This volume addresses the need for schools to recognize technology as the dominant factor in the new global economy. It argues that in order to be competitive within that economy, educators must incorporate technology into the learning experience. The author offers many examples of instructional uses of technology and details the various hardware and software processes that can be implemented. Finally, practical scenarios demonstrate the uses and advantages of technology in student instruction.

This is a book about change, leaders and a wide variety of practical planning tools designed to assist educational leaders in their responsibility to develop and maintain successful schools. It is designed to be used as a day-to-day reference book for those who are responsible for the direct change that improves the operations and output of their schools. The aim of this book is to help leaders become more knowledgeable and proactive, thus ensuring that all the changes will move in positive directions towards effective schools.

This book provides educational leaders with practical, hands-on strategies for improving meetings. Chapters address the key effects of productive meetings, types of meetings and how to avoid conflicts and problems.

The authors of this volume make an impassioned plea for dramatic changes in the content, processes and structures of school districts in the United States. Using examples to illustrate their controversial model, they provide a guide for the systematic planning of high-performance learning activities for an improved education system.

This is a concise "how-to" guide for action research, a process in which teachers experiment with various techniques and strategies at the classroom level. Action researchers review outcomes with peers and administration and then implement the most effective results in their own local situations. Action research can be an important catalyst for the success of your school, and this book shows you the way. Action research will renew your teachers' enthusiasm, promote teacher and principal cooperation, and help you adapt teaching methods that are more appropriate to your school's particular...

The concept of 'authentic assessment' is making an increasing impression in numerous classrooms in North America. Current testing programmes are being scrutinized to determine how to move beyond traditional forms of assessment to enhance student learning, understanding and application of knowledge. The authors of this detailed yet clearly written book provide essential information on how to develop and implement 'authentic assessment' programmes, including the involvement in the learning process of not only teachers, students and administrators but also parents and community members.

Considering the crucial role of funding in education today, it is imperative that educators understand the budgeting process thoroughly. By presenting an overview of the basics of financial matters that affect school districts and individual school buildings, this highly practical book spells out the methodology, individual roles, and rationale for site-based budgeting and describes the relationship between central and site levels. It discusses income, expenditures, and accounting responsibilities, and emphasizes the opportunity and obligations of the administration, faculty, staff, school...

PLEASE UPDATE SAGE INDIA AND SAGE U.K. ADDRESSES ON IMPRINT PAGE.

Multiage grouping - the placement of children in the same classroom who are at least one year apart in age - is designed to allow children of various ability and age levels to work in an environment designed to optimize their learning potential. The authors explore the workings of a multiage classroom and offer guidelines for planning this type of instruction.