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First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
For leaders of elementary, middle, or high schools, this book shows how your school can excel in reaching students with diverse learning styles; providing "authentic" instruction and performance assessment; applying constructivist learning methodologies; and enhancing learning through alternative scheduling.
With a foreword by Thomas Sergiovanni, this book exposes the myths about school leadership which impede educational improvement. It also profiles 8 successful schools at which student achievement has flourished after collaboration was introduced.
Using many illustrations, this book takes time to describe a strategy for enhancing organizational trust and productive communication and to demonstrate how these can be used to plan and organize, both in maintaining the school organization and in adpating it for change.
With practical tools and strategies, this book assists readers in identifying their own thinking styles and shows how to overcome roadblocks to good judgment.
Describes the beliefs, behaviors, attitudes and interactions that create the best classrooms and schools.
With this book, principals will become more successful at communicating with difficult people, delivering speeches, and will maximize the effectiveness of groups and committees.
While many methods texts have an add-on chapter on technology, this book integrates the use of technology into every phase of the teaching profession. Filled with decision-making scenarios and reflective questions that help bring the material to life, it covers the development of teaching technologies, developing lesson plans, and actual instructional models in history and social studies. An appendix provides sample lessons, sample tests, a list of resources, and other practical materials.