Training Manual for What Every Teacher Should Know

Designed to help trainers navigate teachers through a complete cycle of 10 training sessions, this dynamic guide is a must for professional staff developers!

Plan this year's professional development program for all your teachers with this award-winning training collection!

This dynamic, ready-to-use training guide to the award-winning collection, What Every Teacher Should Know, is a must for professional staff developers! Designed to help you navigate teachers through a complete cycle of training exercises and activities, this guide will give you the tools you need to help them refine their skills and become more effective and engaging life long educators.

As each chapter in the manual connects to one book in the series, this training program encourages teachers to construct meaning from what they are learning and to engage in reflective dialogue about the methods they are translating into daily classroom practice. Tileston provides research-based strategies, theory, modeling, and practical information aligned with the requirements of the NSDC Standards for Staff Development, 2001.

Topics, activities, and facilitator tools provided in this training manual include:

• Planning agendas and a complete list of needed materials for 10 training sessions
• Initial practice during the sessions
• Classroom connection exercises
• Prompt feedback from the training facilitator
• All the reproducible forms needed to run each session

The result of this high-quality training is the intensive follow-up, mentoring, and support that your teachers need to ensure the success of the diverse learners in today's world of education.

Donna Walker Tileston has served education as a leader in teaching, administration, research, writing, software development, and national consulting for the past thirty years. She has been responsible for curriculum development, management, technology, finance, grants management, public relations, and drug abuse prevention programs. For the past twenty-five years, she has been actively involved in brain research, including research on factors that inhibit learning or increase the brain's ability to put information into long-term memory. Tileston's ten-book collection What Every Teacher Should Know (Corwin Press 2003) received the 2004 Distinguished Achievement Award for Excellence in Educational Publishing by the Association of Educational Publishers. Other Corwin press titles include What Every Parent Should Know About Schools, Standards, and High-Stakes Tests (2005), Ten Best Teaching Practices: How Brain Research, Learning Styles and Standards Define Teaching Competencies (2005), and Strategies for Teaching Differently (1998). Tileston has presented extensively at local, state, national, and international conferences, notably at The Hague in November 2005 and in Prague during March 2006.