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Teachers Learn while Students Teach
Inspiring Hearts and Minds
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Teachers Learn While Students Teach: Inspiring Hearts And Minds is designed to be a practical guide for student teachers, new teachers, veteran teachers, and retired teachers in order to use their exceedingly important gifts to help junior high through senior high school students feel more confident...
College Success Guaranteed 2.0
5 Rules for Parents
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
Teaching for nearly 40 years, Malcolm Gauld has watched thousands of high school graduates head off to college. After a while, he began to notice some unmistakable patterns—good and bad—relating to students after they hit college. About a decade ago, he began giving an annual talk to high school...
by Daniel Cottom
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Education is useless because it destroys our common sense, because it isolates us from the rest of humanity, because it hardens our hearts and swells our heads. Bookish persons have long been subjects of suspicion and contempt and nowhere more so, perhaps, than in the United States during the past...
Act Like a Doctor, Think Like a Patient
Teaching Patient-Focused Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
The author, a practicing physician and medical educator, shares what he has taught senior medical students for 35 years. He focuses on the need for medical providers to understand not just the pathophysiology and treatment of disease, but the way in which patients view what is wrong with them, how...
Leadership from the Ground Up
Effective Schooling in Traditionally Low Performing Schools
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
This book chronicles the journey of seven schools serving students of poverty, English Language Learners (ELLs), and students of color, which were able to sustain school improvement for a decade on either state and/or national criteria that measure student performance outcomes. The book shares stories...
Developing Safer Schools and Communities for Our Children
The Interdisciplinary Responsibility of Our Time
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
All children should feel safe and secure in their schools and communities. In today's society, children are dealing with the threat of violence in their schools and online, food insecurity, environmental risks, terrorism, and many other concerns that make them feel less safe. Our jobs as teachers...
Frustration of Shame
In Defense of America's Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
For decades, teachers, though underpaid, were among the most respected, esteemed professionals in the United States. But things have changed. As schools fail to meet the needs of a growing, diverse population, teachers have taken the hit. Popular movies have sensationalized the power and potential...
Education for Civic and Political Participation
A Critical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Participation as an element of active citizenship in democracies is a key project of international and national educational policy. Institutionalized approaches for compulsory schools provide participatory access to all young European citizens. But does this picture depict the possibilities and practices...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Political transformations have a decisive power to shape education systems in general and teacher education programs in particular. How these processes unfold is especially interesting in educational systems which are not generally known to Anglo-Saxon educators, like Germany, Russia, or China. Several...
Education and Social Dynamics
A Multilevel Analysis of Curriculum Change in Turkey
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Education and Social Dynamics offers a new approach to analyzing curriculum change by investigating the entanglement of education and society in markedly heterogeneous Turkey, which has recently witnessed nation-wide curriculum reforms. While the new curriculum has attempted to homogenize all Turkish...
Having an Impact on Learning
The Public Relations Professional and the Principal
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
A public relations director and a principal have mostly the same goals in helping students achieve at high levels. While each might go about impacting student learning in different ways, they both work to make education better. In Having an Impact on Learning, the husband and wife team of Matt and...
Gratitude
A Way of Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
This valuable book will give educators solution-based methods and research-based resources to improve classroom culture, as well as enabling schools to elevate students’ engagement and academic achievement. In addition, activities will be provided that will help teachers improve their own lives...
Practicing Disability Studies in Education
Acting Toward Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Practicing Disability Studies in Education: Acting Toward Social Change celebrates the diversity of contemporary work being developed by a range of scholars working within the field of Disability Studies in Education (DSE). The central idea of this volume is to share ways in which educators practice...
Post-formalism, Pedagogy Lives
As Inspired by Joe L. Kincheloe
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Joe L. Kincheloe (1950–2008) was one of North America’s leading critical pedagogy scholars. He defined post-formalist thought in terms of deconstruction, affectivity, and non-linearity. His deconstruction focused on the context of ideas, ideologies, and teaching. It was a form of sociological...