The Key to Changing the Teaching Profession

How are schools helping both new and veteran teachers flourish and grow in their careers? What kinds of incentives spur teachers to improve? What new abilities and expectations does the younger generation of teachers bring to the profession? This issue explores how teachers can use action research to improve learning and teaching, offers tips to assist administrators in gaining buy-in for instructional changes that will improve student learning, and suggests many ways that veteran and novice educators can teach and learn from one another.

The May issue of Educational Leadership features "Who's Teaching Our Children?" (PDF) a look at the changing workforce; "No More Valentines," three ways to change evaluation systems; and "Preparing to Teach Digitally," tips for turning into a techie teacher.

What Teachers Do

Andrew B. Watt's blog is great, but "What Teachers Do" particularly caught my interest.

Teachers are "Different" (1944)

Sure, being a teacher isn't always the easiest path, and one must deal with a host of stereotypes and assumptions—but at least today's new teachers don't face the same personal regulations as teachers once did. Some former educators ... [more]