Educational administration and organization

A comprehensive, accessible guide to the policies and practices of risk management in higher education Student affairs staff at all types of colleges and universities need to be equipped to help manage risk and protect their institutions, the people they serve, and their resources from unintended consequences.

This book gives information, ideas and principles for music with three to five year olds that are both down-to-earth and up-to-date.

Stand Up and Be Counted provides middle leaders with increased knowledge, understanding and confidence in the leadership process.

The guiding idea of this book concerns the nature of teacher education in the future, viewing the understanding of the history of teacher education in different context as the basis for future development.

This book provides a comprehensive method for learning modern management processes, and applying those methods to improve leadership in educational settings.

Bullying: Effective Strategies for Long Term Improvement tackles the sensitive issue of bullying in schools and offers practical guidance on how to deal successfully with the issue in the long term.

Designed to complement Learning to Teach Modern Foreign Languages in the Secondary School, this book focuses specifically on the skills and processes of teaching MFL at A and A/S level in schools and colleges.

Originally published in 1986, this book presents three full case studies of secondary school communities in Australia: one city school in a working-class area, one community school serving a wide, more rural area, and a school with an academic tradition in the suburbs of a large city.

This book explores opportunities and limitations with regard to transferring knowledge and tools from the corporate world to manage monasteries or other types of religious institutions.

Komplementär zu der sich in den letzten Jahren etablierenden und methodisch bzw.

Originally published in 1985.

Have you ever thought research is boring?

Youth mental health challenges are on the rise.

How do different contexts influence the nature and character of school leadership?

The management of discipline is an essential element in educational practice, and at a time when teachers and managers are anxious about reported increases in violence and other forms of anti-social behaviour there's a need for practical guidance and a review of current thinking.

The authors' goal is to explore how an alternative, politically viable public discourse on education can be constructed.

Dominic Wyse and Charlotte Hacking present a ground-breaking account of teaching phonics, reading, and writing.

This book proposes that paradox, as a theoretically rich and historically enduring concept, has significant potential for researchers in the field of critical leadership studies.

Empowering Students for the Future: Using the Right Questions to Teach the Value of Passion, Success, and Failure arms educators with the tools to teach what we all wish we had learned in school.

"Ein verlässliches Ganztagsangebot hat das Potenzial, die Bildungschancen der Kinder zu verbessern, und unterstützt die Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf", betont Dr.

This book examines the restructuring of universities on the basis of neoliberal models, and provides a vision of the practice of hope in higher education as a means to counteract this new reality.

This book looks in depth at the emerging issue of cyber-bullying.

The worldwide shift towards a knowledge society and information based economy requires educational policy makers to re-evaluate their understanding of the knowledge and skills students need in order to achieve national development goals.

This timely book argues that the New Zealand educational reforms were the product of longstanding unresolved educational issues that came to a head during the profound economic and cultural crisis of the 1970s and early 1980s.

What drives certain collaborative projects to success, while others with similar goals fail?

With demands for improved quality, increasing competition for state and federal funds, and the challenges of integrating technology into the curriculum, higher education faces greater economic uncertainties than ever before.

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Barriers to Excellence: The Changes Needed for Our Schools brings a new and different viewpoint to our educational problems in the United States.

Learn how to turn your school board members into heroes by helping them make smart, worthwhile decisions that they will deserve to brag about.

Practical Statistics for Educators, Seventh Edition, is a clear and easy-to follow book written specifically for education students in introductory statistics and action research courses.

In Broader, Bolder, Better, authors Elaine Weiss, of the Broader, Bolder Approach to Education campaign, and Paul Reville, former Massachusetts secretary of education, make a compelling case for a fundamental change in the way we view education.

The second edition of Leadership for Increasingly Diverse Schools helps both practicing and aspiring school leaders deepen their knowledge, skills, and dispositions to create schools that best serve all students.

Originally published in 1968 The New University is a collection of essays dealing with problems and opportunities of university development in our time.

In projektorientierten Unternehmen spielen Projektmanagement-Offices (PMO) eine immer wichtigere, manchmal sogar zentrale Rolle, wenn es darum geht, die Projektmanagementaktivitäten des Unternehmens zielgerichtet und effizient auszurichten.

The Big Book of Blobs is a collection of Blob pictures that can be used as prompts to explore feelings.

Real Leaders, Real Schools tells the stories of five urban public school principals who led their schools through profound and transformative changes.

This book evaluates contemporary approaches to education, with a particular focus on the ways in which assessment shapes the educational experience and influences pupils and students.

A collaboration between a seasoned math teacher and a research mathematician, this resource offers balanced instructional ideas based on student intellectual engagement and skilled teacher leadership.

Calm the chaos and transform your home into a space that fosters curiosity, creativity, and independenceToo often, the toys, games, and other materials meant to educate young children end up being a detriment instead.

School safety experts Amy Klinger and Amanda Klinger offer practical guidance and tools to assist educators in crisis prevention and response in schools.

Originally published in 1992.

Behaviour Management and the Role of the Teaching Assistant draws on the latest research as well as teaching assistants' own views to enable readers to reconsider TA deployment and to maximise the benefits TAs have to offer in supporting children's behaviour.

Savitz-Romer offers a strategic approach to school counseling that enables educational leaders to draw on existing staff to create supportive contexts and programs for students.

In too many districts, evaluation of teachers ensures competence but does little or nothing to encourage and support expertise.

Excellence Through Equity is an inspiring look at how real-world educators are creating schools where all students are able to thrive.

Excellence Through Equity is an inspiring look at how real-world educators are creating schools where all students are able to thrive.