Practical Strategies and Inspiration for K-6 Teachers
This is an 8 part audio tape series and user's guide, providing strategic advice and inspiration to new elementary, primary and junior school teachers. The user's guide is available separately.
This book presents the findings of the National Coalition of Equality in Learning, an experiment involving over sixty diverse elementary and secondary schools in the US, created to help educators attack the persistent problems of inequity experienced by poor and minority students in education today.
This book provides methods that educational leaders can use to develop their personal vision of education, as well as methods for use in developing consensus for shared visions of educational excellence. The book also addresses the conditions of instruction, assessment and support in classrooms and schools that are necessary to implement a vision embracing a particular perpective on education. Specific chapters are devoted to exploring the important roles of educational philosophy and psychology in the development of educational vision.
Outlining all the necessary components in the development of a successful crisis management plan, this book enables educational administrators to be prepared in the event of a crisis such as accident, natural disaster or gang violence.
This book presents the findings of the National Coalition of Equality in Learning, an experiment involving over sixty diverse elementary and secondary schools in the US, created to help educators attack the persistent problems of inequity experienced by poor and minority students in education today.
Outlining all the necessary components in the development of a successful crisis management plan, this book enables educational administrators to be prepared in the event of a crisis such as accident, natural disaster or gang violence.
A Guide for Teachers Redefining Themselves and Their Profession
This book identifies the classroom methodologies, curriculum and personal professional growth that are essential for ongoing school reform. The author honours the traditions of teaching while simultaneously making a compelling case for change.
How the cognitive development of young adolescents can be integrated into a teaching plan, and thus the learning process, is the theme of this book. Each chapter presents theory on the learning needs of children aged between 10 and 14 which is then tied to specific practice application. With vignettes illustrating the theory in practice, the author presents specific teaching strategies for setting expectations and standards, teaching for thinking, assessing student performance and extending the classroom to the real world.
