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Brookes Publishing Co Fundamentals of Literacy Instruction &
Book SynopsisPrepare future educators to strengthen the literacy skills of students in Grades 6 – 12 with this introductory reading textbook, based on the latest research, the Common Core Standards, and recommended instructional practices. The perfect first text on adolescent literacy, this expertly organised volume covers all the fundamentals of how reading and writing skills develop in older students and how to teach literacy within key academic content areas: language arts, math, science, and history.More than 20 of today’s top authorities give educators the solid, practical background knowledge they’ll need for the rest of their careers, as they shape the next generation of confident readers and writers. Prepare Future Educators to: Teach the fundamental components of literacy, with special emphasis on fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension Address the Common Core State Standards Prepare students for college and career by teaching literacy in content areas Differentiate instruction for struggling students and English language learners Implement the highly effective RTI model and other multi-tiered systems of support Apply evidence-based instructional strategies in the classroom Use current legislation to inform classroom instruction
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Brookes Publishing Co The Teacher's Pocket Guide for Effective
Book SynopsisTeachers give the highest marks to this bestselling classroom management guide—and now it’s better than ever! Developed by Tim Knoster, a behaviour expert and former teacher whose in-demand workshops have inspired thousands, this new edition is the friendly how-to book educators need to increase desired behaviour in today’s K–12 classrooms. The second edition weaves in timely new guidance for teachers implementing multi-tiered systems of support in tandem with positive behaviour interventions and supports (PBIS), though it’s still a great resource for teachers in more traditional school settings. With the time-efficient, research-based strategies—relayed with humour and vivid examples—teachers will unlock the mysteries of student behaviour, prevent disruptions to learning, and support better outcomes for every student.HOW-TO STRATEGIES THAT HELP TEACHERS: Successfully use multi-tiered systems of positive behaviour support Decode the motives behind students’ behaviour Develop rapport with students while maintaining appropriate boundaries Establish clear expectations for behaviour in the classroom Reinforce expected behaviour throughout the day with positive supports Skilfully redirect inappropriate student behaviour Apply proven Tier 2 RTI strategies with students who require additional supports Use individualized, intensive Tier 3 strategies with students who pose special challenges PRACTICAL MATERIALS:Helpful tip sheets and classroom management tools, including an Expectations Planning Matrix, Behavior Progress Report, Behavior Contract, and more.Table of ContentsAbout the Reproducible MaterialsSo Who Is This Guy?Acknowledgments1. So Why Should I Read This Book?2. So Why Do Kids Act the Way They Do?3. So How Do I Prevent Problem Behavior in My Classroom?4. So How Close Should I Get with My Students?5. So How Do I Go About Establishing Expectations in My Classroom?6. So How Hard Is It to Use Reinforcement in My Classroom?7. So Does It Really Boil Down to Classroom Climate?8. So How Do I Address Inappropriate Behavior?9. So What Else Can I Do?10. So What if Everything I Have Tried Is Still Not Working? What Else Can I Do?11. So How Do I Connect the Dots?References and Resources for Further ReadingAppendix
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Brookes Publishing Co Teaching Pyramid Observation Tool (TPOT™) for Preschool Classrooms Set
Book SynopsisIf your programme is among the thousands using the evidence-based Pyramid Model for Promoting Social Emotional Competence in Infants and Young Children, this is the one tool you need to support teachers to effectively use the practices. Developed by highly respected creators of the Pyramid Model for classrooms enrolling children 2–5 years of age, the TPOT™ is an in-depth tool that provides information on how well teachers are implementing practices related to universal, targeted, and individualized supports. A trained administrator conducts a classroom observation and teacher interview, uncovering detailed information about the quality of 14 key teaching practices, noting red flags that indicate areas for immediate support, and observing how teachers respond to challenging behaviours. TPOT™ results show which practices are being implemented successfully—and what teachers need to focus on to ensure positive social-emotional outcomes for young children.TPOT™ helps programmes: Support effective implementation of the proven PBIS-based Pyramid model Promote social-emotional competence in young children Implement strategies to prevent and address challenging behaviour Compare implementation across classrooms, teachers, and programmes Identify where teachers need extra professional development and support Guide coaching efforts This Set includes the TPOT™ Manual and one package of TPOT™ forms.This is the one tool you need to make sure teachers are effectively putting the evidence-based Pyramid Model for Promoting Social Emotional Competence in Infants and Young Children into practice.Table of ContentsAbout the AuthorsAcknowledgments1. Introduction to the Teaching Pyramid Observation Tool2. Overview of Pyramid Model and the Teaching Pyramid Observation Tool3. Using the TPOT4. TPOT Scoring Guidance5. Scoring the Teaching Pyramid Observation Tool and Summarizing Results6. Using the TPOT in Coaching to Promote Effective Practices: Case Studies7. Technical Features of the Teaching Pyramid Observation ToolReferencesAppendix A: FAQsAppendix B: ResourcesIndex
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Brookes Publishing Co Educating Students with Severe and Multiple
Book SynopsisA cornerstone of special education training for nearly 30 years, this is the definitive textbook for preparing educators, counselors, and other related services professionals to teach children with severe and multiple disabilities in inclusive settings. Now in a revised, thoroughly updated, and streamlined fifth edition, this bestselling volume gives current and future educators the research and practical strategies they need to ensure the best learning outcomes for their students. Presenting a team-based, collaborative approach to education, this comprehensive text includes valuable contributions from respected experts in diverse fields, including fresh voices in special education, physical therapy, occupational therapy, communication, counseling, and pediatrics. Equally useful for preservice professionals and practicing educators in inclusive classrooms, this highly regarded textbook will fully prepare professionals to meet the educational, emotional, and health care needs of students with severe and multiple disabilities.New to this edition:• New chapters on topics essential to effective practice, such as teaching strategies and transition to adulthood• Updates based on the latest developments in special education• More information on assistive technology and understanding challenging behaviors• New student-friendly features such as chapter objectives, key terms, and challenging activities• Engaging and instructive case stories at the start of each chapter• New online course materials, including slides that outline key ideas • Helpful new chapter organization that introduces readers to the diverse needs of students with disabilities and follows up with practical teaching strategies
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Modern Language Association of America Teaching with Science Writing in the Humanities Classroom
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Purdue University Press Literacies of Design: Studies of Equity and Imagination in Engineering and Making
