In this podcast lecture, Dr. Burkett discusses 6 ways you can develop your teachers on your campus. Highlights include:
1. Helping teachers learn new skills and dispositions to learn new ways of thinking so they can accomplish their work
2. Finding and encouraging existing teacher leaders
3. Teacher morale – Believe in your teachers, tell them you believe in them, trust in their knowledge of students, curriculum, content, and instruction.
4. Setting expectations and inspecting what you expect.
5. Professional Learning Communities – you are doing them wrong!
--Discussions about instruction, not just data
--Study groups to improve a skill
--Experimentation
--Peer observation and support
6. Make the talk of instruction be part of your school culture
