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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Good teacher education, informed by relevant research, is judged by policy makers and practitioners alike to be central to increasing the quality of schooling in many countries of the world. Yet, in the UK, research on teacher education is often acknowledged to be less well developed than other areas...
Innovative Approaches to Educational Leadership
Selected Cases
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
Of late, leadership has come to include individuals in elementary, secondary and tertiary institutions who do not necessarily carry leadership titles. Faculty in preK-16 institutions, along with other staff and community people, have increasingly begun to take on leadership responsibilities as shared...
Combining E-Learning and M-Learning
New Applications of Blended Educational Resources
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
This volume draws together all the articles published by the International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning in its first year of publication (2009). When compared with traditional classroom learning, mobile learning (m-learning) has the distinct advantage of making content accessible and available...
Physical and Virtual Learning Spaces in Higher Education
Concepts for the Modern Learning Environment
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2011
Higher education is facing a renaissance in terms of its approaches to teaching and learning and the use of physical and virtual spaces. Physical and Virtual Learning Spaces in Higher Education: Concepts for the Modern Learning Environment documents real-world experiences of innovators in higher education...
Therapeutic Storywriting
A Practical Guide to Developing Emotional Literacy in Primary Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Literacy work can provide a therapeutic context in which to support children with emotional and behavioural difficulties in mainstream schools. This text provides a clear theoretical rationale for therapeutic storywriting.
The Forgotten Room
Inside a Public Alternative School for At-Risk Youth
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2009
Located in a rapidly-growing county in the southeastern United States, Peachtree Alternative School is a dumping ground for chronically disruptive students that regular teachers can no longer handle. The school has some of the toughest kids that society has to offer: kids who have dealt drugs, attempted...
There's a Stat for That!
What to Do & When to Do it
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
Bruce Frey’s There’s a Stat for That! is a brief, straightforward, and to-the-point guide to deciding which statistical analysis to use and when to use it. Designed for consultants, researchers, students, and those who already have the resources to tell them how to perform the analyses, this text...
More Now
A Message from the Future for the Educators of Today
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2018
School change is never easy, but it is necessary to prepare today’s students for tomorrow’s world.
Our job as educators is no longer to help students memorize a few things they might need someday. Our job is to help students access and use information in ways that are meaningful to them—and...
The Learning Curve
Creating a Cultural Framework to Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
Why do you want to teach those kids? How can I connect with students that do not want to learn? Why challenge this group if they will never understand the content? These are three common questions asked of and by educators of culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students. The Learning Curve...
Bringing School to Life
Place-Based Education Across the Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
Place-based education is on the rise. Tired of “teaching to the test,” educators are looking for authentic ways to connect their curriculum to real life. The place-based approach brings students into their communities to learn necessary content and skills by working to meet the needs of local...
The Dynamic Student Development Meta-Theory
A New Model for Student Success
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
The Dynamic Student Development Metatheodel(DSDM) is a meta-theory based on empirically based inferences drawn from a national survey entitled the University Learning Outcomes Assessment (UniLOA). The UniLOA’s current dataset consists of over 500,000 college student participants and has supported...
Best School in the World
How students, teachers and parents have created a model that can transform Canada's public schools
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
There's a little-known school in Halifax that kids are excited to attend every day, right through until they graduate. It's a place where they absorb "real-world" skills, including critical thinking, and complex literacy, math and second-language abilities, so that they stick. They gather for intense,...
The Ninth Grade Opportunity
Transforming Schools from the Bottom Up
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2009
Across the country, high school freshmen have the highest rates of failure, discipline problems, and truancy. Defined as the "make it or break it" year, ninth grade can be a trying time for teenagers learning to make their own way in the world. The Ninth Grade Opportunity provides educators...
Becoming Self-Directed Learners
Student & Faculty Memoirs of an Experimenting High School 40 Years Later
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
In 1972, an intrepid group of teachers and students at New Trier High School (Winnetka, IL) formed the Center for Self-Directed Learning. Each student would design their own program instead of following the daily grind of standardized courses with off-the-shelf textbooks, canned lectures, and, of...