Strategies for Writing Effectively for Your Profession and Your School
In his book Publish or Perish - The Educator's Imperative: Strategies for Writing Effectively for Your Profession and Your School, author Allan A Glatthorn outlines the essential steps to becoming a published writer: from the preliminary phase of focusing on a subject matter, to marketing the published work on-line. While the author illustrates how to write profession specific material, the information he conveys is invaluable to any aspiring author. Publish or Perish - The Educator's Imperative is a reader friendly book with personal accounts of failure and success, detailed advice, and practical information.
"An excellent reference book that should be included in every educator's library-plus each school's professional staff library." Ruth Nelson, Retired Elementary School Teacher Fairbanks, AK "This book is on the cutting edge. A must for new teachers and an excellent source for veteran teachers to become familiar with new techniques." Sandra Whited, Instructor University of Texas at San Antonio Sort through the buzzwords and hype to find the right reform for your school! In their struggle to identify successful solutions for their schools, teachers, administrators, board members, and parents must wade through reams of educational rhetoric and sales hype. This definitive resource objectively explains how each program, practice, and philosophy is supported by research and how it really works in schools. A veritable encyclopedia of more than 100 educational innovations, this book not only provides straightforward definitions, but also concisely illustrates the practical applications and research supporting each innovation. Entries also include feedback from award-winning teachers, giving educators an unbiased view of real-world effectiveness. Among the highlights are: Exploration of more than 60 innovative practices, including assertive discipline, computer-assisted instruction, conflict resolution, distance learning, and Socratic method Examination of results-oriented programs, including emergent literacy, Jumpstart, and Touch Point Math Detailed discussion of policies from immersion and inclusion, to standardized testing and summer school Comprehensive coverage of movements, concepts, and theories, including brain-based learning, mainstreaming, multicultural education, and school vouchers
Challenging prejudice, sterotyping and judgemental behaviour, this volume consists of 40 discussion stories which reflect society and the problems young people face today. Aimed at promoting discussion and awareness, the author challenges young people to consider events and the part they themselves play in life, thus producing more responsible and ......
How to Hire, Coach, and Mentor Successful Teachers
In this quick-read resource for administrators and teachers, Elaine K Ewan explores the ten characteristics that lead to success in the classroom - increased school morale, satisfied parents, and eager, high-achieving students.This user-friendly guide shares practical insights into the ten crucial traits through real-life examples, experiences, research, and personal reflections from students, parents, and educators at all levels. Special features include: - Numerous graphic organizers to clearly illustrate the ten traits - More than 50 interview questions based on the ten traits to help administrators and teachers prepare for the all-important interview process - Dozens of exercises for principals to use to energize experienced teachers, empower new teachers, and nurture the ten traits - Examples from research that highlight the relationship between the traits and student achievement
State Universities and Progressivism in the New South, 1880-1920
Lessons in Progress provides a detailed look at how progressivism transformed higher education in the New South. Orchestrated by an alliance of northern philanthropists and southern intellectuals, modernizing universities focused on practical, utilitarian education aimed at reinvigorating the South through technological advancement. They also ......
Libia S. Gil, superintendent of the Chula Vista Elementary School District and leader of a dynamic team of educators, presents a framework for peer evaluation within school districts that is already at work and succeeding in her own district. District-level administrators, educational administration instructors, and principals themselves will find an evaluation design that: - Emphasizes results - Promotes professional growth and development - Models expectations for students and teachers - Meets ISLLC Standards Gil and her team equate the peer evaluation process with a dance -- "a rhythmic and dynamic event in which everyone can participate at various stages, in tune with external or internal music." The resulting work includes practical advice and great insight into the process, including: - The historical context for challenging the status quo and moving to a different level of meaningful professional engagement - A new role for the principal, and the development of student-based decision-making - Establishing the new format for the evaluation process, including the professional and personal benefits of peer support - Continuum-based principal performance standards, leadership standards, and growing pains for principals and superintendents The challenges and opportunities presented by this exciting new model of accountability are explored in-depth, in this definitive work designed for principals, district-level professional development directors, and teachers of educational administration at all levels.
Conversations on the Future of Literary and Cultural Studies
Sometimes playful, always provocative, Professions is a collection of searching and candid conversations--ranging from dialogues to tongue-in-cheek diatribes--on the issues that face literary and cultural critics today. This volume bares professional concerns, relationships, ambitions, and insecurities about working in academe. Professions ......
Designed to meet the needs and interests of principals and teachers, this compilation of classic and contemporary quotes and anecdotes features topics and sources not found in other references for educators. In addition to the usual respected scholars, statesmen, writers, politicians, and philosophers, this collection includes right-on quotes from real teachers, administrators, and students, and non-tradition sources such as Sitting Bull, the Ayatollah Khomeini, the Grateful Dead, Mike Tyson, and rapper Ice T. This is definitely an essential resource for all educators on the firing line who need to be effective when every word counts! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This book provides useful teaching ideas for secondary beginning teachers who wish to focus on their students, parents, colleagues, teaching associates, and school site administrators. The author includes examples and directions which beginning teachers can put to practical use in the classroom the next day. The tools, techniques, and strategies that will be lifesavers during the first year of teaching are all discussed here. The volume is the culmination of researching and assembling materials from beginning teachers in high schools over the course of three years.
