Education is increasingly regarded as an evidenced based profession and the concept of practitioner research has become an important part of teacher development. Developing Practitioner Researchers is a significant text for teachers involved in practitioner research. It discusses how the concept of classroom research has evolved from previous ......
Principled Headship equips you with the essential skills needed for a future in school leadership. Pioneering a programme of techniques and exercises using Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and a combination of left and right brained approaches, it includes indirect suggestions, visual image associations and extensive work on personal ......
Formerly a SkyLight Publication. How can teachers help students recognize and tap into their inner motivation in order to achieve learning success? Writing Sparks provides writing activities and prompts that address three main aspects of motivation: self-direction, self-observation, and self-reflection. These activities can be effective with any age and help focus students on moving forward, identifying ideas and goals, and developing plans for reaching those goals.
Help is finally hereA'effortless, efficient but effective evaluations for your entire staff! A complementary volume to the bestselling Writing Meaningful Teacher EvaluationsA'Right Now!! and Writing Year-End Teacher Improvement PlansA'Right Now!!, this indispensable resource is an essential timesaver for any busy administrator charged with ......
Help is finally hereA'effortless, efficient but effective evaluations for your entire staff! A complementary volume to the bestselling Writing Meaningful Teacher EvaluationsA'Right Now!! and Writing Year-End Teacher Improvement PlansA'Right Now!!, this indispensable resource is an essential timesaver for any busy administrator charged with ......
Text is everywhere in schools and colleges, and students have to deal with reams of it during their learning lives. Most of it is interesting, well-written and rewarding That is if we can only get our students to read it!Cardit! Can help. This software allows you to organise text and produce cards that can be used in a multitude of games, making ......
Dual-Career-Couple Hiring Practices in Higher Education
Approximately eight of every ten academics have spouses or partners who are working professionals, and almost half of these partners are academics as well. In fact, dual-career academic couples are so prevalent that ''the two-body problem'' has become a common way of referring to the situation. Increasingly intense competition to hire the best ......
`A welcome and helpful addition to the shelves of tutors and students working on masters programmes. It will be most beneficial supporting students on programmes where there is a substantial research training component. It offers important exemplars of using computer software in qualitative analysis' - Educational Review `This book is aimed ......
This book begins with a selection of Christy's poems published when she was twenty-one in Out of Chrysalis and Wind in the Grass. In the first poem, "Up!" she celebrates the sprouting forces of organic growth that she senses in the grasses and trees and feels so strongly within herself. "To Run on Hills" conveys the same exuberant, almost mythical ......
