A Banner Experience: Its Roots and Branches
ISBN: 9780595434152 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Follow this unusual tale as Elinor, a math and English middle school teacher for many years, planned for the day when she could hold the reins at a school of her own design. Find out the "how" and the "why" of her success. Marvel at the intensity behind this undertaking. Rejoice as she surmounts the red tape of many bureaucracies. Exult as she acquires a building, oversees its renovation, and obtains materials through auctions and other means. Applaud the first students, their parents, and the quality staff who made this aspiration a reality.
Cheer as her school grows. Join her search for... Follow this unusual tale as Elinor, a math and English middle school teacher for many years, planned for the day when she could hold the reins at a sc...
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Widener: Biography of a Library
ISBN: 9780674016682 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Wallace Stegner called its stacks "enchanted." Barbara Tuchman called it "my Archimedes bathtub, my burning bush." But to Thomas Wolfe, it was a place of "wilderment and despair." Since its opening in 1915, the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library has led a spirited life as Harvard's physical and, in a sense, its spiritual heart. Originally intended as the memorial to one man, it quickly grew into a symbol of the life of the mind with few equals anywhere--and like all symbols, it has enjoyed its share of contest and contradiction. At the unlikely intersection of such disparate episodes as...
Wallace Stegner called its stacks "enchanted." Barbara Tuchman called it "my Archimedes bathtub, my burning bush." But to Thomas Wolfe, it was a plac...
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231,69 zł |
Designing Successful Professional Meetings and Conferences in Education: Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation
ISBN: 9780761976332 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides guidance, tips, and suggestions for planning professional events that will result in substantial learning for participants. Written for professionals with all levels of experience, it is based on the authors' experiences with designing and conducting meetings. This book provides guidance, tips, and suggestions for planning professional events that will result in substantial learning for participants. Writ... |
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159,33 zł |
The Grantwriter′s Internet Companion: A Resource for Educators and Others Seeking Grants and Funding
ISBN: 9780761977469 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This one-stop resource is a time-saving guide for busy instructors to use in finding grants for special classroom projects and schoolwide programs. This one-stop resource is a time-saving guide for busy instructors to use in finding grants for special classroom projects and schoolwide programs. |
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110,13 zł |
Creating Carleton: The Shaping of a University
ISBN: 9780773524866 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. They analyse how Carleton University tried to adjust to the changing social values of the 1960s, describing how the administration tried to come to terms with financial constraint, the professors tried to shift their emphasis from teaching to research while fretting about job security, and the students challenged the traditional authority of university officials and professors in an effort to become fee-paying clients rather than pupils. Over and above these changes were attempts to come to grips with individual rights and the changing status of women. Creating Carleton is not only the story...
They analyse how Carleton University tried to adjust to the changing social values of the 1960s, describing how the administration tried to come to te...
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367,28 zł |
Lesson Study: A Japanese Approach to Improving Mathematics Teaching and Learning
ISBN: 9780805839623 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lesson study is a popular professional development approach in Japan whereby teachers collaborate to study content, instruction, and how students solve problems and reach for understanding in order to improve elementary mathematics instruction and learning in the classroom.
This book is the first comprehensive look at the system and process of lesson study in Japan. It describes in detail the process of how teachers conducted lesson study--how they collaborated in order to develop a lesson, what they talked about during the process, and what they looked at in order to understand deeply... Lesson study is a popular professional development approach in Japan whereby teachers collaborate to study content, instruction, and how students solv...
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278,03 zł |
Inside Greek U.: Fraternities, Sororities, and the Pursuit of Pleasure, Power, and Prestige
ISBN: 9780813124681 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Popular culture portrays college Greek organizations as a training ground for malevolent young aristocrats. Films such as Animal House, Revenge of the Nerds, Old School, and Legally Blonde reinforce this stereotype, but they fail to depict the enduring influence of these organizations on their members. Inside Greek U. provides an in-depth investigation of how fraternities and sororities bolster traditional, and potentially damaging, definitions of gender and sexuality. Using evidence gathered in hundreds of focus group sessions and personal interviews, as well as his years of experience as... Popular culture portrays college Greek organizations as a training ground for malevolent young aristocrats. Films such as Animal House, Revenge of ... |
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How Universities Promote Economic Growth
ISBN: 9780821367513 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With the competitiveness of firms in an open and integrated world environment increasingly reliant on technological capability, universities are being asked to take on a growing role in stimulating economic growth. Beyond imparting education, they are now viewed as sources of industrially valuable technical skills, innovations, and entrepreneurship. Developed and developing countries alike have made it a priority to realize this potential of universities to spur growth, a strategy that calls for coordinated policy actions. The distinguished contributors to 'How Universities Promote Economic...
With the competitiveness of firms in an open and integrated world environment increasingly reliant on technological capability, universities are being...
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189,76 zł |
Community College Faculty: At Work in the New Economy
ISBN: 9781403966674 / Angielski / Twarda / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. John S. Levin, Susan T. Kater, and Richard L. Wagoner collectively argue that as community colleges organize themselves to respond to economic needs and employer demands, and as they rely more heavily upon workplace efficiencies such as part-time labor, they turn themselves into businesses or corporations and threaten their social and educational mission.
