• Teach, Reflect, Learn: Building Your Capacity For Success In The Classroom, April/2015

Teach, Reflect, Learn: Building Your Capacity For Success In The Classroom, April/2015

Author(s) Peter A. Hall, Alisa Simeral
ISBN10 1416620109
ISBN13 9781416620105
Format Paperback
Pages 160
Year Publish 2015 April

Synopsis

Authors of the best-selling ASCD book Building Teachers’ Capacity for Success return to explain why your effectiveness in the classroom is directly connected to your ability to self-reflect on your teaching practice and use the reflection process to get better at what you do. Pete Hall and Alisa Simeral outfit you with tools and strategies to reveal deeper understandings of your practice and increase your power to make purposeful improvements. Their path forward includes

 

  • A short self-assessment to gauge your current self-reflective tendencies and provide a launching point for personal growth.
  • Prompts and strategies to spur your development in the art and skill of self-reflection.
  • Insights into the four stages that compose the continuum of self-reflection and how each stage contributes to your overall improvement.
  • Goals and road maps for developing self-reflective tendencies, accuracy, and behavior.

 

Find out how once you enter the reflective cycle, you will be able to take the reins of your own professional development and make continuous growth toward excellence a viable outcome.

 

About The Authors:

Pete Hall, Veteran school administrator and professional development agent Pete Hall has dedicated his career to supporting the improvement of our education systems. Besides partnering with Alisa Simeral on this and their first book together, he authored The First-Year Principal (Scarecrow Education, 2004) and Lead On! Motivational Lessons for School Leaders (Eye on Education, 2011). Pete currently works as an educational consultant as a member of the ASCD faculty and trains educators worldwide. You can contact him via e-mail at Pete.Hall.Faculty@ASCD.org or catch his Twitter feeds at@EducationHall.

Alisa Simeral, School turnaround specialist and veteran educator Alisa Simeral has guided school-based reform efforts as a teacher, dean, and instructional coach. Her emphasis is, and always has been, improving the adult-input factors that contribute to the betterment of the student-output results. She partnered with Pete Hall to write their first book together, Building Teachers' Capacity for Success: A Collaborative Approach for Coaches and School Leaders (ASCD, 2008), and already has plans for their next writing venture. Passionate about providing support where it's needed most—at the classroom level—her mantra is "When our teachers succeed, our students succeed."