Teachers Uncaged: Helping Educators Create Meaningful Change

Autor/in	Hess, Frederick M.
Titel	Teachers Uncaged: Helping Educators Create Meaningful Change
Quelle	In: American Educator, 39 (2015) 1, S.38-39 (2 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0148-432X
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Professional Isolation; Change Strategies; Educational Environment; Educational Practices; Teacher Administrator Relationship; Teacher Improvement; Teaching Conditions; Organizational Climate; Organizational Culture; Organizational Development; Elementary Secondary Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lösungsstrategie; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Bildungspraxis; Lehrbedingungen; Unterrichtsbedingungen; Organisationsklima; Unternehmenskultur; Organisationsentwicklung
Abstract	Upon the realization that teachers inhabit a "cage" of their own, but one very different from that which ensnares school or system administrators, the author wrote the book, "The Cage-Busting Teacher," from which this article is drawn. The author spent a year interviewing a couple hundred teachers, teacher advocates, union leaders, and others about the cage teachers inhabit and how they can bust out of it. The results of these interviews show that while teachers lack ready access to "organizational authority" which school and system leaders can use to bust free of their cage, teachers have powerful tools of their own, including the ability to tap the "authority of expertise" and to summon "moral authority." The problem is that most teachers have little understanding of how to marshal and wield these tools. Drawing on the wisdom of savvy practitioners, the author seeks to offer practical guidance on how teachers can do just that. Cage-busting is not a substitute for attention to classroom practice, curriculum, and instruction, but a complement that equips teachers to create the schools and systems where they can do their best work. (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	American Federation of Teachers. 555 New Jersey Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20001. Tel: 202-879-4400; e-mail: amered@aft.org; Web site: http://www.aft.org/newspubs/periodicals/ae
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01