Education
Common Sense Questions about School Administration
Author: Gerard Giordano
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9781475812626
Category: Education
Page: 173
View: 199
Parents have questions for school administrators. They want to know how they hire teachers, erect facilities, select learning materials, protect students, allocate budgets, use data, make forecasts, measure progress, and compete with for-profit schools. This book examines the questions they pose, the answers they elicit, the allies they attract, the adversaries they arouse, and the improvements they prod.
Education
Common Sense Questions About Learners
Author: Gerard Giordano, PhD, professor of education, University of North Florida
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9781475830156
Category: Education
Page: 170
View: 826
This books highlights the questions that parents have posed about learners. It also highlights the groups that responded to their question, the answers they gave, the rhetoric in which they couched their answers, and their motives.
Education
Common Sense Questions about Tests
Author: Gerard Giordano, PhD, professor of education, University of North Florida
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9781475821499
Category: Education
Page: 182
View: 904
Parents had questions about the tests their children took at school. They considered them to be common sense questions. They posed them to the businesspeople, publishers, and politicians who championed tests. They also posed them to the school administrators, teachers, and union leaders who criticized them. This book examines the questions the parents posed, the answers they elicited, and the changes they prodded.
Education
Common-Sense Classroom Management for Special Education Teachers Grades K?5
Author: Jill A. Lindberg
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9781629149073
Category: Education
Page: 144
View: 212
Special help for special education teachers means special success for students! Do you have too many IEPs on your desk? Is it five o’clock and do you still need to contact parents, social workers, and general education co-teachers? Teachers new to special education often feel overwhelmed at the amount of additional planning and information management required. This practical guide shows you how to shape the structure of the teaching day to ensure that learners with special needs experience success. It includes simple teacher-tested, easy-to-implement strategies needing 5 steps or fewer to: • Organize students to make the most of the time you have with them • Use incentive programs and meaningful consequences to achieve desired behaviors • Coordinate with co-teachers, general education teachers, and staff to maximize your efforts Special Education teachers face different challenges, paperwork shouldn’t be one of them. When the key paperwork is at your fingertips, the lesson plan is prepared, and the to-do list is written, you will find more time in your day for what’s most important-your students!
Education
Common-Sense Classroom Management for Special Education Teachers, Grades 6-12
Author: Jill A. Lindberg
Publisher: Corwin Press
ISBN: 9781452294025
Category: Education
Page: 160
View: 562
These 80 easy to adapt strategies work in five steps or fewer to help special educators feel confident about working with co-teachers, teacher aides, support staff, administrators, and families.
Education
Common-Sense Classroom Management for Elementary School Teachers
Author: Jill A. Lindberg
Publisher: Corwin Press
ISBN: 9781412917223
Category: Education
Page: 153
View: 966
This updated bestseller offers more than 70 easy-to-implement classroom strategies with new tips for handling standardized testing, Internet safety, classroom hygiene, parent-teacher relationships, and more!
Education
Parents and School Technology
Author: Gerard Giordano
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9781475852271
Category: Education
Page: 136
View: 135
This book answers technology questions that concerned parents have about their kids in school.
Education
Parents and Textbooks
Author: Gerard Giordano, PhD, professor of education, University of North Florida
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9781475838985
Category: Education
Page: 128
View: 732
This book focuses on the questions that parents recently have posed about textbooks.
Education
IJER Vol 24-N2
Author: International Journal of Educational Reform
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9781475818505
Category: Education
Page: 170
View: 197
The mission of the International Journal of Educational Reform (IJER) is to keep readers up-to-date with worldwide developments in education reform by providing scholarly information and practical analysis from recognized international authorities. As the only peer-reviewed scholarly publication that combines authors’ voices without regard for the political affiliations perspectives, or research methodologies, IJER provides readers with a balanced view of all sides of the political and educational mainstream. To this end, IJER includes, but is not limited to, inquiry based and opinion pieces on developments in such areas as policy, administration, curriculum, instruction, law, and research. IJER should thus be of interest to professional educators with decision-making roles and policymakers at all levels turn since it provides a broad-based conversation between and among policymakers, practitioners, and academicians about reform goals, objectives, and methods for success throughout the world. Readers can call on IJER to learn from an international group of reform implementers by discovering what they can do that has actually worked. IJER can also help readers to understand the pitfalls of current reforms in order to avoid making similar mistakes. Finally, it is the mission of IJER to help readers to learn about key issues in school reform from movers and shakers who help to study and shape the power base directing educational reform in the U.S. and the world.
Education
Ethical Decision Making in School Administration
Author: Paul A. Wagner
Publisher: SAGE Publications
ISBN: 9781452211893
Category: Education
Page: 232
View: 181
Pedagogically rich, demographically inclusive, and culturally sensitive, Ethical Decision Making in School and District Administration exposes educational leaders to an interdisciplinary array of theories from the fields of education, economics, management, and moral philosophy (past and present). Authors Paul A. Wagner and Douglas J. Simpson demonstrate how understanding key concepts can dramatically improve management styles and protocols. Key Features Contains numerous case studies that apply the book's concepts to relevant ethical issues faced by school administrators Reveals possibilities for thinking outside the box in terms of morally informed and effective leadership strategies aimed at securing organizational commitment and shared vision Presents multiple theories of ethics, demonstrating how they inform decision making and culture building in school districts Incorporates a range of in-text learning aids, including figures that clarify and critique ideas, a complete glossary, and end-of-chapter activities and questions
Study Aids
Cracking the TExES
Author: Fritz Stewart
Publisher: The Princeton Review
ISBN: 0375764577
Category: Study Aids
Page: 464
View: 161
This guide prepares prospective teachers for the Texas Examinations of Educator Standards test, mandatory in order to teach in the state of Texas.
Education
Common-Sense Classroom Management Techniques for Working With Students With Significant Disabilities
Author: Jill A. Lindberg
Publisher: Corwin Press
ISBN: 9781412958196
Category: Education
Page: 129
View: 622
This invaluable handbook provides teachers with common-sense strategies, tools, and templates to ensure the best possible educational outcomes for learners with significant disabilities.