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Offering perspectives from experts in diversity and/or literacy, this resource illustrates how teachers can improve reading achievement for students from diverse backgrounds by combining research-supported best practices with culturally-responsive instruction.

Provides the elements for a theory of spatial development to explain the socio-territorial reality produced by global restructuring in the 1970s and 1980s. The book covers topics, including: restructuring in the automobile and electronics industries; and, the significance of migrant labour and the informal economy.

In today''s global village, the ability to relate to people from other cultures is becoming increasingly important for all those involved in education. Designed for teacher trainers, this book will help in shaping and assessing teacher preparation programmes from a global perspective. The book offers: a clear conceptual framework for the exploration of global perspectives; an insightful guide for establishing goals, objectives and rationale; a working definition of global education; and a rich collection of case studies that can be translated into a variety of settings.

One of a series of practical references for teachers, this handbook provides general information on the background of the early childhood curriculum in the United States. It also contains current information on publications, standards and special materials for the curriculum, and is designed to be adapted to suit particular schools.

Multiage grouping - the placement of children in the same classroom who are at least one year apart in age - is designed to allow children of various ability and age levels to work in an environment designed to optimize their learning potential. The authors explore the workings of a multiage classroom and offer guidelines for planning this type of instruction.

The techniques for performing cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) and cost-benefit analysis (CBA) in mental health and other human services are introduced in this volume.After describing a model for assessment and improvement-oriented analysis of human service systems using CEA and CBA methods, the author then shows how to analyze each of the links between the expenditure of resources and the achievement of long-term programme objectives. Examples of each step in understanding and improving relationships between resources used, procedures, processes induced and outcomes generated are drawn from the author''s own long and varied experience. They are designed to encourage readers to conduct their own quantitative and qualitative analyses of cost - procedure - process - outcome paths in human services.

Focuses on the need for professionals who work with the old, the disabled and the dying to confront their own fears of growing old, being helpless and of dying. Case studies are included in order to demonstrate how practitioners may use their own feelings to work with clients more effectively.

An integrated presentation of psychological research and recent court cases dealing with children as witnesses. It is organized around four issues: the competence of children as witnesses; the credibility of children; the rights of children; and the rights of the accused.

Nursery Crimes: Sexual Abuse in Day Care seeks to determine whether day care is a high risk environment.Perpetrators are described and various strategies evaluated for screening them from access to children. The process of detection and disclosure and the professional response to cases of abuse are examined carefully for ideas about how to promote better and earlier reporting. The relative effectiveness of different approaches and types of actions taken by licensing and law enforcement agencies are evaluated. To help work with the victims in the aftermath, the impact on both the children and the community is examined. Policy implications and specific recommendations are included in each section.

Social Work With Culturally Diverse People addresses the ambivalent and ambiguous changes in society, which have conditioned and constrained the willingness, ability, and efforts of social workers to provide culturally competent services to those different from mainstream society. Each major disadvantaged group is studied.

Crimes of Hate: Selected Readings is the first comprehensive reader to offer an up-to-date, multidisciplinary examination of hate crimes. With introductions, discussion questions, and resource lists, this unique anthology combines the most current research on hate crimes with accessible articles from scholarly and legal journals.

African American children develop a duality for their existence. To be fully functional, they must develop the skills to do well simultaneously in two different cultures, both black and non-black. This volume explores the meaning of this duality in four distinct environments: socioeconomic, parental, internal, and educational.

The common view today is that state schools are not good enough, and that something must be done to make them better. Setting academic standards is one way to raise the educational achievment of students. John F Jennings gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at how congress and the Executive Branch have wrestled with this issue, and reviews the major debates about whether or not there should be testable national standards for all American schools.

Guy Adams and Danny Balfour maintain that administrative evil, or destructiveness, is inherent in modern public administration. The authors go beyond a critique of public administration to lay the groundwork for a more effective and humane public administration.

Formerly published by Peytral Publications Filled with practical strategies for all students in an inclusive classroom, this guide includes 100 reproducibles to aid in communication, lesson planning, student behavior, accommodations, assessments, and more.

Find hundreds of helpful brain research-based techniques for lesson planning and for promoting improved vocabulary retention, better understanding of grammar, and enhanced speaking and writing skills.

The concise, quick-reference guide to key concepts in corporate social responsibility and business ethics.

An award-winning educator offers secondary practical strategies for teaching adolescents with autism. Included are ways to handle behavior challenges, implement academic interventions, and differentiate instruction.

Leslie Laud provides a clear roadmap for using formative assessment to differentiate math instruction. This book cites the latest research and describes the instructional procedures found most effective for teaching mathematics (grades 4-10) through a unique comprehensive framework of seven research-based practices.

A timely second edition of this popular exploration of the evolution of human society.

Shows how social marketing can be successfully used to change environmental behaviour

Work Motivation: History, Theory, Research, and Practice provides unique behavioural science frameworks for motivating employees in organizational settings.

This groundbreaking book provides teachers with an accessible, research-based blueprint for developing student meta-cognitive skills and ensuring that students take responsibility for their own learning. Walsh and Sattes use the findings of cognitive scientists to highlight quality questioning behaviors and explain how to connect these to discrete student meta-cognitive outcomes.

This is a resource for school leaders looking to fine-tune their leadership style. Feinstein and Kiner combine cognitive knowledge of brain function and new insights on strength based leadership, to help school leaders develop strategies that will enhance student learning in an environment that maximizes student and faculty potential.

This teacher-friendly guide introduces educators to basic linguistic features and language components as well as to strategies for moving students from social to academic language.

Delivers behaviour management strategies and how to apply them in the classroom in a practical and effective way.

Part of the 'little green books' QASS series, this text provides a clear introduction to ordinal item response theory.

This book describes a research-based model for creating intervention plans to modify extremely challenging behavior. Included are success stories and tools, including analysis forms, charts, and templates.

Collaborate, Communicate, and Differentiate! takes collaboration out of the abstract and applies it to daily tasks such as differentiating instruction; communicating with families; assessing students with diverse backgrounds and abilities; co-teaching; and coordinating with all staff members.

Peter Cookson asserts that all children have the right to an excellent education, and provides steps for creating an action plan that will lead to equitable schools.