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Teachers and Their Workplace

Commitment, Performance, and Productivity
What makes a good, committed teacher, one who comes up with new teaching strategies, ideas and programmes that improve the way children learn? This volume considers this question and such issues as minimum performance standards for teachers, ways of encouraging teachers to do more and whether a radical increase in salary will improve their teaching performance.

Teachers and their Workplace examines the how and why of current school standards, with suggestions for future research and, importantly, potential solutions to current problems.

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  • Grade Level: PreK-12
  • ISBN: 9780803936898
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Series: SAGE Focus Editions
  • Year: 1990
  • Page Count: 320
  • Publication date: July 01, 1990
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What makes a good teacher, a committed teacher, one who comes up with new strategies, ideas, and programs that improve how kids learn? What kind of minimum performance standards should teachers be held to? How are teachers encouraged to do more? Will higher salaries improve classroom performance? How do teachers view these questions? Teachers and Their Workplace addresses how commitment, performance, and productivity--from individual as well as organizational standpoints--affect teachers, schools, and students. The book examines the how and why of current school standards, confronts both directions for future research and, more importantly, potential solutions to current personal problems. An outstanding team of contributors explores conditions and attitudes about work from teachers' perspectives; models of school organization, social and psychological issues, and economic theories; and alternatives for professional development. This landmark book is a dynamic overview that anyone in teacher education, teacher evaluation, school personnel administration, human resource management, and organizational studies will welcome. "This [is] a well-integrated collection og thought-provoking essays. . . . Seventeen notable authors contribute 13 cogent articles. . . . With substantial notes and bibliography at the end of each essay, this book is the most relevant to upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty." --Choice

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Pedro Reyes

Table of Contents

Foreword

Introduction

What Research has to Say about Commitment, Performance, and Productivity

PART ONE: EMPIRICAL ISSUES

Teacher Working Conditions

Teacher's Efficacy at work

Teacher Participation in School Decision Making

Teacher Attitudes about Work

Teacher Performance Incentives

PART TWO: THEORETICAL ISSUES

Organizational Commitment of Teachers

Organizational Performance of Schools

Organizational Productivity of Schools

PART THREE: PRACTICAL ISSUES

Developing Teacher Commitment

The Role of the Administrator

Managing School Performance

The Role of the Administrator

Enhancing School Productivity

The Role of the Administrator

PART FOUR: EPILOGUE

Linking Commitment, Performance, and Productivity

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