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What?! Another New Mandate?

What Award Winning Teachers Do When School Rules Change
  • ISBN-13: 9780761945055
  • Publisher: CORWIN PRESS, INC.
    Imprint: CORWIN PRESS, INC.
  • By Randi B. Sofman
  • Price: AUD $62.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 30/10/2002
  • Format: Paperback (228.00mm X 152.00mm) 168 pages Weight: 260g
  • Categories: Teaching skills & techniques [JNT]
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Take classroom changes in stride with these ingenious ideas! Today's classrooms exist in an ever-changing world. In addition to new adopting technologies, schools are constantly introducing changes in curriculum, instruction, testing, and advanced requirements for professional development. Many teachers are uncertain how to incorporate these ongoing changes in their classrooms. In her new book, best-selling author and classroom expert Randi Stone provides teachers with a compilation of innovative strategies created by award-winning elementary, middle school, and high school teachers who share their knowledge about embracing change in the classroom. Topics include: How teachers stay on top of school changes and the philosophies of change How teachers cope with changes in curriculum, instruction, funding, and class size How teachers succeed with new math, science, and technology How teachers integrate new content standards and mandated testing into their lesson plans This essential resource contains the articulate wisdom of a half-century's worth of resilient and imaginative teachers' experiences. Join Randi Stone and her award-winning colleagues as they share the ideas and strategies that allow them to adapt their classrooms to the ever-constant changes taking place in this new millennium.
Randi Stone is the author of nine Corwin Press books: Best Practices for Teaching Reading: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do, Best Practices for Teaching Social Studies: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do, Best Practices for Teaching Writing: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do, Best Practices for Teaching Mathematics: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do, and Best Practices for Teaching Science: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do. She is a graduate of Clark University, Boston University, and Salem State College. She completed her doctorate in education at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.
Preface Who Should Read This Book Acknowledgments About the Author About the Contributors Dedication 1. Teachers Staying on Top of Changes 2. Philosophies of Change 3. Changes in Curriculum and Instruction 4. Putting Education to the Test 5. Changes in Funding, Class Size, School Populations, and More 6. Math, Science, and Technology in the Next Millennium 7. When the Unthinkable Happens: Teachers Talk About September 11, 2001 Index
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