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This book argues that if schools are to be successful learning places, the needs of teachers must be placed on a par with those of the students. The authors show how Total Quality Education schools address this problem, making learning an ongoing experience for both teachers and students. ... Read more

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A great overview of the NWP
This is a great overview of the National Writing Project.It's helpful for those involved in planning summer institutes and other events at their local Writing Project sites, but also inspirational to any teacher. ... Read more

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This book examines Coalition of Essential Schools teachers who are in the midst of revising their practices to improve student performance. No longer satisfied with the kinds of compromises they've made for many years in high schools, these teachers are stirring their own most common practices to find better means to improved ends. Author Pat Wasley offers the reader five tales of teachers and their team-mates that illustrate the enormous task teachers face in reforming America's secondary schools. The book provides a detailed, close-up view of teacher's daily lives and their work with colleagues, students, and parents, including images of classroom activity, planning sessions and reflective interviews with teachers. This portrait allows readers to understand what teachers are doing to make school a place where students learn to use their minds well. The book also includes analyses of the most common changes teachers are making and of the most common challenges they encounter. ... Read more

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This book of protocols is an essential tool for facilitators of groups working together to examine student and teacher work. A follow-up to Looking Together at Student Work and Assessing Student Learning, this resource considers the purposes for engaging in collaborative review and provides some of the most effective strategies for successful collaboration. ... Read more

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Prompting greater undersatnding of students'work
This is an excellent book to support facilitating the improvement in teaching and learning for all subjects across all levels.The authors have provided 3 protocols to review teacher and student work.The first encourages the group to look deeply at student's work, keeping in mind the presenting teacher's focus question.The book provides the facilitator with strategies to support the group to work through the protocol, asking questions to refocus the group's thinking, to guide the group to address the presenter's question and support the presenter through what can at times be an intimidating situation.
The second protocol allows the group to support the presenting teacher to 'fine tune' something they are working on, be it a project, an assessment rubric or task for students.The third protocol provides a forum is essential to allow a group to work through a problem the presenting teacher offers.
The book is easy to read with a large number of example questions that a facilitator may use in a variety of situations.I would recommend it for someone new to the facilitator role or a lead teaching who is trying to developing a greater sense of collegiality in PLTs.
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This digital document is an article from American Music Teacher, published by Music Teachers National Association, Inc. on April 1, 2005. The length of the article is 649 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Bytes and bits.(Dear Reader)
Author: Gary L. Ingle
Publication: American Music Teacher (Refereed)
Date: April 1, 2005
Publisher: Music Teachers National Association, Inc.
Volume: 54Issue: 5Page: 2(2)

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In response to a growing interest in mentoring and new teacher induction, the authors offer a unique view of developing quality mentors. Drawing on empirical research, practitioner action inquiry, and field-tested practices from induction programs, they explore effective mentoring in diverse educational contexts. With richly contextualized and thoughtfully analyzed excerpts from actual mentoring conversations and powerful examples of practice, the volume offers educators, researchers, and policymakers a reform-minded vision of the future of mentoring. Challenging conventional wisdom, this essential resource:

* Argues that mentors are not born, but developed through conscious, deliberate, ongoing learning.
* Provides a needed link between research and practice in the field of new teacher mentoring, to define a knowledge base for effective mentoring.
* Documents induction and mentoring practices that focus new teachers on individual learners, equity-oriented curriculum and pedagogy, and the educatorÂ’s role in reforming school culture.
* Highlights problems and complexities of enacting mentor knowledge and learning in diverse contexts. ... Read more

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Change is an ongoing aspect of education and educators arealways seeking alternative and effective approaches to it. Theapproaches, in the context of mathematics teacher education, discussedin this book are based on joint work between the individuals involvedin the process. However, the factors that influence success withinco-operative or collaborative change processes have not been the focusof scientific investigation. This book systematically investigatescollaborative endeavours in a number of different domains of teachereducation. The fifteen chapters in the four main sections of the bookexplore and reflect on a variety of issues related to collaborativemathematics teacher education practice and research - such asclassroom coaching, mentoring or co-learning agreements - highlightingthe evolution and implications of collaborative enterprises indifferent cultural settings. The resultant accounts should appeal toeducational researchers, research students and practitioners aroundthe world. ... Read more

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Vito Perrone revisits Leonard Covello's volume "The Heart Is the Teacher". By looking at Covello's work and educational commitments, in this text, Perrone is calling to attention matters such as immigrant students, intercultural education, advocacy for students and families, and community schools. ... Read more

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Use Your Heart
The positive interaction between student and teacher begins with a caring spirit on the part of the educator. Vito Perrone inspires the reader with reflections by Covello who stresses the importance of community in anyeducational system. If you have the heart, you are well on your way toinspiring excellence in your students. This book gives some goodillustrations that will tug at your own heart and give you much food forthought. ... Read more

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The author is a fool...
He uses secondary research - clearly none of his own - to draw his conclusions.

He is looking at the outcome of situations that were often decided in hearings by arbitrators, not trials, because the CHILDREN would have been irreparably damaged had their situations been made even more public than they already were.

As a child in a former case cited by this author, and knowing the true facts about a known predator and sexual molestor, I am appalled by the callous treatment assigned to the case by the author of this book.

As I said in the title of this review...clearly the author of this book IS A FOOL who did not do any primary research on people he is discussing.
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Offers classroom layout suggestions for optimal learning, procedures that promote positive behavior, guidelines for designing curriculum and instruction, methods for effective assessment, and much more. ... Read more

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It's an excellent beginning teacher's guide
Kristen J. Nelson and Kim Bailey's STARTING STRONG: SURVIVING AND THRIVING AS A NEW TEACHER appears in its second edition to provide time-tested classroom strategies for new teachers just beginning their first year. College-level libraries catering to educators will find it a basic and popular pick covering everything from easy classroom layout suggestions and practices to promote positive individual and group behavior to samples of oral and written communication with parents, tips on creating classroom newsletters, and ideas for incorporating web-based learning into the curriculum. It's an excellent beginning teacher's guide highly recommended for any venturing into the classroom for the first time. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Dermatology Nursing, published by Jannetti Publications, Inc. on October 1, 2003. The length of the article is 1742 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Learning organizations need teachers: the leader's challenge.(On Leadership)
Author: Karlene Kerfoot
Publication: Dermatology Nursing (Refereed)
Date: October 1, 2003
Publisher: Jannetti Publications, Inc.
Volume: 15Issue: 5Page: 495(3)

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This digital document is an article from American Music Teacher, published by Thomson Gale on June 1, 2007. The length of the article is 813 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Foundation Fund.(Association News)
Author: Gale Reference Team
Publication: American Music Teacher (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 56Issue: 6Page: 64(2)

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