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ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD The Evolution of Teaching A Guidebook to the Advancement of Teaching Teacher Education and Happier Careers for Early Career Teachers 2014 Edition by Rich Waters
The Evolution of Teaching invites teachers to rethink what teachers and schools do. The need to rethink the role of teachers is driven by an abundance of data showing that teachers are increasingly unhappy with their work. Most critically, they feel a loss of control over their work and their profession as they witness teacher voices being marginalized by impersonal authorities outside of schools who dictate more and more of what teachers and schools must do. The antidote to this condition is the evolution of teaching. Teachers need to take charge and lead change. They need to redefine teaching and schooling in such a way that it authentically supports student learning and teacher learning. They must redefine it in a way that supports every teacher's desire to have a personal impact on students while having control over their own work, stakeholder standing as respected professionals, and a full career of professional growth. As A Guidebook to the Advancement of Teaching, Teacher Education, and Happier Careers, this text will assist teachers in reconceiving the profession of teaching in ways that will make it more personally satisfying while acknowledging that the work of teachers in the twenty-first century must necessarily be different from what we have now, legacy practices of standardization left over from the industrial age. Table of contents :- Preface PrologueIntroductionSection I: Make a Choice: The Industrial Age School or New Kinds of Schools?Guiding Step 1: Get Perspective on the Career of Teaching and the Prospects for Change Guiding Step 2: Question the Assumptions and Practices of Traditional SchoolGuiding Step 3: Face Traditional School Culture: The Game of School and Strategic Learning Section II: Embrace Positive Forces for Change: 21st Century Learning Will Be DifferentGuiding Step 4: Focus on Learning Engagement: A Premise for New SchoolsGuiding Step 5: Reconsider the Emerging Marketplace of Educational Experiences Guiding Step 6: Start Seeing Students as Independent, Voluntary Customers Guiding Step 7: Understand Cousin Concepts: 21st Century Skills and the Learning Organization Section III: Envision a 21st Century School and Happier CareersGuiding Step 8: Take the Tour - See a New Kind of School Guiding Step 9: Take the Tour - See New Roles for Teachers and StudentsGuiding Step 10: Begin the Journey to Happier Careers by Making Connections