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Approaches argumentation from a rhetorical point of view and demonstrates how logical and dialectical considerations depend on the rhetorical features of the argumentative situation. This book identifies how argumentation as a communicative practice can best be understood by its rhetorical features.

The first book to provide a comprehensive overview and critical analysis of children's social care in England following the introduction of Every Child Matters and the 2007 Children's Plan

Taking an integrative, interdisciplinary approach to the coverage of managerial issues, functions, practices and problems, the text provides a view of international management beyond intercultural issues.

The book's pedagogical features, practical focus and cross disciplinary theoretical perspective makes this an interesting, accessible and interactive as well as a provocative textbook for students and researchers

This latest edition draws upon research to illustrate essential mentoring behaviors. Provides new tools such as classroom observation methods, teacher mentor standards, and learning styles assessment.

A step-by-step approach to applying high impact innovation in any organization.

This interdisciplinary book overviews political and cultural identity in the context of changes across the political landscape. These changes - from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the recent Islamic revival - have profoundly altered the received ideas that define political cultures throughout the world.

Demonstrates sound principles for handling misbehaviors, establishing a positive atmosphere for learning, encouraging cooperation, strengthening teacher-student relationships, and supporting students with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

Assess teacher affect and dispositions with a comprehensive framework linked to standards. The authors provide a step-by-step implementation sequence and examples from preservice and inservice settings.

Attempts to bridge the gap between research on substance abuse treatment programs and what actually goes on in the field of substance abuse treatment. This book is aimed at both the academic and practitioner market and it describes how to determine what evidence based practice is.

Features an expanded discussion of mediated learning and includes case studies, reflective activities for the reader, and in-depth coverage of metacognition, metalearning, metateaching, and metatasking.

Provides administrators and staff developers with step-by-step guidance for designing, implementing, and sustaining a professional growth plan. This guidebook: demonstrates how participants can develop their own goals and action plans; and, provides different terminology and topics for individual growth plan development.

Prompts crisis intervention team members to reevaluate their beliefs and practices, and offers illustrative vignettes, helpful tips, and discussion questions to guide reflection and action.

Use these step-by-step strategies to develop and implement a proven program that links to districtwide goals and results in highly qualified teachers and increased student achievement.

Learn to define a quality program, analyze what is and is not working, and avoid "test score fatigue" with a user-friendly, three-part framework for school improvement.

Offers teachers engaging ways to weave real-life financial issues and personal money management into NCTM standards-based secondary mathematics lessons while meeting equity and accountability requirements.

Presenting seven keys to leadership-control, caring, change, charisma, communication, curriculum, and courage-this manual provides strategies to initiate, stabilize, and sustain effective practices.

Provides a guide to the concept mapping methodology and strategies behind using it for a range of social scientists - including students, researchers, and practitioners. This work pays attention to the issues facing the facilitator of a concept mapping project; and includes chapters on using concept mapping in planning and evaluation.

School leaders will find practical strategies, models, and tools to lead a beginning team step-by-step through the lesson study cycle.

Offers an approach to counseling that incorporates concepts and techniques from eastern and western perspectives. This book identifies commonalities rather than the differences between them. It compares the underlying cultural assumptions of western counseling with those of the Chinese perspectives, specifically Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism.

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The authors help educators identify gifted and talented students, present effective instructional approaches such as enrichment and acceleration, and review characteristics related to exceptional students.

Covering the entire fundraising process, this comprehensive text offers a wealth of practical strategies for pursuing "big time" grants and gifts for America's public schools.

Improve the work habits and study skills of students with learning disabilities and/or ADHD, and advance their performance in reading, writing, and mathematics with the highly effective methods in this guide.

This valuable resource offers teachers practical classroom management tips and provides highly effective instruction methods to foster independence in students with visual and hearing impairments.

Learn about assistive technologies, helpful adjustments to school and classroom environments, and effective instructional modifications specifically designed to support students with medical, physical, and multiple disabilities.

Including a pretest, posttest, and key vocabulary terms, this helpful guide presents the key components of highly effective instruction and the accommodations to be made for students with special needs.

Discover what assessment methods you should be using, and how, when, and where they should be administered to ensure appropriate services are selected for all exceptional students.

This resource reviews the most influential laws affecting special education services and includes assessments to help readers evaluate their understanding of current legal practices.