Teacher training

The Nurturing Teacher tackles the concerns of stressed teachers.

Classrooms are systems, schools are systems, and schooling in the United States is a big system.

This book is a straightforward, no-nonsense guide to a research method that can be used by educators to increase student learning, student self-esteem, and quality of school life in the classroom.

The ability to lead a campaign is essential to success for today's college or university president.

Technology is viewed as a powerful force both in and out of school and has long been linked with math and science.

A presidential transition has a major impact on the life of an institution.

This unique collection of chapters takes the reader on a tour to explore innovative preservice and inservice teacher education practices from many regions of the United States, Canada and the world.

This book is a comprehensive guide for educators and policy makers who are ready to create schools for Latinos (particularly Mexican Americans), such that students will be successful in learning and achieving in K-12 grades and college and help to advance society in the 21st century.

Teachers begin the professional journey with a treasure chest full of experiences, hopes, and expectations gathered from early childhood.

Louis Sullivan, an American architect, was referred to as the "e;father of modernism"e; and coined the phrase "e;form follows function.

Although administrators have many responsibilities, none is more critical to the school, student, and their personal success than the hiring, supervising, and evaluating teachers.

Making Mentoring Work is a practical guide for school leaders interested in beginning or enhancing their mentoring programs for new teachers.

Leaders in schools, universities, and other organizations are constantly bombarded with ethical dilemmas.

Education Game Changers is written for an international readership.

Did you ever notice how many teachers start out their careers so positive only to end them in misery?

"e;Finally a book about teaching that tells it like it is,"e; NEA Today said about Michael Gose's first edition, What It Means to Be a Teacher.

School superintendents, business managers, central office leaders, elected officials, industry leaders, educators, and aspiring practitioners in the field of education will find this book a useful resource in understanding innovative ways to stretch limited school resources or to improve the scope and quality of services and programs offered to deserving students.

This book provides foundational thoughts on situations where deans find themselves when managing up, managing their peers and themselves, or managing down.

Sociocultural Issues in Physical Education: Case Studies for Teachers is useful to a wide range of individuals interested in increasing their sociocultural awareness and knowledge in order to consider how students' experiences are shaped in and through physical education classes.

Inclusion: Teachers' Perspectives and Practices delineates timely strategies that address teachers' concerns regarding the inclusive environment.

N3xt Practices is a ground-breaking advisory book for education decision makers.

Seeking Balance: The Story of a Principal's Second Semester continues the story of fictional Principal Joe Gentry's first year on the job.

The Road to Tenure offers humorous recollections of the messiness and confusion that fill the days of a pre-tenure academic-from graduate school through the postdoc and into the assistant professor days.

This CHOICE award-winning author has teamed up with a national school resource expert to write a comprehensive book on teacher leaders.

This book is a treasure trove of information, generously sprinkled with gems of wisdom and insights for helping teachers to eradicate doubt and uncertainty about their teaching.

There are many master teachers who have excellent organizational and interpersonal relation skills who think about becoming assistant principals and principals.

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.

The statistics are familiar: almost 50% of new teachers leave the profession within their first five years in the classroom.

Correct instructional level and self-esteem have never been fully addressed in public education.

Successful Teaching: Practical Ideas to Make It Happen is written for all pre- and in-service teachers, whether they are the 20 year veteran who needs a renewed sense of purpose, new to the profession, or planning to become a teacher.

Education in the twenty-first century demands that we examine school practices as never before.

Teachers today are more stressed than ever.

Mastery Teaching Skills is a professional development book that will help teachers and principals implement the Common Core State Standards.

This detailed, informed and critical account of contemporary education in Scotland examines each of the main sectors in depth: early years, primary, secondary, further and higher education.

This survey of best practices is extremely useful to those charged with setting up state and local mentoring programs and provides a logical framework to convince policy makers to support teacher-induction programs.

Helping professionals of all types are everyday heroes who routinely and selflessly improve the lives of others.

Expertise in every classroom should be the norm, not the exception.

Supporting New Teachers: Insight for Principals and Others to Help New Teachers in Their Initial Years provides a framework for critical components every new teacher needs to be successful and feel supported in their first year of teaching.

School officials often examine teaching science from the perspective of the academic performance of K-12 children and the performance of the teacher.

Teachers evaluate students' work constantly.

Leadership Through Mentoring: The Key to Improving the Principals Confidence and Skill lays out the case for the development of robust mentorship programs to support new school leaders.

Avoiding poor decisions in any facet of life starts by truly listening for the meaning in the messages we receive.

Help your students learn math and get results by working smarter, not harder!

Steps to Success: What Successful Principals Do Every Day is purposefully written for practicing and aspiring public and private school administrators who desire - on a daily basis - to gain relevant skills, specialized knowledge, and overall expertise associated with being a successful school principal.

Today's educators face challenges unparalleled by previous generations of teachers.

Finding the Teacher Self offers a foundation to begin and sustain a discussion with preservice and in-service teachers about the role of teacher identities in the classrooms, what their teacher identity is, and how they can continue to develop it.

In this updated 2nd edition, the authors created a blueprint for educational leaders to arrive at an understanding of the complexity of shared leadership for achieving reflective school improvement.

K-12 schools and higher education institutions are experiencing steady racial and cultural shifts that are affecting interactions, relationships, and ultimately, school and student success.

Leaders and aspiring leaders looking to be successful in their company or organization must accept the role that politics plays in the daily happenings of the workplace.

If we want our students to be prepared for a life involved with artificial intelligence, global awareness, cultural understanding, racial, religious and lifestyle diversity, and changing economic and political realities, then we have to change what we are doing in our schools from pre-school to graduate school.