Number of Pages: 176
Genre: Education
Sub-Genre: Professional Development
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Corwin Publishers
Age Range: Adult
Author: Vivian B Troen & Katherine C Boles
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Language: English
About the Book
The definitive, step-by-step guide for conducting teacher rounds!
With teacher rounds, educators benefit from the observant peer learning that's common in other demanding fields. From practical strategies to ready-to-use templates, this invaluable book offers a complete toolkit for leading a thriving teacher rounds program. Readers will learn how to:
- Create positive, empowering teams that lift both instruction and student performance
- Link teacher rounds with Common Core implementation
- Develop rounds facilitation skills through vignettes, video clips, and group learning exercises
- Lead productive year-end program reviews
- Understand how principals and department chairs can best support the rounds program
Review Quotes
"What Vivian Troen and Kitty Boles have done in this book is...the use of rounds as a dedicated learning environment for teachers. This book provides the scaffolding and support that teachers can use, on their own, or in an organized fashion as part of more systemic strategy, to create the infrastructure necessary to bring collective learning deliberately and explicitly into the daily life of teachers. Troen and Boles stress in many places in this book the importance of rounds as a cultural-building practice. For me, this is the central contribution they make. Rounds is not simply a practice; it is a practice in the service of building a professional culture."--Richard F. Elmore, Professor of Educational Leadership