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Reform Doesn't Work: Grassroots Efforts Can Provide Answers to School Improvement
ISBN: 9781610486163 / Angielski / Miękka / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Where does education happen? In classrooms. Teachers can provide the ultimate reform of education and teachers can be the ultimate reformers of education. Still, teachers cannot create all of the needed improvements in education alone. Input from, involvement from, ideas from, and participation from many other people can combine with what only teachers know about education to create the educational improvements which are sought year after year. School administrators, parents, guardians, school board members, community members, community organizations, politicians and other people can join in...
Where does education happen? In classrooms. Teachers can provide the ultimate reform of education and teachers can be the ultimate reformers of educat...
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Classroom Management: A Guide for Urban School Teachers
ISBN: 9781610487627 / Angielski / Twarda / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many teachers who work in urban schools find classroom management to be very problematic. Their university course work, and training, didn't prepare them for the heavy demands of being an urban school teacher. Urban educators need to be equipped with the knowledge and skills needed to effectively manage adverse behaviors, and still deliver a quality education to all students. Classroom Management: A Guide for Urban School Teachers is designed to give educators practical strategies that will help them deal with the unique challenges faced by urban school teachers today. Whether the teacher is...
Many teachers who work in urban schools find classroom management to be very problematic. Their university course work, and training, didn't prepare t...
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Putting It Into Practice: Developing Student Critical Thinking Skills in Teacher Education - The Models, Methods, Experience, and Results
ISBN: 9781617356742 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Most teachers would agree that they teach reasoning skills in their classes. However, are they explicitly incorporating strategies that teach students to think critically? If so, how do they know these methods are effective? The purpose of this book is to summarize and share a variety of methods for developing students' critical thinking skills. Each chapter focuses on a select teacher education class where the instructor implemented components of the Paul and Elder Model of Critical Thinking. Written from the instructor's point of view, each chapter details how each instructor utilized...
Most teachers would agree that they teach reasoning skills in their classes. However, are they explicitly incorporating strategies that teach students...
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Putting It Into Practice: Developing Student Critical Thinking Skills in Teacher Education - The Models, Methods, Experience, and Results (Hc)
ISBN: 9781617356759 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Most teachers would agree that they teach reasoning skills in their classes. However, are they explicitly incorporating strategies that teach students to think critically? If so, how do they know these methods are effective? The purpose of this book is to summarize and share a variety of methods for developing students' critical thinking skills. Each chapter focuses on a select teacher education class where the instructor implemented components of the Paul and Elder Model of Critical Thinking. Written from the instructor's point of view, each chapter details how each instructor utilized...
Most teachers would agree that they teach reasoning skills in their classes. However, are they explicitly incorporating strategies that teach students...
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50 Tips for Terrific Teams: Proven Strategies for Building High Performance Teams
ISBN: 9781460225691 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "There is so much good research and writing on high performing teams now... but few CEOs have the time to access it. So good to have this short, accessible and practical collection of tips on how to transform your team, by Catherine and Jacqueline, two very experienced team coaches who have both thoroughly researched all the best literature and found ways of applying it to teams across different sectors... I certainly will be using a number of these tips to improve the boards I chair and the teams I lead. I hope you too find they aid you on your journey."
- Peter Hawkins, Author of... "There is so much good research and writing on high performing teams now... but few CEOs have the time to access it. So good to have this short, acces...
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How It's Being Done: Urgent Lessons from Unexpected Schools
ISBN: 9781934742280 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How It's Being Done offers much-needed help to educators, providing detailed accounts of the ways in which unexpected schools--those with high-poverty and high-minority student populations--have dramatically boosted student achievement.
How It's Being Done builds on Karin Chenoweth's widely hailed earlier volume, "It's Being Done," providing specific information about how such schools have exceeded expectations and met with unprecedented levels of success. How It's Being Done offers much-needed help to educators, providing detailed accounts of the ways in which unexpected schools--those with high-...
