First published in 1994, Making the Most of your Inspection is written from the school's viewpoint in an attempt to dispel hearsay and prejudice regarding school inspections, and to encourage the school staff to approach the event in a positive frame of mind so that the school, pupils and teachers accrue maximum benefit from the experience.
Local Education Authorities are now obliged to put in place arrangements to try to settle disagreements over the provision for children with special educational needs.
Aimed at trainee and experienced teachers, this text examines what can be done to alleviate behavioural problems in schools and presents work in this area.
In the past few years awareness of the importance of educational practices has increased: committees have been established to investigate curricula of study, to solve the problems of administration and to co-ordinate the different levels of the educational system.
Many science, engineering, technology, and math (STEM) faculty wish to make an academic change at the course, department, college, or university level, but they lack the specific tools and training that can help them achieve the changes they desire.
This incisive and luminescent story, scrupulously grounded in sixteenth-century sources, illuminates the power that "e;naming"e; has to create a world - in this case a world still haunted by being the accidental Indies.
Written at a time of uncertainty about the implications of the English government's curriculum policies, Knowledge and the Future School engages with the debate between the government and large sections of the educational community.
This volume tells the story of major organizational change efforts at one municipal youth-serving organization to better support healthy youth development system wide.
This is Volume 11, Issue 1 2000 of 'Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation' and this special issue journal looks at the implementation of prevention programs.
Executive leadership is critically important to understanding the workings and performance of organizations, yet it is a topic that is usually ignored by mainstream leadership research.
This issue uses the powerful narrative of autoethnography to make visible the existence of international professors and teaching assistants who speak English as a Second Language.
Includes CD-Rom'In light of Every Child Matters agenda and of the current emphasis on giving children a voice in important decision making situations, this book could be a valuable tool'- Educational Psychology in Practice'This is a great little book designed to help children between the ages nine and 12 to develop good relationships with each other and with other people.
In response to the challenges of globalization and local development, educational reforms are inevitably becoming one of the major trends in the Asia-Pacific Region or other parts of the world.
Every storyteller soon discovers the difference between putting a story inside children and trying to extract it with comprehension questions and putting children inside a story and having them act it out.
A Better Way to Budget provides practical, innovative advice on how to overcome the political and social pushback that often prevents district and school leaders from shifting scarce resources to the most student-centered uses.
This book demonstrates Dialogical Leadership which is the workplace application of the Dialogical Self Theory, first developed by Dutch psychologist Hubert Hermans in the 1990s.
Drawing on a range of contexts influenced by the Promise Neighborhoods Program-a federal place-based initiative to improve educational outcomes for students in distressed urban and rural neighborhoods-this book outlines effective characteristics and elements for implementing supplementary education.
This resource offers teachers a simple framework to seamlessly add reflective practice to their day and encourages educators to critically reflect on instructional planning and practice.
This book presents children's literature as a platform for learning and helping young readers develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to thrive in an interconnected and diverse global society.
Der vorliegende Themenband hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, aktuelle wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse zur Laufbahngestaltung in der Erwerbsarbeit zusammenzuführen und weitergehende Perspektiven zu diskutieren.
