Professional Development

The Board and Superintendent Handbook: Current Issues and Resources is a practical guide for both board members and superintendents. The book includes contributions from experienced and new superintendents and board members on a wide range of topics that...

This book is a treasure trove of information, generously sprinkled with gems of wisdom and insights for helping teachers to eradicate doubt and uncertainty about their teaching. The dynamism of the book is fueled by a highly effective 3-step Believe in...

Concepts in this book constitute a framework for developing efficient school staff practices. The underlying premise addressed in the book is built upon forming a responsive educational community of constituents in which all staff members focus on...

Surviving School Stress provides the reader with fundamental components of different types of stress, stressors, and strategies for interventions. In Part I, Dr. Lebrun breaks down the individual components of each type of stress and provides readers...

Preparing teachers to work in our nation's classrooms presents an array of challenges for teacher educators. Recently, organizations such as the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE), the National Council for Accreditation of...

Writing in plain language is not something they teach in you school. But it is an art and a science, and you can learn how to do it and apply it-how to write for results. This book provides a step-by-step, example-filled guide to the critical aspects of...

Education Game Changers is written for an international readership. This book refers to all education levels and sectors and builds on research in educational leadership, education business, and organizational change. Karen E. Starr describes policy...

Authorities have set forth the belief that theory is the most practical of all things. Theory can be of paramount value to the practicing educational teacher and administrator. The contents of this book set forth the many primarily benefits of theory for...

Dynamic principles of professional development are directly and indirectly defined and applied with no particular order of sequence as one or more of these principles may be activated in unison and revisited time and again in varied degrees and contexts...

Teaching that Works: Effective Practice Combined with Theory and Research is a practical, teacher friendly examination of the ways that a comprehensive approach to all of the aspects of teaching, working together, can achieve results greater than the sum...

School superintendents, business managers, central office leaders, elected officials, industry leaders, educators, and aspiring practitioners in the field of education will find this book a useful resource in understanding innovative ways to stretch...

The statistics are familiar: almost 50% of new teachers leave the profession within their first five years in the classroom. The challenge of recruiting and retaining teachers carries high costs for today's schools and students. This book uncovers some...

An active and innovative approach to making words that teachers and their students have grown to love is finally here! Based on its highly successful parent text, Phonics They Use, this new grade-level series Making Words offers teachers a fresh...

This practical and forward-focused book presents a framework that uses social infrastructure to produce effective and inclusive professional development options in education.Although technology has increased our capacity for social networking both in the...

How to Create the Conditions for Learning shows how the conditions for continuously improving instruction can be created at every level-from the classroom to the school to the central office.Ann Jaquith presents a framework for understanding and building...

Risko and Vogt provide a unique and progressive approach for engaging the professional learning of teachers of literacy, reading specialists, literacy coaches and instructional leaders, content specialists, and administrators. Their deliberate use of...

Looking for the most effective way to ensure coordinated, family-centred services for young children and families? Get the second edition of this complete guide to the primary service provider (PSP) approach to teaming, the widely used, evidence-based...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781605543666Author Angele Sancho PasseFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Redleaf PressPublisher Redleaf Press

In 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...

In 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...

In this book, Raider-Roth offers an innovative approach to teacher professional development that builds on the intellectual strength and practical wisdom of practitioners. Focusing on nurturing relationships between and among participants, facilitators,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743970341Author Jennifer M. BogardFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Shell Educational PublishingPublisher Shell Educational PublishingWeight(grams)...

One of the most important shifts in schools in the last two decades has been the growing emphasis on collaboration among teachers and other educators. Whether you are a teacher facilitating a group for the first time or an experienced facilitator seeking...

Examining the changes in male roles, and how these changes are explored in cinema, this book includes frameworks for teaching the topic, and accessible explanations of the cultural and critical background to changes in male roles. It provides in-depth...

A subject-specific guide for teachers to supplement professional development and provide resources for lesson planning. This Core Subject pack includes 5 subject titles: Science, Mathematics, First Language English, English as a second language and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088109342Author C T StercusFormat HardbackPage Count 102Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989883443Author Enrique RuizFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Positivepsyche.Biz CorpPublisher Positivepsyche.Biz CorpWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578241012Author Stephen D EllisFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint 780578-241012Publisher 780578-241012Weight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780898115055Author Nigel WallFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint 51495Publisher 51495Weight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 12mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781546113874Author David LibenFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Scholastic ProfessionalPublisher Scholastic ProfessionalWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416624448Author Pete HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Association for Supervision & Curriculum DevelopmentPublisher Association for Supervision...

White educators comprise between 85-92 percent of the current teaching force in the United States, yet in the race toward leaving no child behind, contemporary educational research often invests significant time and energy looking for ways to reach...

School leaders are busy, and overwhelmed, and may not always be cognizant of the latest cutting-edge theories and practices in the field of instructional improvement. Drawing from research, Creating a Culture of Excellence is a resource that serves as a...

School leaders are busy, and overwhelmed, and may not always be cognizant of the latest cutting-edge theories and practices in the field of instructional improvement. Drawing from research, Creating a Culture of Excellence is a resource that serves as a...

The book opens by underscoring the importance of teacher workload in education and its history of problems related to inequality of work assignments and its effect on student learning. Other chapters give special attention to how workload has been...

The Chief Development Officer: Beyond Fundraising is a guide not only to those preparing for or serving in the role of CDO but also to those charged with selecting, appointing, and supporting CDOs. It includes ten chapters, each presenting a role beyond...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743970365Author Lisa DonovanFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Shell Educational PublishingPublisher Shell Educational PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551383651Author Jennifer KellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Pembroke Publishing LtdPublisher Pembroke Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 340g

Continuous professional development of chemistry teachers is essential for any effective chemistry teaching due to the evolving nature of the subject matter and its instructional techniques. Professional development aims to keep chemistry teaching...

Research into the educational effectiveness of chemistry practical work has shown that the laboratory offers a unique mode of instruction, assessment and evaluation. Laboratory work is an integral and important part of the learning process, used to...