India Podsen

This book offers concrete advice and handy examples to sharpen your writing skills. Filled with sample letters, memos, and reports (also available on an accompanying disk with workbook), this book will help you successfully attack your in basket. The writing samples are organized according to the particular audience you want to reach: faculty and staff, parents, central office, peers, local community, etc.

This book is for you if you are: - challenged by the number of teacher vacancies at the start of your school year - finding that your most promising teachers are resigning before they complete their first few years on the job - no longer willing to accept that your veteran teachers are just marking time until their retirement Best-selling author India Podsen shows you how to - uncover and analyze retention risks at your school - implement induction programs to help novices master the realities of full-time teaching - engage your experienced teachers in the retention process - apply the Professional Educator Career Framework, consisting of Four Career Stages: - teacher inductee - teacher specialist - teacher leader - teacher steward This book provides school leaders with practical suggestions and easy-to-use tools such as: - checklists and action plans - sample meeting programs and agendas - evaluation templates - benchmarks and standards all designed to help you deal successfully with teacher shortages and related problems.

Features over 60 step-by-step procedures, checklists, and planning guides for supervisors, mentors, and all those engaged in in-service teacher training. NEW to this edition - updated coverage of standards - assessment - analyzing student work - cognitive coaching - and more...

Features over 60 step-by-step procedures, checklists, and planning guides for supervisors, mentors, and all those engaged in in-service teacher training. NEW to this edition - updated coverage of standards - assessment - analyzing student work - cognitive coaching - and more...

This book is for you if you are: - challenged by the number of teacher vacancies at the start of your school year - finding that your most promising teachers are resigning before they complete their first few years on the job - no longer willing to accept that your veteran teachers are just marking time until their retirement Best-selling author India Podsen shows you how to - uncover and analyze retention risks at your school - implement induction programs to help novices master the realities of full-time teaching - engage your experienced teachers in the retention process - apply the Professional Educator Career Framework, consisting of Four Career Stages: - teacher inductee - teacher specialist - teacher leader - teacher steward This book provides school leaders with practical suggestions and easy-to-use tools such as: - checklists and action plans - sample meeting programs and agendas - evaluation templates - benchmarks and standards all designed to help you deal successfully with teacher shortages and related problems.

This workbook provides principals with the tools they need to put into practice the concepts outlined in Written Expression: the Principal's Survival Guide, a volume in Eye On Education's hardcover series, The School Leadership Library. The workbook expands the topics covered in the hardcover book and provides additional examples. On the diskette you will find many of the sample documents printed in both the hardcover book and this workbook. You may use these files as templates for your own writing tasks.

This book offers concrete advice and handy examples to sharpen your writing skills. Filled with sample letters, memos, and reports (also available on an accompanying disk with workbook), this book will help you successfully attack your in?basket. The writing samples are organized according to the particular audience you want to reach: faculty and staff, parents, central office, peers, local community, etc.