Educational administration and organization

WHAT WORKS!

Practising teacher and mindset expert Katherine Muncaster has combined with best-selling author Shirley Clarke to produce this 'must-have' handbook for anyone looking to embed a growth mindset culture across their primary school.

This is a story of the EC at work over 50 years, seen from the perspective of a developing European higher education policy.

For students to benefit from lessons, they must attend, listen, and try their best.

Disability Services and Disability Studies in Higher Education considers how the two fields of disability studies and disability services in institutions of higher education impact each other.

Originally published in 1994, International Developments in Assuring Quality in Higher Education describes a range of national and international developments which evaluate the quality of education provided by public and private tertiary institutions.

Teachers share one vital characteristic with students: they function best in settings that are organized enough to provide structure and focus, yet flexible enough to respect developmental and personality differences.

This book challenges pre-service and in-service educators to reflect critically on their assumptions and engage in praxis promoting racial and social equity.

This book discusses how East Asia has introduced school and curricular reform to reflect democratic citizenship and globalized skills, knowledge, dispositions, and competencies in the 21st century.

Tackling a growing challenge in today's schools, experienced educators Lineburg and Gearheart present an honest picture of how poverty affects students, families, and the school community at large.

In 1996 Routledge published Success Against the Odds, which looked at how a sample of schools in a variety of disadvantaged areas managed to be effective, despite the odds being stacked against them.

This expansion of Whatever It Takes sharpens the focus on the pyramid of interventions strategy.

An age-old question universal to all teachers is "e;How do we get our students to care about their learning?

The Depression era saw the first mass student movement in American history.

In a rapidly changing world with threats to the sustainability of the environment, societies, institutions and the people within them, a crucial question for educational leaders needs to be: what are these threats to sustainability, and how does the role of the educational leader need adapting to meet them through this century?

Even the best and most experienced teachers can struggle with classroom control and it is likely your experiences will vary day-to-day.

Early childhood educators need to be cognizant of the disconnect between public policy and classroom practicethe success of children they teach depends on it.

This book is a fictionalized account of one teacher's effort in applying process improvement principles to her teaching practices.

Originally published in 1993.

This book provides a fundamental introduction to educational practice for early childhood, primary and secondary preservice teachers.

Awareness of peer-on-peer abuse is on the rise and is a matter of increasing international concern.

This collection of simple-to-use activities will jumpstart students' understanding of the world's religions and belief systems.

Volume III explores the basic units in the educational system: student, teacher, and school.

The increased focus on raising standards in education requires leaders to engage in complex decision making about teacher assessment, mandated accountability measures, and the collection and use of large amounts of data.

James Spillane, the leading expert in Distributed Leadership, shows how leadership happens in everyday practices in schools, through formal routines and informal interactions.

This book shows that the faith in educational markets is misplaced.

It is hard for individual practitioners to explore their practice and the issues and questions it raises about learning and teaching, on their own.

Presenting qualitative and quantative findings from the unique, multi-disciplinary project, Design Matters?

NJR - do not use this blurb in its raw form.

In Effective Supervision, Robert J.

In this book, the contributors challenge dominant discourses and practices in the fields of early childhood and middle grades education that are based on the last century's grand developmental theories.

Teaching and Mobile Learning: Interactive Educational Design is a groundbreaking book which shows how to design innovative educational mobile learning environments to instructional designers, curriculum developers, and learning professionals.

Written to accompany the third edition of Todd Whitaker's bestselling title, What Great Principals Do Differently, this study guide can be used by facilitators and participants in workshops, webinars, book study groups, or other professional development events.

This book provides a step-by-step guide to achieve best practice communication within schools.

First published in 1976, School and College is a comparison of the variety of educational institutions - sixth forms, sixth form units, sixth form centres, sixth form colleges, school-college consortia, colleges of further education and tertiary colleges - attended by young people between sixteen and nineteen years of age.

Economic Transition and International Business brings together academic experts in International Business and sheds new light on the international phenomenon of transitions in the worldwide economy.

In Complex Text Decoded, educational consultant and former master teacher Kathy T.

Do you struggle to align day-to-day educational practices with your community's stated goals for learning?

New primary leaders face significant challenges worldwide and this book brings together the range of those experiences and challenges for the first time.

Moving from country to country is no small feat.

Talkabout Sex & Relationships 2 is a comprehensive toolkit for all therapists, educators and support staff who deliver sex education to people with special needs.

Leaders, develop your capacity for social-emotional intelligence and foster growth, openness, and trust in your staff using Powerful Inquiry.

The best educators never stop learning about their students or their craft.

This essential, step-by-step guide is ideal for anyone involved in planning, preparing and delivering group work to young people.

This book provides teachers and school leaders with practical, effective, and proven assessment strategies that are immediately implementable in classrooms.

Creating Capacity for Learning and Equity in Schools provides a comprehensive guide for aspiring and practicing leaders to strengthen their capacity to create high levels of learning and equity.

Education works better when teachers can concentrate on teaching and on students instead of concentrating on meticulous implementation of ever-changing political reforms of education or on laborious implementation of increasingly bureaucratic, mechanical procedures which are mandated by the education hierarchy.