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