Book SynopsisThough engineering design can tackle the world's most pressing challenges, engineering-related courses and experiences are often alienating, especially to people from minoritized groups. Literacies of Design: Studies of Equity and Imagination in Engineering and Making covers the latest pedagogical theories—as well as case studies and practical tips—to support diverse people in identifying problems and designing solutions through engineering and making. Engineers tackle a range of problems, big and small, from climate change to viral transmission to improved handrails for persons with disabilities. Inclusion and equity efforts include not only preparing the next generation of engineers and makers, but also creating and fostering spaces where youth can express their ideas and bring forth their whole selves. This book offers theories and real-life examples for educators and practitioners at every level, from K–12 through higher education and beyond. Table of Contents Introduction: Literacies and Design for Equity, by Amy Wilson-Lopez, Alberto Esquinca, Joel Alejandro Mejia, and Eli Tucker-Raymond 1 "It's Like a Rock Puzzle in a Wall": Multiliteracies and Design Practices in First-Grade Engineering, by Salem R. Metzger, Alison K. Mercier, and Heidi B. Carlone 2 Elementary Students' Communicative Practices in the Engineering Design Process Across Materials and Modes, by Lynn E. Shanahan, Mary B. McVee, and Katarina Silvestri 3 Amplifying a Student's Voice: An Engineering Design Unit About Communication, by Gabriel DellaVecchia and Annemarie Sullivan Palincsar 4 Engineering Design in a Dual-Language Classroom, by Alberto Esquinca and Lidia Herrera-Rocha 5 The Face-to-Face Language of Engineering Design Teams in Urban Elementary Classrooms, by Patricia Paugh, Kristen Wendell, and Christopher Wright 6 Answerability in Making Democratic Worlds: An Exploration of One Fifth-Grade Teacher's Engineering Communication in Service of Dialogic Citizenship, by Michelle E. Jordan 7 Action Civics, Literacies, and Design: Transforming Community Spaces Through Engineering and Civic Action, by Amy Wilson-Lopez, Karen Hazel Washburn, and Indhira María Hasbún 8 Twinning Critical Community and Technical Literacies: Exploring Design Literacies Toward Equitable and Consequential Making and Engineering With Historically Marginalized Youth, by Edna Tan and Angela Calabrese Barton 9 "It Will Be a Symphony of Children": Learning STEM Literacies Through Technologies of the Heart in Making Spaces, by Eli Tucker-Raymond, Brian E. Gravel, Susan Klimczak, Aditi Wagh, and Ada Ren-Mitchell 10 Make Some Noise: Teens Respond to Sound Pollution in a Community Problem-Solving Project, by Jasmine Nation, David Sañosa, Joi Duncan, and Richard Durán 11 Designing for Justice in a School-Based Makerspace, by Virginia Killian Lund and Nathan C. Phillips 12 Contortion and Contextual Literacy: How Low-Income, First-Gen Engineering Students Manage Relationships Among People, Texts, and Objects, by Jessica M. Smith and Juan C. Lucena 13 Critical Literacies in Practice: Deconstructing Engineering Through an Engineering Social Justice Course, by Joel Alejandro Mejia and Renata A. Revelo About the Contributors Index
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Purdue University Press Literacies of Design: Studies of Equity and
Book SynopsisThough engineering design can tackle the world's most pressing challenges, engineering-related courses and experiences are often alienating, especially to people from minoritized groups. Literacies of Design: Studies of Equity and Imagination in Engineering and Making covers the latest pedagogical theories—as well as case studies and practical tips—to support diverse people in identifying problems and designing solutions through engineering and making. Engineers tackle a range of problems, big and small, from climate change to viral transmission to improved handrails for persons with disabilities. Inclusion and equity efforts include not only preparing the next generation of engineers and makers, but also creating and fostering spaces where youth can express their ideas and bring forth their whole selves. This book offers theories and real-life examples for educators and practitioners at every level, from K–12 through higher education and beyond. Table of Contents Introduction: Literacies and Design for Equity, by Amy Wilson-Lopez, Alberto Esquinca, Joel Alejandro Mejia, and Eli Tucker-Raymond 1 "It's Like a Rock Puzzle in a Wall": Multiliteracies and Design Practices in First-Grade Engineering, by Salem R. Metzger, Alison K. Mercier, and Heidi B. Carlone 2 Elementary Students' Communicative Practices in the Engineering Design Process Across Materials and Modes, by Lynn E. Shanahan, Mary B. McVee, and Katarina Silvestri 3 Amplifying a Student's Voice: An Engineering Design Unit About Communication, by Gabriel DellaVecchia and Annemarie Sullivan Palincsar 4 Engineering Design in a Dual-Language Classroom, by Alberto Esquinca and Lidia Herrera-Rocha 5 The Face-to-Face Language of Engineering Design Teams in Urban Elementary Classrooms, by Patricia Paugh, Kristen Wendell, and Christopher Wright 6 Answerability in Making Democratic Worlds: An Exploration of One Fifth-Grade Teacher's Engineering Communication in Service of Dialogic Citizenship, by Michelle E. Jordan 7 Action Civics, Literacies, and Design: Transforming Community Spaces Through Engineering and Civic Action, by Amy Wilson-Lopez, Karen Hazel Washburn, and Indhira María Hasbún 8 Twinning Critical Community and Technical Literacies: Exploring Design Literacies Toward Equitable and Consequential Making and Engineering With Historically Marginalized Youth, by Edna Tan and Angela Calabrese Barton 9 "It Will Be a Symphony of Children": Learning STEM Literacies Through Technologies of the Heart in Making Spaces, by Eli Tucker-Raymond, Brian E. Gravel, Susan Klimczak, Aditi Wagh, and Ada Ren-Mitchell 10 Make Some Noise: Teens Respond to Sound Pollution in a Community Problem-Solving Project, by Jasmine Nation, David Sañosa, Joi Duncan, and Richard Durán 11 Designing for Justice in a School-Based Makerspace, by Virginia Killian Lund and Nathan C. Phillips 12 Contortion and Contextual Literacy: How Low-Income, First-Gen Engineering Students Manage Relationships Among People, Texts, and Objects, by Jessica M. Smith and Juan C. Lucena 13 Critical Literacies in Practice: Deconstructing Engineering Through an Engineering Social Justice Course, by Joel Alejandro Mejia and Renata A. Revelo About the Contributors Index
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Purdue University Press Foundations of Agricultural Education
Book SynopsisFoundations of Agricultural Education, Fourth Edition is designed for college students in agricultural education and others interested in agricultural education as fundamental preparation for the profession. Teachers of agricultural education and those in support roles will find this book to be a helpful resource. This fourth edition is updated to reflect current educational theory and practices, and includes changed laws and initiatives since the third edition.This updated textbook is appropriate for both introductory and advanced courses. Each chapter begins with a scenario designed to engage the learner in thinking about the content of that chapter and draws from relevant research and literature. Photos, illustrations, and tables provide greater context to key concepts, and every chapter concludes with questions for review and discussion, as well as additional activities designed to guide the learner into further exploration. Foundations of Agricultural Education, Fourth Edition is an engaging, immersive guide that will help prepare the next generation of agricultural educators.Table of Contents PART 1 Introduction to the Agricultural Education Professions 1. A Career in Agricultural Education 2. Philosophical Foundations of Agricultural Education 3. History and Development of Agricultural Education 4 Organization and Structure of Agricultural Education 5. Program Planning 6. Advisory and Citizen Groups 7. Curriculum Development 8. Student Enrollment and Advisement 9. Classroom and Laboratory Facilities 10. Instructional Resources PART 2: Program Development and Management 11. The Psychology of Learning 12. The Teaching Process 13. Digital Learning 14. Classroom Management 15. Agricultural Literacy 16. Middle School Agricultural Education 17. High School Agricultural Education PART 3: Instruction in Agricultural Education 18. Adult and Postsecondary Education 19. Evaluating Learning 20. Meeting the Needs of Diverse Students 21. Using Laboratories PART 4: Supervised Agricultural Experience, FFA, and Community Resources 23. FFA 24. Community Resources PART 5: Career Stages in Agricultural Education 25. Progressing Through the Profession Glossary Index
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Harvard Educational Publishing Group Teachers as Learners
Book SynopsisIn Teachers as Learners, a collection of landmark essays, noted teacher educator and scholar Sharon Feiman-Nemser shines a light on teacher learning. Arguing that serious and sustained teacher learning is a necessary condition for ambitious student learning, she examines closely how teachers acquire, generate, and use knowledge about teaching over the trajectory of their careers. Together, these essays bear witness to the evolution and development of a body of scholarship about teacher learning in which the author herself played a catalysing role.
