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This new professional book is specifically written to support school administrators as instructional leaders – because schools are places where students and teachers learn. These unique features support school leaders as they build professional learning communities:

Teaching Adults provides lesson plans for administrators to use for staff professional learning opportunities – in topics such as multiple intelligences, essential understandings and questions, and classroom management

Process offers steps for specific activities for a school-based process with teachers, including workshop assessments, creating a professional learning plan, and classroom observations

An accompanying CD-ROM provides easy-to-use modifiable line masters and PowerPoint slides

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1: What is Differentiated Instruction?
Chapter 2: Start Where YOU Are: Instructional Leadership Beliefs and Knowledge
Chapter 3: Start Where They Are: Characteristics of Adult Learners
Chapter 4: Planning Professional Learning
Chapter 5: Creating an Effective Learning Community
Chapter 6: Knowing Your Learners
Chapter 7: Essential Understandings
Chapter 8: Assessment for Learning (Pre-Assessment)
Chapter 9: Powerful Instructional Strategies
Chapter 10: Appropriate Challenge through Formative Assessment
Chapter 11: Evaluating Fairly in the Differentiated Classroom
Chapter 12: Where Are You Now?