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The Effective Constructivist Leader: A Guide to the Successful Approaches
ISBN: 9781578867288 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book analyzes and synthesizes key elements of the most recent and dynamic emergent theory and practice of leadership--constructivist leadership. It presents the theory and practice in a down-to-earth, easy-to-read approach that removes fear and anxiety, using case studies revealing both the underlying philosophy and practical strategies both to teach and to lead constructivistically. Constructivist leadership is the most democratic form of leadership and can be used to reform schools to make them considerably more productive, effective, and healthy for kids and faculty, as the case...
This book analyzes and synthesizes key elements of the most recent and dynamic emergent theory and practice of leadership--constructivist leadership. ...
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Teaching Africa: Towards a Transgressive Pedagogy
ISBN: 9781402057700 / Angielski / Twarda / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One is always struck by the brilliant work of George Sefa Dei but nothing so far has demonstrated his pedagogical leadership as much as the current project. With a sense of purpose so pure and so thoroughly intellectual, Dei shows why he must be credited with continuing the motivation and action for justice in education. He has produced in this powerful volume, Teaching Africa, the same type of close reasoning that has given him credibility in the anti-racist struggle in education. Sustaining the case for the democratization of education and the revising of the pedagogical method to include...
One is always struck by the brilliant work of George Sefa Dei but nothing so far has demonstrated his pedagogical leadership as much as the current pr...
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Pedagogies of the Imagination: Mythopoetic Curriculum in Educational Practice
ISBN: 9781402082818 / Angielski / Twarda / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. I have long admired the mythopoetic tradition in curriculum studies. That admiration followed from my experience as a high-school teacher of English in a wealthy suburb of New York City at the end of the 1960s. A dream job I taught four classes of 15 20 students during a nine-period day in a dream suburb (where I could afford to reside only by taking a room in a retired teacher s house), many of these often Ivy-League-bound students had everything but meaningful lives. This middle-class, Midwestern young teacher was flabbergasted. In one sense, my academic life has been devoted to...
I have long admired the mythopoetic tradition in curriculum studies. That admiration followed from my experience as a high-school teacher of English i...
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A Game Plan for Effective Leadership: Lessons from 10 Successful Coaches in Moving Theory to Practice
ISBN: 9781578868148 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book uses the case study approach in order to facilitate placing theory into effective practice. Each chapter contains an extensive study on one of ten of the most successful basketball coaches of our times including, Phil Jackson, Bobby Knight, Mike Krzyzewski, Pat Riley, Pat Summitt, and Dean Smith. The book looks to see how these coaches were able to place leadership theory into effective practice.
This book uses the case study approach in order to facilitate placing theory into effective practice. Each chapter contains an extensive study on one ...
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Action Learning in Schools: Reframing Teachers' Professional Learning and Development
ISBN: 9780415475143 / Angielski / Twarda / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Teaching is becoming increasingly complex in the 21st Century, creating a need for more sophisticated frameworks to support teachers' professional learning. Action learning is one such framework and has been used for workplace learning in business settings for many years. It is now becoming increasingly popular in school and university settings, but it is often misunderstood. This book clarifies what action learning is, linking key concepts to illustrate that it is not merely a process, but a dynamic interaction between professional learning, communities, leadership and change.... Teaching is becoming increasingly complex in the 21st Century, creating a need for more sophisticated frameworks to support teachers' pr... |
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E-Schooling: Global Messages from a Small Island
ISBN: 9781843123804 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on evaluation of ICT work in a range of schools in Northern Ireland, asking what it takes to change learning through technology in what we call 'e-schooling', this book asks some hard-hitting questions of those involved in educating young people in schools at the start of the 21st century.
Based on evaluation of ICT work in a range of schools in Northern Ireland, asking what it takes to change learning through technology in what we call ...
