Not exact matches
According to Chang - Kredl, it also
challenges popular beliefs about the
ideal teacher and a one - size - fits - all approach to education.
Effective leadership is a pre-requisite for a successful school; in successful schools head
teachers and senior leaders understand the changing needs of their schools and their staff, continually communicate their
ideals, vision and expectations, use robust monitoring and evaluation, balance support with
challenge and plan ahead to sustain excellence.
Even when provided with
ideal timing and multiple training sessions, however,
teachers can make
challenging students.
In an
ideal world, if
teachers and staff at a struggling high school voiced a strong commitment to improving instruction, developing their skills, and
challenging their own beliefs about student abilities, their superintendent would just smile and say, «Great.
Schools face the
challenge of creating cultures in which
teachers come to view appreciating and being generous to others, acting with fairness and integrity, and formulating mature and resilient
ideals as evolving and subtle capacities.