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Harvard Educational Publishing Group Narrowing the Achievement Gap: Perspectives and
Book SynopsisThis timely and thoughtful book provides multiple perspectives on closing achievement gaps. Closing persistent gaps in educational outcomes between different groups of students has been a central goal of educational policy for the past forty years. The commitment to close existing achievement gaps poses an unprecedented challenge to policy makers, school leaders, and teachers alike, since the causes of those gaps are multiple and complex. For that reason, no single set of policy prescriptions—no matter how well crafted and managed—is likely to be successful. While there is no ready road map for policy makers, the press for solutions is acute. The chapters examine the conditions—both in and out of school—that lead to achievement gaps. However, this book also explores measures for addressing these gaps—measures that, individually and in concert, will prove crucial to any meaningful effort to alleviate these profound disparities.
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Harvard Educational Publishing Group The Behavior Code: A Practical Guide to
Book SynopsisBased on a collaboration dating back nearly a decade, the authors—a behavioural analyst and a child psychiatrist—reveal their systematic approach for deciphering causes and patterns of difficult behaviours and how to match them with proven strategies for getting students back on track to learn. The Behavior Code includes user-friendly worksheets and other helpful resources.
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Harvard Educational Publishing Group The Behavior Code: A Practical Guide to
Book SynopsisBased on a collaboration dating back nearly a decade, the authors—a behavioural analyst and a child psychiatrist—reveal their systematic approach for deciphering causes and patterns of difficult behaviours and how to match them with proven strategies for getting students back on track to learn. The Behavior Code includes user-friendly worksheets and other helpful resources.
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Harvard Educational Publishing Group The American Public School Teacher: Past, Present
Book SynopsisAt its heart are the National Education Association’s “Status of the American Public School Teacher” surveys, which are conducted every five years and offer unprecedented insights into the professional lives and experiences of teachers nationwide. This volume analyses and summarises the survey’s findings, while also offering commentaries on the findings from leading figures in the worlds of education, business, politics, and research.
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Harvard Educational Publishing Group Making Civics Count: Citizenship Education for a New Generation
Book Synopsis“By nearly every measure, Americans are less engaged in their communities and political activity than generations past.” So write the editors of this volume, who survey the current practices and history of citizenship education in the United States. They argue that the current period of “creative destruction”—when schools are closing and opening in response to reform mandates—is an ideal time to take an in-depth look at how successful strategies and programs promote civic education and good citizenship. Making Civics Count offers research-based insights into what diverse students and teachers know and do as civic actors, and proposes a blueprint for civic education for a new generation that is both practical and visionary.
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Harvard Educational Publishing Group Strategic Inquiry: Starting Small for Big Results in Education
Book SynopsisStrategic Inquiry is an innovative model for promoting teacher collaboration around identifying specific “learning gaps” that keep struggling students from succeeding. Gaps may include anything from the proper use of commas and conjunctions to concepts such as “slope” in math. The authors argue that addressing these critical learning gaps can lead to big changes in student success, in teachers’ sense of efficacy, and in school culture. The strategic inquiry model has been implemented in schools and districts around the country, including New York City, where it was rigorously evaluated with impressive results. As Common Core standards raise the bar for student learning ever higher, this proven approach promises to build teachers’ capacity for closing the gap between where struggling students are and where they need to be.Table of ContentsCONTENTSForeword by Michael Fullan vii Introduction 1Part I Vision, Model, and Outcomes91 How Strategic Inquiry Works 112 How Strategic Inquiry Pays Off 29Part II Strategic Inquiry in Action 513 Moving Students to Succeed 534 Moving Instructional Systems to Improve Success 695 Moving Colleagues Toward a School Inquiry Culture 83Part III System Support of Inquiry-Based Reform1096 Developing a District System of Inquiry-Based Improvement 1117 Bringing Leader Certification Programs on Board 131 Conclusion 151 Appendixes 153Notes 165Acknowledgments 175About the Authors 179Index 181
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Harvard Educational Publishing Group Cultural Transformations: Youth and Pedagogies of Possibility
Book SynopsisIn what ways can teachers build on youth culture to improve learning opportunities in the classroom? In this fascinating and highly readable collection, Korina M. Jocson brings together more than two dozen scholars, artists, educators, and youth workers to illustrate how nondominant youth can be engaged through various social justice arts projects. These projects range not only in type (media, digital art, playwriting, and hip-hop) but also location (California, Wisconsin, New Mexico, Cuba, and Australia, among others) to reflect the wide range of possibilities for tapping into contemporary youth culture. The projects described are part of an emerging field that examines the benefits of youth participation in literary, digital media, and civics-related projects within schools and in a variety of informal environments.Trade ReviewIn Cultural Transformations, Jocson and her colleagues have created a truly invaluable resource. In these chapters, readers will learn that there is a broad array of cultural resources, typically located outside of school, that can be drawn upon to tap into the interests and passions of their students.”—Pedro A. Noguera, Peter L. Agnew Professor of Education, New York UniversityTable of ContentsCONTENTS Introduction: Cultural Transformations 1 1 “Barely Audible”: A Remix of Poetry and Video as Pedagogical Practice 13Korina M. Jocson, with Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi 2 Life Is Living: An Arts Festival Focused on Healing, Community Collaboration, and the Creative Ecosystem 33Marc Bamuthi Joseph and Brett Cook 3 “I Am That Character”: Playmaking and Listening to Voices of Formerly Incarcerated Youth 53Maisha T. Winn 4 Representing Self Through Media: Supporting Transitions to College with Digital Self-Representations 79Michelle B. Bass and Erica Rosenfeld Halverson 5 Imaging and Reimaging Internships: Immigrant Youth, Community-Based Research, and Cultural Transformation 97Lisa (Leigh) Patel and Alexander Gurn, with Melissa Dodd, Sung-Joon Pai, Vanessa Norvilus, Eun Jeong Yang, and Roci´o Sanchez Ares 6 Pedagogies of Race: Teaching Black Male Youth to Navigate Racism in Schools 115Na’ilah Suad Nasir, Alea Holman, Maxine McKinney deRoyston, and Kihana Miraya Ross 7 “It Is Best to Know Who You Are Through Your Culture”: Transformative Educational Possibilities for Native American Youth 139Tiffany S. Lee and Nancy Lo´pez 8 In the MAC: Creating Safe Spaces for Transgender Youth of Color 165Ed Brockenbrough and Toma´s Boatwright 9 En Mi Barrio: Building on Cuban Youth Culture, Hip-Hop, and Reggaeto´n 183Ezekiel Dixon-Roma´n and Wilfredo Gomez 10 Documenting Youth Engagement with Digital Music Production in Australia 203Andy Brader and Allan LukeAfterword: Shirley Brice Heath 227Notes 233 Acknowledgments 253About the Editor 257About the Contributors 259Index 267
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Harvard Educational Publishing Group I Can Learn from You: Boys as Relational Learners
