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This guidebook is ideal for anyone who has ever had to stand up in front of a group and make a presentation--novices and experts alike! This book is a practical hands-on resource full of ideas and success-proven strategies that not only put you at ease when you're the focus of everyone's attention, but actually help you improve the effectiveness of your presentations.
"Coaching supports teacher development and puts teachers' needs at the heart of professional learning by individualizing their learning and by positioning them as professionals. With many different models available, administrators may find it challenging to determine the kind of coaching that best fits the needs of schools, teachers, and students. This fresh new resource brings together the voices of recognized experts in the field including Joellen Killion, Cathy Toll, Jane Ellison, Randy Sprick, Jane Kise, Karla Reiss, Lucy West, and Jim Knightto present unique approaches for coaching teachers and leaders. Comprehensive chapters review the roles of coaches in schools, examine the research base on coaching, and provide in-depth discussions of specific approaches to coaching, including: Literacy coaching; Cognitive coaching; Instructional coaching; Content-focused coaching; Classroom management; Leadership coaching. Coaching helps readers make more informed choices about a range of coaching approaches to best serve the unique needs of their teachers and schools."--Publisher's website.
The word "supervision" can have a negative connotation to those being supervised and leaders alike. You don't have to read very far in Transforming the Rough Places to realize that there is nothing negative about the supervision that Dr. Pohly describes. The result of years of research and experience, Dr. Pohly's method and rationale offer tools to make supervision a positive experience for all those involved. What he describes is a value-centered leadership style that focuses equally on the ministry or task to be done and the person doing the task. Practicing these skills in supervision can easily enhance all business, ministry, and personal relationships. Discover what it means to lead in a way that can be transformative for the individual and the institution.
This Handbook provides a comprehensive and international representation of state-of-the art research, theory, and practice related to principal areas in which significant developments are occurring in the study of literacy and technology. It offers a glimpse of the commonalities faced by literacy educators around the world, together with specific challenges raised by unique circumstances. Volume I of this Handbook endeavored to lay essential groundwork for the study of literacy and technology; it retains an explanatory value that will not weaken over time. Volume II differs considerably in conception. It assumes for the most part a higher level of expertise on the part of readers, and the pr...
In this essay collection, scholars in the area of early literacy provide concrete strategies for achieving excellence in literacy instruction. The collection presents current, research-based information on the advances and refinements in the area of emerging literacy and the early stages of formal instruction in reading and writing. Following a foreword (Alan Farstrup) and an introduction (Dorothy S. Strickland and Lesley Mandel Morrow), chapters in the collection are: (1) "Beginning Reading and Writing: Perspectives on Instruction" (William H. Teale and Junko Yokota); (2) "Becoming a Reader: A Developmentally Appropriate Approach" (Susan B. Neuman and Sue Bredekamp); (3) "Literacy Instructi...
No One Could See is based on the true story of a kidnapping that took place in November of 1981 and regales the tale of how one town got together to save an innocent girl. THE BUSTLING CITY OF MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, is suddenly focused on a missing fifteen-year-old girl named Melanie McClain. The year is 1981 and the innocent girl’s disappearance has baffled everyone, including the police. With no solid leads and not much to go on, it seems this case may go unsolved. But with the help of a determined detective, all hope may not be lost quite yet, as Melanie prays and desperately waits in agony while being held captive in a nearby church attic. About the Author Sandy Kemp Parish worked as an interior designer throughout the Mid-South. She was lucky, having good jobs and working with good people. She loves the Memphis Grizzlies and traveling. Sandy found this book, which she had written 38 years ago, and decided to take a chance on it.
In this learning-packed resource, two creative teachers share the standards-based survival unit they created around five favorite novels: Number the Stars, The Cay, My Side of the Mountain, Hatchet, and Banner in the Sky. Inside you'll find a survival simulation for piquing interest and activating prior knowledge, reading strategy mini-lessons, and literature-group management tips. Also includes discussion and writing prompts, reading-response projects, and creative activities for teaching literary elements and vocabulary. You'll use this resource again and again. Book jacket.
Recommends books for gifted readers that provide insights and coping skills for issues they may face from preschool through high school, featuring more than three hundred titles with brief summaries, organized by reading levels; and includes an index arranged by theme.
Educational resource for teachers, parents and kids!