Bücher veröffentlicht von SAGE Publications Inc

This collection of whimsical glimpses at staff development will provide a moment to laugh and add a little levity--and poignancy--to your workday.

Presents case studies and examples from practitioners and examines the four major dimensions of advancing real learning: active learning, collaborative learning, learner-driven learning, learning about learning.

Realist evaluation is an exciting new mehtodology used to investigate what works, for whom and in what contexts. Shows how it applies to todays's practice in social work, health and other human services.

This book offer a new and rigorous approach to observational sociology that is grounded in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis.

Organizational Innovations provides a clear understanding of organizational innovation for students and academics teaching in this area. The authors draw together the relevant A-Z of key frameworks and concepts from a range of perspectives in organization theory, consumption, management information systems, geography and management of technology.

Introducing a comprehensive therapeutic approach, this work combines theories of the mind, emotions, behaviour and bodily experience. Following the typical pattern of working with a client, it describes the key features of Transactional Analysis (TA) and its basic building blocks - ego states, transactions, games, and scripts.

This book examines how a framework of punishment that suited the values of the civilized world came to be set in place from around 1800 to the late 20th century. John Pratt draws on research about prison architecture, clothing, diet, hygienic arrangements and changes in penal language to establish this.

This book provides a review of basic terminology and offers guidelines to the untrained researcher for carrying out `nuts-and-bolts' quality improvement research. Fourteen case studies involving actual health care situations help to demonstrate how such a research project can be implemented.

Suitable for teachers of upper Primary/lower Secondary pupils and as a resource for using with gifted children of 9 to 12 years, this book presents a child-centered perspective that offers an easy-to-follow model for teaching research methodology to children aged 10 and upwards.

Difference, prejudice and discrimination are issues which all counsellors and psychotherapists need to address as part of their development. This book helps therapists understand the experience of discrimination, as well as explore their own - often unconscious - attitudes to others, based on gender, sexuality, race, culture or mental health.

New strategies for feedback that supports a culture of learning.The skill set required for observing why students are learning and how teachers influence that is a difficult one to master¿yet it¿s essential for driving school change and growth. With this companion to the best-selling Feedback to Feed Forward, observers in any role¿leaders, coaches, and teachers themselves¿will improve their ability to identify desired outcomes, recognize learning in action, collect relevant evidence, and develop supportive, and effective feedback. Features include:·         Nineteen strategies for learner-centered, learning-focused observations·         Authentic classroom examples·         Observer think-alouds·         Stories from the field with "Give-It-a-Try" tools and "Stop and Think" questions Follow-up steps specific to each role

Develop equity, excellence, and wellbeing across the whole system!Our world needs a transformation to survive. We need a moral imperative and a system transformation to survive for the better. The Devil is in the Details shows how we can re-think the education system and its three levels of leadership¿local, middle, and top¿so that each level can contribute to dramatic transformation whether individually or collectively. The focus is on examining details to ensure correct actions are taken, rather than assuming large pronouncements will drive change. Readers will find: Detailed cases and analyses of successful systems Ideas for how leaders at all levels can take steps to begin Actions and strategies for addressing equity, excellence and wellbeing

Discover how to create a reading/writing oasis, blend narrative and descriptive writing, help students compose persuasive cover letters, use "Five Circles/Five Paragraphs" and "Punny Valentines," and more!

A manual for instructors whose classroom resides online

With articles by Alan M. Blankstein, Pedro A. Noguera, Mavis G. Sanders, Paul D. Houston, and others, this volume examines educators' pivotal role in leading family and community involvement in school success.

With information for administrators and authentic tools for teachers, this hands-on resource demonstrates how student achievement increases when an entire school focuses on making differentiation work.

Full of intervention strategies, this resource helps teachers understand ADHD, make accommodations, promote appropriate behaviour, and deal with impulsivity, attention problems, hyperactivity, and more.

Examines strategies and techniques from the perspective of those who are lobbied - the people who know what resonates and what falls upon deaf ears in congressional offices. This title offers a behind-the-scenes perspective on what constitutes the art of lobbying.

This resource is ideal for helping teachers build a greater understanding of the unique needs of gifted kids, particularly their intensities as identified by psychologist Kazimierz Dabrowski and the impact of those intensities on their social and emotional development.

This research-based study helps administrators create a school environment that responds to teacher emotions and results in higher teacher retention, instructional effectiveness, and student achievement.

Thinking and Acting Like a Solution-Focused Counselor provides counsellors with a practical guide to learning to think and then act like an expert counsellor.

Focuses on how to manage human service organizations in ways that lead to the provision of high quality and effective services to consumers. This book offers information on practice innovations, theoretical perspectives and empirical research to suggest the key elements of an effectiveness driven approach to management in the human services.

A strong superintendent is critical to the success of an entire school district, and this exciting new resource details the issues surrounding the state policies that appoint superintendents.

Gifted students who are at risk because of learning disabilities, gender issues, or economic disadvantages are highlighted in this volume.

Activate learning in all adolescents-including advanced learners-with these practical, developmentally appropriate techniques based on brain research, technology, and a six-point differentiation model.

Offering grade-level activities and creative reproducibles for teaching children to read fluently, independently, and with comprehension, this book contains standards-based, ready-to-use activities to strengthen students' development in: phonemic awareness and phonics; comprehension and fluency; vocabulary; and, spelling and word analysis.

With contributions from content teachers, this insightful book discusses instructional approaches, student activities, and textbooks that can motivate reluctant learners to become active readers.

Offers a collection of 27 essays that explores the range of theorizing about communication, cutting across all lines of traditional division in the field.

Gives teachers a real-world context for learning about and accommodating children with diverse backgrounds and abilities. To help teachers practice working with diverse students, the authors have developed a set of biographies and simulated cumulative files of six students at three levels (early childhood, middle school, and high school).