John S. Levin, Susan T. Kater, and Richard L. Wagoner collectively argue that as community colleges organize themselves to respond to economic needs a...
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195,42 zł |
Teachers Under Siege: Abuse, Alcohol, Sex, Drugs, and Murder at the Middle School Level
ISBN: 9781418427498 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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90,96 zł |
Charter Schools: Moving to the Next Level
ISBN: 9781425928711 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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67,53 zł |
Designbook for Building Partnerships: School, Home, and Community
ISBN: 9781566766197 / Angielski / Miękka / 425 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A three-ring binder full of ideas intended for school administrators at every level, principals, teachers, and central office personnel all of whom have a stake in parent involvement in schools. A parent survey is the book's organizing center, providing a means for educators to gather parent percept
A three-ring binder full of ideas intended for school administrators at every level, principals, teachers, and central office personnel all of whom ha...
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497,07 zł |
Parents and Taxpayers Guide to Evaluate and Control Their Children's Education
ISBN: 9781585009589 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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56,40 zł |
Researching Change in Caribbean Education: Curriculum, Teaching and Administration
ISBN: 9789766320454 / Angielski / Miękka / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Hon. Maxine Henry Wilson is Minister of Education, Youth and Culture for Jamaica and holds the firm belief that education is the tool for effective change..."To teachers in the classroom: We have to equip ourselves with the most up-to-date methodologies and the latest thinking. The issues raised in these essays all speak to the diversity of challenges you face. To the authors: You have identified many of the significant issues which will guide us at all levels, but which policymakers especially need in order to make informed and rational decisions.To the editors: Thank you for compiling...
The Hon. Maxine Henry Wilson is Minister of Education, Youth and Culture for Jamaica and holds the firm belief that education is the tool for effectiv...
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196,56 zł |
A History of Education in East Africa
ISBN: 9789970022410 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Differing approaches have been used to establish formal education in East Africa. This book traces developments from pre-colonial indigenous systems, to the pioneering work of missionaries, and education during the colonial and post-colonial periods. The work is organised by country - parts one to four systematically look at pre- independence education in Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika and Zanzibar; part five gives a comparative analysis of education in the region since independence. The authors, academics at Makerere University, argue that East African educational policies have brought about...
Differing approaches have been used to establish formal education in East Africa. This book traces developments from pre-colonial indigenous systems, ...
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254,30 zł |
Charter Schools: From Reform Imagery to Reform Reality
ISBN: 9780230606272 / Angielski / Twarda / 243 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book begins with the claims of policymakers and explores charter schools at each stage of the policymaking process, from legislation to implementation. Powers carefully and thoroughly examines how features of schools' policy contexts shape the ways that charter school reform unfolds at schools, providing a nuanced portrait of the schools participating in this much discussed and little understood reform movement. While policymakers are often prone to making sweeping claims about the efficacy of charter schools, in practice charter school reform is much more complex. By drawing on an...
This book begins with the claims of policymakers and explores charter schools at each stage of the policymaking process, from legislation to implement...
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195,42 zł |
Fulfilling the Charter: The Story of the College of Education at Butler University and More ...
ISBN: 9780595445875 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As the landscape of teacher education developed during the late 1800s, historical antecedents of Butler University's College of Education initiated what we now know as long-term commitments to work and service at local, state, and national levels. This historical account of the College brings to light how teachers, leaders, and colleagues possessing vision, a shared commitment to children, excellence in education, and humor have inspired and influenced generations. Those who are aware of Butler University and those who have yet to learn of the quiet excellence that lives within the... As the landscape of teacher education developed during the late 1800s, historical antecedents of Butler University's College of Education initiated... |
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104,61 zł |
Fulfilling the Charter: The Story of the College of Education at Butler University and More ...
ISBN: 9780595704774 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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148,29 zł |
Appointing and Managing Learning Support Assistants: A Practical Guide for Sencos and Other Managers
ISBN: 9781843120629 / Angielski / Miękka / 74 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To make the task of managing Learning Support Assistants easier this book includes: photocopiable proforma sheets to support staff recruitment and development; how to make a focused response to audits using action plans; what to expect from your LSAs; suggestions on how to help teachers and LSAs communicate and share lesson plans; and advice for making the most of resources. To make the task of managing Learning Support Assistants easier this book includes: photocopiable proforma sheets to support staff recruitment and ... |
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188,83 zł |
The Ghost on the Ramparts and Other Essays in the Humanities
ISBN: 9780820332659 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The Ghost on the Ramparts" presents fourteen of R. B. Heilman's essays on the teaching of English and the profession of the humanities. These essays deal with such diverse topics as administrative ways and means, pedagogical shibboleths and heresies, uses and abuses of literacy, cliches of style, moot issues of history and criticism, and above all the nature of the humanities and their continuing significance. The persuasive discussions of all these subjects reflect the author's wide professional experience, his wit and wisdom, and his superb sense of style. The chairman of a... "The Ghost on the Ramparts" presents fourteen of R. B. Heilman's essays on the teaching of English and the profession of the humanities. These essa... |
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148,32 zł |