The Handbook for Enhancing Professional Practice: Using the Framework for Teaching in Your School,   ISBN:9781416607090

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To be a successful educator is to commit to the concept of life long learning. For conscientious classroom teachers dedicated to improving procedures and mechanisms in their teaching practice, a newly published guide offers a practical approach and framework that emphasizes two key goals: quality assurance and professional learning. Loaded with advice, step-by-step procedures and practical tools for teachers and education administrators, this instruction manual provides a distinctive set of tools to enhance classroom instruction skills and performance. Since the original publication of Enhancing Professional Practice: A Framework for Teaching in 1996, author Charlotte Danielson, has built upon those experiences and presents a comprehensive framework in The Handbook for Enhancing Professional Practice: Using the Framework for Teaching in Your School. Teachers, administrators and other who seek to use the framework to improve their programs and practice will be delighted with the clarity and easy to use style of this guide. Practical application of this framework includes teacher preparation, teacher recruitment and hiring, mentoring and peer coaching, self-directed professional inquiry, professional development and teacher evaluation. "The Handbook for Enhancing Professional Practice" is strongly recommended for professional and academic library Education Studies reference collections and supplemental reading lists.