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WHAT WORKS!
Successful Strategies in Pursuing National Board Certification
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
WHAT WORKS! provides a roadmap for National Board candidates by guiding them as they work through each of the four entries to be submitted. The chapters contain dozens of tips on "What Works!" and "Why These Work!." The tips are practical, specific, and written in a conversational style that is easy to read.
Using Art to Teach Reading Comprehension Strategies
Lesson Plans for Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Using Art to Teach Reading Comprehension Strategies: Lesson Plans for Teachers will provide both classroom and art teachers with an overview of six different reading strategies and integrated reading and art lessons that they can implement in their own classrooms and schools. Addressing specific National...
Powerful Teacher Learning
What the Theatre Arts Teach about Collaboration
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
This book offers an innovative approach to understanding and supporting teacher inquiry groups, Critical Friends Groups, “PLCs,” and other vehicles for the school-wide professional learning community. It takes the reader outside traditional sites of professional development for teachers and into...
Demystify Math, Science, and Technology
Creativity, Innovation, and Problem-Solving
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
Technology is viewed as a powerful force both in and out of school and has long been linked with math and science. Although concepts and activities of this book apply to any grade, the primary focus is on the elementary and middle school levels. This book provides principles and practical strategies...
Case Studies for School Leaders
Implementing the ISLLC Standards
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 1997
Whatever your profession, a common base of knowledge and standards of performance are required for admission to practice. As an educator, while it is true that the individual states administer actual licensure procedures, they do so based on core standards established across states. These case studies,...
Stepping into Administration
How to Succeed in Making the Move
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
This book is designed to provide beginning administrators with the knowledge and skills needed to succeed during their first year, shortening the initial learning curve and helping them make smooth transitions from teaching to their first administrative positions. Too often, beginning administrators...
by Gérard Bonnet, Mary Canning, Kai-ming Cheng
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
In Balancing Change and Tradition in Global Education Reform, Rotberg brings together examples of current education reforms in sixteen countries, written by 'insiders'. This book goes beyond myths and stereotypes and describes the difficult trade-offs countries make as they attempt to implement reforms...
Navigating the New Pedagogy
Six Principles that Transform Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
In the early 21st Century, a new vision for classroom practice emerged that looks very different from the teaching that existed previously. This new teaching is a synthesis of effective curriculum, big ideas, nurturing relationships, differentiated instruction, appropriate assessment, teaching to...
Nurturing the Whole Student
Five Dimensions of Teaching and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Nurturing the Whole Student: Five Dimensions of Teaching and Learning begins with the assumption that education is at its best—healthiest, most engaging, and most effective—when it is holistic. By holistic , the authors mean that the various dimensions of the teacher and student are honored and...
Reform Versus Dreams
Preventing Student Failure
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
School change has been at center of school reform, and many schools have moved to meet the needs of students in various areas. In many instances, there has been only one addition to the school system to serve as the element of school change. Today's school communities need a deeper understanding not...
Plato Was Wrong!
Footnotes on Doing Philosophy with Young People
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
This book is a compendium of lesson plans for classroom exercises designed to foster philosophical inquiry with young people. It introduces the reader to a wide range of activities for exploring philosophical questions and problems with children from pre-school age through high-school. There are lessons...
First Time in the College Classroom
A Guide for Teaching Assistants, Instructors, and New Professors at All Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
People who teach in higher education are subject matter specialists, but they often have little preparation in how to teach. This book presents the knowledge base of college teaching in a user-friendly, easy-to-read, yet well-researched format. From sample syllabi to the creation of an effective grading...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2004
This survey of best practices is extremely useful to those charged with setting up state and local mentoring programs and provides a logical framework to convince policy makers to support teacher-induction programs. Case studies and discussion questions make this a valuable textbook for teacher education courses and tool for faculty in the school setting.
Now I Get It!
Differentiate, Engage, and Read for Deeper Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Literacy, differentiated instruction, student engagement and academic achievement continue to be hot topics for educators, parents, legislators, and government officials. Now I Get It! Differentiate, Engage, and Read for Deeper Meaning is a practical, easy to use resource for classroom teachers, literacy...