Using a combination of participant observation and interviews with teachers, parents and students, Rosetta Marantz Cohen explores a high school's efforts in the United States to implement broad-based curricular change. The book vividly illustrates the impact of change on an often resistant institution. From her observations, Cohen draws up a series of recommendations for those considering embarking on similar site-based reform initiatives.
Commissioned by the AACTE in the United States, this book examines the purposes of professional development schools - which collaborate to improve curriculum, instruction and structure - and the problems encountered and the evidence for success or otherwise.
Provides a planning framework that includes numerous examples of performance-based social studies set in real-life contexts. The book includes design templates and reproducible masters - practical tools that can be used to customize and create classroom instructional material that will empower teachers and students to be successful in `showing what they know'.
The authors briefly examine the educational administration literature relevant to values and administrative practice, then present a general philosophical position which integrates values, practice and science. They discuss the process of valuation, as it applies to concrete situations in educational administration and some of the characteristics of school organizations.
"We must first understand others before we can care about them and we must care about them before we can love them. In this book, J. David Smith takes us on a fascinating journey from understanding to caring to love." Leonard O. Pellicer, Dean University of La Verne, La Verne, CA Do children and adults with disabilities enrich our lives? ......
How can you use the growing body of research on how the brain learns to become a more effective leader? The Leadership Brainprovides a new model for a whole-brain approach to educational leadership.
A Step-by-Step Program for Professional Development
The Mentoring Year is rich with experience and new ideas. I endorse it without reservation' - Heidi Hayes Jacobs, Curriculum Designs, Inc., Adjunct Associate Professor, Teachers College, Columbia University `This book contains explicit, step-by-step guidelines to build a programme in the real world of schools. The authors demonstrate great ......
'This is a must-read for teachers who coach, serve on committees, have families, or do all of the above. New teachers will find that it makes that first year less overwhelming. The time spent to read this book will be recovered many times over. The reproducible pages are an invaluable resource' - Francis M McCullin, Mathematics Instructor, ......
"We must first understand others before we can care about them and we must care about them before we can love them. In this book, J. David Smith takes us on a fascinating journey from understanding to caring to love." Leonard O. Pellicer, Dean University of La Verne, La Verne, CA Do children and adults with disabilities enrich our lives? ......