Book SynopsisIn I Can Learn from You, Michael Reichert and Richard Hawley - the authors of Reaching Boys, Teaching Boys - set out to probe deeply into the relational dynamics that help boys succeed as learners. Drawing on interviews with students and teachers in thirty-five schools across six countries, they examine the particular ways boys extend and receive empathy - modes of interaction that remain consistent across a wide range of schools, teachers, countries, and cultures. The book shows how teachers can help boys form productive learning relationships and how schools can support the development of teachers' relational capacities. At the heart of the book is the belief that educators must - and can - put relational teaching at the centre of school life.Table of ContentsCONTENTSIntroduction 11 Listening to Boys and Their Teachers 72 Boys’ Underperformance in School 153 The Promise of Relational Teaching 274 Conveying Mastery and Maintaining Standards 415 Reaching Out and Responding 556 Being a Personal Advocate 737 Establishing Common Ground 938 Accommodating Opposition 1079 When Boys Cannot Relate 12110 When Teachers Cannot Relate 14111 Becoming a Relational School 165 Appendix 177Notes 187Acknowledgments 193About the Authors 195Index 197
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Harvard Educational Publishing Group Teacher Quality 2.0: Toward a New Era in Education Reform
Book SynopsisDebates over teacher quality are among the most heated exchanges in the education reform arena. But while scholars and policy makers grapple with questions about teacher preparation, compensation, and evaluation, the role of teachers is changing. In schools across the country, educators are experimenting with new models for recruiting, training, and supporting teachers, and are innovating strategies for deploying their talents through differentiated roles and the use of technology. Most of the policy measures currently under consideration, however, are designed with a one-size-fits-all approach.Teacher Quality 2.0 argues that much cutting-edge work in teacher quality is happening in nontraditional environments such as online or hybrid learning, where teacher roles can be very specialized, or in charter schools that are experimenting with new approaches to staffing. The editors examine fruitful innovations taking place on the margins of the traditional education sector that promise to improve teacher quality in a more strategic way. More flexible approaches to teacher quality, the editors caution, require vigilance against backwardlooking policies that “bake in” traditional assumptions about teachers’ roles.The editors of this provocative volume have convened a diverse array of contributors to explore these emerging practices and investigate how current research and policy initiatives may affect the next generation of innovation in teaching.Table of ContentsCONTENTS IntroductIon 1Michael Q. McShane, Frederick M. Hess, and Taryn HochleitnerPART I: FROM TEACHER QUALITY 0.0 TO TEACHER QUALITY 2.0 1 The Hangover: The Unintended Consequences of the Nation’s Teacher Evaluation Binge 19Sara Mead, Andrew Rotherham, and Rachael BrownPART II: ELEMENTS OF A NEW SYSTEM 2 Staffing Design: The Missing Key to Teacher Quality 2.0 45Bryan C. Hassel, Emily Ayscue Hassel, and Sharon Kebschull Barrett 3 HR with a Purpose: Building Talent for Distinct Schools and Networks 69Betheny Gross and Michael DeArmond 4 Closing the Opportunity Gap: Preparing the Next Generation of Effective Teachers 91Billie Gastic 5 Professionalization 2.0: The Case for Plural Professionalization in Education 109Jal Mehta and Steven TelesPART III: When Policy Meets Practice 6 Improving Teacher Quality in Online Schools: More Than a Revolution at the Margins? 135Dennis Beck and Robert Maranto 7 The Role of Collective Bargaining Agreements in the Implementation of Education Reforms: Perils and Possibilities 155Katharine O. Strunk 8 The Future of Value-Added: From Whether to How Matthew DiCarlo 9 Unfinished Lessons? What We Can--and Can't--Learn from Innovations in Teacher Quality in Other Countries 203Jonathan Plucker 10 Into the Looking Glass: Teacher Quality Research over the Next Decade 219Dan GoldhaberConclusion: Making Room for Both Trains and Planes 239Michael Q. McShane and Taryn Hochleitner Notes 253 Acknowledgments 275 About the Editors 277 About the Contributors 279 Index 287
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Harvard Educational Publishing Group Make Me!: Understanding and Engaging Student
Book SynopsisIn this groundbreaking book, Eric Toshalis explores student resistance through a variety of perspectives, arguing that oppositional behaviors can be not only instructive butproductive. All too often treated as a matter of compliance, student resistance can also be understood as a form of engagement, as young people confront and negotiate newidentities in the classroom environment. The focus of teachers’ efforts, Toshalis says, should not be about “managing” adolescents but about learning how to read their behavior and respond to it in developmentally productive, culturally responsive, and democratically enriching ways.Noting that the research literature is scattered across fields, Toshalis draws on four domains of inquiry: theoretical, psychological, political, and pedagogical. The result is a resource that can help teachers address this pervasive classroom challenge in ways that enhance student agency, motivation, engagement, and academic achievement.The coauthor of Understanding Youth: Adolescent Development for Educators (Harvard Education Press, 2006), Toshalis blends accessible explanations of theory and research with vignettes of interactions among educators and students. In Make Me!, Toshalis helps teachers perceive possibility, rather than pathology, in student resistance.Table of ContentsCONTENTSCHAPTER 1 Why Examine Resistance? 1PART I UNDERSTANDING RESISTANCE THEORETICALLY Vignette: Determined 17CHAPTER 2 "Making Trouble Makes It Worse" Theories of Social Reproduction 19CHAPTER 3 "You're Not the Boss of Me" Resistance Theory 41PART II UNDERSTANDING RESISTANCE PSYCHOLOGICALLYVignette: School Is Not His Thing 91CHAPTER 4 "This Should Be Different" Cognition and Imagination at the Foundation of Resistance 63CHAPTER 5 "Why Should I Try?" The Motivations That Drive Opposition 93Vignette: Super Busy 121CHAPTER 6 "What? I Wasn't Listening" The Passive No of Disengagement 123Vignette: I'm Done 147CHAPTER 7 "That's Not Fair!" Why Indignation Is Better Than Resignation 149PART III UNDERSTANDING RESISTANCE POLITICALLY Vignette: Sick of It 173CHAPTER 8 "I'm Not Skipping Class--You Are" Socioeconomic Reasons for Resisting School 175Vignette: It's Not About the Pencil 201CHAPTER 9 "You Don't Even Know Me" Identity and Opposition in the Classroom 203Vignette: Be Respectful 221CHAPTER 10 "Don't Make Me Assimilate" Authenticity, Resistance, and Racism 223PART IVUNDERSTANDING RESISTANCE PEDAGOGICALLYVignette: Back Off! 251CHAPTER 11 "How Was I Supposed to Know?" Misreading Students' Relational Needs 253Vignette: Panther Points 275CHAPTER 12 "Is It My Fault?" How We Provoke Resistance in the Classroom 277CHAPTER 13 Conclusion Resistance Is Hope 299Notes 311Acknowledgments 341About the Author 345Index 347
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Harvard Educational Publishing Group Tell Me So I Can Hear You: A Developmental
Book SynopsisIn Tell Me So I Can Hear You, Eleanor Drago-Severson and Jessica Blum-DeStefano show how education leaders can learn to deliver feedback in a way that strengthens relationships as well as performance and builds the capacity for growth. Drawing on constructive-developmental theory, the authors describe four stages of adult growth and development and explain how to differentiate feedback for colleagues with different “ways of knowing,” which include: Instrumental knowers, who tend to see things in black and white (“Did I do it right or wrong?”) and may need to develop the capacity for reflection. Socializing knowers, who are concerned with maintaining relationships (“What do you want me to do?”) and may need support developing their own ideas. Self-authoring knowers, who have strong ideologies and values (“How does this fit with my goals and vision?”) and may need help with perspective taking. Self-transformative knowers, who are able to examine issues from multiple points of view (“How can I understand this more deeply?”) and may need guidance in resolving tensions and contradictions. The authors show how leaders can provide feedback in ways that “meet people where they are” while expanding the developmental capacities educators bring to their work. Drago-Severson and Blum-DeStefano provide real-life examples with practical strategies for creating a safe space for feedback, finding the right words, and bridging feedback and action. Tell Me So I Can Hear You offers invaluable guidance to help educators support a culture of learning in classrooms, schools, and districts.
