This book presents a new and refreshing look at student assessment from the perspective of leading educational theorists, researchers, and practitioners.
Written for anyone in higher education who is responsible for submitting and running a grant-funded project, Grant Seeking in Higher Education offers a hands-on resource for developing and managing the grant process from start to finish.
This is an essential guide for all teaching professionals to help them make an informed decision about what wellbeing programmes and initiatives they should select in their schools and why.
Strategies for Developing and Supporting School Leaders assists personnel in school districts to deliver appropriate development and support practices for aspiring and current school leaders.
Some rather remarkable changes took place in North American business schools between 1945 and 1970, altering the character of these institutions, the possibilities for their future, and the terms of discourse about them.
This book helps you make sense of the data your school collects, including state student achievement results as well as other qualitative and quantitative data.
Julian Löhe untersucht am Beispiel des Employer Brandings neue Ansätze zur Personalbindung und findet heraus, dass gute Vereinbarkeit von Pflege und Beruf wesentlich für erfolgreiche Personalbindung ist.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, young people aged 18 to 25 are at a significant risk for acquiring and transmitting HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) and other STIs (sexually transmitted infections).
Achieving Coherence in District Improvementfocuses on a problem of practice faced by educational leaders across the nation: how to effectively manage the relationship between the central office and schools.
Leading specialists in academic advising describe five programs that have been judged by a national panel as among the most outstanding or exemplary in the country.
Based on sound research and experience from Gary Wilson, one of the UK's leading authorities on boys' achievements, this book provides a practical toolkit of proven strategies that enable teachers to raise boys' achievement across all age boundaries.
Engaging Hard to Reach Parents This is a readable yet academically rigorous book that draws together findings from contemporary theory, research and practice.
Strategic Management of Human Capital in Education offers a comprehensive and strategic approach to address what has become labeled as "e;talent and human capital.
Recently at the Visible Learning Conference, Professor John Hattie stood up in his opening address and said, "e;I'm looking at you all and thinking 'What if I got this wrong?
GenAdmin: Theorizing WPA Identities in the Twenty-First Century examines identity formation in a generation of rhetoric and composition professionals who have undergone explicit preparation in scholarly dimensions of writing program administration.
A valuable resource to institutions of higher education and various state and national superintendent organizations and agencies, The Dark Side of Educational Leadership provides valuable insights into specific resiliency behaviors that contribute to superintendents' abilities to overcome the trauma associated with being a professional victim.
This book sets out to describe the personal experiences of a state worker in Missouri as she attempted to implement educational reform programmes in the late 1980's.
Media and Technology in Emerging African Democracies is a standard text that will give students an opportunity to familiarize themselves with some of the best literature in media technology impact in emerging African democracies with relevant concentration on information and communication technology (ICT).
This book provides a narrative account of the experiences of twenty former scholarship students from historically disadvantaged communities who attended elite public and private secondary schools.
With current socio-economic development trends and changing work landscapes, modern workplaces are progressively becoming a subject of flexibilisation and hybridisation.
Student teachers have always worked with professionals during their teaching practice, but as teacher training becomes more school based, the role of the mentor has become much more important.