Elaine: 1438 books
Ten Traits of Highly Effective Schools
Raising the Achievement Bar for All Students
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2008
Featuring helpful tools, authentic examples, teacher reflections, and more, this resource identifies the critical attributes of schools that enable all students to attain academic excellence.
Seven Strategies of Highly Effective Readers
Using Cognitive Research to Boost K-8 Achievement
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2004
This essential reading instruction teaching tool offers hard evidence to show how effective readers use specific strategies to extract and comprehend information.
by Elaine K. McEwan-Adkins
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
Provides 40 research-based methods with suggestions for easy implementation to help struggling readers, and features three tables of contents (traditional, topical, and problem-solving) formatted for quick reference.
Ten Traits of Highly Effective Teachers
How to Hire, Coach, and Mentor Successful Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2001
This user-friendly resource for administrators and teachers explores the ten characteristics that lead to success in the classroom, increased school morale, satisfied parents and eager, high-achieving students.
Raising Reading Achievement in Middle and High Schools
Five Simple-to-Follow Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2006
This second edition enhances the "five big ideas" for raising reading achievement with seven cognitive strategies and more than twenty "teaching for learning" tips for daily instruction.
Stammering
A Practical Guide for Teachers and Other Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
This book provides essential information and guidance about stammering for those working in educational settings. The highly experienced team of authors demonstrates how early intervention is essential if children who stammer are to have the best chance of recovery; the practical strategies that can...
Principal Induction
A Standards-Based Model for Administrator Development
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2004
This leadership induction program focuses on the importance of an effective induction process in the recruitment, development, and retention of school principals.
The Importance of Using Primary Sources in Social Studies, K-8
Guidelines for Teachers to Utilize in Instruction
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
This two-part book provides teachers in kindergarten through grade eight with a valuable resource as how to include primary sources in a social studies curriculum along with a required social studies textbook. The first section of this book contains descriptions with relevant examples of primary documents...
From Mandate to Achievement
5 Steps to a Curriculum System That Works!
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2009
Based on a five-step model, this guide helps school leaders establish the processes necessary to align curriculum to mandated standards, develop curriculum maps, and systematize instructional practices.
The Building Blocks of Early Maths
Bringing key concepts to life for 3-6 year olds
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Young children need to develop and understand the core basic concepts in mathematics before they can move forward in their mathematical learning. Without these solid foundations, they are more likely to have gaps in their knowledge and require intervention in their primary years. This new book provides...
Collaborative Teacher Literacy Teams, K-6
Connecting Professional Growth to Student Achievement
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
With all the different components of literacy, planning and delivering effective literacy instruction can be overwhelming. Explore the work of collaborative literacy teams from their formation to the employment of successful student-focused strategies. Find professional growth units in each chapter that...
Which Side Are You On?
Seven Social Responsibility Debates in American Librarianship, 1990-2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Shattering any idea that librarianship is a politically neutral realm, this insider’s account of seven debates from the floor of the American Library Association Council illustrates the mechanisms the governing body used to maintain the status quo on issues like racism, government surveillance and...
by Dr. Elaine Hallet
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Shortlisted for the 2013 Nursery World Awards!
'The author offers opportunity to reflect upon experience and brings together reflective practice and work-based learning, aiming to support the professional growth of a reflective early years workforce'
-Karen Ward, Senior Lecturer in Early Years,...
Pets and the Elderly
The Therapeutic Bond
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Here is an excellent “how-to” guide for initiating pet-facilitated therapy programs with the elderly. Pets and the Elderly is a practical book that explains how to implement carefully planned programs in residential and nursing homes and in geriatric and psychiatric hospitals, with pets in residence...