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.
Leading, Mentoring, and Participating in the Internship Program
This book provides those involved with the preparation of school administrators with andoverview of the internship as a central ingredient of effective pre-service programmesA critical assumption made throughout the book is that the goal of such programmes is to ensure that those who step into assistant principalships, principalships, central office posts and other administrative roles should be assisted to engage in learning processes which will make them transformational leaders, not simply organizational survivors.
How to Stretch Resources and Do Even More With Less
This is the first comprehensive guide for making the most of all school resourses - and even thriving in times of dwindling funds. This no-nonsense handbook covers every aspect of fiscal fitness for today's schools; from cutting costs without cutting essential programmes and accomplishing as much as before or more with less staff, to running a low cost, no frills activity programme and finding and raising money for your school.
How to Stretch Resources and Do Even More With Less
This is the first comprehensive guide for making the most of all school resourses - and even thriving in times of dwindling funds. This no-nonsense handbook covers every aspect of fiscal fitness for today's schools; from cutting costs without cutting essential programmes and accomplishing as much as before or more with less staff, to running a low cost, no frills activity programme and finding and raising money for your school.
The book is intended to provide practical solutions to everyday problems that principals encounter. It is also a guideline for becoming a true leader and leading for school change. The authors organize the book around three principals of Cognitive Coaching: developing trust, learning, and holonomy. Each chapter will have a theme, research citations for further reading, and anecdotal stories about what worked in real schools. This is not a book of theory, but a book built on the lived experiences of school principals.
Based on an in-depth study of over 250 actively practicing teachers and certified school support professionals, this book identifies and explains the 15 most effective strategies an educator can use in order to diffuse hostile conversations with adults. The authors present a variety of stressful confrontations: from curbing the school gossip and dealing with public humiliation, to surviving a false sexual accusation and neutralizing encounters with out-of-control individuals under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol.
Based on an in-depth study of over 250 actively practicing teachers and certified school support professionals, this book identifies and explains the 15 most effective strategies an educator can use in order to diffuse hostile conversations with adults. The authors present a variety of stressful confrontations: from curbing the school gossip and dealing with public humiliation, to surviving a false sexual accusation and neutralizing encounters with out-of-control individuals under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol.
Teachers, parents, students, administrators and community members all generally agree that we need better grading and reporting systems. Here is the first serious look at the issue to provide all involved with a coherent and thoughtful framework. The goal to develop a deeper and more reflective understanding of the various aspects of the subject, and to bring some organization and clarity to this topic.
This is entirely a book of the author's responses to real questions asked by student teachers, as well as first and second year teachers. The author's ideas and opinions are based on seven years on the "front lines" of teaching and three years as an educational consultant. For new teachers, the book is a practical "been there, done that" approach to overcoming the most common problems that teachers have.
