Talk About Teaching!: Leading Professional Conversations
<p><strong><em>Help teachers improve their practice by holding rewarding professional conversations! </em></strong></p> <p>This breakthrough work from renowned educator Charlotte Danielson helps school leaders understand the value of reflective, informal professional conversations in promoting a positive environment of inquiry, support, and teacher development. Organized around the “big ideas†of successful teaching, this guidebook:</p> <ul> <li>Explains the critical function of informal professional conversations in ongoing teacher learning </li> <li>Explores the interaction of power and leadership in schools </li> <li>Outlines the conversation skills that school leaders need to initiate and engage in successful conversations </li> <li>Includes “mental maps,†sample topics, and conversation activities </li> </ul> <br />