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21) Managing the Madness: A Practical Guide To Understanding Young Adolescents & Classroom Management
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Successful classroom management comes through patience and practice. In this updated edition of Managing the Madness, Jack Berckemeyer informs and boosts our instructional practices by helping us bring humor and compassion to our classrooms. Rooted in a clear understanding of middle school students and how to get the best from them, this new edition offers insights, hard-learned lessons, and tested ideas on: -Knowing who your students are.-Creating...
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This practical, hands-on guide shows K-12 school leaders how to support STEM programs that excite students and teachers-even if the leader is not an expert in science, technology, engineering, or math. Buckner and Boyd explore ideas for fostering equitable access to rich and rigorous learning experiences, acting as instructional leaders, and building community engagement and partnerships. You'll get advice on creating a structure to help teachers...
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Dans un contexte o l'on vise l'optimisation des pratiques de soins et l'autonomisation des personnes, l'éducation en matière de santé revêt une grande importance.
Elle permet aux individus d'avoir un meilleur contrle sur leur santé et même de l'améliorer. Pour faire face à la segmentation croissante de la clientèle d'apprenants, les professionnels de la santé ont besoin d'être accompagnés.
Le présent ouvrage, qui privilégie une approche...
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Schools today face a crisis of relevance.
Issues that people everywhere face-climate change, disease, hunger-require interdisciplinary solutions. Yet schools are still predominately organized by single-subject courses and narrowly focused high-stakes tests.
By contrast, our students need to develop a range of academic, social, and emotional competencies to solve issues that transcend national borders; live peacefully among neighbors in a culturally,...
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Easy to understand definitions and terminology used in the detailing industry. Facts and tips to make you more efficient and quiz's to test your detailing knowledge. This book is for enthusiast who just detail part time or professionals to use a reference. It will help take your detailing to the next level no matter who you are.
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Teaching is as much about students as it is about curriculum, and no one understands this better than middle and high school teachers. But even the most dedicated teacher can sometimes feel defeated by the challenge of reaching distracted, disconnected, and defiant adolescents. Drawing on her own experience as a high school teacher, Katy Ridnouer shares an approach to classroom management that will help you spend less time "dealing with" your adolescent...
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Every day, educators across the country give students their very best. Yet all too often, the passion teachers put into their work-and the "why" that led them to it in the first place-goes unrecognized. Too many teachers feel overwhelmed, stressed out, underpaid, and unheard. That needs to change. Teachers deserve respect. Teachers deserve time. Teachers deserve better. Whether you're an educator, an ally, or an advocate, if you're ready to ignite...
28) The PD Curator: How to Design Peer-to-Peer Professional Learning That Elevates Teachers and Teaching
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One of the best ways to learn how to be a better teacher is by watching, listening to, and experimenting with the practices of great teachers, including those in your own school.
The PD Curator is about how professional learning experiences can become more inclusive, participatory, cohesive, and effective-and about the role teachers and leaders can play in creating those experiences. That role isn't so much administrative as it is curatorial. Just...
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Principals navigate the dynamic complexities and subtleties of their schools every day. They promote, facilitate, and lead efforts to achieve both tangible and intangible results throughout the school community. They fulfill a role that includes counseling, budgeting, inspiring, teaching, learning, disciplining, evaluating, celebrating, consoling, and a million other critical functions. As the principalship has evolved and grown, so have the expectations...
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Societal changes alter the nature of youth and require a different approach to engendering social responsibility-different from traditional strategies of telling, punishing, and rewarding. This e-book explains an approach for fostering social responsibility in the classroom while simultaneously handling disruptive behaviors simply and easily. The strategy aids in establishing and maintaining a noncoercive, trusting environment-the first requirement...
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In this addition to the Essentials for Principals series, authors Richard DuFour and Rebecca DuFour continue to provide aspiring and experienced principals with useful strategies for creating high achieving professional learning communities in their schools. The School Leader's Guide to Professional Learning Communities at Work is based on the following assumptions: 1. The school s job is to ensure high levels of student learning. 2. The process of...
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Do you want to incorporate purposeful and effective online learning into your classes but aren't sure where to begin? Here's the perfect introductory guide to planning a hybrid class for grades 4–12. Author and educator William Kist enthusiastically advocates for blended learning as he explains how to:
• Navigate the technical details of Internet access and learning management systems.
• Decide which learning experiences are best delivered...
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Teachers today must prepare students for an increasingly complex, interconnected, and interdependent world. Being a globally competent teacher requires embracing a mindset that translates personal global competence into professional classroom practice. It is a vision of equitable teaching and learning that enables students to thrive in an ever-changing world.
This thought-provoking book introduces a proven self-reflection tool to help educators of...
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Have you ever wished you were more creative . . . or that your students were more engaged in your lessons? The Wild Card is your step-by-step guide to experiencing a creative breakthrough in your classroom with your students. Wade and Hope King show you how to draw on your authentic self to deliver your content creatively and be the wild card who changes the game for your learners.
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This manual has been designed to assist applicants in preparing for the numerical reasoning component associated with most general ability tests used by organisations such as the:
➢ Australian State Police Services
➢ Australian Federal Police
➢ St John Ambulance
➢ Ministry of Justice (Prisons)
➢ Australian Defence Forces.
Organisations seeking the most competitive applicants use a variety of testing to select the most suitable people...
37) Professional Development That Sticks: How Do I Create Meaningful Learning Experiences For Educators?
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How can we approach professional development in a thoughtful way, keep teachers motivated, and make the process worthwhile? It's a truth that school leaders can't deny: teachers tend to think of PD as a distraction from the "real work" of the classroom-as something to get through instead of an opportunity to engage, learn, and grow as professionals. Too often, they're absolutely right. When PD is packaged as a one-size-fits-all, one-and-done experience,...
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People often dream of achieving success but don't know the path to do it.
So, they keep dreaming instead of DOING!
“Doing the Doctorate” is written to help doctoral dreamers become doctoral doers.
This book will provide the keys to success so you can know what to know, where to go and how to win doctoral success.
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Jacqueline Lloyd Smith and Denise Meyerson collectively have over 50 years' global experience in the design and delivery of incredible learning experiences for clients in the private and public sectors. They have partnered with top tier, medium size, and small corporate clients to produce events that rock. They are now opening their files to other facilitators, and educators-of all levels-to share tools and techniques they have personally tested and...
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Designing and implementing daily lesson plans can be among the most frustrating and time-consuming aspects of teaching-a tedious exercise that places artificial restrictions on student creativity and engagement with learning. In this game-changing book, author and instructional coach Michael Fisher shows teachers how they can free themselves from rigid and ineffective busywork by replacing lesson plans with learning journeys that are guided by the...
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