Rowman Littlefield Publishers: 5578 books
Creating Culturally Responsive Schools
One Classroom at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
Today’s classrooms are extremely diverse and many educators are not prepared for the increasing need for culturally responsive teaching. Creating Culturally Responsive Schools: One Classroom at a Time strives to help teachers discover not only what it means to be a culturally responsive educator,...
Supervision and Evaluation for Learning and Growth
Strategies for Teacher and School Leader Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
This CHOICE award-winning author has teamed up with national school resource experts to write a comprehensive book on supervision and improvement of learning. Everything you need to know about supervision and student learning, professional development, coaching and evaluation, standards, and creating...
Inquiry-Based Learning
Designing Instruction to Promote Higher Level Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
Inquiry-Based Learning: Designing Instruction to Promote Higher Level Thinking focuses on learning and pedagogy around inquiry using technology as a cognitive tool. Specific inferences and applications of learning through an inquiry approach are explored and illustrations are drawn from educational...
by Daniel R. Tomal
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
This book is a straightforward, no-nonsense guide to a research method that can be used by educators to increase student learning, student self-esteem, and quality of school life in the classroom. This user-friendly book covers the principles and history of action research, ethical and legal considerations,...
by Mark D. Shermis, Francis J. DiVesta
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2011
Classroom Assessment in Action clarifies the multi-faceted roles of measurement and assessment and their applications in a classroom setting. Comprehensive in scope, Shermis and Di Vesta explain basic measurement concepts and show students how to interpret the results of standardized tests. From these...
The Apple Shouldn't Fall Far from Common Core
Teaching Techniques to Include All Students
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
The purpose of The Apple Shouldn’t Fall Far From Common Core: Teaching Techniques to Include All students is to offer teacher candidates, teachers, teacher educators, administrators, and other education professionals evidence based interventions to use when developing and implementing common core...
A Blueprint for Preparing Teachers
Producing the Best Educators for Our Children
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
A Blueprint for Preparing Teachers provides a plan to produce high quality teachers who will remain in the profession and continue to grow throughout their careers. The plan includes three-components which must all be incorporated for a teacher education program to be successful: university curriculum...
Getting the Teachers We Need
International Perspectives on Teacher Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
Teacher education faces challenges that are immediate and demanding. Adapting teacher education to the changing needs of educational systems is an imperative. This book offers engaging, thoughtful, and sometimes provocative ways of engaging in the debate around what is and can be in teacher education....
Collaborative Leadership
Building Capacity through Effective Partnerships
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
This book identifies multiple University programs where partnerships create ongoing collaborative activities that sets the stage for leadership development, program expansion and growth, and utilization of partnerships that support student, community and University initiatives.
University programs...
Instructional Design Essentials
A Practical Guide for Librarians
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
Whether you are teaching a single lesson, designing self-guided resources, or developing an entire information literacy course, Instructional Design Essentials: A Practical Guide for Librarians provides a practical blueprint to understanding the theory, concepts, tools, and strategies for analyzing...
The Courage to Grow
Leading with Intentionality
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
The Courage to Grow: Leading with Intentionality shows educational leaders how to design and carry out a leadership professional development plan. It is a guide that allows leaders to construct their own learning to measure knowledge, assess growth, and improve performance. This training manual is...
Mentoring for School Quality
How Educators Can Be More Professional and Effective
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Making Mentoring Work should help educators to mentor or to be mentored effectively in our schools. We all have had mentors, those key adults from family, work, or schools who have assisted us in learning and becoming good adults, skilled and able professionals, and contributing member of community...
Becoming a Great School
Harnessing the Powers of Quality Management and Collaborative Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
In education we are working on behalf of a truly noble cause: the lives of our students. We need a system for working together that is worthy of the work and one that harnesses the idealistic visions and inherent energies that brought us to education in the first place.
Becoming A Great School prepares...
Energizing Your Organization
The Ultimate School Work Environment
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Many school decision-makers and educational practitioners talk about developing an ultimate school work environment, but few actually move beyond the talk. It is very common for individuals in positions of power to make statements about how great it is to work in the school while the rest of the employees...