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Demonstrate how teachers can use a "conceptual lens" to design instructional units and differentiated lessons that deepen students' thinking skills and inspire a genuine love of learning.

This resource offers supportive intervention strategies for counselors and administrators committed to working effectively with bullies and the students they victimize.

Filled with best practice examples, resources, reflections, self-assessments, and implementation ideas, this guide shows school leaders how to improve their school management skills.

This call-to-arms focuses on what must be done to keep the gifted child movement alive and well.

This volume addresses the under representation of culturally diverse and/or economically disadvantaged students in gifted and talented programs.

In over 230 tables and figures, this title offers students, and professional researchers chapters devoted to key subject areas such as elections and political parties, public opinion and voting, the media, the three branches of US government, foreign, military, social and economic policy, and more.

Historic Documents of 2012 presents primary documents relating to internationally important events of 2012, and colorful narratives to put the documents in context.

Based on frequent, mutual feedback from peers, students and administrators, the 2+2 method increases meaningful contact and collaboration between teachers. It also allows for administrator participation in a less threatening context than the traditional performance appraisal, greatly reducing teachers' levels of anxiety and self-doubt, which in turn leads to increased job-satisfaction.

This book helps teachers understand the lives and minds of today's learners, who have grown up surrounded by iPhones, iPads, computers, and other digital forms inorder to thoughtfully and meaningfully use technology to enhance their learning.

A book which will help teach students how to diagnose, conduct treatment planning, and evaluate client outcomes.

Wanberg (Center for Addictions Research and Evaluation) presents a provider's guide to accompany a set of three participant workbooks designed to educate and treat impaired driving offenders.

This is a core textbook designed to prepare literacy educators to conduct reading and writing assessments and to help them develop appropriate corrective literacy strategies for use with their students.

Examines the concerns and processes of standard analytic induction, ethnomethodology and symbolic interaction in terms of cutting-edge issues for contemporary qualitative research.

A step-by-step approach to turning a research idea into a proposal worthy of funding, demystifying the process as a result.

This Handbook provides an innovative, interdisciplinary perspective on theory, research and methodology on dynamic processes in parent-child relations. It focuses on cognitive, behavioural and relational processes that govern immediate parent-child interactions and long-term relationships.

This user-friendly guide offers practical details on gathering critical information, including tips on what to include, sources, and timelines.

The book describes the skills needed for success in moving from being a student to becoming an academic or professional social scientist.

Drawing on insights of disability scholars around the world and the advice of an international editorial board, this book engages the reader in the critical issues and debates framing disability studies and places them in an historical and cultural context. It summarizes the discourse ranging across continents and traditional academic disciplines.

The essays in this book are examples of current scholarship on four aspects of organizaitonal failure: Organizational, Political, Cognitive, and Structural, written by twenty-four diverse academic authors.

Providing an empirical assessment of male adolescent murderers and systematic case presentations of several juvenile homicide offenders, Young Killers addresses psychological assessment, treatment issues and prevention strategies aimed at reducing the incidence of juvenile homicide.

This guidebook offers a practical overview for collecting data, understanding the underlying factors of challenging behaviors, and using evidence-based interventions to correct common classroom problems.

Offering perspectives from experts in diversity and/or literacy, this resource illustrates how teachers can improve reading achievement for students from diverse backgrounds by combining research-supported best practices with culturally-responsive instruction.

In today''s global village, the ability to relate to people from other cultures is becoming increasingly important for all those involved in education. Designed for teacher trainers, this book will help in shaping and assessing teacher preparation programmes from a global perspective. The book offers: a clear conceptual framework for the exploration of global perspectives; an insightful guide for establishing goals, objectives and rationale; a working definition of global education; and a rich collection of case studies that can be translated into a variety of settings.

One of a series of practical references for teachers, this handbook provides general information on the background of the early childhood curriculum in the United States. It also contains current information on publications, standards and special materials for the curriculum, and is designed to be adapted to suit particular schools.

Multiage grouping - the placement of children in the same classroom who are at least one year apart in age - is designed to allow children of various ability and age levels to work in an environment designed to optimize their learning potential. The authors explore the workings of a multiage classroom and offer guidelines for planning this type of instruction.

The techniques for performing cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) and cost-benefit analysis (CBA) in mental health and other human services are introduced in this volume.After describing a model for assessment and improvement-oriented analysis of human service systems using CEA and CBA methods, the author then shows how to analyze each of the links between the expenditure of resources and the achievement of long-term programme objectives. Examples of each step in understanding and improving relationships between resources used, procedures, processes induced and outcomes generated are drawn from the author''s own long and varied experience. They are designed to encourage readers to conduct their own quantitative and qualitative analyses of cost - procedure - process - outcome paths in human services.

Focuses on the need for professionals who work with the old, the disabled and the dying to confront their own fears of growing old, being helpless and of dying. Case studies are included in order to demonstrate how practitioners may use their own feelings to work with clients more effectively.

An integrated presentation of psychological research and recent court cases dealing with children as witnesses. It is organized around four issues: the competence of children as witnesses; the credibility of children; the rights of children; and the rights of the accused.

Nursery Crimes: Sexual Abuse in Day Care seeks to determine whether day care is a high risk environment.Perpetrators are described and various strategies evaluated for screening them from access to children. The process of detection and disclosure and the professional response to cases of abuse are examined carefully for ideas about how to promote better and earlier reporting. The relative effectiveness of different approaches and types of actions taken by licensing and law enforcement agencies are evaluated. To help work with the victims in the aftermath, the impact on both the children and the community is examined. Policy implications and specific recommendations are included in each section.

Social Work With Culturally Diverse People addresses the ambivalent and ambiguous changes in society, which have conditioned and constrained the willingness, ability, and efforts of social workers to provide culturally competent services to those different from mainstream society. Each major disadvantaged group is studied.