What Every Teacher Should Know About the Profession and Politics of Teaching

The classroom teacher′s concise guide to accountability issues in the era of No Child Left Behind****!

Quality teaching and quality professional development in today′s professional learning community require an insider′s up-to-date understanding of accountability to stakeholders. The topics covered in this savvy little guide include:

• Testing and the move to standards
• School choice
• Finding resources
• Ways to communicate
• Working with colleagues
• Being supervised
• The parent-teacher conference
• The changing face of education
• Changing ideas about the teaching process
• Keeping up as a teaching professional
• Vocabulary pre-test, post-test, and summary                                                                
• Bibliography and index