Teaching the next generation of teachers : preparing for the practice of learning communities in secondary school

Summary: This book will serves as a practical, how-to guide so secondary school students can begin to experience working in a professional learning community as they strive to improve the schools they are in right now. In doing this, the book adheres to the idea that 'student leadership now is the best preparation for teacher leadership later.' It will help aspiring teachers move away from the many stale traditions in schooling as they re-conceive of the profession in ways that will make it more personally satisfying while acknowledging that the work of teachers in the 21st century must necessarily be.

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ISBN: 1475829167
ISBN: 9781475829167
ISBN: 1475829175
ISBN: 9781475829174
ISBN: 1475829183
ISBN: 9781475829181
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxix, 144 pages) : form
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Publisher: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2016]
Copyright: ©2016

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-144).
Formatted Contents Note:	Developing a vision: helping students imagine themselves in a school of the future -- Your students' leadership: it begins with a new mindset -- Your students' careers: staying with the past or leading into the future -- Teachers learn and teach twenty-first-century skills -- Teachers recognize quality levels in learning -- Teachers invite students to share their voices -- Teachers facilitate greater individualization of study -- Teachers investigate students' learning engagement -- Teachers elicit intrinsic motivation and "knowing myself as a learner" -- Teachers stop the game of school -- The story of Jane -- Let's imagine a twenty-first-century secondary school.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.