Professional Development

Do you spend your days working with students who struggle to comprehend reading in literacy and content classes? Are you looking for a way to establish comprehensive literacy instruction in your school or classroom so all students receive support in...

This comprehensive and authoritative book serves as the road map to your school's professional development journey. Written for principals, professional development directors, other district leaders, and teacher leaders, Professional Development: What...

As an environmental scientist, you are used to writing scientific articles, but how confident do you feel writing policy or regulatory documents? Do you feel you have the necessary writing skills to influence policy and inform the public? This...

This book explores teaching, learning, and leadership in higher education following the Covid-19 pandemic. It examines opportunities that currently exist within higher education as they relate to innovative teaching and learning strategies, from...

This book shows teachers how to plan units and lessons in a highly focused and effective way. Readers are introduced to a professional planning strategy that is lean and timesaving, without wasting energy on side issues. This approach takes as its...

American education is in a funk. And it has been since the very start of the COVID19 epidemic, during the 4th quarter of the 2019-20 school year when schools across the country closed up shop or turned to what proved to be inadequate virtual learning...

Written to accompany the third edition of Todd Whitaker's bestselling title, What Great Principals Do Differently, this study guide can be used by facilitators and participants in workshops, webinars, book study groups, or other professional development...

Written to accompany the third edition of Todd Whitaker's bestselling title, What Great Teachers Do Differently, this study guide can be used by facilitators and participants in workshops, webinars, book study groups, or other professional development...

Teaching Mathematics Using Interactive Mapping offers novel ways to learn basic math topics such as simple relational measures or measuring hierarchies through customized interactive mapping activities. These activities focus on interactive web-based...

All students enter our math classrooms with ideas worthy of discussion. Some of the most effective breakthroughs come from short, intentional conversations between students and teacher, yet planning for these moments can seem daunting. In her innovative...

Increasingly, educators are recognizing that for children to thrive intellectually they need socially and emotionally healthy classrooms. Conveniently, this is exactly what parents have always wanted for their children's classrooms that offer and grow...

This book presents some of the leading technical, professional, and political challenges associated with the development and implementation of teacher evaluation systems, along with characterizing some of these systems in different countries around the...

Books abound to guide mentoring and coaching for preservice and inservice teachers' professional learning. However, none fully account for the differences among teachers in experience and expertise and how these factors change over time. This book...

Learn from Kids, Peers, and the World to Transform Professional Learning One-size-fits-all professional development is no longer effective. PD is evolving into professional learning (PL) by moving away from a factory model approach and tailoring...

Focusing on solutions specific to science and math education both for K-12 and college, this book explores how students learn in general and helps teachers develop successful techniques for the classroomOn Teaching Science is a short, practical guide to...

Strategic observation practices to drive coherence and results Supervision is often dreaded by teachers and principals alike because it can be disconnected from the context of the actual classroom and school. But when a culture of supervision is created...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743970259Author Linda DaceyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Shell Educational PublishingPublisher Shell Educational PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087642284Author Jennifer JumpFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Shell Educational PublishingPublisher Shell Educational PublishingWeight(grams)...

Law and Ethics in Educational Leadership, 2/e presents a real-world, problem-based approach that shows leadership candidates how to apply the legal knowledge, ethical dispositions, and other skills necessary to become successful school leaders. In a...

Do teachers have a right to dress as they wish? Can Social Studies Teachers be prohibited from discussing controversial issues? When can copyrighted works be copied without permission? If you've ever pondered these or other...

For the first time, this book sets out ways to teach the science of nanochemistry at a level suitable for pre-service and in-service teachers in middle and secondary school. The authors draw upon peer-reviewed science education literature for...

Problem solving is central to the teaching and learning of chemistry at secondary, tertiary and post-tertiary levels of education, opening to students and professional chemists alike a whole new world for analysing data, looking for patterns and making...

Stories are all around us. From our digital newsfeeds, interactions with one another, to watching a movie or listening to a curated playlist, we see and hear different tales told to us in various ways.In her book, Story: Still the Heart of Literacy...

Educators, you are the hope you've been looking for. Have you ever wondered what it would look like for you and your colleagues to really change how things are done in your school? For over twenty-five years, Partners in School Innovation has empowered...

Understanding the Dynamics of Teacher Agency, Resilience, and Identity in the Neoliberal Age focuses on the complexity of teachers' agency, resilience, and identity across various contexts. Neoliberal educational policy technologies have been constantly...

Fulfilling the Needs of Teachers gives teacher educators the power to reach a teacher's mind and soul. This book guides educators through a five-step process for creating design tasks. Design tasks are multi-dimensional professional learning activities...

In Teaching to Diversity, Dr. Jennifer Katz synthesizes the research, and 16 years experience of teaching in inclusive classrooms and schools, to provide answers to several questions: How do I make inclusion work for ALL students?What are the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781975505486Author Jill Alexa PerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Myers Education PressPublisher Myers Education PressWeight(grams)...

The inaugural lectures published in this volume reflect the many changes which have taken place in the study of education between the late 1970s and the mid 1980s. Changes in society are reflected in the lectures on special needs education and...

Winner of the 2019-20 Distinguished Book Award - Midwest Sociological Society In Lesson Plans, Judson G. Everitt takes readers into the everyday worlds of teacher training, and reveals the complexities and dilemmas teacher candidates confront as they...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951075170Author Bill HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Solution Tree PressPublisher Solution Tree PressWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 276mm *...

This guide explores the roles and duties of K-12 paraprofessionals in both general education and special education settings. Using a straight-forward presentation, Paraprofessionals in the Classroom: A Survival Guide, 2/e covers topics such as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Benjamin Franklin Award (Education) 2015.Book InformationISBN 9781626561786Author Robert E. QuinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint...

Coaching is one of the best ways to enhance the skills of early childhood practitioners and ensure high-quality learning experiences for young children with and without disabilities. With this authoritative professional learning resource, educators and...

Security threats today are increasingly complex, dynamic, and asymmetric, and can affect environmental factors like energy, water, and food supply. As a result, it is becoming evident that the traditional model of nation-state based security is...

This book critically explores urgent questions that researchers, educators, and policy makers need to consider and address in order to better our understanding and capacity to transform education. Focusing on areas that underpin the empirical,...

What is 'black cinema'? Is it a valid category? What can films from as far afield, economically and geographically, as Nigeria and Hollywood possibly have in common? Focusing on films such as "Lethal Weapon", "Bullet Boy" and "Malcolm X", this guide...

Provides a much-needed summary of the complex issues surrounding film censorship and controversy; offers some practical suggestions for teaching about the determining factors in, and ideological importance of, censorship and classification.About the...

In this practical guide, Thomas Fowler-Finn identifies the key ideas explored in each phase of instructional rounds and discusses how facilitators can skilfully guide a network of educators through the rounds process while gradually transferring agency...

Little is known about how language teacher educators become, and also develop professionally as, teachers of teachers. One avenue for teacher education professional development is that of teacher research, whereby teacher educators can not only improve...