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Allen, Rich; Scozzi, Nigel – Corwin, 2011
Today's students must be more than good test takers. They must be able to collaborate, innovate, and think critically to solve real-world problems. As content demands increase, how can teachers make time to teach these advanced skills? "Sparking Student Synapses, Grades 9-12" describes how master teacher Nigel Scozzi used Rich Allen's Green Light…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Evidence, Educational Testing, Validity
Lemov, Doug – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2012
In his acclaimed book "Teach Like a Champion", Doug Lemov shared 49 essential techniques used by excellent teachers. In his companion Field Guide, he further explores those techniques in a practical guide. With the "Teach Like a Champion Field Guide", teachers will have an indispensable resource that complements their classroom application of…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Feedback (Response), Workbooks, Teaching Methods
Olson, Kirsten – Teachers College Press, 2009
While reformers and policymakers focus on achievement gaps, testing, and accountability, millions of students mentally and emotionally disengage from learning and many gifted teachers leave the field. Ironically, today's schooling is damaging the single most essential component to education--the joy of learning. How do we recognize the "wounds"…
Descriptors: School Culture, Learning, Learner Engagement, Educational Change
Rennie, Leonie J.; Venville, Grady; Wallace, John – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
As the third millennium progresses, we are faced with increasing pressures relating to climate change and the sustainability of life on Earth. Concerned citizens are realizing that the responsibility to respond is both local and global. There is an increasing sense of urgency about the need to reform the processes of schooling and curriculum to…
Descriptors: Integrated Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Criticism, Educational Change
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Noroozi, Omid, Ed.; Sahin, Ismail, Ed. – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2022
The aim of the International Society for Technology, Education, and Science (iHSES) conference is to offer opportunities to share ideas, discuss theoretical and practical issues, and connect with the leaders in the fields of "humanities," "education" and "social sciences." It is organized for: (1) faculty members in…
Descriptors: Flipped Classroom, Student Diversity, Student Experience, College Students
Ellis, Arthur K.; Evans, Laurynn – Eye on Education, 2010
This book offers easy-to-use classroom strategies for middle and high school English and Social Studies classrooms. They demonstrate how teaching, learning, and assessment are inseparable and seamless. Each strategy will engage your students in activity and reflection, consuming little class time, costing nothing, and uniting the three dimensions…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Reflective Teaching, Social Studies, Teaching Methods
Schlechty, Phillip C. – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2011
In Phillip Schlechty's best-selling book "Working on the Work", he outlined a motivational framework for improving student performance by improving the quality of schools designed for students. "Engaging Students" offers a next-step resource in which Schlechty incorporates what he's learned from the field and from the hundreds of workshops he and…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Student Motivation, Motivation Techniques, Questionnaires
Rogers, Kipp D. – Solution Tree, 2011
In "Mobile Learning Devices," the author helps educators confront and overcome their fears and doubts about using mobile learning devices (MLDs) such as cell phones, personal digital assistants, MP3 players, handheld games, digital audio players, and laptops in classrooms. School policies that ban such tools are outdated, the author suggests;…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Educational Strategies, Educational Technology, Access to Information
Rennie, Leonie, Ed.; Venville, Grady, Ed.; Wallace, John, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012
How can curriculum integration of school science with the related disciplines of technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) enhance students' skills and their ability to link what they learn in school with the world outside the classroom? Featuring actual case studies of teachers' attempts to integrate their curriculum, their reasons for doing…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, High Schools, Public Schools, Water Quality
Beere, Carole A.; Votruba, James C.; Wells, Gail W. – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2011
"Becoming an Engaged Campus" offers campus leaders a systematic and detailed approach to creating an environment where public engagement can grow and flourish. The book explains not only what to do to expand community engagement and how to do it, but it also explores how to document, evaluate, and communicate university engagement efforts. An…
Descriptors: School Community Relationship, Guides, College Environment, College Administration
Bolman, Lee G.; Gallos, Joan V. – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2011
In "Reframing Academic Leadership," the authors offer higher education leaders a provocative and pragmatic guide for: (1) Crafting dynamic institutions where the whole is greater than the sum of the parts; (2) Creating campus environments that facilitate creativity and commitment; (3) Forging alliances and partnerships in service of the mission;…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Administration, Instructional Leadership, Conflict
Caldwell, Brian; Vaughan, Tanya – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
This timely book takes up the challenge of maintaining programs in the arts in the face of unrelenting pressure from two directions; the increasing focus on literacy and numeracy in schools, teamed with the cut-backs in public funding that often affect the arts most severely. Drawing on the wealth of evidence already available on the impact of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy, Numeracy, Educational Finance
Brown, M. Christopher, II, Ed.; Dancy, T. Elon, II, Ed.; Davis, James Earl, Ed. – Peter Lang New York, 2013
This book's predecessor, "Black Sons to Mothers: Compliments, Critiques, and Challenges for Cultural Workers in Education" (Peter Lang, 2000), sparked a decade of meaningful scholarship on the educational experiences and academic outcomes of African American males. "Black Sons to Mothers" proffered seminal contributions to the academic literature…
Descriptors: African American Students, Males, African American Education, Race
OECD Publishing, 2015
Over the past century, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries have made significant progress in narrowing or closing long-standing gender gaps in many areas of education and employment, including educational attainment, pay and labour market participation. But new gender gaps in education are opening. Young men…
Descriptors: Sex Fairness, Equal Education, Achievement Gap, Gender Differences
Groundwater-Smith, Susan, Ed.; Mockler, Nicole, Ed. – Cambridge University Press, 2015
"Big Fish, Little Fish: Teaching and Learning in the Middle Years" provides pre-service and early career teachers with a pathway to understanding the needs of students as they make the important transition from primary to secondary schooling. The book explores contemporary challenges for teaching and learning in the middle years, with a…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Beginning Teachers, Middle School Teachers, Middle Schools
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