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Heidelbach, Ruth, Ed. – 1975
This monograph contains three papers on the subject of supervision. The first paper takes the view that supervision is one tier of the teaching profession. The author's model is based on the assumption that over a period of time one's teaching practice not only improves but also increases in dimension and scope. The stages of preparation,…
Descriptors: Inservice Teacher Education, Student Teachers, Supervision, Supervisors
Blachowicz, Camille L.Z.; Buhle, Roberta; Frost, Shari – Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2009
In "Effective Literacy Coaching: Building Expertise and a Culture of Literacy," literacy experts Shari Frost, Roberta Buhle, and Camille Blachowicz provide more than 50 practical activities designed to help K-12 literacy professionals: (1) Assess the current literacy program; (2) Plan changes that will foster a culture of literacy; (3) Collaborate…
Descriptors: Expertise, Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education, Literacy
Lansiquot, Reneta D. – IGI Global, 2013
Involving two or more academic subjects, interdisciplinary studies aim to blend together broad perspectives, knowledge, skills, and epistemology in an educational setting. By focusing on topics or questions too broad for a single discipline to cover, these studies strive to draw connections between seemingly different fields. Cases on…
Descriptors: Enrichment, Organizational Change, Teaching Methods, Interdisciplinary Approach
Hoyt, Kenneth B.
In this monograph, a view of the basic nature of the career education effort is discussed under the following topics: the basis of need for career education; the meaning and goals of career education; the difference between career education and vocational education; career education and basic academic skills; career education and career…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Career Awareness, Career Development, Career Education
Higley, Jerry – 1974
The individual growth brought about by a principal's informal reading, writing, consultation, and travel is simple to accomplish but hard to control and evaluate. The demand for accountability has made it necessary for the schools to engage in more formal methods of inservice training. In addition to being a means of keeping principals up-to-date…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrator Education, Administrator Role, Educational Administration
Lester, Frank – National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 2010
How can teachers learn what they need to know? Every community of educators, regardless of field or specialization, can benefit from being well informed about current research findings. A considerable amount of mathematics education research exists to inform teachers and administrators about teaching and learning mathematics. Research can show…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Elementary School Teachers, Educational Research, Theory Practice Relationship
Hallam, Susan, Ed.; Creech, Andrea. Ed. – Institute of Education - London, 2010
The landscape of music education in the UK is constantly shifting and developing. This book provides a timely and unique overview of this restless sector by considering the achievements of music education, analysing its current performance and setting out aspirations for the future. "Music Education in the 21st Century in the United…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music Education, Futures (of Society), Educational Trends
Simister, Catherine Jane – Paul Chapman Publishing, 2007
By helping children to form positive thinking and learning habits, and to develop a range of transferable skills, we give them the tools they need to become successful learners. This book is grounded in the best of current practice and theories surrounding thinking and learning skills. It provides a highly effective method for introducing a…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Classroom Techniques, Thinking Skills, Elementary Education
Hawley, Willis D.; And Others – 1983
A synthesis of existing research and commentary, this book seeks to clarify the national experience with school desegregation and to identify ways of maximizing the potential benefits and reducing the possible costs of desegregation. Chapters 1 and 9 discuss assumptions about the overall consequences of desegregation, while Chapters 2 through 8…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Community Involvement, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Plans
Holloway, William H. – 1974
A prevailing concern of leadership development is the extent to which performance-oriented training increases the ability of an individual to define and implement a process to accomplish stated objectives. The systems approach provides an analytic strategy for task decomposition into sequentially, temporally ordered activities without necessarily…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrators, Business Skills, Educational Administration
Culbertson, Jack A., Ed.; And Others – 1974
This book is influenced by and designed to contribute to four significant trends now affecting the school principalship: the increasing significance of the school principal's role in education, the developing interest in the continuing education and preservice preparation of principals, the growing focus on performance objectives for principals,…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Role, Decision Making
Tobin, Helen M.; And Others – 1974
The purpose of this book is to examine the development, process, and concepts of staff development in nursing education and its relationship to the overall continuing education effort. It is intended for staff development educators in agency development or revision, for administrators of nursing services in planning staff development, and for…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Change Agents, Educational Trends
Ward, Beatrice A.; Kelly, Marjorie A. – 1971
This publication is a teacher participant handbook for an inservice minicourse in developing children's oral language skills, developed by the Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development. Four critical teachinq behaviors are stressed: (1) expand the complexity, flexibility, and preciseness of language and thought; (2) model new…
Descriptors: Inservice Teacher Education, Laboratory Manuals, Language Instruction, Minicourses
Turner, John D., Ed.; Rushton, James, Ed. – 1976
An account is provided of the present position and the likely direction of future developments in education in each of the major professions in Great Britain: accounting, architecture, the clergy, medicine, engineering, law, social work, and teaching. Among matters addressed are: the relationships between theoretical situations and practice; the…
Descriptors: Accounting, Architecture, Clergy, Educational Change
Teather, David C. B., Ed. – 1979
A review and bibliography of staff development in higher education in several countries is presented. Contents are as follows: Australia by Geoff Foster and Ernest Roe; Britain universities by John Nisbet and Ray McAleese; Britain polytechnics by Harriet Greenaway and Derek Mortimer; Canada by Bruce M. Shore; Denmark by John Conrad; The Federal…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Comparative Education, Educational Status Comparison, Faculty Development
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