A Teacher's Guide to Excellence in Every Classroom : Creating Support Systems for Student Success

In A Teacher's Guide to Excellence in Every Classroom: Creating Support Systems for Student Success, author John R. Wink acknowledges the unique and significant role that educators play in students' lives, as both role models and guides. Through the Hierarchy of Student Excellence, Wink demonstrates how K-12 teachers can leverage learning resources, classroom routines and procedures, relationships, engagement, rigor and mastery, individualized creative strategies, and leadership to maximize their impact on students' lives and unlock students' full potential. Readers will learn not only how to increase their instructional effectiveness but also how to push students toward academic excellence. Readers will: Study the powerful impact educators have on students' lives, Examine the connections between teacher effectiveness and student achievement, Discover schoolwide, team, and individualized support systems and interventions to strengthen instruction at every level, Use the Hierarchy of Student Excellence to address specific areas for teacher improvement, Learn how the Hierarchy of Student Excellence relates to Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs to address specific areas for student improvement and growth Book jacket.