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Addressing Social Issues in the Classroom and Beyond
The Pedagogical Efforts of Pioneers in the Field
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Addressing Social Issues in the Classroom and Beyond: The Pedagogical Efforts of Pioneers in the Field is comprised of essays that delineate the genesis and evolution of the thought and work of pioneers in the field of social issues and education. The authors (many of whom, themselves, are noted professors...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2005
Debating is out of fashion. No one raises the question of what has gone wrong when the entire political project of a society is seemingly reduced to 'education, education, education'.
The aim of this lively and challenging book is to provide the stimulus for further thinking about key educational...
Conflicts in Culture
Strategies to Understand and Resolve the Issues
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
The changing demographics of students and educators in schools today suggest that much of what we do as educational leaders revolves around the complex issues related to our various cultural understandings. In this book the authors discuss the relationship between culture and conflict and provide...
by Mahsood Shah, Chenicheri Sid Nair, John Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
Measuring and Enhancing the Student Experience provides insights on how student experience measures could be used to inform improvements at institutional, course, unit of study and teacher level. The book is based on a decade of research and practitioner views on ways to enhance the design, conduct,...
Star Target Guide: Situation + Task + Action & Resolution = Directions for Getting Everyday Results!
Star Target Guide: Situation + Task + Action & Resolution = Directions for Getting Everyday Results!
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
S.T.A.R. is an acronym that stands for * Situation * Task * Action * Result.
The STAR TARGET GUIDE is aimed at learning basic goal oriented thinking in a quick tip format. This is not a lengthy read, but rather a get-to-the-brass-tacks-point guidebook. Includes an explanation of the STAR concept...
An Improbable Life
My Sixty Years at Columbia and Other Adventures
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Columbia University began the second half of the twentieth century in decline, bottoming out with the student riots of 1968. Yet by the close of the century, the institution had regained its stature as one of the greatest universities in the world.
According to the New York Times, "If...
Great South African Teachers
A Tribute to South Africa's Great Teachers from the People Whose Lives They Changed
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
At a time when newspapers are full of the woes of the South African education system and stories of teachers who let the children in their classes down, this book shows that this is not the whole picture; it is a celebration of heroic teachers who have struggled against great odds to give their students...
Teachers Learn while Students Teach
Inspiring Hearts and Minds
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Teachers Learn While Students Teach: Inspiring Hearts And Minds is designed to be a practical guide for student teachers, new teachers, veteran teachers, and retired teachers in order to use their exceedingly important gifts to help junior high through senior high school students feel more confident...
College Success Guaranteed 2.0
5 Rules for Parents
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
Teaching for nearly 40 years, Malcolm Gauld has watched thousands of high school graduates head off to college. After a while, he began to notice some unmistakable patterns—good and bad—relating to students after they hit college. About a decade ago, he began giving an annual talk to high school...
by Daniel Cottom
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Education is useless because it destroys our common sense, because it isolates us from the rest of humanity, because it hardens our hearts and swells our heads. Bookish persons have long been subjects of suspicion and contempt and nowhere more so, perhaps, than in the United States during the past...
Act Like a Doctor, Think Like a Patient
Teaching Patient-Focused Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
The author, a practicing physician and medical educator, shares what he has taught senior medical students for 35 years. He focuses on the need for medical providers to understand not just the pathophysiology and treatment of disease, but the way in which patients view what is wrong with them, how...
Leadership from the Ground Up
Effective Schooling in Traditionally Low Performing Schools
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
This book chronicles the journey of seven schools serving students of poverty, English Language Learners (ELLs), and students of color, which were able to sustain school improvement for a decade on either state and/or national criteria that measure student performance outcomes. The book shares stories...
Developing Safer Schools and Communities for Our Children
The Interdisciplinary Responsibility of Our Time
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
All children should feel safe and secure in their schools and communities. In today's society, children are dealing with the threat of violence in their schools and online, food insecurity, environmental risks, terrorism, and many other concerns that make them feel less safe. Our jobs as teachers...
Frustration of Shame
In Defense of America's Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
For decades, teachers, though underpaid, were among the most respected, esteemed professionals in the United States. But things have changed. As schools fail to meet the needs of a growing, diverse population, teachers have taken the hit. Popular movies have sensationalized the power and potential...