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Face to Face: Communication and Conflict Resolution in the Schools
ISBN: 9780803963078 / Angielski / Twarda / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Among the greatest challenges faced by teachers and administrators are how to communicate effectively with students and how to resolve conflicts between them. Face to Face discusses the communication skills and conflict resolution principles necessary for the smooth functioning of schools and the effective teaching of students. The authors present a number of methods for improving teacher-student communication including: the use of reflective listening; open-ended questions; mediation programmes; problem-solving models; and interactive exchange. The book establishes a correlation between good...
Among the greatest challenges faced by teachers and administrators are how to communicate effectively with students and how to resolve conflicts betwe...
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Re-Awakening the Learner: Creating Learner-Centric, Standards-Driven Schools
ISBN: 9781610486965 / Angielski / Twarda / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Transformation of public education requires the reawakening of the sleeping giant in the room: the learners. Students, teachers, and principals must develop a learner-centric, standards-driven school. Reawakening the Learner is a guide to creating just such an environment. Continua describe the journey of teachers, teacher leaders, and principals in partnering with learners. Adult-driven routines must be replaced with learner-centric practices. All stakeholders must identify a common moral purpose, create a culture that supports change, and commit to the learner improvement cycle. Common...
Transformation of public education requires the reawakening of the sleeping giant in the room: the learners. Students, teachers, and principals must d...
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Re-Awakening the Learner: Creating Learner-Centric, Standards-Driven Schools
ISBN: 9781610486972 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Transformation of public education requires the reawakening of the sleeping giant in the room: the learners. Students, teachers, and principals must develop a learner-centric, standards-driven school. Reawakening the Learner is a guide to creating just such an environment. All stakeholders must identify a common moral purpose, create a culture that supports change, and commit to the learner improvement cycle. Common moral purpose must be driven by beliefs and behaviors that support all learners to proficiency. School culture must be developed to be ready for change, have enough trust in one...
Transformation of public education requires the reawakening of the sleeping giant in the room: the learners. Students, teachers, and principals must d...
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Quality and Qualities : Tensions in Education Reforms
ISBN: 9789460919497 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Quality and Qualities: Tensions in Education Reforms is a provocative call for understanding and further exploring the elusive concept of quality in education. Although education quality has acquired high priority in the past few decades, the multiplicity of conceptualizations of quality also reflects the concerns and foci of multiple stakeholders. Coming to an understanding of quality education involves careful analysis of the context from which any particular reform or program emerges and of the continuing struggle to define and achieve it. Two main questions persist: who benefits from...
Quality and Qualities: Tensions in Education Reforms is a provocative call for understanding and further exploring the elusive concept of quality in e...
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Quality and Qualities : Tensions in Education Reforms
ISBN: 9789460919503 / Angielski / Twarda / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Quality and Qualities: Tensions in Education Reforms is a provocative call for understanding and further exploring the elusive concept of quality in education. Although education quality has acquired high priority in the past few decades, the multiplicity of conceptualizations of quality also reflects the concerns and foci of multiple stakeholders. Coming to an understanding of quality education involves careful analysis of the context from which any particular reform or program emerges and of the continuing struggle to define and achieve it. Two main questions persist: who benefits from...
Quality and Qualities: Tensions in Education Reforms is a provocative call for understanding and further exploring the elusive concept of quality in e...
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441,93 |
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The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking
ISBN: 9780691156668 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych.
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Teacher Learning and Power in the Knowledge Society
ISBN: 9789460919718 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The rise of knowledge workers has been widely heralded but there has been little research on their actual learning practices. This book provides the first systematic comparative study of the formal and informal learning of different professional groups, with a particular focus on teachers. Drawing on unique large-scale national surveys of working conditions and learning practices in Canada, teachers are compared with doctors and lawyers, nurses, engineers and computer programmers, as well as other professionals. The class positions of professionals (self-employed, employers, managers or...
The rise of knowledge workers has been widely heralded but there has been little research on their actual learning practices. This book provides the f...
