Applying the psychology of memory to classroom teaching can enhance learning, reduce workload for teachers and lead to better outcomes for students. Memory is a subject often clouded from understanding by technical jargon and complexities. Busy teachers need support and guidance from experienced authors who are connected to both practice and research. This current, practical guide supports your reflection on and engagement with memory in the classroom, with direct links to your own teaching.
The Essential Guide to Implementing School Initiatives
Finally, clear guidance on how to design programs that last How many initiatives start with great fanfare only to end up accumulating dust on a shelf? Right From the Start tackles this challenge head on by offering a reliable, evidence-based implementation process. With upbeat clarity, this book examines the meaning of initiative, provides an intuitively sequenced structure and eagerly shares a vast array of tools. This is quite simply the book all veterans wish they had years ago. Drawing on Marshall's thousands of hours evaluating educational programs, this guidebook walks through the entire process of implementation, from needs assessment (more important than you think!) to evaluation - while providing strategies that yield predictable results. Organized to allow for reading cover to cover or to focus on a particular stage, the book includes Tools for analysis so you can effectively determine where you are and what you need Opportunities for self-assessment and reflection "Tales from the field" to help you avoid pitfalls and glean best practices Discussion questions for professional learning communities Every educator and policy maker has ideas and knows exactly what will improve their school. That's the easy part. But does the solution really fit the need of the school? Do the school players have the commitment or readiness to venture forward? To get it right the first time, apply Marshall's model of implementation in your school.
A Planner to Support Your Instruction, Well-Being, and Professional Learning
A low-tech, highly-practical planner everyone wishes for-and every teacher needs Renowned educator Jim Burke discovered that teaching at the top of your game requires low-tech, low-profile moments for picking up a pen, reflecting, and looking ahead. Maybe that's why every page of this remarkable planner feels handcrafted with Jim's wisdom on managing your time, your classes, and your life. You'll find professional development ideas to nudge you toward new practices as well as the tried and true- with yearly, monthly, weekly, and daily planning pages for setting your own personal and professional goals. Highlights include: Fill-in pages for long-range dreaming, annual unit envisioning, and short-term planning, as well as downloadable pages for daily ideas and improvisation based on students' needs Personal Professional Development (PPD) pages and essential readings to help you focus every month on pressing issues and timeless pedagogy about teaching and learning Space to help you set personal goals and reflect on them throughout the year Tools to help you plan instructional time and focus on students who need extra support A planner is never about the lessons--it's always about the life. It's about the life and growth of teachers and students and the robust, happy development of one's days. And there's no better educator than Jim Burke to remind us of that in Teaching Better Day by Day.
Transforming Leadership Pathways for Humanities Professionals in Higher Education includes thirteen essays from a variety of contributors investigating how humanities professionals grapple with the opportunities and challenges of leadership positions. Written by insiders sharing their lived experience, this collection provides an authentic look at ......
Transforming Leadership Pathways for Humanities Professionals in Higher Education includes thirteen essays from a variety of contributors investigating how humanities professionals grapple with the opportunities and challenges of leadership positions. Written by insiders sharing their lived experience, this collection provides an authentic look at ......
This curriculum-based professional learning enables teachers to deepen their understanding of the essential components of successful curriculum implementation and work together to provide instruction that has a positive impact on student learning.
This book demystifies the concept of collective efficacy and empowers teacher teams with the necessary tools to ignite collaborative processes, pool energy and resources, and foster mutual accountability at a schoolwide level.
Pride and Progress began as a podcast to amplify the voices of LGBT+ educators and allies. This book builds on the podcast's success to create an essential guide for teachers and educators who want to make their educational spaces LGBT+ inclusive. This book combines academic theory and the lived experiences of the podcast guests to explore ten key themes. Each chapter explores one of these themes. The book provides the knowledge, language and strategies that schools need to make their education spaces inclusive for all.
Pride and Progress began as a podcast to amplify the voices of LGBT+ educators and allies. This book builds on the podcast's success to create an essential guide for teachers and educators who want to make their educational spaces LGBT+ inclusive. This book combines academic theory and the lived experiences of the podcast guests to explore ten key themes. Each chapter explores one of these themes. The book provides the knowledge, language and strategies that schools need to make their education spaces inclusive for all.
