Decision-Making & Problem Solving

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578806365Author Tina M FranceFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Hark the Herald MediaPublisher Hark the Herald MediaWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473364595Author Auke Jacominus SchadeFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Nemonik-Thinking.OrgPublisher Nemonik-Thinking.OrgWeight(grams) 299g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780646805436Author Cyndi McCoyFormat HardbackPage Count 196Imprint 24:7 FriendPublisher 24:7 FriendWeight(grams) 640g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781475873870Author Selma WassermannFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint Rowman & Littlefield EducationPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

The experts in this text seek to move past singular narrative examples to offer specific guidance, direction, and strategies to help the reader understand and approach the complex issues their students face.Book InformationISBN 9781475862775Author...

Wallowing in Mediocrity: Or Rising Above the Dismal State of Education provides a comprehensive comparative look at educational programs in several key countries across the globe. The myriad advantages of these countries' programs are counterpoised to...

Schools across the United States and Canada are disrupting the adverse effects of poverty and supporting students in ways that enable them to succeed in school and in life.In this second edition, Parrett and Budge show you how your school can achieve...

The higher education system in China has experienced a dramatic expansion in student numbers and has seen the mushrooming of several new types of degree-granting institutions. In a very short period of time, these new institutions have developed into a...

"Pullman offers his readers essential insights into how humans reason and make decisions. Both concise and far-reaching, his work teaches us how to challenge intuitive logic and examine the processes for deliberative reasoning. This text will prove...

Get your data team working effectively! Data is a valuable resource for improving education. Unfortunately, many school teams struggle to make sense of new and often overwhelming data. What Does Your Data Team Sound Like? provides an approach that...

Turn today's youth into innovative, ambitious thinkers with fifteen critical reading, writing, and thinking processes. Jim and Barry distill each process into a potent concision that spans subject areas.About the AuthorA longtime English teacher, Jim...

Wallowing in Mediocrity: Or Rising Above the Dismal State of Education provides a comprehensive comparative look at educational programs in several key countries across the globe. The myriad advantages of these countries' programs are counterpoised to...

If you have ever had the opportunity to observe a master craftsperson at work, one of the first things you will notice is how easy they make their work look. This principle applies to artists, athletes, plumbers and painters. It also applies to...

The long-term success of school improvement depends to a significant degree on the ability of those involved to participate in teamwork. This book explores various forms of collaboration in schools, including pairings, groups and committees, and suggests...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604565775Author Maria OrtizFormat HardbackPage Count 471Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 916g

Many of our countryOs children face daily a threat to their personal safety and well-being. As school boards, law enforcement officials, and policymakers continue to look for ways to stop youth violence in urban and suburban schools, not enough attention...

Improving Learning Environments provides the first systematic comparative cross-national study of school disciplinary climates. In this volume, leading international social science researchers explore nine national case studies to identify the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781975501198Author Gayle MaddoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Myers Education PressPublisher Myers Education PressWeight(grams) 335gDimensions(mm)...

Most guides on the process of turning around low-performing schools typically are addressed to principals and superintendents. Teachers, however, are the individuals expected to conduct the "heavy lifting" of school improvement. Teachers' Guide...

Increase achievement and engagement for all students in 21st century classrooms!Project-based learning has emerged as one of today's most effective instructional practices. In PBL, students confront real-world issues and problems, collaborate to create...

"This is a book that should set off needed conversations in every school and classroom and school board meeting-and the dinner table. Sometimes I wanted to quarrel with the authors, and that's part of its genius. It always managed to provoke me to think...

In many societies today, educational aims or goals are commonly characterized in terms of "equality," "equal opportunity," "equal access" or "equal rights," the underlying assumption being that "equality"...

Although complex problem solving has emerged as a field of psychology in its own right, the literature is, for the most part, widely scattered, and often so technical that it is inaccessible to non-experts. This unique book provides a comprehensive,...

Kids who understand how to manage conflict successfully can transform their schools into safer and kinder places to learn. Kids Working It Out offers educators and parents a guide to the most current and effective school-based conflict resolution...

This book responds to the pressing and increasingly recognized need to cultivate social wisdom for addressing major problems confronting humanity. Connecting literary studies with some of the biggest questions confronted by researchers and students...

From the vantage of new cognitive theory, this book manages to integrate the thinking skill mission across the full range of formal instruction, from K through graduate school. It explores and prioritizes thinking skill aims at each instructional level,...

Diversity drives better business results; however, despite decades of effort, women make up only 15% of engineers. Retaining Women in Engineering approaches the problem of women leaving engineering from a systems-level perspective to change the way...

How can we ensure that students truly benefit from the expert knowledge of their professors and tutors, and how can we enable them to put knowledge into practice? Decision-Based Learning (DBL) is an innovative instructional strategy that uncovers the...

Lifelong learning assists us in having a successful career, promotes mental health, and helps us to adapt to the constant changes we experience. Rapid changes in our technological and social environment mean that we must learn more and learn faster than...

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780805897470Author Wendy C. NewstetterFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Routledge Member of the Taylor and Francis GroupPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684944187Author Kelvin T SaungwemeFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Notion Press, Inc.Publisher Notion Press, Inc.Weight(grams) 100gDimensions(mm)...

Education partnerships are central to - and often a requirement of - most education reform initiatives promoted by state and local governments, by foundations, and by business funders. Many fail for failure to understand the dynamics of their complex...

Winning Online Instruction provides concise, pragmatic solutions to common challenges and demands that higher education faculty face in teaching online. This book's unique question-and-answer format allows readers to easily identify the issues important...

This book brings together philosophers to investigate the nature and normativity of group disagreement. Debates in the epistemology of disagreement have mainly been concerned with idealized cases of peer disagreement between individuals. However, most...

A workbook for Thought & Knowledge, Fourth Edition by Diane F Halpern, Thinking Critically About Critical Thinking, Fourth Edition is filled with new exercises to reinforce learning and practice newly acquired skills.This workbook can be purchased in a...

The author seeks to provide a generic solution to school transformation and development that can be applied to any school at whatever stage in its development. This book seeks to provide a generic solution to school transformation and development that...

First Published in 1986. This book is intended for those people who are interested in how mathematics is learned. It is intended especially for those who are interested in the mental processes involved in becoming mathematically competent and the mental...

From the vantage of new cognitive theory, this book manages to integrate the thinking skill mission across the full range of formal instruction, from K through graduate school. It explores and prioritizes thinking skill aims at each instructional level,...

How to accelerate analysis into actionUsing data for school improvement is a key goal of Race to the Top, and now is the time to make data-driven school improvement a priority. However, many educators are drowning in data. Boost your professional...

As a result of the editors' collaborative teaching at Harvard in the late 1960s, they produced a ground-breaking work -- The Art Of Problem Posing -- which related problem posing strategies to the already popular activity of problem solving. It took the...