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Teacher Learning and Power in the Knowledge Society
ISBN: 9789460919725 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The rise of knowledge workers has been widely heralded but there has been little research on their actual learning practices. This book provides the first systematic comparative study of the formal and informal learning of different professional groups, with a particular focus on teachers. Drawing on unique large-scale national surveys of working conditions and learning practices in Canada, teachers are compared with doctors and lawyers, nurses, engineers and computer programmers, as well as other professionals. The class positions of professionals (self-employed, employers, managers or...
The rise of knowledge workers has been widely heralded but there has been little research on their actual learning practices. This book provides the f...
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The Power of Experience: Principals Talk about School Improvement
ISBN: 9781475800180 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Power of Experience: Principals Talk about School Improvement is a guide for principals, both aspiring and established, who hope to make a measurable difference in the achievement of all students, and who strive to create a positive, safe, and student-centered learning environment in their schools. Gleaned from interviews with more than fifty principals who have been either instrumental in bringing a school to US Department of Education National Blue Ribbon status or who were identified as National Distinguished Principals by the National Association of Elementary School Principals, this...
The Power of Experience: Principals Talk about School Improvement is a guide for principals, both aspiring and established, who hope to make a measura...
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Decisionology: A Guiding Compass for High School Students
ISBN: 9781475928969 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. According to author Dan Gates, decisionology is the analysis, study, discussion, and exampling of the decisions that may determine the direction of your life. We put so much emphasis on the decisions and choices that high-school students are making and will continue to make for the rest of their lives because these choices can potentially create- or destroy-a bright future. Decisionology is designed to be a simple and effective resource that can be used whenever challenges or decisions arise. This guide does not provide the answers required in a given situation; rather, it... According to author Dan Gates, decisionology is the analysis, study, discussion, and exampling of the decisions that may determine the direction of... |
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Decisionology: A Guiding Compass for High School Students
ISBN: 9781475928976 / Angielski / Twarda / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. According to author Dan Gates, decisionology is the analysis, study, discussion, and exampling of the decisions that may determine the direction of your life. We put so much emphasis on the decisions and choices that high-school students are making and will continue to make for the rest of their lives because these choices can potentially create- or destroy-a bright future. Decisionology is designed to be a simple and effective resource that can be used whenever challenges or decisions arise. This guide does not provide the answers required in a given situation; rather, it... According to author Dan Gates, decisionology is the analysis, study, discussion, and exampling of the decisions that may determine the direction of... |
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Schools Can Change: A Step-by-Step Change Creation System for Building Innovative Schools and Increasing Student Learning
ISBN: 9781412998741 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From No Child Left Behind to Common Core standards, we are inundated with directives for improving our schools. How can we really create lasting change? By applying the Change Creation system The Change Creation system produces a creative, collaborative, nurturing school environment-and you can make it happen. The authors use what they have learned over two decades of working with schools implementing Whole Faculty Study Groups to make improvements and refinements that create a more streamlined and effective grass-roots system for measurable and sustainable student growth. Learning community...
From No Child Left Behind to Common Core standards, we are inundated with directives for improving our schools. How can we really create lasting chang...
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Optimize Life for Your Aging Parents and You
ISBN: 9781432797386 / Angielski / Miękka / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Pursuing Digital Literacy in Compulsory Education
ISBN: 9781433106194 / Angielski / Twarda / 269 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the last two decades, advances in information and communication technologies (ICTs) have contributed to the ideological construct of an emerging -knowledge society- one which places a high value on knowledge and education and promises a better future for humanity. However, the severe economic and by extension, social and political crisis that occurred at the end of 2008, which brought about rising unemployment and threatened social welfare, has changed the view of an ever-prospering society riding the ICT/knowledge wave, forcing it to face a sudden reality check, and to reconsider...
Over the last two decades, advances in information and communication technologies (ICTs) have contributed to the ideological construct of an emerging ...
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