What?! Another New Mandate? : What Award

This dynamic resource demonstrates how imaginative teachers adjust to changes in today's classroom.

Preface

ix

Who Should Read This Book

ix

Acknowledgments

ix

About the Author

xi

About the Contributors

xiii

Teachers Staying on Top of Changes

1

(7)

Professional Development Has Shaped Me and My Classroom

1

(3)

Kay Wallace

Teachers Go Back to School

4

(2)

Steven T. Jackson

Keeping Up With Change

6

(2)

Caryn Smith Long

Philosophies of Change

8

(20)

Self-Reflection: Looking Over Your Own Shoulder

8

(2)

Susan Barr

Change Doesn't Have to Hurt

10

(2)

Allison Gregerson

I Am a Teacher and I Would Be None Other

12

(6)

Lynn Kaufman

Changing Students' Attitudes About Failure With One Word: Overload

18

(2)

Jeff McAdoo

Embracing Change

20

(2)

Jim Brown

Immersion to Inspiration

22

(2)

Erika Reynolds

Facing the Old and New

24

(2)

Peter Riffle

Why Are We Here?

26

(2)

Jeff McAdoo

Changes in Curriculum and Instruction

28

(25)

Education Issues and Trends

28

(1)

Colleen Cooper

Making Less Into More

29

(3)

Cindy Albert

Thinking, Changing, Rearranging: A Compass Toward Affective Teaching

32

(1)

Colleen Cooper

Student-Centered Objectives: Solid Grounds in the Tides of Change

33

(3)

MaryEllen Daneels

Changes in Instruction: Change Is Not Always Easy

36

(4)

Kristen Dewitt

Standards-Based Instruction

40

(2)

Michelle Mash

Successfully Teaching a High-Poverty Student Population

42

(2)

Kimberly Allen

Changes in Curriculum and Instruction

44

(5)

Carmella Ettaro

More Changes in Curriculum and Instruction

49

(1)

Lloyd Barber

Mainstreaming of New Populations

50

(3)

Karen Quillen

Putting Education to the Test

53

(7)

Introduction of New Tests and High-Stakes Tests

53

(3)

Caryn Smith Long

New Mandates for Testing

56

(1)

Avalyn Balliet

A High-Stakes Test

57

(3)

Sharon Jeffery

Changes in Funding, Class Size, School Populations, and More

60

(27)

Funding Issues

60

(4)

Percy Hill

Changes in Class Size and Teaching Load

64

(3)

Claude Archer

Teaching in a Multiage Classroom

67

(4)

Lynn Clark

A Community of Learners

71

(8)

Luis Soria

Who Says Standards Have to Be Boring?

79

(3)

Rosalyn L. Pollard

Inclusion of New Populations

82

(2)

Avalyn Balliet

Parents: A Natural Resource

84

(3)

Cindy Albert

Math, Science, and Technology in the Next Millennium

87

(34)

Change Can Be a Good Thing

87

(5)

Gerald Friday

Success With School Technology

92

(3)

Colleen Cooper Ashworth

Introduction of New Technologies

95

(2)

Carmella Ettaro

Reflection Leads to Change

97

(3)

Linda Seeger

Going Bookless in Earth Science

100

(2)

Sharon Jeffery

Science Teaching Is a Profession---Not a Job!

102

(5)

Mary Harris

Are We Teaching the Right Things?

107

(5)

Gerald Friday

Let the Science Standards Be Your Guide

112

(4)

Vincent Carbone, Jr.

Using Innovations

116

(2)

Sharon Jeffery

A New Teaching Innovation

118

(3)

Gerald Friday

When the Unthinkable Happens: Teachers Talk About September 11, 2001

121

(16)

Thoughts on September 11th

121

(2)

Carmella Ettaro

Kindergartners Face the Tragic Day

123

(2)

Michelle Mash

The Power of Dialogue

125

(1)

Mary Daneels

Helping Students Cope

126

(1)

Lloyd Barber

Care for Our Children

127

(3)

Percy Hill

September 11, 2001---``It's No Movie''

130

(1)

Sharon Jeffery

Not Another Normal Day

131

(2)

Vincent Carbone, Jr.

September 11, 2001: Reaction

133

(4)

Steven T. Jackson

Index

137

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What?! Another New Mandate? : What Award Winning Teachers Do When School Rules Change

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