Learning to Be Teacher Leaders

<p><em>Learning to Be Teacher Leaders</em> examines three integrated components of strong pedagogy—assessment planning and instruction—within a framework emphasizing the knowledge skills and dispositions that can empower teachers to become teacher leaders within their schools. Combining the what why and how of teaching the research-based concepts presented in a pragmatic format are relevant across grade levels classrooms and content areas. Designed to support success on national licensure assessments this text brings together in one place the important features of learning to be an effective teacher and becoming a teacher leader who continues to grow and develop within the profession. Taking a student-centered approach to instruction it also recognizes the outside factors that can challenge this approach and provides strategies for coping with them. Using this book as a guide and resource pre-service and beginning teachers will focus on the most important factors in teaching resulting in strengthening their pedagogy and developing a language that helps them move forward in terms of agency and advocacy. A Companion Website provides additional resources for instructors and students. </p>