Motivating & Inspiring Teachers: The Educational Leader's Guide for Building Staff Morale / Edition 2

by Todd Whitaker, Beth Whitaker, Dale Lumpa

Overview

Like the best-selling first edition, this book is filled with strategies to motivate your staff and maintain a high level of energy at your school. This guide will help all educators approach work every day in an enthusiastic, focused, and positive state of mind. This book will help you:
-Motivate your faculty with the Friday Focus—a staff memo that works!
-Understand the power of praise and how to best utilize it every day
-Make sure staff meetings, teacher evaluation, and daily activities raise the energy level in your school
-Maximize the holidays, open house nights, and other special events the make your staff feel special

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781596671034
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/11/2008
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	65,068
Product dimensions:	16.60(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Todd Whitaker, Beth Whitaker, Dale, Lumpa

Table of Contents

Part 1 The Role of the Leader; Chapter 1 Why It All Works; Chapter 2 Understanding Staff Dynamics; Chapter 3 Teacher Leaders; Chapter 4 Raise the Praise, Minimize the Criticize; Chapter 5 One for All and All for One–Building A Shared Vision; Part 2 Communication–It’s what you Say and How you Say It; Chapter 6 Perception–It’s what you Say and How They Took It; Chapter 7 The Friday Focus–A Staff Memo That Works!; Chapter 8 Sharpening your Focus; Chapter 9 Making a Difference Each Day; Chapter 10 Showing Off your School; Part 3 Supervision, Evaluation, and Morale Improvement?; Chapter 11 Leadership by Walking Around; Chapter 12 The Evaluation Process–Turning Painful into Positive; Part 4 Meetings, Meetings, Meetings…You Mean these Can be Fun?; Chapter 13 The Monthly Staff Meeting; Chapter 14 Small-Group Meetings; Chapter 15 Opportunities for Renewal; Part 5 Special Is as Special Does; Chapter 16 Building and Enhancing your Morale; Chapter 17 Feeling Better Through Fitness and Wellness; Chapter 18 Making Everybody Feel Like Somebody; Chapter 19 New Is Not Just Different, It Should Be Better!; Part 6 Focusing Outside the Staff to Affect Staff Morale; Chapter 20 Feeling at Home While at Work; Chapter 21 The Student-Teacher Link;