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Spaulding, Dean T.; Smith, Gail – Corwin, 2012
For instructional coaches, no two days are ever the same. This unique companion melds theory and practice to show how coaches can seamlessly integrate themselves into the fabric of the school and help teachers improve their practice from day one. Dean Spaulding and Gail Smith address common challenges of coaches and instructional leadership teams,…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Teacher Effectiveness, Educational Change, Teacher Evaluation
Caine, Renate N.; Caine, Geoffrey – ASCD, 2010
Whether you're an old hand at professional learning communities (PLC) or just starting out, you know that PLCs don't succeed on their own. They need a supportive environment, an effective structure and process, and a plan for study, sharing, analysis, and action. Here's a book that ensures you provide your PLC all that and more. Drawing from their…
Descriptors: Action Research, Study Guides, Group Dynamics, Learning Processes
Hammel, Alice; Hourigan, Ryan – Oxford University Press, 2011
A practical guide & reference manual, "Teaching Music to Students with Special Needs" addresses special needs in the broadest possible sense to equip teachers with proven, research-based curricular strategies that are grounded in both best practice and current special education law. Chapters address the full range of topics and issues music…
Descriptors: Music Education, Special Needs Students, Special Education, Public Education
Dinnebeil, Laurie A.; McInerney, William F. – Brookes Publishing Company, 2011
Itinerant special educators can be much more than "tutors" for young children with special needs. They can transform whole classrooms and help inclusion flourish--if they have the clear guidelines and best practices they need to make the most of their critical roles. This is the book that every itinerant early childhood special educator has been…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Young Children, Guidelines, Special Education Teachers
Dimino, Joseph; Taylor, Mary Jo – Brookes Publishing Company, 2009
Professional development with proven positive effects on vocabulary instruction and student achievement: that's what reading teachers are looking for, and that's what the Teacher Study Group (TSG) model delivers. With the nine complete TSG sessions in this book, K-8 teachers will form dynamic in-school learning groups with their fellow educators…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Reading Teachers, Reading Instruction, Vocabulary Development
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Klingner, Janette K.; Vaughn, Sharon; Boardman, Alison; Swanson, Elizabeth – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2012
Collaborative Strategic Reading is an innovative new approach to teaching reading that weaves together two instructional programs: cooperative learning and reading comprehension strategy instruction. In small groups, students work through the four main steps-Preview, "Click and Clunk," Get the Gist, and Wrap Up-helping each other improve…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Reading Comprehension, Reading Fluency, Reading Consultants
Hapgood, Marilyn, Ed. – 1975
This book is a collection of articles which discusses and describes teacher centers in the United States and England. The articles are grouped into ten chapters, each with an introduction by the editor. The first chapter discusses the rationale for the development of teacher centers. The second chapter gives an overview of teacher centers in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inservice Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Institutional Cooperation
Zepeda, Sally J. – 1999
The school principal has a key role in working with teachers to enhance the school as a learning community. Chapter 1 discusses the standards that emanate from such organizations as the National Staff Development Council (NSDC) and National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) and that serve as a basis for designing staff…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Development, Inservice Education, Leadership
Schielack, Jane F., Ed.; Knight, Stephanie L., Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2012
How can we use new technology to support and educate the science leaders of tomorrow? This unique book describes the design, development, and implementation of an effective science leadership program that promotes collaboration among scientists and science educators, provides authentic research experiences for educators, and facilitates adaptation…
Descriptors: Leadership, Science Education, Information Technology, Graduate Students
City, Elizabeth A.; Elmore, Richard F.; Fiarman, Sarah E.; Teitel, Lee – Harvard Education Press, 2009
Walk into any school in America and you will see adults who care deeply about their students and are doing the best they can every day to help students learn. But you will also see a high degree of variability among classrooms--much higher than in most other industrialized countries. Today we are asking schools to do something they have never done…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Physicians, Models, Medical Education
Fosnot, Catherine Twomey; Jacob, Bill – National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 2010
This book provides a landscape of learning that helps teachers recognize, support, and celebrate their students' capacity to structure their worlds algebraically. It identifies the models, contexts, and landmarks that facilitate algebraic thinking in young students and provides insightful and practical methods for teachers, math supervisors, and…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Investigations, Number Systems
Clarkson, Donald R., Ed.; And Others – 1961
This volume is designed to provide information for teachers and prospective teachers who will teach the basic concepts of algebra normally taught in grade 9. Each section of the book contains background information, suggestions for instruction, and problems. Sections in the book include: (1) Numerals and Variables; (2) Open Sentences and English…
Descriptors: Algebra, Inservice Education, Instructional Materials, Number Concepts
Claxton, Charles S. – 1976
In the fall of 1975, the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) sponsored a workshop on planning for staff development, attended by four-person teams from each of 12 two-year colleges in the South. The task of each team was to develop a plan of staff development for its institution, and, on return to the home campus, to refine the plan and begin…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Inservice Education
Colombo, Michaela – SAGE Publications (CA), 2011
Ideal as a supplementary text for a variety of courses and as a guide for in-service teachers and for professional development settings, "Teaching English Language Learners: 43 Strategies for Successful K-8 Classrooms" provides teachers of all content areas with a broad, practical approach to teaching English language learners in the regular…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Thompson, Robin; Kitchie, Laurie; Gagnon, Robert – Corwin, 2011
What if your professional learning community was available 24 hours a day, every day of the year? Would you like to have a place to share lesson plans, student work, a new curriculum, and to provide a discussion forum for all stakeholders? You can, even with only a basic understanding of technology. The authors explain how they created an online…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Core Curriculum, Educational Technology, Communities of Practice
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