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Making Your Way in Headship
ISBN: 9781843124351 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. New and aspiring heads will find that this book covers the immediate basics, such as:
It will help you to see what s important in your headship; what should be done; what MUST be done. "New and aspiring heads will find that this book covers the immediate basics, such as:
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Transformative Teaching
ISBN: 9789087904517 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a book that supports teachers, teacher educators and educational researchers as they strive for ways to make their work more authentic, more meaningful, and therefore more spiritual. Dobson describes the practices of exemplary teachers, offers a theoretical framework for transformative teaching, and includes useful examples that the reader can readily include in her own teaching and/or research. Dobson offers two innovative methods of teacher reflectivity (Interacting Narratives and Archetypal Reflectivity) and an original methodology of teaching literature and the arts that draws on...
This is a book that supports teachers, teacher educators and educational researchers as they strive for ways to make their work more authentic, more m...
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Teacher Education in the English-Speaking World: Past, Present, and Future (PB)
ISBN: 9781593119003 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This edited book is a comparative study on teacher education across ten major Englishspeaking regions of the world (USA, English Canada, England and Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Singapore, Hong Kong, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand). The focus on individual regions is reflective of a comparative approach with a long tradition going back to the turn of the twentieth century. This approach is still valid at the present time as it provides one of the best ways of initially structuring our understanding of teacher education at the macro level in order to facilitate communication of the...
This edited book is a comparative study on teacher education across ten major Englishspeaking regions of the world (USA, English Canada, England and W...
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Teacher Education in the English-Speaking World: Past, Present, and Future (Hc)
ISBN: 9781593119010 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This edited book is a comparative study on teacher education across ten major Englishspeaking regions of the world (USA, English Canada, England and Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Singapore, Hong Kong, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand). The focus on individual regions is reflective of a comparative approach with a long tradition going back to the turn of the twentieth century. This approach is still valid at the present time as it provides one of the best ways of initially structuring our understanding of teacher education at the macro level in order to facilitate communication of the...
This edited book is a comparative study on teacher education across ten major Englishspeaking regions of the world (USA, English Canada, England and W...
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Bringing Out the Best in Teachers: What Effective Principals Do
ISBN: 9781412965200 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The third edition of this bestseller offers first-person accounts from teachers who share the influential strategies of outstanding principals who empowered them.
The third edition of this bestseller offers first-person accounts from teachers who share the influential strategies of outstanding principals who emp...
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One Child at a Time: Making the Most of Your Time with Struggling Readers, K-6
ISBN: 9781571104342 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Every elementary teacher deals with students who struggle as readers on a daily basis. Each struggling child is complex and each has a unique history as a learner. In One Child at a Time, experienced literacy specialist and consultant Pat Johnson provides a framework she has used in numerous K-6 classrooms to help teachers understand and assist individual children. The four-step process outlined in the book enables teachers to focus carefully on specific strategies and behaviors; analyze them with theoretical and practical lenses; design targeted instruction in keeping with current... Every elementary teacher deals with students who struggle as readers on a daily basis. Each struggling child is complex and each has a unique histo... |
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Emerging Curriculum
ISBN: 9789087903855 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An important contribution that Emerging curriculum makes is a reconceptualizing of the curriculum development process. This moves development thinking from the traditional research-development-dissemination model to one that acknowledges: the interrelatedness of many influences on curriculum, the multi-layered nature of curriculum, and the complexity of the educational system in which curriculum exists. Indeed the educational system is envisaged as a complex living system
The study is autobiographical, it is based on a lifetime spent in education during which the author had a particular... An important contribution that Emerging curriculum makes is a reconceptualizing of the curriculum development process. This moves development thinking...
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Investigating the Teacher's Life and Work
ISBN: 9789087904081 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Investigating the Teachers Life and Work attempts to bring together the methodological and substantive aspects of studying the teachers life and work. Some of the chapters in the book provide a "how to do" approach for those wishing to study the teachers life and work employing a life history method; whilst other chapters provide the kind of substantive and generic findings which might be anticipated when conducting life history work.