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Harvard Educational Publishing Group Dilemmas of Educational Ethics: Cases and Commentaries
Book SynopsisEducators and policy makers confront challenging questions of ethics, justice, and equity on a regular basis. Should teachers retain a struggling student if it means she will most certainly drop out? Should an assignment plan favor middle-class families if it means strengthening the school system for all? These everyday dilemmas are both utterly ordinary and immensely challenging, yet there are few opportunities and resources to help educators think through the ethical issues at stake.Drawing on research and methods developed in the Justice in Schools project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Dilemmas of Educational Ethics introduces a new interdisciplinary approach to achieving practical wisdom in education, one that honors the complexities inherent in educational decision making and encourages open discussion of the values and principles we should collectively be trying to realize in educational policy and practice.At the heart of the book are six richly described, realistic accounts of ethical dilemmas that have arisen in education in recent years, paired with responses written by noted philosophers, empirical researchers, policy makers, and practitioners, including Pedro Noguera, Howard Gardner, Mary Pattillo, Andres A. Alonso, Jamie Ahlberg, Toby N. Romer, and Michael J. Petrilli.The editors illustrate how readers can use and adapt these cases and commentaries in schools and other settings in order to reach a difficult decision, deepen their own understanding, or to build teams around shared values.
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Harvard Educational Publishing Group Excellence Gaps in Education: Expanding
Book SynopsisIn Excellence Gaps in Education, Jonathan A. Plucker and Scott J. Peters shine a spotlight on “excellence gaps”—the achievement gaps among subgroups of students performing at the highest levels of achievement. Much of the focus of recent education reform has been on closing gaps in achievement between students from different racial, ethnic, or socioeconomic backgrounds by bringing all students up to minimum levels of proficiency. Yet issues related to excellence gaps have been largely absent from discussions about how to improve our schools and communities. Plucker and Peters argue that these significant gaps reflect the existence of a persistent talent underclass in the United States among African American, Hispanic, Native American, and poor students, resulting in an incalculable loss of potential among our fastest growing populations.Drawing on the latest research and a wide range of national and international data, the authors outline the scope of the problem and make the case that excellence gaps should be targeted for elimination. They identify promising interventions for talent development already underway in schools and provide a detailed review of potential strategies, including universal screening, flexible grouping, targeted programs, and psychosocial interventions. Excellence Gaps in Education has the potential for changing our national conversation about equity and excellence and bringing fresh attention to the needs of high-potential students from underrepresented backgrounds.
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University Press of Mississippi Japanese Animation: East Asian Perspectives
Book SynopsisJapanese Animation: East Asian Perspectives makes available for the first time to English readership a selection of viewpoints from media practitioners, designers, educators, and scholars working in the East Asian Pacific. This collection not only engages a multidisciplinary approach in understanding the subject of Japanese animation but also shows ways to research, teach, and more fully explore this multidimensional world. Presented in six sections, the translated essays cross-reference each other. The collection adopts a wide range of critical, historical, practical, and experimental approaches. This variety provides a creative and fascinating edge for both specialist and nonspecialist readers. Contributors' works share a common relevance, interest, and involvement despite their regional considerations and the different modes of analysis demonstrated. They form a composite of teaching and research ideas on Japanese animation.
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Information Age Publishing Teaching Again: A Professor's Tale of Returning
Book SynopsisTeaching Again exposes the very human core of the teaching experience. This book is not just about teaching English/language arts; it is about the heart and soul of the vocation that is teaching. It is also not just about Tom Poetter, the English teacher; it is about every individual who has ever tried to educate, whether that act has taken place in a classroom, a church or synagogue, a museum, or at the kitchen table. Teaching Again brings to life the dance of questions that vie for attention in the mind of a teacher: How do I convince students that they want to learn to what I’m trying to teach? How do I make them understand that this is really actually important to them? And, perhaps most important, how do I get them to like me, and my discipline, in the process? These are the questions that all good teachers ask themselves at the beginning, middle, and end of every single day of their professional lives. Every moment of teaching is a human transaction, and Tom brings us right into the middle of that transaction. He allows the reader to see and hear and feel the tension of the tightrope he has chosen to walk with these students. The reader is right there for the thrilling “ah-ha!” moments, and we experience the anguish of his defeats.
£42.46
Information Age Publishing Teaching Again: A Professor's Tale of Returning
Book SynopsisTeaching Again exposes the very human core of the teaching experience. This book is not just about teaching English/language arts; it is about the heart and soul of the vocation that is teaching. It is also not just about Tom Poetter, the English teacher; it is about every individual who has ever tried to educate, whether that act has taken place in a classroom, a church or synagogue, a museum, or at the kitchen table. Teaching Again brings to life the dance of questions that vie for attention in the mind of a teacher: How do I convince students that they want to learn to what I’m trying to teach? How do I make them understand that this is really actually important to them? And, perhaps most important, how do I get them to like me, and my discipline, in the process? These are the questions that all good teachers ask themselves at the beginning, middle, and end of every single day of their professional lives. Every moment of teaching is a human transaction, and Tom brings us right into the middle of that transaction. He allows the reader to see and hear and feel the tension of the tightrope he has chosen to walk with these students. The reader is right there for the thrilling “ah-ha!” moments, and we experience the anguish of his defeats.
£78.20
Information Age Publishing Supplemental Readings for Educators
Book Synopsis(This is a condensed version of Inspiring Student Writers: Strategies and Examples for Teachers.)Being an educator is a wonderfully fulfilling career, but it’s not for everyone. It is also, at times, a frustrating, stressful, aggravating, depressing occupation. Far too many people think working in a school is a pretty easy job—a job anybody can do, basically babysitting with plenty of vacation time thrown in. Of course the “truth” about education is elusive, and the truth about what it means to be a great educator is equally elusive. These essays, which are written by educators, offer insights into the profession and what it takes to make a positive difference in the lives of others. These chapters are offered as catalysts for reflection and discussion.
£21.80
Information Age Publishing Promising Practices for Father's Involvement in
Book SynopsisA timely collection of sound research addresses father involvement in their children’s education. Promising Practices for Fathers’ Involvement in Their Children’s Education visits a less known side of parent involvement, the side of fathers’ active engagement with their children’s education in the home and that is less visible in the schools. Their contributions from preschool to career decision-making and accessibility to their children’s education are covered in ten chapters, focusing on in-depth research from Canada to Argentina and Korea to Africa.
