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Lifelong Learning at Its Best: Innovative Practices in Adult Credit Programs
ISBN: 9780787946036 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -A must-read for anyone in higher education, human resource development, or adult education. This impeccably researched book reflects an encyclopedic and intimate knowledge of innovative adult higher education programs and provides an impressive historical context for such programs. It will be a classic sourcebook for anyone in the field.-
--Howard Y. Williams, professor emeritus, Human Resource Development and Adult Education, University of Minnesota -A comprehensive, careful, and compelling study of adult learners and learning today. Lifelong Learning at Its Best... -A must-read for anyone in higher education, human resource development, or adult education. This impeccably researched book reflects an encyclopedic ...
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Educause Leadership Strategies, Preparing Your Campus for a Networked Future
ISBN: 9780787947347 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -Anyone with a serious interest in the future of education will find this book provocative, prescient, prescriptive, and pivotal. It is a must-read for those responsible for preparing educational institutions at all levels for their new role in our networked society.---Vinton G. Cerf, senior vice president, MCI WORLDCOM, and chairman, Internet Society
-Transformative. That's what networks are; that's the role our institutions must fill for society; and that's what our leadership must be. This book provides valuable insight into networks and the challenges we must address to... -Anyone with a serious interest in the future of education will find this book provocative, prescient, prescriptive, and pivotal. It is a must-read fo...
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Building Character in Schools Resource Guide
ISBN: 9780787959548 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Building Character in Schools Resource Guide offers school administrators and teachers a practical handbook for developing, assessing, improving, and institutionalizing character education in their schools. It is filled with real-life examples-- both successful and unsuccessful-- of character education efforts; it clearly illustrates the differences among values, virtues, and points of view; and it presents guidelines for designing effective lessons, units, assessment, and classroom activities.
Building Character in Schools Resource Guide offers school administrators and teachers a practical handbook for developing, assessing, improving, and ...
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Academic Administrator s Guide to Hiring
ISBN: 9780787960636 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Department chairs and other academic administrators are often called upon to hire administrative and staff personnel for a variety of positions, as are chairs and members of search committees. To meet the challenge of finding and hiring the right person for the right job, The Jossey-Bass Academic Administrator's Guide to Hiring offers the essential information needed to make an informed hiring decision. The book's -Performance Foundation- will help to connect hiring, retention, performance development, and performance assessment of any position at an academic institution with the most...
Department chairs and other academic administrators are often called upon to hire administrative and staff personnel for a variety of positions, as ar...
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Becoming Good American Schools: The Struggle for Civic Virtue in Education Reform
ISBN: 9780787962241 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -A convincing portrait of teachers actively engaged in educational reform...offering a hopeful yet realistic vision of revitalized democracy inspired by a passion for the public good. This book is an eloquent defense of civic virtue.-
--Jonathan Kozol, author of Amazing Grace and Savage Inequalities -Rich, realistic, invigorating, and scary. Any middle school educator who has been part of an effort to reform the educational process will see himself or herself in this book--as the brave risk taker, the naive visionary, the frightened frontline trooper, and the... -A convincing portrait of teachers actively engaged in educational reform...offering a hopeful yet realistic vision of revitalized democracy inspired ...
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Change Leadership: A Practical Guide to Transforming Our Schools
ISBN: 9780787977559 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Change Leadership Group at the Harvard School of Education has, through its work with educators, developed a thoughtful approach to the transformation of schools in the face of increasing demands for accountability. This book brings the work of the Change Leadership Group to a broader audience, providing a framework to analyze the work of school change and exercises that guide educators through the development of their practice as agents of change. It exemplifies a new and powerful approach to leadership in schools.
The Change Leadership Group at the Harvard School of Education has, through its work with educators, developed a thoughtful approach to the transforma...
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College Knowledge P
ISBN: 9780787996758 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although more and more students have the test scores and transcripts to get into college, far too many are struggling once they get there. These students are surprised to find that college coursework demands so much more of them than high school. For the first time, they are asked to think deeply, write extensively, document assertions, solve non-routine problems, apply concepts, and accept unvarnished critiques of their work. College Knowledge confronts this problem by looking at the disconnect between what high schools do and what colleges expect and proposes a solution by...
Although more and more students have the test scores and transcripts to get into college, far too many are struggling once they get there. These stude...
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Teaching Students Geriatric Research
ISBN: 9780789009975 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Teach your students essential skills in conducting research, building collaborative partnerships, and working with clients and caregivers This important book provides health care educators with information, examples, and suggestions to help teach students appropriate research techniques amidst a growing demand for evidence-based practices. Offering two effective and efficient methods, the apprenticeship model and the partnership model, Teaching Students Geriatric Research will show you how to incorporate these research fundamentals in an already heavy courseload. By providing...
Teach your students essential skills in conducting research, building collaborative partnerships, and working with clients and caregivers Th...
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The Theory and Practice of Grading Writing: Problems and Possibilities
ISBN: 9780791436707 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Explores grading strategies for English composition teachers that are consistent with modern discourse and pedagogical theories.
Explores grading strategies for English composition teachers that are consistent with modern discourse and pedagogical theories.
