"Portfolios are used more and more in the education field. This book is user-friendly for anyone, whether starting a new portfolio, or updating an older one. A portfolio truly has to reflect the owner and this book helps to show how that can be done." Karen K. Coblentz, Principal Dassel Elementary, Dassel-Cokato Schools, Minnesota "This ......
Promoting Group Responsibility and Individual Accountability
Assessing Students in Groups: Promoting Group Responsibility and Individual Accountability explains how to form productive groups and assess individual student performance in group work. David W Johnson and Roger T Johnson, prominent experts in cooperative learning, provide many practical resources that teachers can put to immediate use, including ......
Learn how to identify and prevent sexual exploitation of students in your school! Though most schools are safe environments for students, research shows that sexual abuse of children at all levels is on the rise. Recent media attention has captured the public's growing concern about the number of cases involving boys molested by adult females. ......
"Using a wonderful combination of research, stories, case studies, and reflective activities, the authors give their readers the gift of a new understanding of leadership and provide them with the tools they need to bring new life and effectiveness to their role." Pat Wolfe, Educational Consultant Mind Matters, Inc. "An intriguing read! I ......
"I do not believe I have ever seen a work of this kind that so thoroughly and so carefully examines the important consideration of working with the students' advisor, relationships with the students' supervisory committee, and the oral defense. Students using this text will certainly applaud this work." M. Scott Norton, Professor Arizona State ......
No matter how busy your schedule, you can renew and refresh your professional growth by using these reflection breaks! Strongly believing that educators should always reflect on their day's work, teacher and writer Thomas S. C. Farrell designed this new book with busy teachers in mind. The 80 reflection breaks featured can be used as ......
Create a new reality by guiding your team to successful changes in special education! Meeting the challenge of teaching a child with a disability...optimizing the potential of a classroom of troubled students...seeing the look of understanding on a child's face-these are the ideals of special education. Making these ideals reality often ......
"Infoclutter...a great term to describe the information overload we experience each day! This book provides us with practical tips and tricks for learning to manage this information for a variety of purposes, from personal productivity to information literacy, for an audience of teachers, students, and parents." From the Foreword by Kathy Schrock ......
Create a new reality by guiding your team to successful changes in special education! Meeting the challenge of teaching a child with a disability...optimizing the potential of a classroom of troubled students...seeing the look of understanding on a child's face-these are the ideals of special education. Making these ideals reality often ......
