Building on the authors’ celebrated work in Cognitive Coaching, this important book provides teachers, schools, and policy leaders with the rationale and new direction for enhancing the development of the intellectual capacity of educators, their performance, and their ultimate effects on student learning. The authors focus on assisting teachers in developing awareness of their own ability to make effective judgments based on all their capabilities and experiences. When teachers weave internal expertise and external criteria together into the exquisite tapestry of teaching and learning, they gain confidence in their ability to make a difference for all students. Rather than spending time becoming better inspectors and enforcers, Cognitive Capital calls for skillful leaders to engage educators’ thought processes in order to promote practices that have lasting impacts on their students.

Cognitive Capital: Investing in Teacher Quality

Education & Teaching

Garmston, Robert J.

Zimmerman, Diane P.

Costa, Arthur L.

Schools & Teaching

Teachers' College Press

In this practical guide to designing and delivering interesting and effective presentations for adult audiences, Garmston and Wellman cover the five stages of a presentation and offer tips for executing each one. They discuss stage fright and how you can use it to your advantage and explore the use of macro maps for staying focused during presentations. They also provide tips for getting to know audiences and communicating with participants who have different backgrounds and learning styles. The book includes several sample active learning activities you can use to strengthen your presentations.

How to Make Presentations that Teach and Transform: ASCD

Literature & Fiction

Wellman, Bruce M.

Contemporary

ASCD

This 3rd edition of the award winning Adaptive Schools Sourcebook provides both a theoretical and practical guide for groups and teams to develop and focus their collaborative energies to improve teaching practices and enhance student-learning outcomes. In five sections: Becoming Adaptive, Collaboration Matters, Meetings are Teachers’ Work, Resources for Inquiry, and Conflict, Change and Community, the authors draw on decades of personal experiences in schools and research from multiple disciplines to present powerful tools and useful templates for structuring the work of productive professional communities in schools. Readers will learn ways to develop and sustain the fundamental elements for enhancing social capital in schools: distinguishing between dialogue and discussion, establishing seven norms of collaboration, automating language patterns for inquiry and problem solving, facilitating groups and data teams, engaging in productive conflict, and building community. The book offers links to video clips demonstrating key skills, inventories for assessing groups, instruments for assessing personal skills, and a collection of over 150 meeting strategies and facilitator moves for engaging group members in productive interactions.

The Adaptive School: A Sourcebook for Developing Collaborative Groups (Christopher-Gordon New Editions)

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

In this greatly expanded and extensively updated edition of a widely popular resource you see how teachers' individual and collective capacities for continuing self-improvement are strengthened over time through Cognitive Coaching. You gain essential skills, protocols, guidance, research and resources to use when implementing Cognitive Coaching principles and values in your own school setting. Working toward the goals of making school better places where more students succeed and satisfaction in learning and teaching prevail, Costa and Garmston let you know about their own learning, and how new research and practice can support individuals and schools in reaching higher, more satisfying, and more holistic performance. Organized into four sections, the book clearly and effectively presents these concepts: the meanings of cognitive coaching; the basics of teaching excellence; strategies and tactics for engaging in coaching; and how to integrate Cognitive Coaching throughout the system.

Cognitive Coaching: Developing Self-Directed Leaders and Learners (Christopher-Gordon New Editions)

Costa professor emeritus California State University

co-author of Cognitive Coa, Arthur L.

Reference

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.

PRESENTERS FIELDBOOK:A PRACTICAL GUI 2ED: A Practical Guide

Words, Language & Grammar

Dr Robert Garmston, a high school dropout, whose childhood is characterized by rejection, abandonment, and abuse sees himself as having a core of badness and as someone who is unlovable. In his childhood, he spends more time in group homes than with his adopted family, the same family that tries to reverse his adoption. The adrenalin of risk, adventure, and fear drive him. He finds little to trust in others and lives each day from a state of wariness. Life is unpredictable for him; he has to take care of himself because those who are supposed to protect him are unreliable. In spite of his youthful experiences, he earns advanced degrees and creates a human development program used throughout the world. As an influential educator, he mesmerizes audiences with his intellect. This book details the challenges of his childhood and his journey out of the despair of his drinking years into a university professor and esteemed innovator of educational programs. This is a must read for anyone working with youth. The story of resilience inspires hope in each of us.

I Don't Do That Anymore: A Memoir of Awakening and Resilience

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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.

The Presenter's Fieldbook: A Practical Guide

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