The Diagnostic Teacher: Constructing New Approaches to Professional Development

By Mildred Z. Solomon

Teachers, staff developers, principals, curriculum coordinators and researchers can, and must, play an essential role in the national effort to revitalize the teaching profession.

But how?

This provocative new volume from one of the nation's leading educational think tanks presents in-depth portraits of teachers, professional development staff, and researchers working together to deepen teacher's professional capacities and students' learning experiences. Ranging across subject areas and grade levels, The Diagnostic Teacher describes a variety of powerful classroom and school-based strategies that help students achieve and teachers thrive. The final two chapters define a set of underlying features shared in common by these diverse examples. The result is a rich and inspiring blueprint for how school leaders can revitalize the profession of teaching, while developing more inquiry-oriented, constructivist classrooms.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080773862X
• ISBN13: 9780807738627
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 8.9"