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Mergers in Higher Education: Lessons from Theory and Experience
ISBN: 9780802035257 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Around the world, organizations of all kinds are merging at a frenetic pace. In a comparative study of two Canadian higher education mergers - that of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education with the University of Toronto in 1996, and that of the Technical University of Nova Scotia with Dalhousie University in 1997 - Julia Eastman and Daniel Lang examine why and how universities merge and why some mergers succeed while others fail. Drawing on extensive interviews with university members, public officials, and experts in organizational restructuring, and on their professional... Around the world, organizations of all kinds are merging at a frenetic pace. In a comparative study of two Canadian higher education mergers - that... |
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Accelerated Schools in Action: Lessons from the Field
ISBN: 9780803962439 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides unique insights into one of the United States' most comprehensive school-restructuring movements, the Accelerated Schools Project. Since its inception in 1986, the Project has aimed to transform school cultures which slow down learning through remediation into cultures which accelerate the learning of all students. The contributors to the book explore the challenges which face those involved in the Project.
This book provides unique insights into one of the United States' most comprehensive school-restructuring movements, the Accelerated Schools Project. ...
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The Courage to Change: Stories from Successful School Reform
ISBN: 9780803963306 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The progress of a complex educational restructuring project in the US state of Arizona is the focus of this book. The goals of the project included: to improve dramatically student achievement in the core subjects; to develop new assessment and evaluation practices; and to develop teaching strategies, curricula and school structures that meet the needs of poor, minority and bilingual students.
The progress of a complex educational restructuring project in the US state of Arizona is the focus of this book. The goals of the project included: t...
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Speak Softly & Carry Your Own Gym Key: A Female High School Principal's Guide to Survival
ISBN: 9780803963849 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Women are currently being offered more leadership opportunities in educational administration. Writing from her own experience as a high school principal in the United States, Anna T Hicks explores a range of gender and equity issues. Her experiences and insights, though personal, have universal relevance.
Women are currently being offered more leadership opportunities in educational administration. Writing from her own experience as a high school princi...
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Everybody′s House - The Schoolhouse: Best Techniques for Connecting Home, School, and Community
ISBN: 9780803964822 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The authors of this book provide specific strategies that school leaders can employ, both with families and other community members, to build support for their school. Numerous case studies of successful family-involvement programmes currently in use, are included.
The authors of this book provide specific strategies that school leaders can employ, both with families and other community members, to build support ...
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Teacher Evaluation: A Comprehensive Guide to New Directions and Practices
ISBN: 9780803968820 / Angielski / Twarda / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Features in this comprehensive guide and reference include chapters on using national standards, improved forms, and district-level principles, and developments in using pupil achievement data. Features in this comprehensive guide and reference include chapters on using national standards, improved forms, and district-level principles, and... |
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Teacher Evaluation: A Comprehensive Guide to New Directions and Practices
ISBN: 9780803968837 / Angielski / Miękka / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Features in this comprehensive guide and reference include chapters on using national standards, improved forms, and district-level principles, and developments in using pupil achievement data. Features in this comprehensive guide and reference include chapters on using national standards, improved forms, and district-level principles, and... |
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Literacy in African American Communities
ISBN: 9780805834017 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume explores the unique sociocultural contexts of literacy development, values, and practices in African American communities. African Americans--young and old--are frequently the focus of public discourse about literacy. In a society that values a rather sophisticated level of literacy, they are among those who are most disadvantaged by low literacy achievement. Literacy in African American Communities contributes a fresh perspective by revealing how social history and cultural values converge to influence African Americans' literacy values and practices, acknowledging that...
This volume explores the unique sociocultural contexts of literacy development, values, and practices in African American communities. African America...
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Literacy in African American Communities
ISBN: 9780805834024 / Angielski / Miękka / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume explores the unique sociocultural contexts of literacy development, values, and practices in African American communities. African Americans--young and old--are frequently the focus of public discourse about literacy. In a society that values a rather sophisticated level of literacy, they are among those who are most disadvantaged by low literacy achievement. Literacy in African American Communities contributes a fresh perspective by revealing how social history and cultural values converge to influence African Americans' literacy values and practices, acknowledging that...
This volume explores the unique sociocultural contexts of literacy development, values, and practices in African American communities. African America...
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Charter Schools: Lessons in School Reform
ISBN: 9780805837247 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book takes the reader inside the charter school movement, answering such questions as:
*What is a charter school? *How are charter schools different from other public schools? *What does it take to create a charter school? *What motivates the people who initiate such schools? *What lessons can be learned from the experiences of those who have founded charter schools? *What does the growth of the charter school movement mean for society at large? Using detailed case studies of seven schools in three states, this book explores the challenges faced by the... This book takes the reader inside the charter school movement, answering such questions as:
*What is a charter school? *How are charter scho... |
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Innovations in Educational Ethnography: Theories, Methods, and Results
ISBN: 9780805845303 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume focuses on and exemplifies how ethnography--a research tool devoted to looking at human interaction as a cultural process rather than individual psychology--can shed light on educational processes framed by the complex, internationalized societies in which we live today. Part I offers theoretical chapters about ethnography and examples of innovative ethnography from particular perspectives. In Part II, the emphasis is on the application of ethnographic approaches to educational settings. Each contribution not only takes the reader on a thoughtful and enlightening journey, but...
This volume focuses on and exemplifies how ethnography--a research tool devoted to looking at human interaction as a cultural process rather than indi...
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