£44.96
Information Age Publishing Promising Practices for Father's Involvement in
Book SynopsisA timely collection of sound research addresses father involvement in their children’s education. Promising Practices for Fathers’ Involvement in Their Children’s Education visits a less known side of parent involvement, the side of fathers’ active engagement with their children’s education in the home and that is less visible in the schools. Their contributions from preschool to career decision-making and accessibility to their children’s education are covered in ten chapters, focusing on in-depth research from Canada to Argentina and Korea to Africa.
£82.80
Information Age Publishing Excursions and Recursions Through Power,
Book SynopsisThe Curriculum and Pedagogy book series is an enactment of the mission and values espoused by the Curriculum and Pedagogy Group, an international educational organization serving those who share a common faith in democracy and a commitment to public moral leadership in schools and society. Accordingly, the mission of this series is to advance scholarship that engages critical dispositions towards curriculum and instruction, educational empowerment, individual and collectivized agency, and social justice. The purpose of the series is to create and nurture democratic spaces in education, an aspect of educational thought that is frequently lacking in the extant literature, often jettisoned via efforts to de-politicize the study of education. Rather than ignore these conversations, this series offers the capacity for educational renewal and social change through scholarly research, arts-based projects, social action, academic enrichment, and community engagement. Authors will evidence their commitment to the principles of democracy, transparency, agency, multicultural inclusion, ethnic diversity, gender and sexuality equity, economic justice, and international cooperation. Furthermore, these authors will contribute to the development of deeper critical insights into the historical, political, aesthetic, cultural, and institutional subtexts and contexts of curriculum that impact educational practices. Believing that curriculum studies and the ethical conduct that is congruent with such studies must become part of the fabric of public life and classroom practices, this book series brings together prose, poetry, and visual artistry from teachers, professors, graduate students, early childhood leaders, school administrators, curriculum workers and planners, museum and agency directors, curators, artists, and various under-represented groups in projects that interrogate curriculum and pedagogical theories.
£39.99
Information Age Publishing Excursions and Recursions Through Power,
Book SynopsisThe Curriculum and Pedagogy book series is an enactment of the mission and values espoused by the Curriculum and Pedagogy Group, an international educational organization serving those who share a common faith in democracy and a commitment to public moral leadership in schools and society. Accordingly, the mission of this series is to advance scholarship that engages critical dispositions towards curriculum and instruction, educational empowerment, individual and collectivized agency, and social justice. The purpose of the series is to create and nurture democratic spaces in education, an aspect of educational thought that is frequently lacking in the extant literature, often jettisoned via efforts to de-politicize the study of education. Rather than ignore these conversations, this series offers the capacity for educational renewal and social change through scholarly research, arts-based projects, social action, academic enrichment, and community engagement. Authors will evidence their commitment to the principles of democracy, transparency, agency, multicultural inclusion, ethnic diversity, gender and sexuality equity, economic justice, and international cooperation. Furthermore, these authors will contribute to the development of deeper critical insights into the historical, political, aesthetic, cultural, and institutional subtexts and contexts of curriculum that impact educational practices. Believing that curriculum studies and the ethical conduct that is congruent with such studies must become part of the fabric of public life and classroom practices, this book series brings together prose, poetry, and visual artistry from teachers, professors, graduate students, early childhood leaders, school administrators, curriculum workers and planners, museum and agency directors, curators, artists, and various under-represented groups in projects that interrogate curriculum and pedagogical theories.
£73.99
Information Age Publishing Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue: Volume 14
Book SynopsisCurriculum and Teaching Dialogue (CTD) is a publication of the American Association of Teaching and Curriculum (AATC), a national learned society for the scholarly field of teaching and curriculum. The field includes those working on the theory, design and evaluation of educational programs at large. At the university level, faculty members identified with this field are typically affiliated with the departments of curriculum and instruction, teacher education, educational foundations, elementary education, secondary education, and higher education. CTD promotes all analytical and interpretive approaches that are appropriate for the scholarly study of teaching and curriculum. In fulfillment of this mission, CTD addresses a range of issues across the broad fields of educational research and policy for all grade levels and types of educational programs.
£47.45
Information Age Publishing Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue: Volume 14
Book SynopsisCurriculum and Teaching Dialogue (CTD) is a publication of the American Association of Teaching and Curriculum (AATC), a national learned society for the scholarly field of teaching and curriculum. The field includes those working on the theory, design and evaluation of educational programs at large. At the university level, faculty members identified with this field are typically affiliated with the departments of curriculum and instruction, teacher education, educational foundations, elementary education, secondary education, and higher education. CTD promotes all analytical and interpretive approaches that are appropriate for the scholarly study of teaching and curriculum. In fulfillment of this mission, CTD addresses a range of issues across the broad fields of educational research and policy for all grade levels and types of educational programs.
£87.40
Information Age Publishing Liminal Space and Call for Praxis(ing)
Book SynopsisLiminal Spaces and Call for Praxis(ing) follows the theme of the Curriculum & Pedagogy conference that highlighted issues of power, privilege, and supremacy across timelines and borders. This volume comprises of an interconnected mosaic of theoretical research and praxis. Facing the current and future challenges of corporatization of education, it becomes imperative to identify and deconstruct elements that provide more responsive and fertile ground for a research and praxis based mosaic of pedagogy. This volume includes works of those scholars who identified or worked with communities of color and/or who drew on the activist and intellectual traditions of peoples of color, third world feminism, indigenous liberation/sovereignty, civil rights, and anticolonial movements.
£44.96
Information Age Publishing In the Service of Learning and Empowerment:
Book SynopsisToo often teachers and students doubt their own abilities to forge collective work and dynamic critical learning in the midst of education reform practices that limit their opportunities to do so. This doubt can be heightened for elementary school teachers or even their students who are led to believe that they are not capable of engaging critically with their education and their world. The Problem-Solution Project erases this doubt through merging service-learning, critical pedagogy, and constructivism. This approach to teaching and learning is designed to empower teachers and students while they meet curriculum standards and actively contribute to the transformation of their world.Unique to this collection are the reported experiences of teacher educators who implement Problem-Solution Projects in their courses; preservice teachers’ reflections on cohort-driven Problem-Solution Projects; and first-year and veteran teachers stories featuring Problem-Solution Projects initiated by their PK-5 students.Features include: Describes how Problem-Solution Projects advance service-learning and critical pedagogy. Discussion of how Problem-Solution Projects build on curriculum standards but resists standardization of implementation and repressive education reforms. First-hand accounts of teachers implementing Problem-Solution Projects. Detailed description of the steps and outcomes of doing Problem-Solution Projects with preservice teachers, inservice teachers, and elementary students. . Examples of Problem-Solution Projects across courses, subjects, disciplines, and contexts. Readers will find worthwhile the theoretical connections and the practical applications. Service-learning, urban education, multicultural education and teacher education, teacher preparation practitioners will find this text beneficial. The main audience: teacher educators across disciplines, pre- and in-service teachers working in elementary (PK-5) settings.
