Anchored within the pan-Canadian research exploration of teacher induction and mentorship programs, this hopeful and resource-filled book provides a unique collection of perspectives on the bliss and blisters of early career teaching. Over 40 educators offer a wide, deep, and rich array of descriptions of, and prescriptions for, both the difficult and the delightful realities associated with being a new teacher and supporting new teachers. This book is an excellent resource for teacher educators, mentors, scholars, program coordinators, practicum and course instructors, school administrators, policy makers, teacher candidates, and new teachers who wish to hear the voices of their colleagues, mentors, and experts with across-Canada viewpoints.

The Bliss and Blisters of Early Career Teaching: A Pan-Canadian Perspective

Education & Teaching

Walker, Keith D.

Kutsyuruba, Benjamin

Schools & Teaching

Word & Deed Publishing Incorporated

<p>A Guide to Alberta School Law is a comprehensive, non-partisan, fair-reading of provincial educational statutes, regulations, and relevant policies that will be a first-aid and reference to the lay reader. Our goal is to provide an up-to-date, accessible, and user-friendly guide to various legal parameters for teachers, aspiring teachers, trustees, school administrators, central office administration, parents and interested community members. It has also been developed with teacher candidates in mind, aiming to enhance their legal literacy and understanding of key aspects of Alberta's school legislation and policy and, ultimately, to assist them in transition from teacher education programs into teaching careers.</p>

A Guide to Alberta School Law

Donlevy, J. Kent

Adams, Pamela

da Costa, Jose

lulu.com

<p>Understanding the dynamics of trust is an imperative undertaking for educational leaders. In this book, using an ecological perspective of the lifecycle, the authors situate trust as an essential ingredient of school leaders’ moral agency and ethical decision making.\nBased on their 15 years of research on trust in education, the authors describe the nature and dimensions of trust, its importance and imperative, and its fragility and usefulness for school leaders, positioning them as trust brokers in school organizations. The book offers a detailed description of trust’s lifecycle stages, namely establishing, maintaining, sustaining, breaking, and restoring, as pertinent to educational settings. It discusses leaders' trust brokering in relation to social capital and psychological contract and interconnected hosting virtues of compassion, hope, and trust. The authors conclude with the role of maturing vision of moral agency, the subjective and objective responsibilities of educational leaders, and the necessary ethical commitments and courage to enact transformative practices in order to provide trustworthy leadership.\nWith its theoretical and empirical basis, this book is an excellent resource for scholars in the fields of education, business, and leadership. It is also a valuable resource as required or supplementary reading for graduate courses in educational administration, leadership, and policy studies. Practitioners in these areas will find valuable insights that they can incorporate into their work.</p>

The Lifecycle of Trust in Education: Leaders as Moral Agents

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

Edward Elgar Publishing

Working Through Ethics in Education and Leadership: Theory, Analysis, Plays, Cases, Poems, Prose, and Speeches

This book, although targeting educational leaders, - teachers, school-based administrators, superintendents, board members, policy makers and education students, is also addressed to those interested in the topic of ethics and those who seek the development of an ethical awareness and an appropriate intellectual processes when facing ethical issues. In particular, the book uses both deductive and inductive methods to provide the reader with a progressive experience of ethical discernment and analysis in order to deal with and prepare the reader to address ethical issues in the public square - a task which requires that such decisions are rational, defensible, and clearly articulated. Institutional leaders' diligence and integrity requires no less in attaining and sustaining the support of those they must lead in and through the institutional decisions and policies which effect constituents' lives. Through the use of clearly stated definitions, the presentation of ethical schools of thought, cases, original plays - within which readers are encouraged to engage while in a safe learning environment - and references to poems, movie, and video clips, the book provides a lively and challenging approach to studying the topic of ethics.

Donlevy, James Kent

Business Culture

Brill Academic Pub

This book, although targeting educational leaders, - teachers, school-based administrators, superintendents, board members, policy makers and education students,  is also addressed to those interested in the topic of ethics and those who seek the development of  an ethical awareness  and an appropriate intellectual processes when facing ethical issues.   In particular, the book uses both deductive and inductive methods to provide  the reader with a progressive experience of ethical discernment and analysis in order to deal with and prepare the reader to address ethical issues in the public square - a task which requires that such decisions are rational, defensible, and clearly articulated.  Institutional leaders' diligence and integrity requires no less in attaining and sustaining the support of those they must lead in and through the institutional decisions and policies which effect constituents' lives.    Through the use of clearly stated definitions,  the presentation of ethical schools of thought,  cases, original plays - within which readers are encouraged to engage while in a safe learning environment -  and references to poems, movie, and video clips, the book provides a lively and challenging approach to studying the topic of ethics.

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