![]() To win a copy of Just Back Off and Let Us Teach, please enter using the Rafflecopter form at the bottom of this post. ![]() Just Back Off and Let Us Teach is available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and IndieBound. Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing (December 5, 2014) ![]() This will help attract the brightest young minds to the teaching profession, keep effective teachers in the classroom, and properly reward those who have the greatest influence on our future." "The single most important thing we can do in America today," says Lewis, "is to take the money we spend on education reforms at the federal level and invest it in school leadership and teachers' salaries and professional development. Lewis encourages all teachers to self-examine and grade themselves on their own effectiveness using SCOPE Scores. ![]() ![]() That assertion is made by author Caroline Lewis, who outlines reform in her new book Just Back Off and Let Us Teach: A Book for Effective Teachers and Those Who Champion Them. Both descriptive and motivational, Lewis' book defines five skills distinctive of effective teachers called SCOPE (Sensitivity, Communication, Organization, Professionalism, and Enthusiasm) Skills. If America wants to reform public education and regain its status in the world, it must start valuing teachers and stop the present policy of commissioning study after study and revising measurement tests every few years. ![]()
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