This book will take the NQT through a journey which starts with interviews, leads them through the first visit before taking up the job and then into the first hectic weeks and months.
Winner of the Association of Educational Computing and Technology (AECT) 2018 Design and Development Outstanding Book Award Educators and researchers worldwide are confronted by a tantalizing challenge how should contemporary technologies be used to enhance learning?
This book encourages teacher educators to promote flexible and sustainable practice in their students, enabling them to flourish within an ever-changing educational environment.
Fifty years ago, in 1967, free education was introduced in Ireland for attendance at second-level schools and great expansion of provision of education at both this and third-level followed.
This map of the RTI process offers an overview of research, detailed guidance through each stage of implementation, tools for teacher reflection and growth, and discussion of support strategies beyond the classroom.
Demystifying MTSS distills all the complex elements of multitiered system of supports into a customizable framework built around four components: collaborative leadership, universal access, a continuum of tiered supports, and data-based decision making.
This new edition provides a step-by-step guide to applying the Rasch model in R, a probabilistic model used by researchers across the social sciences to measure unobservable ("e;latent"e;) variables.
A design-minded teacher facilitates learning that is flexible, creative, and collaborative-with a healthy mix of critical thinking, trial and error, failure, and success.
With foreword by Rick WormeliMerging educational neuroscience with a formative assessment process and differentiated instruction, LeAnn Nickelsen and Melissa Dickson developed a four-step cycle of instruction -- (1) chunk, (2) chew, (3) check, and (4) change -- that has the power to double the speed of student learning.
This anthology brings the ideas and recommendations of many of the world's education leaders into one resource that illustrates the many perspectives on effective assessment design and implementation.
With foreword by Lee CanterNo-Nonsense Nurturers are educators who build life-altering relationships with students, set high expectations for students, and hold themselves and their students accountable for achievement.
The sequel to Pyramid Response to Intervention advocates that a successful RTI model begins by asking the right questions to create a fundamentally effective learning environment for every student.
This practical and easy-to-use resource addresses the need for strategies to effectively handle challenging students, and contains an ample supply of tips for handling a wide variety of challenging situations that virtually every educator will face.
To move forward in the school improvement process, school leaders must address the behaviors of difficult and resistant staff members while sending the message that a few people cannot halt change.
