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Enhancing Autonomy in Language Education
The book explores the idea that pedagogy for autonomy requires the integration of teacher and learner development and can be enhanced through a case-based approach in teacher education. A case-based approach values experiential professional learning and expands professional competences necessary to promote autonomy in schools: developing a critical view of (language) education; managing local constraints so as to open up spaces for manoeuvre; centring teaching on learning; interacting with others in the professional community. Two strategies to implement the approach are presented and illustrated. The first one involves teachers in designing, implementing and evaluating experiences of pedagogy for autonomy, which are the basis for writing professional narratives and building a case portfolio. The second draws on teachers’ pedagogical experience as the basis for the construction of case materials where experiential elements are combined with theoretical input and reflective tasks, so that the teachers who use those materials can reflect about and explore their own practice.
Using Assessments to Teach for Understanding
A companion to Facilitator's Guide to Using Assessments to Teach for Understanding, this casebook presents the challenges and dilemmas that teachers face with the contemporary climate of high-stakes accountabilty. The cases provide an opportunity to collaboratively analyse and reflect on issues.
A Facilitator's Guide To Diversity in the Classroom
A companion volume to Diversity in the Classroom, this guide presents 13 cases designed to help individuals and groups reflect on teaching. Specifically, it offers the information needed to use these cases in structured professional development experiences.
School Leadership
Recognizing the importance of good leadership to the achievement of educational excellence, the second edition of this handbook synthesizes a large body of school leadership literature and explores the subject from three perspectives: the person, the structure, and the skills. Part I examines characteristics of today's educational leaders; effective leadership styles and qualities; administrator training, hiring, and induction methods; and the scarcity of female and black school leaders. Part II looks at the organizational supports underlying school leadership. This section examines the balance of authority between the central office and the school site, the team approach to management, the ...
Teaching About International Conflict and Peace
Designed especially for preservice teachers, this book links substantive, current scholarship on major topics in the management of international conflict with exemplary instructional methods in social studies education. Through vignettes and case studies of actual classroom practice, the reader learns from experienced teachers how they integrate different instructional methods to achieve content goals. The book contains an appendix on resources that provides additional information on organizations, instructional materials, computer networks, and other scholarly work that can help teachers improve their instruction on international conflict management. Teaching About International Conflict and Peace can make a significant difference in preparing social studies teachers to help their students acquire knowledge and understanding of how the peoples of the world have dealt with international conflict in the past and how increasing global interconnections provide new alternatives for the management of international conflict in the present and future.
The Art of Teaching Science
The Art of Teaching Science emphasizes a humanistic, experiential, and constructivist approach to teaching and learning, and integrates a wide variety of pedagogical tools. Becoming a science teacher is a creative process, and this innovative textbook encourages students to construct ideas about science teaching through their interactions with peers, mentors, and instructors, and through hands-on, minds-on activities designed to foster a collaborative, thoughtful learning environment. This second edition retains key features such as inquiry-based activities and case studies throughout, while simultaneously adding new material on the impact of standardized testing on inquiry-based science, an...
Designing Programs for New Teachers
Nine articles by California educators are included in this guidebook for the planning and implementation of beginning teacher support programs, with a focus on improving teacher quality and retention. An explicit relationship between the conceptual framework and the operational program increases the effectiveness of such programs. Chapters titles and authors are as follows: (1) "A Context for Analyzing State Supported New Teacher Reform Efforts in California," by Laura A Wagner; (2) "Conceptual Frameworks and Models of Assistance to New Teachers," by Mary Gendernalik Cooper; (3) "Content and Strategies for Assisting New Teachers," by Diane S. Murphy, Katherine K. Merseth, and Ann I. Morey; (...
Differentiated Literacy Coaching
Looks at the key considerations school leaders and literacy coaches must keep in mind when determining program focus and scope and describes the roles, responsibilities, and procedures involved in each coaching format.
Jewish Family Education
A project of the Bureau of Jewish Education of San Francisco, Jewish Family Education offers cases and commentaries that highlight issues of working with families in educational settings.This collection of cases, all of which document dilemmas in family education, can play a role in the education of both experienced and novice family educators. Included are case studies with commentaries, matched text studies, analysis and facilitators notes to running study sessions.
The ERIC Review
Provides information on programs, research, publications, and services of ERIC, as well as critical and current education information.
