Kindle Notes & Highlights
Leadership is not so much getting people to follow you as it is working through other people to accomplish the vision and goals of the institution.
Your school is only as good as your worst teacher.
you are only as good as your ability to handle your worst teacher.
the truth is much more boring than that: If you want to move your school forward, you have to move the people in it. If you want excellent instruction in every classroom, you have to help every teacher become an excellent instructor.
Skill is the science of teaching; it involves a teacher’s pedagogical and content knowledge.
Will has to do with a teacher’s passion; it is the art of teaching.
Master teachers have high skill and high will. They don’t just know their craft; they also have the drive and determination to be the best at it.
skill component
comprises
content knowledge and...
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Teacher skill is rooted
seven principles of effective instruction
highly skilled teachers start where their students are, know where students are going, expect to get them there, support them along the way, use feedback to help themselves and their students get better, focus ...
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stud...
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highly skilled teachers are go...
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both formative and summative assessments
use the feedback
to adjust their in...
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learning becomes inevitable rather th...
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sequence inst...
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anticipate student c...
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explain difficult concepts in ways that help students develop increasing u...
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different ways to explai...
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match their collection of instructional strategies to individ...
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classroom man...
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knowing how to structure the classroom so that students can...
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will
rooted in the desire to help all students learn and the determination to ensure that all students do learn.
Will is what drives the teachers who continually refine and hone their craft, reflect on practice, and embrace data and feedback.
importance of relationships
every student in the room is safe, engaged, and connected.
Teaching will is not static
must constantly be nurtured
four teacher profiles or "types"
high will/low skill, low will/low skill, high will/high skill, and low will/high skill
Each type of teacher has a different set of needs
needs a different type of instructional leadership.
often enthusiastic about teaching.
their practice is not rooted in principles, their reliance on strategies makes their instruction disjointed.
High-will/low-skill teachers often have very lofty ideals about teaching, which unfortunately can lead them to implementing instructional strategies that do students more harm than good.
If it appears that low will has resulted in low skill, it makes sense to work on will first.
other times these teachers have lost their will
be...
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repeatedly unsuccessful in th...
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In that...
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work on their ski...
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High-will/high-skill teachers operate according to the principles of effective instruction.
constantly refining their practice,
a teacher’s "type" is fluid.
