Training Manual for What Every Teacher Should Know - Paperback

by Donna E. Walker Tileston (Author)

Plan this year′s professional development program for all your teachers with this award-winning training collection!

This dynamic, ready-to-use training guide to the award-winning collection, What Every Teacher Should Know, is a must for professional staff developers! Designed to help you navigate teachers through a complete cycle of training exercises and activities, this guide will give you the tools you need to help them refine their skills and become more effective and engaging life long educators.

As each chapter in the manual connects to one book in the series, this training program encourages teachers to construct meaning from what they are learning and to engage in reflective dialogue about the methods they are translating into daily classroom practice. Tileston provides research-based strategies, theory, modeling, and practical information aligned with the requirements of the NSDC Standards for Staff Development, 2001.

Topics, activities, and facilitator tools provided in this training manual include:

• Planning agendas and a complete list of needed materials for 10 training sessions
• Initial practice during the sessions
• Classroom connection exercises
• Prompt feedback from the training facilitator
• All the reproducible forms needed to run each session

The result of this high-quality training is the intensive follow-up, mentoring, and support that your teachers need to ensure the success of the diverse learners in today′s world of education.

Author Biography

Donna Walker Tileston is a veteran teacher and administrator. She is currently the president of Strategic Teaching and Learning, a consulting firm that provides services to schools throughout the United States and worldwide. Donna's publications include Ten Best Teaching Practices: How Brain Research, Learning Styles, and Standards Define Teaching Competencies (2000), which has been on Corwin′s bestseller list since its first year in print, in addition to the ten-volume award-winning series What Every Teacher Should Know, now in its second edition. Other recent titles are Teaching Strategies for Active Learning (2006), Teaching Strategies that Prepare Students for High Stakes Tests (2008), and Closing the Poverty and Culture Gap (2009). Donna received her BA from the University of North Texas, her MA from East Texas State University, and her EdD from Texas A & M University-Commerce. She may be reached at www.whateveryteachershouldknow.com