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Differentiation for Gifted Learners: Going beyond the Basics
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Heacox, Diane; Cash, Richard M. – Free Spirit Publishing, 2014
Within a group of advanced learners, the variety of abilities, talents, interests, and learning styles can be formidable. For the first time, this book connects the unique learning differences among gifted students to the specific teaching methods used to tailor their educational experiences. Differentiated instruction for gifted and talented…
Descriptors: Gifted, Individualized Instruction, Honors Curriculum, Advanced Placement
Be a CHANGEMASTER: 12 Coaching Strategies for Leading Professional and Personal Change
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Reiss, Karla – Corwin, 2012
"Be a CHANGEMASTER" is a practical guide for school and district leaders that provides 12 strategies for overcoming resistance to change. Unlike more theoretical books, this text shows how to adopt a coaching style of leadership as a systemic change strategy. Numerous examples demonstrate how the strategies used in this book have led to…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Leadership Styles, Educational Change, Coaching (Performance)
Collaborating with Parents for Early School Success: The Achieving-Behaving-Caring Program
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McConaughy, Stephanie H.; Kay, Pam; Welkowitz, Julie A.; Hewitt, Kim; Fitzgerald, Martha D. – Guilford Publications, 2007
The Achieving-Behaving-Caring (ABC) Program is an evidence-based approach to addressing the needs of elementary students at risk for emotional and behavioral difficulties and promoting successful home-school collaboration. This practical guide demonstrates how classroom teachers and parents can work together to boost individual children's…
Descriptors: High Risk Students, Parent Participation, Action Research, Parent School Relationship
Self-Esteem and Adjusting with Blindness: The Process of Responding to Life's Demands. Third Edition
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Tuttle, Dean W.; Tuttle, Naomi R. – Charles C. Thomas, Publisher, Ltd, 2004
This new and expanded Third Edition analyzes blindness within the context of two overlapping theoretical constructs: the development of self-esteem and the process of adjusting to social and/or physical trauma. The book is divided into four sections. The first section, provides an overview of blindness and the essential background for subsequent…
Descriptors: Conflict Resolution, Guidelines, Blindness, Social Work
Tending to the Emotional Needs of Teachers and Children: Tricks of the Trade.
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Lauderdale, Katherine L., Ed.; Roberson, Jerry, L. Ed.; Bonilla, Carlos A., Ed. – 1998
This volume, written by teachers for teachers, parents and administrators, presents an insightful, correlative view of the emotional needs of both the teachers and their students. Frontmatter includes: "Planning to Become a Teacher?" and "Needs of Children and Their Teachers." Papers included are: (1) "On the Teaching of Teachers" (C. A.…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Children, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Experience
Teaching for Thoughtfulness: Classroom Strategies To Enhance Intellectual Growth.
Barell, John – 1991
The union of thought and feeling, the basis of the concept of "thoughtfulness," is one of the major themes of this book, which is designed to help teachers, administrators, teacher educators, and parents empower students to take more control of their own education and lives. It presents strategies for teaching students about the nature…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Classroom Techniques, Educational Environment, Educational Principles