Decision-Making & Problem Solving

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...

Teaching and learning cannot happen without questions. Inquiry is the offspring of curiosity and creativity. Questions are incredibly powerful tools that open the world up. In the age of Google, the way we teach needs to change and students need to be...

The conventional wisdom, voiced by everyone from Bill Gates to Education Secretary Arne Duncan, is that public schools are so terrible that simply reforming them won't do the trick. Instead, they must be "transformed," blown up and then rebuilt, if...

Praise for Overloaded and Underprepared "Parents, teachers, and administrators are all concerned that America's kids are stressed out, checked out, or both-but many have no idea where to begin when it comes to solving the problem. That's why the work of...

Case studies provide real-world examples that make for rich discussions and greater learning in educational and professional development settings. Engage with case studies on developmentally appropriate practice to enhance your knowledge and skills. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780944583418Author Linda ElderFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Foundation for Critical ThinkingPublisher Foundation for Critical ThinkingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939237750Author John McCarthyFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint John McCarthyPublisher John McCarthyWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm *...

Enhancing Faculty Professional Development provides practical strategies for incorporating collaborative active learning into learning and teaching, while exploring the potential of faculty professional development to transform traditional teaching...

Enhancing Faculty Professional Development provides practical strategies for incorporating collaborative active learning into learning and teaching, while exploring the potential of faculty professional development to transform traditional teaching...

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English for Dispute Resolution shows advanced-level ESL students and professionals how to negotiate and mediate in English. Following the approach used in US law and business schools to teach Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), the book balances...

Discover people-centred decision-making for pharmacists in this clear and practical volume Pharmacy ethics and decision-making are a critical part of pharmaceutical care. Pharmacists are routinely faced with decisions that impact the immediate and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682539408Author Frederick M HessFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Harvard Education PRPublisher Harvard Education PR

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682539613Author Sarah Winchell LenhoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Harvard Education PRPublisher Harvard Education PR

Sixty decades of US history have witnessed tremendous and tumultuous societal changes, including educating our children. In response to President John F. Kennedy’s call to “ask not, what their country could do for them, but what they could do for their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781475871166Author Ryan A. DonlanFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Rowman & Littlefield EducationPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

Uncommon Sense for New Teachers: A Good Beginning is Half the Work is a uniquely written resource for any preservice or new teacher moving into the profession of education. Noted by its author as the book to read, before deciding what other books to...