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Brubaker, Dale L. – Corwin Press, 2004
When we learn, we learn through our own experiences. So when we teach, how do we incorporate our own invaluable life lessons into a state mandated curriculum? Dale Brubaker's "Revitalizing Curriculum Leadership" provides an innovative and liberating solution to this problem. In this updated resource, the author tells why educators need to move…
Descriptors: Teacher Leadership, Educational Practices, Curriculum Development, Instructional Leadership
Burton, Diana; Bartlett, Steve – Paul Chapman Publishing, 2005
This book considers education policy throughout the 1990s. It outlines curriculum innovation, teacher professionalism and school improvement. Whitty evaluates Labour education policy in terms of its fostering of social justice and inclusion. Though challenging, this is an interesting book for those working in education who are seeking a political…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Politics of Education, Research Methodology, Biographies
Flint, Amy Seely; Riordan-Karlsson, Mary – 2001
The lessons learned by this book's authors, who observed literacy events in third- and fourth-grade classrooms, altered their vision of teaching and learning. The book shares their observations of how students engage in literacy events and construct meaning within these events, focusing on three factors that significantly influence the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Environment, Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Research
Downey, Carolyn J.; Steffy, Betty E.; English, Fenwick W.; Frase, Larry E.; Poston, William K. – Corwin Press, 2006
Showcasing the "Downey Walk-Through"--a method developed over a 40-year period, tested and refined in real-world schools and classrooms, and described in the pioneering book, "The Three-Minute Classroom Walk-Through," this innovative multimedia presentation provides trainers and staff developers with a complete resource answering the questions…
Descriptors: Workshops, Teaching Methods, Seminars, Educational Strategies
Pappas, Christine C.; Kiefer, Barbara Z.; Levstik, Linda S. – 1999
This updated third edition is a handbook for teachers to bring the reflective inquiry emphasis of integrated curriculum theory to life in the elementary and middle school classroom. It takes an action approach to implement theory and practice in educating students for a democratic, multicultural society. The five major interrelated emphases in the…
Descriptors: Action Research, Elementary Education, Integrated Curriculum, Junior High Schools
Newman, Judith M., Ed. – 1990
Intended for teachers, the articles in this book examine some of the uncertainties and problems that practicing teachers encountered when moving from a traditional to a holistic perspective in their teaching. The book shares the questions, the conflicts the teachers have undergone, and the change in beliefs that are part of becoming a…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Holistic Approach
Goldston, Dee – National Science Teachers Association (NJ3), 2004
"Stepping Up to Science and Math" invites teachers to step back and rethink the way they teach both of these essential subjects. Then it illustrates how teachers can step up the pace with Standards-based activities that make learning more effective and efficient. (New lessons featuring gummy worms, school buses, or the planet Mars help teachers…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Inquiry, Class Activities, Science Activities
Scala, Marilyn C. – 2001
This book is about meeting the needs of all students--especially those in the intermediate grades with mild to moderate disabilities who need special education services--by teaching them in inclusive, general education classrooms where literacy is a personal, academic, and social event in which children are immersed all day. The book tells about…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Disabilities, Inclusive Schools, Independent Reading
DiGiulio, Robert – 2000
This book provides K-12 teachers with concrete, step-by-step guidance on how to improve student behavior through positive classroom management. It explains how to take control of the classroom, offering an alternative to threats, rewards, and punishments. The book is divided into an introduction and three sections with seven chapters. The…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, Positive Reinforcement
Hall, Irene, Ed.; Campbell, Carolyn H., Ed.; Miech, Edward J., Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 1997
In this remarkable collection of articles, teachers reflect on the complex worlds of their classrooms to gain a better understanding of their students, themselves, and the act of teaching. The contributors to Class Acts represent a diversity of backgrounds, subjects, grade levels, and educational philosophies. But they share a common approach:…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Reflective Teaching, Teacher Student Relationship, Place Based Education
McGarrell, Hedy M., Ed. – TESOL International Association, 2007
This volume in the Language Teacher Research Series (Thomas S. C. Farrell, series editor) presents research conducted by language teachers at all levels, from high school English teachers to English language teacher educators, reflecting on their practices. The countries represented in this book are Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador,…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Finnan, Christine, Ed.; And Others – 1996
This book provides insights into one of the nation's largest and most comprehensive school-restructuring movements, the Accelerated Schools Project. Since its inception in 1986, the focus of the movement has been on transforming schools with students at risk of dropping out into schools with high expectations of all students. This is accomplished,…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Educational Change, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education
Taggart, Germaine L.; Wilson, Alfred P. – 1998
This guide provides teacher educators and staff developers with strategies to enhance the reflective thinking abilities of preservice and inservice educators. Strategies for reflective thinking are approached at three levels: technical, contextual, and dialectical. Within each level, strategies have been field tested with populations of preservice…
Descriptors: Action Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Development, Inservice Teacher Education
Drago-Severson, Eleanor – Corwin Press, 2004
How can a principal create opportunities for teacher learning that really work to support teachers with different needs and preferences? There is wide agreement that the best teacher development is informal, diverse, democratic, school-based, and continuous. The best programs ignite and sustain teachers' excitement in learning, growing, and…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Reflective Teaching, Principals, Mentors
Fay, Kathleen; Whaley, Suzanne – Stenhouse Publishers, 2004
Written for the general classroom teacher whose class includes English language learners (ELLs), as well as for ELL teachers working in general classrooms, this book portrays ELL students in grades 3-6 who learn essential reading and writing skills and are full members of the classroom community. Throughout the book, the authors emphasize the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Emergent Literacy, English (Second Language), Language Usage
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