£47.45
Information Age Publishing In the Service of Learning and Empowerment:
Book SynopsisToo often teachers and students doubt their own abilities to forge collective work and dynamic critical learning in the midst of education reform practices that limit their opportunities to do so. This doubt can be heightened for elementary school teachers or even their students who are led to believe that they are not capable of engaging critically with their education and their world. The Problem-Solution Project erases this doubt through merging service-learning, critical pedagogy, and constructivism. This approach to teaching and learning is designed to empower teachers and students while they meet curriculum standards and actively contribute to the transformation of their world.Unique to this collection are the reported experiences of teacher educators who implement Problem-Solution Projects in their courses; preservice teachers’ reflections on cohort-driven Problem-Solution Projects; and first-year and veteran teachers stories featuring Problem-Solution Projects initiated by their PK-5 students.Features include: Describes how Problem-Solution Projects advance service-learning and critical pedagogy. Discussion of how Problem-Solution Projects build on curriculum standards but resists standardization of implementation and repressive education reforms. First-hand accounts of teachers implementing Problem-Solution Projects. Detailed description of the steps and outcomes of doing Problem-Solution Projects with preservice teachers, inservice teachers, and elementary students. . Examples of Problem-Solution Projects across courses, subjects, disciplines, and contexts. Readers will find worthwhile the theoretical connections and the practical applications. Service-learning, urban education, multicultural education and teacher education, teacher preparation practitioners will find this text beneficial. The main audience: teacher educators across disciplines, pre- and in-service teachers working in elementary (PK-5) settings.
£87.40
Information Age Publishing Hearts and Minds Without Fear: Unmasking the
Book SynopsisHearts and Minds Without Fear: Unmasking the Sacred in Teacher Preparation is the first book of its kind that focuses on the critical urgency of integrating creativity, mindfulness, and compassion in which social and ecological justice are forefronted in teacher preparation. This is especially significant at a time of cultural turmoil, educational reform, and inequities in public education. The book serves as a vehicle to unmask fear within current educational ethical deficiencies and revitalize hope for community members, teacher educators, pre-service, in-service teachers, and families in school communities. The recipients of these strategies are explicitly presented in order to build understanding of a compassionate paradigm shift in schools that envisions possibility and social imagination on behalf of our children in schools and our communities. The authors unabashedly place the arts and aesthetics at the core of the educational paradigm solution. The book lives its own message. Within each seed chapter, the authors practice authentically what they preach, offering a refreshing perspective to bring our schools back to life and instil hope in children’s and educators’ hearts and minds.
£47.45
Information Age Publishing Hearts and Minds Without Fear: Unmasking the
Book SynopsisHearts and Minds Without Fear: Unmasking the Sacred in Teacher Preparation is the first book of its kind that focuses on the critical urgency of integrating creativity, mindfulness, and compassion in which social and ecological justice are forefronted in teacher preparation. This is especially significant at a time of cultural turmoil, educational reform, and inequities in public education. The book serves as a vehicle to unmask fear within current educational ethical deficiencies and revitalize hope for community members, teacher educators, pre-service, in-service teachers, and families in school communities. The recipients of these strategies are explicitly presented in order to build understanding of a compassionate paradigm shift in schools that envisions possibility and social imagination on behalf of our children in schools and our communities. The authors unabashedly place the arts and aesthetics at the core of the educational paradigm solution. The book lives its own message. Within each seed chapter, the authors practice authentically what they preach, offering a refreshing perspective to bring our schools back to life and instil hope in children’s and educators’ hearts and minds.
£87.40
Information Age Publishing Case Studies for the New Professor: Surviving the
Book SynopsisFor many academics preparing to enter into the world of teaching and scholarly work in higher education institutions, formal graduate education provides discipline specific content. However, there is a practical side of academic preparation that goes unaddressed. The overall objective of Case Studies for the New Professor: Surviving the Jungle of the Academy is to provide case studies (“what if” scenarios) that augment the discipline specific content of those preparing to become professors.The significance of this volume lies in its usefulness as a “go to” book that addresses situations, contexts, and examples of issues that new professors or administrators in higher education face. The case studies focus on issues that professors may face with students, colleagues, administrators, and other constituencies with whom they may have contact. This “case studies” approach is significant also in that each one pays special attention to providing a complete narrative to the extent that it is the eyes and ears for an outside reader to understand what happened in that situation. Each case is followed by reflective and analytical questions for readers to begin shaping their own professional responses and reactions in order to cultivate understanding and decision making skills which will result in positive and productive experiences.
£42.46
Information Age Publishing Case Studies for the New Professor: Surviving the
Book SynopsisFor many academics preparing to enter into the world of teaching and scholarly work in higher education institutions, formal graduate education provides discipline specific content. However, there is a practical side of academic preparation that goes unaddressed. The overall objective of Case Studies for the New Professor: Surviving the Jungle of the Academy is to provide case studies (“what if” scenarios) that augment the discipline specific content of those preparing to become professors.The significance of this volume lies in its usefulness as a “go to” book that addresses situations, contexts, and examples of issues that new professors or administrators in higher education face. The case studies focus on issues that professors may face with students, colleagues, administrators, and other constituencies with whom they may have contact. This “case studies” approach is significant also in that each one pays special attention to providing a complete narrative to the extent that it is the eyes and ears for an outside reader to understand what happened in that situation. Each case is followed by reflective and analytical questions for readers to begin shaping their own professional responses and reactions in order to cultivate understanding and decision making skills which will result in positive and productive experiences.
£78.20
Information Age Publishing Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue
Book SynopsisCurriculum and Teaching Dialogue (CTD) is a publication of the American Association of Teaching and Curriculum (AATC), a national learned society for the scholarly fields of teaching and curriculum. The fields includes those working on the theory, design and evaluation of educational programs at large.University faculty members identified with this field are typically affiliated with the departments of curriculum and instruction, teacher education, educational foundations, elementary education, secondary education, and higher education. CTD promotes all analytical and interpretive approaches that are appropriate for the scholarly study of teaching and curriculum. In fulfilment of this mission, CTD addresses a range of issues across the broad fields of educational research and policy for all grade levels and types of educational programs.
£47.45
Information Age Publishing Mentoring for the Professions: Orienting Toward
Book SynopsisThis edited volume brings together conceptual and empirical work from various professional fields to inform a perspective on mentoring that goes beyond what is needed for today and orients toward what is needed for the future in order to promote healthy and productive organizations. This perspective is important because the pace of change in organizations is rapid--and increasingly so. Under conditions of rapid and on-going change, employees, students, and colleagues all are learners; and the learning needs of these adults demand meaningful and focused strategies for professional development. A major strategy with demonstrated value for fostering learning among adults is mentoring, which contributes both relational and structural support for such learning. This support helps organizations build communities of practice in which colleagues alternate the role of mentor and mentee by sharing different types of expertise and different perspectives on organizational challenges.Chapters within the book focus on theoretical perspectives on mentoring, the connection between change and mentoring, the character of the leadership that mentoring entails, the developmental processes that mentees experience, the transformation of the mentee as a result of mentoring, the value of matching mentor and mentee styles, and the role of mentoring in organizational team building. Furthermore, some chapters explore the similarities and differences in individual versus group mentoring. And some of the contributions elaborate linkages among mentoring concepts and those used in related practices such as coaching and distributed leadership.
