A Teacher's Guide to Change Understanding, Navigating, and Leading the Process [Paperback]

This professional development resource provides a step-by-step approach that engages K12 teachers in learning to prepare for change, which enhances their career satisfaction and professional effectiveness.This professional development resource provides a step-by-step approach that engages K12 teachers in learning to prepare for change, which enhances their career satisfaction and professional effectiveness. A must-have book for teachers at every stage of their teaching career. Change in schools is inevitable. This book will help teachers deal with change and allow them to do what they do best: provide a great education for students. Coping with change is perhaps the most fundamental aspect of life and certainly critical for successful teaching. Stivers and Cramer provide an essential guide to how teachers might successfully address the ongoing and expected change associated with effective teaching. Perhaps no other job in our society today experiences as much change as classroom teaching. Stivers and Cramer are two experts with tremendous insight and experience in both the theoretical and practical dimensions of personal, organizational, and systemwide change. Heartwarming, insightful stories explore how dozens of teachers overcome the challenges of living and leading through change every day, blended with rock-solid theory and extensive research on how to live through change successfully. Teachers must learn to cope with the myriad of changes they experience throughout their career or they will leave the profession. This book gives a step-by-step approach for teachers to think about, plan for, and implement changes in their personal lives, their schools, and in their communities. How we react to and enact change determines whether we are leaders of our own careers and professional development or merely workers. This book provides the research and information for teaclÃâ