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Silver Award Winner 2013 Independent Book Publishers Association Benjamin Franklin Award
Just as successful athletes must identify personal strengths and weaknesses, set goals, and
engage in focused practice to meet their goals, so must teachers. Coaching colleagues can help
one another build their teaching practices by working together. Learn how to combine a model of
effective instruction with goal setting, focused practice, focused feedback, and observations to
improve your instructional practices. Included are 280 ready-to-use strategies related to the 41
elements of effective teaching shown to enhance student achievement, as well as a list of ways to
incorporate technology into the element.Benefits - Find the reflection strategies that work best for
you in the comprehensive at-a-glance compendium, complete with its own table of contents. - Use
end-of-chapter comprehension questions to assess and reinforce your understanding of the
framework, featuring three categories of lesson segments, the related design questions, and the
41 elements of effective teaching. - Conduct a self-audit to determine your level of competence for
each of the 41 elements of effective teaching. - Learn how to use video data, student survey data,
and student achievement data to improve your practice. - Continue to develop your instructional
practices with an appendix of teacher scales for each reflective practice. - Relate to and draw from
classroom vignettes that depict and explore the presented reflective strategies, including (1)
videos of other teachers, (2) coaching colleagues, and (3) instructional rounds.Contents 1.
Research and Theory 2. Having a Model of Effective Teaching 3. Setting Growth Goals 4.
Engaging in Focused Practice 5. Receiving Focused Feedback 6. Observing and Discussing
Teaching Compendium: Strategies for Reflective Practice Appendix A: Answers to
Comprehension Questions Appendix B: Teacher Scales for Reflective Practice