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Provides extensive standards-based examples for assessing science teaching and learning, including the use of portfolios, formative assessments, student self-evaluations, rubrics, and science notebooks.

Provides a step-by-step approach for creating a cultural autobiography to help educators reflect on their underlying beliefs, assumptions, and backgrounds. This title addresses a range of differences relevant to schools, including race, ethnicity, national origin, language, gender, social class, sexual orientation, faith, and ability.

Use teacher-made tests, appropriate testing accommodations, technology-based testing, and classroom-based assessments to give students with diverse needs the opportunity to achieve!

This book enables teachers to show pupils how to enjoy writing.

This resource offers teachers strategies for helping children create photo essays as a way to communicate their ideas, experiences, and emotions in an authentic and personal way.

This Second Edition engages introductory social work students in hands-on, collaborative exercises focusing on four key areas in the curriculum: Social Welfare; The Social Work Profession; The Practice of Social Work; and A Vision for the Future.

Improve instruction in your school with this collaborative, inquiry-based process that helps identify areas for improvement, determine community-supported solutions, define an action plan, and evaluate programme results.

Based on a five-step model, this guide helps school leaders establish the processes necessary to align curriculum to mandated standards, develop curriculum maps, and systematize instructional practices.

A practical planning tool with concrete tasks and tips for new or experienced superintendents

Building on the success of previous editons, this book has been expanded to integrate the criminal justice system into a broad systemic response for both victims and offenders.

Educators will find an expert analysis of Section 504 and the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) and their impact on educational opportunities for persons with disabilities.

Integrating rich, up-to-date data and current research and theory, this first-of-its kind text explores the nature and dimensions of this social problem, and provides a focus on the research of scholars who hope to help prevent sexual assault on campuses.

Examines why educators need to integrate explicit thinking instruction into daily lessons and illustrates what thinking-and the teaching of thinking-looks and sounds like.

This book focuses on practical strategies and contains comprehensive coverage about most of the areas needing the most focus for superintendents new to their positions.

Provides step-by-step directions and an extended example for constructing curriculum dramas, or student-centered, inquiry-based exercises such as mock trials, classroom senates, and electoral campaigns.

Offering a wealth of field-tested literacy strategies, this book helps K-8 teachers make their instruction more culturally inclusive and responsive.

Packed with proven strategies and ready-to-use worksheets, this practical guide leads teachers through the process of designing and presenting a successful workshop.

Empower your staff members with a fresh appreciation for their work by nurturing their growth and success! Has Monday morning become a less-than-exciting event for your staff members? Do you wish that you could help them look forward to the new week; that you could provide them with a more tangible appreciation for their efforts? In Looking.

How can the richness of individual lives be captured by the objective methods and statistical analyses of developmental research? Some of the leaders in developmental research pursue the answers to this question in this book. Each chapter is followed by a commentary and discussion by Marian Radke Yarrow.

How can quality mental health care be provided for multicultural populations? This volume explores this question by focusing on mental health services in the United States for a variety of populations, including African Americans, Native Americans and Chinese Americans.

Sexualities and Popular Culture is a fascinating exploration into the study of popular culture and its influence on how we perceive the endless varieties of the sexualized human presentation of self in everyday life.

Packed with tried and tested detailed explanations, examples and supplemental materials, this guide takes you step-by-step through the thinking up and writing of your thesis.

This book demystifies the process of planning a community intervention, using clear and simple language to aid students understanding .

This research-based guide offers recommendations for dealing with test anxiety, and includes suggestions on reducing its effects and identifying situations in which it can actually be helpful.

Suitable for counsellors and other mental health professional who work with Latinos and their families, this book provides background information about the Latino population and the family unit, which is so central to Latino culture, including the diversity of various Spanish-speaking groups, socio-political issues, and changing family forms.

An ideal resource for those who want to conduct market research but have little experience in doing so, The Market Research Toolbox describes how to think of market research in the context of making a business decision.

Foreword by Bob AlgozzineAfterword by Robert RuedaThis insightful work offers case studies, observations, and solutions to the challenges presented by cultural diversity-a new approach that can bring excellence to all learners, all teachers, all parents, and all communities.

This reader-friendly book connects constructivist theory with science content standards, practical applications, teaching strategies, and activities.

The theoretical underpinnings of the Triad Training Model of counselling. Paul Pedersen draws on research into the importance of internal dialogue and its incorporation into counselling education and training.