Author: Jerry D. Lamb Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 1440127352 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 122
Book Description
Effective instruction begins with effective relationships, and this is particularly true in respect to educators who work with students coming from different cultural backgrounds. While there are a great number of programs that will instruct you on how to effectively teach, few share good ways to connect, motivate, and inspire students to succeed regardless of the various personal and societal challenges that they might face. This book will introduce a series of ways to open the doors of dialogue and connection, which is the basis from which students begin to believe in others and then in themselves. You will discover that many students, in order to be inspired by you, have to believe and trust in you first. Once they feel that you can be trusted as their leader, they will empower you to become an effective leader. In return, you can empower them to believe in themselves by creating an environment that trains the mind to be constructive and optimistic. For you, success must be a mindset, because the mind is the tool that each student will have to exercise to engineer and navigate his or her life. Your role must be that of an architect, in which you help each student design a blueprint of success. This process can be a considerably lengthy journey and a formidable task. This is, however, what leading educators will face if they are committed to positively affecting the lives of children and indirectly, the community and the world, one student at a time! Make no mistake about it, one person can make a difference, and as an educator you are in the unique position to become a great person of influence. Are you ready?
Author: Kevin Duncan Publisher: Concise Advice ISBN: 9781911498513 Category : Excellence Languages : en Pages : 128
Book Description
We can all be better in every aspect of our lives. Author Kevin Duncan has drawn together 50 ingenious thoughts to improve one's attitude, approach to life and work, questions, decisions, and even timing.
Author: Baruti K. Kafele Publisher: ASCD ISBN: 1416622756 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 95
Book Description
An indispensable companion for teachers who want to give their absolute best in the classroom at all times and under all circumstances.
Author: Gerald F. Hess Publisher: ISBN: 9781594607509 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Designed for law teachers who want to improve their teaching and students' learning, this book offers general teaching principles and dozens of concrete ideas. The first two chapters present foundational principles of learning and instruction as well as insights from students. The next 12 chapters address classroom dynamics, technology, questioning, discussion, collaborative learning, experiential learning, feedback, assessment, and continued development for teachers. Each of these 12 chapters introduces the topic based on educational research and then offers classroom-tested exercises, approaches, material, and methods contributed by veteran teachers. The co-authors/editors, Gerald Hess (Gonzaga), Steven Friedland (Elon), Michael Hunter Schwartz (Washburn), and Sophie Sparrow (New Hampshire) are experts in legal education pedagogy. Techniques for Teaching Law 2 retains the format of the first volume, but introduces new content and new ideas that instructors of any level and background will find useful.
Author: Alfie Kohn Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 9780618083459 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 356
Book Description
Arguing against the tougher standards rhetoric that marks the current education debate, the author of No Contest and Punished by Rewards writes that such tactics squeeze the pleasure out of learning. Reprint.
Author: Alan M. Blankstein Publisher: ASCD ISBN: 1416622578 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 332
Book Description
Excellence Through Equity is an inspiring look at how real-world educators are creating schools where all students are able to thrive. In these schools, educators understand that equity is not about treating all children the same. They are deeply committed to ensuring that each student receives what he or she individually needs to develop their full potential and succeed. To help educators with what can at times be a difficult and challenging journey, Blankstein and Noguera frame the book with five guiding principles of Courageous Leadership: Getting to your core Making organizational meaning Ensuring constancy and consistency of purpose Facing the facts and your fears Building sustainable relationships. They further emphasize that the practices are grounded in three important areas of research that are too often disregarded: (1) child development, (2) neuroscience, and (3) environmental influences on child development and learning. You'll hear from Carol Corbett Burris, Michael Fullan, Marcus J. Newsome, Paul Reville, Susan Szachowicz, and other bold practitioners and visionary thinkers who share compelling and actionable ideas, strategies, and experiences for closing the achievement gap in your classrooms and school. Ensuring that all students receive an education that cultivates their talents and potential is in all our common interest. As Andy Hargreaves writes in the coda: "The opportunity for all Americans is to articulate and believe in an inspiring vision of educational change that is about what the next generation of America and Americans should become, not about a target or ranking that the nation should attain." From the Foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu: "Letting go of a system of winners and losers in favor of what is proposed in this book is a courageous leap forward that we all must take together. Let this bold, practical book be a guide; and may you travel into this new exciting vista, in which every child can succeed."
Author: Liam McGee Publisher: Random House ISBN: 1407088750 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 258
Book Description
Google is now a dominant force on the Internet, guiding millions of searches and online purchases every day. Understanding how it works and how to make the most of it is therefore essential to anyone building or running a website, whether for business or as a hobby. This easy-to-follow guide explains not only how Google actually sifts the billions of pages of information its index contains, but shows you how you can improve the performance of your own website in Google's search results, giving specific and detailed instructions about the sort of priority issues you need to address. 50 Ways to Make Google Love Your Website will teach you how to: - Use Google to help you understand how people search for the sort of things you are offering - Create a website that your customers will quickly find in Google - Make your website irresistible to links from other sites - Help Google understand what your site is about - Think like Google and win more traffic
Author: Baruti K. Kafele Publisher: ASCD ISBN: 141663018X Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 168
Book Description
ASCD Bestseller! Baruti K. Kafele offers 50 timely and important questions on equity and social justice education for educators to reflect on and discuss. How do you ensure that no student is invisible in your classroom? How do you make the distinction between equity as the vehicle versus equity as the goal for each of your students? What measures do you take to ensure that you are growing as a culturally relevant practitioner? Can your students, particularly your Black students, articulate, beyond emotional reactions, the injustices that surround them? The foregoing are not trick questions. Rather, they are those that best-selling author Baruti K. Kafele poses and on which he suggests you deeply reflect as a teacher of Black students. The Equity & Social Justice Education 50 will help you understand the importance of having an equity mindset when teaching students generally and when teaching Black students in particular. It defines social justice education and sheds light on the issues and challenges that Black people face, as well as the successes they've achieved, providing you with a pathway to infusing social justice education into your lesson plans. And along the way, Kafele reveals personal experiences from his distant and recent pasts to highlight how important it is that your Black students see themselves in all aspects of education every day. You, the teacher, play a critical role in your students' success. The questions that Kafele asks in this book will help enhance your own understanding of race, systemic racism, and racial justice and guide you in developing strategies and lessons that speak to Black students in ways that truly support their achievement.
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