From three of Australia's leading teaching and teacher education
researchers comes a book about creating the outstanding school. Lynch,
Madden and Doe provide an easy to read text that is all about ensuring
every student gets a quality education. Each chapter explains, in easy
to read terms, a set of ideas and research-based strategies that schools
and their teachers can employ to reform their school. The book
identifies for the reader and then explains the key research-based
elements that lie at the heart of creating the outstanding school. The
book features the Collaborative Teacher Learning Model and the elements
of 'teaching, ' 'leadership', 'coaching', 'mentoring', 'feedback', 'data
driven decision-making', 'high impact instruction' and the idea of
'teachers as researchers' as the embodiment of a school-based strategy
for creating the outstanding school. This book is compulsive reading for
teachers and school leaders and those who care about our children's
education future