Product Description
A road map for teachers who strive to be highly effective leaders in our nation’s classrooms Teach For America has fought the daunting battle of educational equity for the last twenty years. Based on evidence from classrooms across the country, they’ve discovered much about effective teaching practice, and distilled these findings into the six principles presented in this book. The Teaching As Leadership framework inspires teachers to: Set Big Goals; Invest Stude… More >>
Teaching As Leadership: The Highly Effective Teacher’s Guide to Closing the Achievement Gap
This book helps teachers and administrators map a strategy. It addresses the big picture by asking the reader to define intended outcomes, put the students and their families to work, plan the work, work the plan and continually monitor progess along the way.
This is classic project mangement as applied to acedemics, especially in a school system in a low income community.
Learn more by referring to [...]
Rating: 3 / 5
I couldn’t put the book down. The principles of this book should be taught in credential programs. Principals should ensure that teachers possess (or are willing to work toward) the ideas listed in this book. A wonderful book that will change your teaching practice in a positive and dramatic way.
Rating: 5 / 5
I found Teaching As Leadership to be a gripping read and, just as importantly, a profound contribution to the debate swirling over what is to be done about our nation’s creaking educational infrastructure. This book’s answer is both astonishingly simple and embarrassingly novel: focus on the students. As someone with experience teaching elementary, secondary, and university students, I found myself taking pleasure, again and again, as TAL turned my long-held assumptions about “good teaching” on their respective heads. Farr leads the reader with brisk care — and plenty of data — to the conclusion that so many of us have long known in our guts to be true: that good teachers are, in essence, no different from any other kind of good leader.
Rating: 5 / 5
I train teachers for a living, and Teaching as Leadership is a game-changer for our field. Farr takes the overwhelming process of becoming an effective teacher and breaks it into six strategic steps–set big goals, invest students and their families, plan purposefully, teach effectively, increase effectiveness, and work relentlessly–and offers an abundance of tactical resources (both in the text and in the INCREDIBLE online supplements) to help teachers take these steps in their own classrooms. The book is not only a clear what-to-do, but additionally, drawing heavily on both rigorous research and powerful anecdotes from great teachers (a potent combo), Farr makes a clear case for why great teachers take these steps and how they change kids’ lives.
Rating: 5 / 5