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Knowledge and Virtue in Teaching and Learning
The Primacy of Dispositions
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
The challenge this book addresses is to demonstrate how, in teaching content knowledge, the development of intellectual and moral dispositions as virtues is not merely a good idea, or peripheral to that content, but deeply embedded in the logic of searching for knowledge and truth.
It offers...
by Louis Mazzullo
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
Our current educational initiatives, NCLB and "Race to the Top", are competitive models that reward victory and punish defeat. In order to win the "Race to the Top" we have to hope or plan that our fellow students and teachers as well as our neighboring states and schools, will...
by Dennis Shirley, Elizabeth A. MacDonald
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This new and expanded edition of the bestselling The Mindful Teacher provides educators everywhere with practical ideas for improving teaching and learning. Dennis Shirley and Elizabeth MacDonald have created “Mindful Teacher” seminars that enable teachers to focus their craft so that students...
I Got Schooled
The Unlikely Story of How a Moonlighting Movie Maker Learned the Five Keys to Closing America's Education Gap
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
In this vital book, the famed filmmaker tells how his passion for education reform led him to learn that there are five tested, indispensable keys to transforming America’s underperforming schools.
Famed director M. Night Shyamalan has long had a serious interest in education. The foundation...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Career Development in the Schools describes a dynamic process that continues to evolve in its rationale and practice. In many schools and in a variety of scholarly writings, the status of career development is controversial. Some observers assert that career development should be seen as a byproduct...
Whats Race Got To Do With It?
How Current School Reform Policy Maintains Racial and Economic Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Within critical discussions of school reform, researchers and activists are often of two camps. Some focus their analyses on neoliberal economic agendas, while others center on racial inequality. These analyses often happen in isolation, continuing to divide those concerned with educational justice...
Practical Classroom Management for Elementary, Middle, and Secondary Teachers
Case Studies, Activities, Suitable for Novice and Experienced Teachers from All Areas of Certification
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Cathy Stockton and David E. Gullatt used their combined 75 years in education to create Practical Classroom Management for Elementary, Middle, and Secondary Teachers.----Their book identifies theorists and educators who are noted for their research in psychology or education to assist teachers in creating...
Classroom Management Training Handbook
Cued to Preventing Discipline Problems, K-12
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
The Classroom Management Training Handbook is cued to the textbook Preventing Classroom Disruptive Behavior, Grades K-12, Fourth Edition. It uniquely provides private, confidential self-training for a troubled teacher, or it can be used by professors of education, teacher-trainers, or school administrators...
Teacher Leadership
The «New» Foundations of Teacher Education A Reader Revised edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Teacher leadership as a dimension of teachers’ work has never been more important. This topic has emerged as a major component of both state and national standards, and as such, it is included in most contemporary teacher education programs. Three decades of research have focused on teacher leadership...
Teaching in the Knowledge Society
Education in the Age of Insecurity
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
We are living in a defining moment, when the world in which teachers do their work is changing profoundly. In his latest book, Hargreaves proposes that we have a one-time chance to reshape the future of teaching and schooling and that we should seize this historic opportunity. Hargreaves sets out...
Disobedient Teaching
Surviving and Creating Change in Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
This book is about disobedience. Positive disobedience. Disobedience as a kind of professional behaviour. It shows how teachers can survive and even influence an education system that does staggering damage to potential. More importantly it is an arm around the shoulder of disobedient teachers who...
by Victor C.X. Wang, Kathleen P. King
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Career and Technical Education (CTE) has become a vibrant source of workforce development across the globe. It is no longer an offering only for a specialized sector of students. Instead, it has matured into a sound and meaningful program for high school and postsecondary students across interest areas,...
What's the Point of School?
Rediscovering the Heart of Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
What's the Point of School? takes the reader beyond the sterile debates about City Academies and dumbed-down exams in order to reveal the key responsibility of education today: to create students who enjoy learning. With their emphasis on stressful exams and regurgitation of information, Guy Claxton...
by Johanna M. Lockhart
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Maximize Your School Marketing offers school administrators effective ways to enhance their existing school marketing strategy using the essential elements of public relations, media relations, social media, community partnerships, and fundraising. Extensive examples and case studies serve to illustrate...