Curriculum interventions, action research, professional development, and support for beginning teachers are among the important research areas explored in this textbook. This book will make classroom discussion come alive and inform classroom practice through case studies, examples, and suggested projects.

Research on the Effects of Teacher Education on Teacher Performance: Teacher Education Yearbook IX

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

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Editors Edith Guyton and Julie Rainer and their contributors team up to tackle the complex issue of standards and their impact on teacher preparation programs. Best practices and case studies are provided to make this a valuable textbook for teacher educators.

Research on Meeting and Using Standards in the Preparation of Teachers: Teacher Education Yearbook X

What is a constructivist teacher and what do they do? This collection of essays will answer these questions as well as suggest specific ways to become or rejuvenate oneself using this approach. Constructivist teachers 'walk the talk' along seven dimensions: learning and development; authority and facilitation; action and reflection; autonomy and community; process and content; power and empowerment; critical thinking and multiple perspectives. While these behaviors may at first appear to be opposites, the key is achieving balance among them. Essays are organized around these themes and the conclusions support interdisciplinary content, reflection, and life-long learning.

Reframing Teacher Education: Dimensions of a Constructionist Approach

The challenges facing educators working with poor, urban, diverse, and special need populations are explored through the research projects described in this yearbook. The solutions and implications for improving teaching and learning in these environments are of immense value.

Research on Preparing Teachers Who Can Meet the Needs of All Students: Teacher Education Yearbook XI

Budget cuts, sexual harassment, ethnic issues, and a multitude of moral and legal dilemmas confront school administrators at every level. Proper training is essential in order to deal soundly with each problem that arises. Hayes provides a variety of real-life case studies that will contribute important supplemental information on specific aspects of an administrator's work. There are no simple answers to the questions raised by these cases, but their presentation will help administrators and future administrators better understand the ambiguities and difficulties in each of these cases.

Real-Life Case Studies for School Administrators

Hayes, William

As a new administrator, navigating through the maze of difficult responsibilities is daunting at best and nerve-wracking at worst. Sapp offers readers a guide to make the job less stressful. She provides a variety of activities for self-assessment and for creating opportunities for interaction among administrators, faculty, students, and parents. A must-read for all new school administrators and seasoned veterans looking to become more effective.

Guide to Best Practices for New School Administrators

Sapp, Sheila E.

Administrators, faculty, and parents have been weighing the pros and cons of year-round schooling for a long time. They cite a variety of reasons for this scheduling change: growing school enrollments, working parents, and shrinking budgets. Hundreds of school districts in the USA and Canada have adopted year-round school schedules and many more are considering the option. This volume provides a comprehensive, research-based explanation of the concept and practice of year-round school scheduling. It reviews a variety of alternative school schedules and contrasts them with the traditional schedules, by showing the effects of year-round schooling on the students, staff, and facilities.

Year-Round Schooling: Promises and Pitfalls

Shields, Carolyn M.

Oberg, Steven Lynn

How do you implement a service-learning project into your curriculum? Utilizing an extended case study, this book explores the pros and cons of service-learning projects and provides the reader with a step-by-step guide covering everything from designing the program to evaluating its success at the completion. It provides an essential reference guide for any teacher or administrator planning on implementing a service-learning project into their curriculum.

Evaluating Service-Learning Activities and Programs

Payne, David A.

Disgruntled parents, technology in the classroom-these and many other potentially problematic situations are covered in this collection of education case studies for aspiring teachers. By studying and discussing these situations, all aspiring and experienced teachers will be equipped to handle difficult situations with aplomb and confidence.

Real-Life Case Studies for School Teachers

Preparing school administrators for the challenges they will face requires materials well-informed about the nuts and bolts of education in real life. Only a richly detailed case study book like Short and Scribner's will provide them with the opportunity to analyze current issues. Each narrative chapter concludes with application questions and a list of references. The authors, some of the most respected American scholars on the superintendency have compiled cases grounded in research and reality. They explore topics such as the politics of education, the debate over merit pay, women in the superintendency, and the role of the superintendent as an instructor.

Case studies of the superintendency

Short, Paula M.

Scribner, Jay Paredes

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