The focus on professional life and work has been growing rapidly in the last two or three decades. There are a number of reasons for this. Firstly there... Investigating the Teachers Life and Work attempts to bring together the methodological and substantive aspects of studying the teachers life and work....
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International Handbook of Research on Teachers and Teaching
ISBN: 9780387733166 / Angielski / Twarda / 1219 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The International Handbook of Research on Teachers and Teaching provides a fresh look at the ever changing nature of the teaching profession throughout the world. This collection of over 70 original articles addresses a wide range of issues that are relevant for understanding the present educational climate in which the accountability of teachers and the standardized testing of students have become dominant. The international collection of authors brings to the handbook a breadth of knowledge and experience about the teaching profession and a wealth of material across a... The International Handbook of Research on Teachers and Teaching provides a fresh look at the ever changing nature of the teaching profession throug... |
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The Academic Portfolio: A Practical Guide to Documenting Teaching, Research, and Service
ISBN: 9780470256992 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This comprehensive book focuses squarely on academic portfolios, which may prove to be the most innovative and promising faculty evaluation and development technique in years. The authors identify key issues, red flag warnings, and benchmarks for success, describing the what, why, and how of developing academic portfolios. The book includes an extensively tested step-by-step approach to creating portfolios and lists 21 possible portfolio items covering teaching, research/scholarship, and service from which faculty can choose the ones most relevant to them.
The thrust of this book is... This comprehensive book focuses squarely on academic portfolios, which may prove to be the most innovative and promising faculty evaluation and develo...
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Poetry Goes to School: From Mother Goose to Shel Silverstein
ISBN: 9781551381619 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Learn how to create a "culture of poetry" that demonstrates the power of words and strengthens the language lives of children. Poetry Goes to School is a comprehensive resource for teachers who want to fill their classrooms with poetry. The authors have expanded the territory covered in their previous book, Mother Goose Goes to School. In this rich collection, they have gathered and classified a remarkable collection of poetry and teaching strategies into a meaningful, manageable program.The book is organized around eight inviting units: patterns, word play, nursery rhymes,...
Learn how to create a "culture of poetry" that demonstrates the power of words and strengthens the language lives of children. Poetry Goes to Schoo...
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What do I do about the kid who... ? : 50 ways to turn teaching into learning
ISBN: 9781551381657 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Every teacher has at least one student in their class that they worry they'll never be able to reach. A student who is reluctant to speak in public, forgets, finds it difficult to work in groups, is uninterested, seems to be an outsider, and so on. InWhat Do I Do About the Kid Who educators learn how to create a learning environment that helps meet the needs of these students.Practical and functional, the book shows teachers how to structure content learning activities so the day-to-day operation of the classroom is easier, more organized, joyful, and exciting, with simple strategies...
Every teacher has at least one student in their class that they worry they'll never be able to reach. A student who is reluctant to speak in public, f...
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Seven Steps to Successful Writing : 32-page flipbook that guides kids through all forms of writing
ISBN: 9781551381763 / Angielski / Miękka / 28 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This handy tool guides students through the seven essential steps for writing successfully in any form, from idea to draft to revision to final product. The layout is inviting and offers a valuable review of the essentials:
Seven Steps to Successful Writing helps writers get started, stay motivated, and complete pieces of writing they are proud to share. Its straightforward and easy-to-read format will... This handy tool guides students through the seven essential steps for writing successfully in any form, from idea to draft to revision to final pro... |
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Fifty-Five Teaching Dilemmas : Ten Powerful Solutions to Almost Any Classroom Challenge
ISBN: 9781551381916 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To teach with excellence demands more than strategies and techniques. The most successful teachers draw on their personal power--their confidence, compassion, and empathy, and their professional power--their ability to lead, instruct, and inspire their students to do their best. With practice, most teachers can develop the skills they need to conquer almost any classroom challenge. This book offers specific, practical ideas to help teachers:
To teach with excellence demands more than strategies and techniques. The most successful teachers draw on their personal power--their confidence, com...
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