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Bringing Out the Best in Teachers: What Effective Principals Do

Autor Joseph Blase, Peggy C. Kirby
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 sep 2008
Practical advice from the teacher's perspective! Learn what effective principals do to influence, motivate, and empower teachers. Based on an in-depth study in which teachers detail the strategies extraordinary principals used to help them become more effective in the classroom, this third edition incorporates the most up-to-date literature and includes easy-to-follow guidelines in each chapter. An ideal resource for experienced or aspiring school principals, this book offers strategies and related practices that illustrate how to:
- Use the power of praise
- Influence by expecting and involving - Encourage professional autonomy
- Lead by standing behind
- Suggest rather than direct
- Use formal authority positively
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781412965200
ISBN-10: 1412965209
Pagini: 176
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Ediția:Third Edition
Editura: SAGE Publications
Colecția Corwin
Locul publicării:Thousand Oaks, United States

Recenzii

"Reading this book is like having a conversation with several great colleagues sharing their ideas and expertise. The ideas and suggestions are clear, relevant, and doable. This book is inspiring!"
"Blase and Kirby’s book serves as a constant reminder of the importance of improving and sustaining staff relations."
"Allows principals to make teachers feel appreciated and valued. The book includes everything you need to know about being a transformational leader in your school."

Cuprins

Foreword to the First Edition by Arthur Blumberg
Foreword to the Second Edition by Roland S. Barth
Foreword to the Third Edition by Jackie Daniilides
Preface to the Third Edition
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
1. Principals and Their Effectiveness
2. The Power of Praise
3. Influencing by Expecting
4. Influencing by Involving
5. Granting Professional Autonomy
6. Leading by Standing Behind
7. Gentle Nudges: Suggesting Versus Directing
8. Positive Use of Formal Authority
9. Mirrors to the Possible
10. Conclusions, Caveats, and Challenges
Resource A: Research Methods and Procedures
References
Index

Notă biografică

Joseph Blaseis a professor of educational administration at the University of Georgia. Since receiving his Ph.D. in 1980 from Syracuse University, his research has focused on school reform, transformational leadership, the micropolitics of education, principal-teacher relationships, and the work lives of teachers. His work concentrating on school-level micropolitics received the 1988 Davis Memorial Award given by the University Council for Educational Administration, and his coauthored article published in the Journal of Educational Administration won the W. G. Walker 2000 Award for Excellence. In 1999 he was recognized as an elite scholar, one of the 50 Most Productive and Influential Scholars of Educational Administration in the world. Blase¿s books include The Politics of Life in Schools: Power, Conflict, and Cooperation (winner of the 1994 Critic¿s Choice Award sponsored by the American Education Studies Association), Bringing Out the Best in Teachers (1994, 2000, 2008); The Micropolitics of Educational Leadership (1995), Empowering Teachers (1994, 2000), Democratic Principals in Action (1995), The Fire Is Back (1997), Handbook of Instructional Leadership (1998, 2004), Breaking the Silence (2003), and Teachers Bringing Out the Best in Teachers (2006). His recent research (coauthored with Jo Blase and Du Fengning, 2008), a national study of principal mistreatment of teachers, appeared in The Journal of Educational Administration. Professor Blase has published over 120 academic articles, chapters, and books.

Descriere

The third edition of this bestseller offers first-person accounts from teachers who share the influential strategies of outstanding principals who empowered them.