Teacher Growth and Development
achieve better performance. To facilitate the Professional Learning and Growth Plan, the school should promote active engagement of students and encourage teachers to offer extra credit assignments on a routine basis to students that they might have more opportunities to better their academic outlook. As Junn (1995) notes, extra credit opportunities help to empower the marginalized student and should be promoted throughout the entirety of the school system. This would help to encourage students to take advantage of doing extra work to get their grades up. The second most important area of need is the principal’s demeanor: teachers do not find the principal to be very approachable or friendly, and this can detract from… Continue Reading...
