Emerging from an education world that sees professional learning as a tool to positively shape teaching practice in order to improve student learning, Transformational Professional Learning elucidates professional learning that is transformational for teachers, school leaders, and schools.
In den deutschsprachigen Schulsystemen werden Elemente eines ,neuen Steuerungsmodells’ − beispielsweise Bildungsstandards, Schulinspektionen oder Selbstevaluation − implementiert.
A collection of essays by presidents of prominent liberal arts colleges and leading intellectuals who reflect on the meaning of educating individuals for leadership and how it can be accomplished in ways consistent with the missions of liberal arts institutions.
This action-oriented guide details how school leaders can take an active role in transforming school systems so that they are truly inclusive-promoting belonging and academic success for exceptional learners and across all student subgroups.
A comprehensive look at service learning and community engagement including history, best practices, disciplinary approaches, institutional policies, and critical perspectives.
Educational leaders are seeing the increasing need for practical transformative models and theories to address academic, cultural, and socio-economic gaps separating learners at all levels of the educational system.
Myanmar: Environmental, Political and Social Issues presents educational, historical and social contexts in Myanmar strongly suggesting that, after decades of educational neglect, the time has come for educational reform in schools.
Leadership for Mental Wellbeing in the Secondary School is an introduction to a set of simple shifts you can enact to make your work more rewarding, and your school a flagship of excellence.
In this powerful new book, James Rickabaugh, former superintendent and current director of the Institute for Personalized Learning (IPL), presents the groundbreaking results of the Institute's half-decade of research, development, and practice: a simple but powerful model for personalizing students' learning experiences by building their levels of commitment, ownership, and independence.
Mentoring is often a crucial, yet informal part of an organization's best practices and skill development, whether targeted towards a team lead, project manager, designer, developer or a valued senior team member.
Recognizing the growing significance of innovation and entrepreneurship in the field of health education, this novel volume discusses digital skills, collaborative learning and contemporary curricular challenges in order to foster innovative and entrepreneurial mindsets.
The book brings together diverse views from around the world and provides a comprehensive overview of academic integrity and how to create the ethical academy.
An interdisciplinary survey text on leadership theory grounded using critical perspectives Leadership Theory is designed specifically for use in undergraduate or graduate classrooms providing a comprehensive overview of essential theories informing the leadership studies knowledgebase.
What its really like to be a parent in the world of higher education, and how academia can make this hard climb a little less steepAcademia has a big problem.
A COMPREHENSIVE RESOURCE FOR UNDERSTANDING AND APPLYING RESEARCH METHODS Research Methods and Applications for Student Affairs offers students and professionals in the field an authoritative and accessible guide to help navigate research in student affairs.
In this introduction to educational policy, practice and professionalism, the authors focus first on providing an historical overview of English policy from the state's first interventions in education through to Thatcherism and the election of the Blair government.
'Fleming's books are sparklingly sardonic and hilariously angry' - GuardianThere is a strong link between the neoliberalisation of higher education over the last 20 years and the psychological hell now endured by its staff and students.
This interdisciplinary volume addresses the progress made regarding mental illness stigma in the realm of higher education while acknowledging how stigma has transformed to present more subtle challenges in this context and how it may be addressed to promote positive campus outcomes.
In our knowledge-based society, K8 students need to develop increasingly sophisticated skills to read, write, and speak for a wide variety of purposes and audiences.
Ausgangspunkt dieses Bandes ist ein Bildungsbegriff, der die Transformation von Selbst- und Weltverhältnissen aus der Perspektive einer Theorie der Praxis in den Blick nimmt.
Scholars, especially those interested in understanding how leadership has inhibited academic freedom and hindered effectiveness of institutions of higher learning have for long been engaged by the very important manner in which governance and leadership of higher education institutions in Africa is constituted and managed.
Helping you develop the confidence and basic skills needed to understand and support children with special educational needs, this guide will support you in tackling the everyday challenges that working in an inclusive classroom poses.
Be ready for the verbal and writing sections of the GRE General Test--scheduled to be revised in August 2011 McGraw-Hill s Conquering GRE Verbal and Writing offers you intensive review for every kind of verbal question on the GRE, a well as in-depth essay-writing guidance for the Analytical Writing section.
In recent years there has been a growing interest in the ideas surrounding reflective practice, specifically in the areas of learning in management, development and education.
This book details characteristics and behaviors manifested by effective leaders and discussion of how their behavior was informed by leadership theory.
This book is for school leaders who handle the conflicts and commotions which arise from human nature issues in schools and the shortage of school resources.
In their first edition, authors Chad Mason and Karen Brackman examined and explained the difficulties associated with attempting to successfully educate todays, often, over-indulged and narcissistic student population.
