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21) The Teacher of the Year Handbook: The Ultimate Guide to Making the Most of Your Teacher-Leader Role
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Congratulations, you've been selected as a Teacher of the Year! Being a "TOY" is your golden opportunity to evolve as a teacher-leader. The spotlight is on, and the platform is yours to stand on - so you can spread your message about what matters most to you in education. Now what? How do you navigate this new role? How can you make the most impact? This book, written by Alex Kajitani, a California Teacher of the Year who's been through it all - and...
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This manual has been designed to assist applicants in preparing for the numerical reasoning component associated with most general ability tests used by organisations such as the:
➢ Australian State Police Services
➢ Australian Federal Police
➢ St John Ambulance
➢ Ministry of Justice (Prisons)
➢ Australian Defence Forces.
Organisations seeking the most competitive applicants use a variety of testing to select the most suitable people...
23) Professional Development That Sticks: How Do I Create Meaningful Learning Experiences For Educators?
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How can we approach professional development in a thoughtful way, keep teachers motivated, and make the process worthwhile? It's a truth that school leaders can't deny: teachers tend to think of PD as a distraction from the "real work" of the classroom-as something to get through instead of an opportunity to engage, learn, and grow as professionals. Too often, they're absolutely right. When PD is packaged as a one-size-fits-all, one-and-done experience,...
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Jacqueline Lloyd Smith and Denise Meyerson collectively have over 50 years' global experience in the design and delivery of incredible learning experiences for clients in the private and public sectors. They have partnered with top tier, medium size, and small corporate clients to produce events that rock. They are now opening their files to other facilitators, and educators-of all levels-to share tools and techniques they have personally tested and...
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Educational leadership is the process of enlisting and guiding the talents and energies of everyone including teachers, students, and parents toward achieving common educational goals. Against traditional working norms educators are challenged to transition amid a pandemic; unequipped with resources needed transcend with technology use in their work roles. This book answers questions amongst thousands of employees who seek to understand how to create...
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People often dream of achieving success but don't know the path to do it.
So, they keep dreaming instead of DOING!
“Doing the Doctorate” is written to help doctoral dreamers become doctoral doers.
This book will provide the keys to success so you can know what to know, where to go and how to win doctoral success.
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In this addition to the Essentials for Principals series, authors Richard DuFour and Rebecca DuFour continue to provide aspiring and experienced principals with useful strategies for creating high achieving professional learning communities in their schools. The School Leader's Guide to Professional Learning Communities at Work is based on the following assumptions: 1. The school s job is to ensure high levels of student learning. 2. The process of...
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Ce guide sur la médiation des stratégies d'apprentissage et de résolution de problèmes s'adresse à tous les membres du personnel enseignant, de l'éducation et de la formation travaillant avec des élèves et des adultes ayant besoin d'actualiser leur potentiel intellectuel. La première partie présente succinctement les fondements théoriques de l'éducation cognitive, précise les notions de stratégies d'apprentissage et de résolution de...
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Principals navigate the dynamic complexities and subtleties of their schools every day. They promote, facilitate, and lead efforts to achieve both tangible and intangible results throughout the school community. They fulfill a role that includes counseling, budgeting, inspiring, teaching, learning, disciplining, evaluating, celebrating, consoling, and a million other critical functions. As the principalship has evolved and grown, so have the expectations...
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Do you want to incorporate purposeful and effective online learning into your classes but aren't sure where to begin? Here's the perfect introductory guide to planning a hybrid class for grades 4–12. Author and educator William Kist enthusiastically advocates for blended learning as he explains how to:
• Navigate the technical details of Internet access and learning management systems.
• Decide which learning experiences are best delivered...
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Every day, educators across the country give students their very best. Yet all too often, the passion teachers put into their work-and the "why" that led them to it in the first place-goes unrecognized. Too many teachers feel overwhelmed, stressed out, underpaid, and unheard. That needs to change. Teachers deserve respect. Teachers deserve time. Teachers deserve better. Whether you're an educator, an ally, or an advocate, if you're ready to ignite...
33) The PD Curator: How to Design Peer-to-Peer Professional Learning That Elevates Teachers and Teaching
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One of the best ways to learn how to be a better teacher is by watching, listening to, and experimenting with the practices of great teachers, including those in your own school.
The PD Curator is about how professional learning experiences can become more inclusive, participatory, cohesive, and effective-and about the role teachers and leaders can play in creating those experiences. That role isn't so much administrative as it is curatorial. Just...
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Teaching is as much about students as it is about curriculum, and no one understands this better than middle and high school teachers. But even the most dedicated teacher can sometimes feel defeated by the challenge of reaching distracted, disconnected, and defiant adolescents. Drawing on her own experience as a high school teacher, Katy Ridnouer shares an approach to classroom management that will help you spend less time "dealing with" your adolescent...
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Designed exclusively for teacher teams, this plan book is a one-stop shop for practical PLC information and resources. Inside its pages, you'll find everything your team needs to thrive from the first day of school to the last. Access forty weekly planning pages, in-depth examples, succinct summaries of PLC concepts, and many more tools that will support your daily collaborative work of championing learning for all.
Use this resource to maintain...
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Drive lasting structural and cultural change. With this user-friendly guide, you'll discover how to implement professional learning community practices in colleges and universities. The authors detail the great promise the PLC process has for reshaping the way leaders think and work together to drive student achievement. Practical and research-based, the process carries significant potential for improving results in higher education.
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This concise guide focuses on providing the essential information required to enhance your chances of passing CIMA's demanding Management Case level examination. It provides key points for the exam, tips, important areas to focus, sample ways to answer the exam questions, the recommended preparation approach, key facts and more! Written by a team of professional qualifications trainers with thousands of hours of experience, this book becomes a very...
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Project based learning (PBL) is gaining renewed attention with the current focus on college and career readiness and the performance-based emphases of Common Core State Standards, but only high-quality versions can deliver the beneficial outcomes that schools want for their students. It's not enough to just "do projects." Today's projects need to be rigorous, engaging, and in-depth, and they need to have student voice and choice built in. Such projects...
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So you want to become a top fashion model? Angela Stone, fashion stylist and model will show you everything you need to know on how to succeed in the modeling industry. Starting with how you need to look and how to approach a modeling agency, then covering makeup, health, the catwalk and financial issues and finishing with the 13 Golden Rules for Success.
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Special education is often a confusing and expensive consideration of running a school. You have IEPs and BIPs in place, but are they really working? Find a refresher on the key legal rights of students with disabilities along with methods for designing and implementing IEPs and BIPs that work, approaches to creating effective instruction and assessment practices, and opportunities for inclusion in the general education classroom.