£49.95
Information Age Publishing Mentoring for the Professions: Orienting Toward
Book SynopsisThis edited volume brings together conceptual and empirical work from various professional fields to inform a perspective on mentoring that goes beyond what is needed for today and orients toward what is needed for the future in order to promote healthy and productive organizations. This perspective is important because the pace of change in organizations is rapid--and increasingly so. Under conditions of rapid and on-going change, employees, students, and colleagues all are learners; and the learning needs of these adults demand meaningful and focused strategies for professional development. A major strategy with demonstrated value for fostering learning among adults is mentoring, which contributes both relational and structural support for such learning. This support helps organizations build communities of practice in which colleagues alternate the role of mentor and mentee by sharing different types of expertise and different perspectives on organizational challenges.Chapters within the book focus on theoretical perspectives on mentoring, the connection between change and mentoring, the character of the leadership that mentoring entails, the developmental processes that mentees experience, the transformation of the mentee as a result of mentoring, the value of matching mentor and mentee styles, and the role of mentoring in organizational team building. Furthermore, some chapters explore the similarities and differences in individual versus group mentoring. And some of the contributions elaborate linkages among mentoring concepts and those used in related practices such as coaching and distributed leadership.
£87.40
Information Age Publishing Uncovering the Cultural Dynamics in Mentoring
Book SynopsisAlthough cultural issues have a powerful influence on the failure and success of mentoring programs and relationships, there is scant research on this area and little in the way of guidelines that practitioners can use to help assure mentoring success. This book seeks to expand our knowledge and understanding of this topic and to foster the use of this information to enhance practice and research.The book is unique in a number of ways and will be an important resource for all those engaged in mentoring endeavors and for those conducting research in this area. First, it presents research findings on the cultural impact of mentoring at the individual relational level, at the organizational level, and within the structures of the society. Secondly, the chapters describe mentoring from an international perspective including programs from Africa, Australia, Canada, Finland, India, Ireland, Korea, Scotland, Sweden and the United States. Third, the book is research based and yet, can be easily applied to practice. Chapters provide information on lessons learned and also include reflective questions to enable the reader to delve more deeply into the constructs and findings in order to apply them to their own practice and research. This makes the book an ideal resource for training mentors and mentees, for designing mentoring programs, for teaching about mentoring, and for establishing and maintaining mentoring relationships. It also will be of value to those who are engaged in conducting research on how to create and maintain successful mentoring relationships and programs.
£49.95
Information Age Publishing Uncovering the Cultural Dynamics in Mentoring
Book SynopsisAlthough cultural issues have a powerful influence on the failure and success of mentoring programs and relationships, there is scant research on this area and little in the way of guidelines that practitioners can use to help assure mentoring success. This book seeks to expand our knowledge and understanding of this topic and to foster the use of this information to enhance practice and research.The book is unique in a number of ways and will be an important resource for all those engaged in mentoring endeavors and for those conducting research in this area. First, it presents research findings on the cultural impact of mentoring at the individual relational level, at the organizational level, and within the structures of the society. Secondly, the chapters describe mentoring from an international perspective including programs from Africa, Australia, Canada, Finland, India, Ireland, Korea, Scotland, Sweden and the United States. Third, the book is research based and yet, can be easily applied to practice. Chapters provide information on lessons learned and also include reflective questions to enable the reader to delve more deeply into the constructs and findings in order to apply them to their own practice and research. This makes the book an ideal resource for training mentors and mentees, for designing mentoring programs, for teaching about mentoring, and for establishing and maintaining mentoring relationships. It also will be of value to those who are engaged in conducting research on how to create and maintain successful mentoring relationships and programs.
£87.40
Information Age Publishing Preparing Teachers to Work with English Language
Book SynopsisThere is a growing need for knowledge and practical ideas about the preparation of teachers for English language learners (ELLs), a growing segment of the K-12 population in the United States. This book is for teachers, administrators, and teacher educators looking for innovative ways to prepare teachers for ELLs and will position teachers to empower these students.This volume will appeal mostly to those preparing teachers in contexts that have not have historically had large numbers of ELLs, but have had a high rate of recent growth (e.g., Midwestern U.S.). This work is the combination of teacher preparation and ELL issues. This volume is unique in tackling pre-service and in service teacher preparation. Additionally, the chapters collectively aim to go beyond merely equipping teachers to meet the needs of ELLs, but to reach a level of effectiveness with the outcome of equity.The book highlights the knowledge, skills, and beliefs of teachers about ELLs. Part I addresses teacher perceptions of, and beliefs about, ELLs and teacher preparation specifically addressing what they should know in terms of students’ perspectives. Chapters attend to the experiences and beliefs of immigrant teachers about their roles, the role of service learning in teacher preparation, and the potential of understanding home literacy practices to change teacher beliefs about ELLs. Part II focuses on skills necessary to teach ELLs—writing skills teachers can draw on to inform their teaching practices, technological skills teachers need to develop, and skills related to focusing on the Common Core State Standards for English language arts and mathematics. Each chapter explicitly addresses implications for teacher education or professional development.
£44.96
Information Age Publishing Preparing Teachers to Work with English Language
Book SynopsisThere is a growing need for knowledge and practical ideas about the preparation of teachers for English language learners (ELLs), a growing segment of the K-12 population in the United States. This book is for teachers, administrators, and teacher educators looking for innovative ways to prepare teachers for ELLs and will position teachers to empower these students.This volume will appeal mostly to those preparing teachers in contexts that have not have historically had large numbers of ELLs, but have had a high rate of recent growth (e.g., Midwestern U.S.). This work is the combination of teacher preparation and ELL issues. This volume is unique in tackling pre-service and in service teacher preparation. Additionally, the chapters collectively aim to go beyond merely equipping teachers to meet the needs of ELLs, but to reach a level of effectiveness with the outcome of equity.The book highlights the knowledge, skills, and beliefs of teachers about ELLs. Part I addresses teacher perceptions of, and beliefs about, ELLs and teacher preparation specifically addressing what they should know in terms of students’ perspectives. Chapters attend to the experiences and beliefs of immigrant teachers about their roles, the role of service learning in teacher preparation, and the potential of understanding home literacy practices to change teacher beliefs about ELLs. Part II focuses on skills necessary to teach ELLs—writing skills teachers can draw on to inform their teaching practices, technological skills teachers need to develop, and skills related to focusing on the Common Core State Standards for English language arts and mathematics. Each chapter explicitly addresses implications for teacher education or professional development.
£82.80
Information Age Publishing The Work of Mathematics Teacher Educators:
Book SynopsisA major focus of teacher education is the development of preservice teachers. However, it should not be the only focus of those who work in teacher education. Educating inservice teachers in equally important, and the conversation among those involved in mathematics teacher education needs to include discussion of this group as well.This conversation also highlights a need for professional development for teacher educators and research on the development of teacher educators. This monograph discusses issues in educating all of these groups of individuals in an effort to continue the conversation among those involved in mathematics teacher education.
£44.96
Information Age Publishing The Work of Mathematics Teacher Educators:
Book SynopsisA major focus of teacher education is the development of preservice teachers. However, it should not be the only focus of those who work in teacher education. Educating inservice teachers in equally important, and the conversation among those involved in mathematics teacher education needs to include discussion of this group as well.This conversation also highlights a need for professional development for teacher educators and research on the development of teacher educators. This monograph discusses issues in educating all of these groups of individuals in an effort to continue the conversation among those involved in mathematics teacher education.
£44.96
