`Simple, easy, and systematic! In understandable language, the author provides a step-by-step daily model to ensure the development of positive behavioural traits within the classroom' - Bridgitte H Shropshire, Parent and School Registrar, Southeast High School, Macon, Georgia This book provides positive methods for developing a classroom environment conducive to academic learning and success. In her seventeen years teaching elementary and high school, the author has developed a positive behaviour program, which allows educators to provide a learning atmosphere of self-respect, perseverance, and self control. Each chapter discusses how teachers can model these behaviors daily, and encourage students to develop and practice these behaviours. This classroom management system is designed to help students learn elements of integrity, courtesy, loyalty, respect, perseverance, honour, and self-control.
`This is one of very few texts to give recognition to the difficulties in large institutions and to give practical advice about the degree to which collegiality can be built into strategic planning. The authors provide an overview of all aspects of leadership within education, giving ample references within each section for more detailed study' - ......
`This is one of very few texts to give recognition to the difficulties in large institutions and to give practical advice about the degree to which collegiality can be built into strategic planning. The authors provide an overview of all aspects of leadership within education, giving ample references within each section for more detailed study' - ......
The university, as a core institution of democratic society, is increasingly threatened by the intrusion of big business. Can faculty members remain independent under such heavy corporate influence? This book not only describes the threat of corporatisation, but provides real-life strategies, campaigns, and solutions to the problem.
This easy-to-access comprehensize manual and interactive CD-ROM gives you all the information and organization you need in a fill-in-the-blanks format to create a safety plan that will never be out of date.CD-ROM is PC and MAC compatible. Making Schools Safe for Students is available separately for Making Schools Safe for Students
City Schools brings together a distinguished group of researchers and educators for an in-depth look at the nation's largest school system. Topics covered include the changing demographics of city schools, the impending teacher shortage, reading instruction, special education, bilingual education, school governance, charter schools, choice, school ......
Rapid and controversial, the spread of school choice initiatives across the United States has radically changed political debate about public education. This book explores the complex world of open-enrollment policies, charter schools and voucher plans to reveal how and why school choice has become a major issue.
Strategies for Teachers, Counselors, and Administrators
This book offers not only a hands-on training agenda that can be adapted to primary or secondary schools, but also a step-by-step approach to introducing peer mediation to administrators, faculty and staff, students, parents, and the community. The authors have included comprehensive guidelines and forms for everything needed to initiate a peer mediation programme, market it, train participants, and evaluate and expand an existing programme. Many forms are available that can be modified to the specifics of any school and programme. Frequently asked questions are addressed, and many suggestions provided to follow up the training and implementation of the program. This is an excellent guide for teachers, counsellors, administrators, or anyone wanting to introduce students to the benefits of peer mediation
`Practitioner Research in Education should become a millennium "must" for principals and school leaders whose schools are under OfSTED spotlight and for all those practitioners who earnestly aim to undertake higher managment studies whilst "in situ" in their teaching posts.... It is a publication well worth reading by all those who continue to be, justifiably, enthused by school development issues' - Angela Monkman Brushett, OfSTED Inspector `This is a very simple but notable piece of work... They have done a service to education in providing evidence (and there is remarkably little elsewhere) that continuous professional development does pay off in terms of a better education for pupils in schools' - School Leadership and Management Much debate currently concerns the value of education research : how is it perceived by practitioners and students ? How useful and relevant is it ? Who best carries it out ? Can it be free from political influence ? While practitioner research is widely advocated, little is known about its effect on individuals, teams and the institution. In Practitioner Research in Education, the authors explore the effects of teachers' and lecturers' research and its impact on organizational improvement. Whether affecting whole school cultures through teachers' group work, or influencing practice through an individual's research, the accounts in this book show how research can make a difference. They show how improvements in management and leadership arising from practitioner research can contribute to advances in teaching and learning. The book includes material on how to conduct research, the types of research which practitioners can carry out in a school or college, and the implications of research for organizational development. Readers will be able to draw valuable lessons for personal, professional, team or school improvement. Practitioner Research In Education will be useful to students and practitioners of educational management, to those doing research in educational settings, and to school managers who are committed to school improvement.
