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19 produkter
Teaching the Way Children Learn
Av Beverly Falk, Patricia a. Wasley
Häftad, 2009
335 kr
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This inspiring book reveals the invisible inner landscapes of how educators teach children from a variety of backgrounds to meet the challenging expectations of today's standards without sacrificing support for their developmental needs or their diverse ways of learning. Featuring 'images of …
Peer Review and Teacher Leadership
Linking Professionalism and Accountability
Av Jennifer Goldstein, Patricia a. Wasley
Häftad, 2010
361 kr
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This book examines a policy that is one of the most powerful levers to improve teaching quality and advance teaching as a profession. Jennifer Goldstein presents the story of Rosemont, an urban district in California that created ""professional accountability"" with peer assistance and review …
Networked Teacher
How New Teachers Build Social Networks for Professional Support
Av Kira J. Baker-Doyle, Patricia a. Wasley
Häftad, 2011
320 kr
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New teachers need support from their peers and mentors to locate resources, information, new ideas, emotional support, and inspiration. This timely book explains the research and theory behind social networks (face-to-face and online), describes what effective social networking for educators looks …
Kids and School Reform
Av Patricia A. Wasley, Robert L. Hampel m. fl.
Inbunden, 1997
418 kr
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A wonderfully useful, hones and comprehensive book, one which does not oversimplify the condition and the opportunities of the public schools. --Theodore R. Sizer, chairman, Coalition of Essential Schools Based on an extensive, in-depth study of 150 students from across the country, Kids and School …
Seeing Through Teachers' Eyes
Professional Ideals and Classroom Practices
Av Karen Hammerness, Patricia a. Wasley
Häftad, 2006
294 kr
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What sources of inspiration help sustain teachers' commitments, motivations, and care for their work? How do teachers use their ideals to inform their practice and their learning? The author proposes that many teachers have images of ideal classroom practice which she calls ""teachers' vision."" In …
Managing to Change
How Schools Can Survive (and Sometimes Thrive) in Turbulent Times
Av Thomas Hatch, Patricia a. Wasley
Häftad, 2009
349 kr
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This book shows how school improvement efforts are often undermined by the changing conditions around schools, as well as by some of the very policies and programs designed to help them make improvements. Hatch argues that schools cannot wait around for conditions to improve or policymakers to …
Authentic Assessment in Action
Studies of Schools and Students at Work
Av Linda Darling-Hammond, Jacqueline Ancess m. fl.
Häftad, 1995
308 kr
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This book examines, through case studies of elementary and secondary schools, how five schools have developed "authentic" performance-based assessments of students' learning, and how this work has interacted with and influenced the teaching and learning experiences students encounter in school. …
Competent Classroom
Aligning High School Curriculum, Standards and Assessment - a Creative Teaching Guide
Av Allison Zmuda, Mary Tomaino m. fl.
Häftad, 2001, 0-3 år
294 kr
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This book, written by teachers for teachers, takes an important look at the compendium of factors that make up a competent classroom. The authors troubleshoot issues surrounding content standards, instructional objectives, and the aims of curriculum while keeping in mind the importance of inspiring …
One Kid at a Time
Big Lessons from a Small School
Av Eliot Levine, Patricia a. Wasley
Häftad, 2001
294 kr
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Through the lens of a remarkable urban high school, One Kid at a Time weaves compelling stories and a clear narrative into new possibilities for American education. All students at the Met School have a personalized curriculum and complete real-world internships based on their interests. Students …
Teaching Youth Media
A Critical Guide to Literacy, Video Production and Social Change
Av Steven Goodman, Patricia a. Wasley
Häftad, 2003
294 kr
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This book explores the power of using media education to help urban teenagers develop their critical thinking and literacy skills. Drawing on his twenty years of experience working with inner-city youth at the acclaimed Educational Video Center (EVC) in New York City, Steven Goodman looks closely …
Inside the National Writing Project
Connecting Network Learning and Classroom Teaching
Av Ann Lieberman, Diane Wood m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
253 kr
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The National Writing Project has become one of the most influential and longest lasting professional development programs in the history of the United States. With 175 school/university sites in 49 states, it has the reputation or being a career-altering professional development experience. This …
Mobilizing Citizens for Better Schools
Av Robert Sexton, Patricia a. Wasley
Häftad, 2004
238 kr
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Tired of the complacent attitudes Kentucky politicians showed toward education, the Prichard Committee formed as an organization to galvanize the citizens of Kentucky to attack the state's historic educational deficits. The committee's campaigning helped prepare the way for the passage of the …
Building School-based Teacher Learning Communities
Professional Strategies to Improve Student Achievement
Av Milbrey W. McLaughlin, Joan E. Talbert m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
320 kr
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Building on extensive evidence that school-based teacher learning communities improve student outcomes, this book lays out an agenda to develop and sustain collaborative professional cultures. McLaughlin and Talbert - foremost scholars of school change and teaching contexts - provide an inside look …
Teachers in Professional Communities
Improving Teaching and Learning
Av Ann Lieberman, Lynne Miller m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
320 kr
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Based on research and many years of lived experience in schools, the authors have become convinced that teachers learn best within their own work communities. In this volume, they explore what research and practice have to tell us about how such communities grow and develop, and how to negotiate …
Going to Scale with New School Designs
Reinventing High School
Av Joseph P. McDonald, Emily J. Klein m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
294 kr
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Since it was first invented, Americans have been trying to re-design the American high school. One of the latest approaches - funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation - is to find inventive high school designs that work well in one location and replicate them in other locations. The authors …
Improving the Odds
Developing Powerful Teaching Practice and a Culture of Learning in Urban High Schools
Av Thomas Del Prete, Patricia a. Wasley
Häftad, 2010
361 kr
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A much-needed counterpoint to the sweeping rhetoric of reform, this important book offers a nuanced depiction of the challenges and possibilities at the school and classroom level. Through the experiences of urban high school teachers who partner with their local university, Del Prete provides …
How Teachers Become Leaders
Learning from Practice and Research
Av Ann Lieberman, Linda D. Friedrich m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
335 kr
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This is a unique insider’s look at the process that teachers experience when they assume leadership positions in their school, district, state, or writing project site. The text features vignettes by K–12 teachers, describing their individual leadership roles and experiences to show how teachers …
What Should I Do?
Confronting Dilemmas of Teaching in Urban Schools
Av Anna Ershler Richert, Patricia a. Wasley
Häftad, 2012
361 kr
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What Should I Do? is a practical guide to the everyday dilemmas of the urban classroom. It offers a lifeline to both beginning teachers who are struggling to be successful and to the teacher educators who are trying to prepare them for these challenges. The author uses narratives of practice, …
Failing at School
Lessons for Redesigning Urban High Schools
Av Camille A. Farrington, Patricia a. Wasley
Häftad, 2014
458 kr
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About half of all incoming ninth graders in urban districts will fail classes and drop out of school without a diploma. Failing at School starts with the premise that urban American high schools generate such widespread student failure not because of some fault of the students who attend them but …
