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by Christine Jax
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2011
In The Seven Stages of an Enlightened Teacher, Dr. Christine Jax presents a path to great teaching that shows how and why teaching is 'a calling' in the true sense of the words. The book is grounded in the theory that the education of another person is a spiritual endeavor that improves as the inner...
by Sandra Phifer
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2002
This book is designed for the career teacher interested in designing positive learning environments. For the teacher facing challenges in the classroom, this essential text goes far beyond background experiences and training programs in providing knowledge with an impact. Planning, organizing, and...
Teaching for Results
Best Practices in Integrating Co-Teaching and Differentiated Instruction
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012
Collaborative teaching has the potential to improve the performance of both students and teachers. However, this method is not regularly capitalized in many schools because teachers who are assigned to co-teach often lack task-specific knowledge and skills to better prepare them. Fortunately these...
Student Assessment
Fast, Frequent, and Formative
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
When playing video games, players are able to press the reset button when something goes wrong and realize they are missing an essential skill needed to win the game. In education, we can use formative assessment as a means for the student to press the virtual reset button. Educators can ensure that...
Rubrics
A Handbook for Construction and Use
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 1999
What is a rubric? How can I implement them as evaluation tools? How can I make better use of my existing rubrics? This bestseller answers these questions, providing you with all the necessary information to apply rubrics_from the classroom to the administrative office. Each chapter stands alone as...
The Power of Words
Learning Vocabulary in Grades 4-9
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
Teachers are intuitively aware of the connection between academic vocabulary and reading comprehension. Unfortunately, despite what we know about active instruction of vocabulary that will be retained by our students, teachers often assign vocabulary but rarely teach it well. The results are akin...
Perspectives on the Mistreatment of American Educators
Throwing Water on a Drowning Man
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2002
Pressured by a society searching for a simple solution to a complex problem, educators are constantly subjected to a double standard and their work and role marginalized as insignificant despite compelling evidence to the contrary. This enlightening discussion of the misperceptions about the profession...
What's Wrong with Our Schools
and How We Can Fix Them
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
What's Wrong with Our Schools and How We Can Fix Them examines the status of public education in North America and exposes many of the absurd instructional practices found in all-too-many schools. Written by three experienced educators, this book provides readers with a direct window into public education....
The Violence Continuum
Creating a Safe School Climate
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
We expect schools to be a safe haven, but after more than a decade of targeted school violence prevention laws and safety plans, students are still marginalized and bullied to the point of despondence, retaliation, and even suicide. This thoughtful exploration of what makes a school a safe place is...
Advancing Your Career
Getting and Making the Most of Your Doctorate
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Entering a doctoral program can be an important first step in advancing your career. You will create a network of support that will include professors, intern advisors, and others who will have a vested interest in your success. From this support group will emerge one or more mentors who will guide...
Good Governance is a Choice
A Way to Re-create Your Board_the Right Way
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2011
This book comes with a promise: after reading it, you will never again think of board work the same as before. Good Governance is a Choice is a book about, and for, boards of public and non-profit organizations. Its central focus is on public school boards and the special challenges they face, but...
Blueprint for School System Transformation
A Vision for Comprehensive Reform in Milwaukee and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Despite widespread recognition that school systems need to do profoundly better, those seeking improvement have been persistently frustrated by the mediocre results of popular reforms. School and system leaders, policy-makers, and funders lack clear guidance as to the steps necessary to dramatically...
A New Look at the Interactive Writing Classroom
Methods, Strategies, and Activities to Engage Students
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Teaching students how to write more effectively is a goal that English teachers of all levels share. How can you motivate your students to produce their best writing, think critically, and participate more actively in class? How can you conduct workshops in your classroom that create a more dynamic,...
What Works!
Successful Strategies for Middle Childhood Generalists Pursuing National Board Certification
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
WHAT WORKS! provides a roadmap for Middle Childhood Generalist National Board Candidates as they work through each of the fount entries to be submitted and the Assessment Center Exercises. The chapters contain dozens of tips on “What Works!” and “Why These Work”; the tips are practical, specific...