self-Discipline

Durable Motivation

The Light of Leadership

Four Leadership Connections

Resources

2. The Context Connection Part I

Context

Staying Resourceful

Systemic and Personal Victories

Importance of Teaching

The Main Event

Law of Source and Resource

The Law and the Main Event

Two Important Connections

A Giving Profession

Positive Self-Coaching

Catalog of Educational Moves

Leadership Notes

Resources

3. The Cognitive Connection

Overview

Brainwave States

Picturing and Comprehension

Brain Plasticity

The Synapse

Hebb’s Postulate

Memory

Emotion

The Adolescent Brain

Environment

Catalog of Educational Moves

Leadership Notes

Resources

4. The Context Connection Part II

Changing Context

Establishing Rapport

Environment

Catalog of Educational Moves

Leadership Notes

Resources

5. The Character Connection

The Line

Success Principles

The Gold Coin of Respect

Gems of Excellence

Catalog of Educational Moves

Leadership Notes

6. The Classroom Connection

The Connected Quartet

ALERT

State Management

AGES

Implementation of Moves

Catalog of Educational Moves

Leadership Notes

Resources

Teacher Resources for Chapter Six

Resource A: Useful Diagrams of the Brain

Resource B: Teaching Resources for Chapter Six

Brain Preferences Survey Modality Indicator

Brain Preferences Survey Modality Data Sheet

Brain Preferences Survey Style Indicator

Brain Preferences Survey Style Data Sheet

Brain Preferences Profile

Brain Preferences Survey Preference Descriptors

Brain Preferences Survey Student Preferences

Brain Preferences Survey Teacher Preferences

Brain Preferences Survey Parent Preferences

Brain Preferences Survey Learning Methods Preferences

PAGES Teacher Notes

References

Index

Reviews

"With the more recent emphasis on brain research and how it can be applied realistically in the classroom, this author provides very specific and clear 'moves' as well as very useful tools. A most definite contribution to the field of education."

Kenneth Killian, Assistant Professor
School of Education, Vanguard University of Southern California

"This book is the quintessential school improvement manual. The information is very powerful and user-friendly. If the information in this book is carefully and intentionally implemented in schools, student achievement will increase and principals and teachers can help eliminate achievement gaps."

Steve Hutton, Educational Consultant

"Partly a recitation of teacher and leadership strategies, partly a collection of motivational activity how-tos for teachers and principals, and partly a review of current brain research applied to learning."

PsycCRITIQUES, October 2007, Vol. 52(40)

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