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Updated to reflect current climate in school counseling and the ASCA National ModelLoads of strategies to demonstrate hallway encounters as a critical part of the school counselor's, teacher's, and administrator's roleProvides examples of "brief" counseling -- a research-based and proven strategy to help students

Using examples, checklists and exercises, this book shows how to develop, use and grade classroom examinations. It provides a step-by-step discussion of general testing and grading issues, including: deciding on the content of an exam; assessing difficulty levels; and writing different kinds of test items; and scoring different test items.

This user-friendly, how-to book presents "six simple steps" for effective classroom management distilled from Marilyn Page's extensive field testing with preservice, novice, and experienced teachers in classrooms across the country.

Offers a practical approach for creating a master schedule and features sample forms, worksheets, anecdotes, and mini case studies throughout, plus exercises that demonstrate each step.

This book highlights several fundamental principles of effective learning that can be utilized while teaching almost ANY content to create a dynamic, engaging lesson and produce high level results.

The diagnostic classroom observation model includes protocols for observing classroom instruction, key indicators of quality teaching, and scoring forms for the final evaluation and review.

Teaching Strategies That Prepare Students for High-Stakes Tests gives educators a framework for teaching with the goal of deeper learning and higher student achievement.

In this revised edition, best-selling author Carolyn Orange provides valuable perspectives into how to be a more sensitive and effective teacher by analyzing the errors of other teachers who have acted unwisely in the moment.

This core text will help trainee teachers to develop the crucial critical thinking skills that they will need to develop as successful secondary English teachers. All the key areas are covered, including how to plan lessons, how to make good use of resources and how to assess pupils' progress effectively.

The authors include a complete glossary of terms, plus guidelines for academic instruction, behavioral interventions, classroom accommodations, placement options, assessments, and transition services for students with LD.

Provocative essays on current developments and debates that are essential reading for anyone interested in the future of qualitative research.

This unique resource promotes the creation of productive learning contexts, which allow students to bring all that they are to the learning process, as essential to successful educational reform.

Addressing NCTM standards, this second edition offers a wide range of practical writing strategies to help students deepen their understanding of mathematical concepts and theories.

Build upon a student's neural wiring for learning with this second edition of a powerful bestseller that bridges the world of brain research with improved mathematics instruction.

How can teachers improve students' higher level and creative thinking? This handbook provides strategies and lesson plans to help students learn to think effectively and to raise their achievement levels. It also discusses the importance of engaging all students - including those with a history of low achievement in higher levels of thinking.

Combines mathematics and technology by incorporating graphing calculator applications and programmes. This work gives suggestions for integrating multiple topics and concepts in each lesson, and strategies to strengthen student engagement, understanding, and retention by building connections among mathematics topics.

Packed full of lively debate and anecdotes, this title covers topics marketing students are familiar with, such as key thinkers and concepts. It looks at areas such as the development of marketing as a discipline and as an academic subject, and raises arguments that students haven't heard about in their lectures.

Offers step-by-step instruction on how to make your pre-school setting inclusive, and provides helpful photocopiable resources, checklists and practical activities. This title provides advice on inclusive environments, play and planning to meet individual needs in 0-3 and Foundation stage settings.

Suitable for secondary school SENCOs and a range of other staff supporting children who are experiencing difficulties with handwriting, this book explores the various issues which underpin any discussion of handwriting: letterforms; the pros and cons of handwriting models; how to help children write at speed; writing posture; pens; and pen hold.

Explores the idea that throughout the course of a therapeutic relationship between therapist and client, a spiritual level is reached by the two people involved. This work shows how this dimension can help clients who are living in an increasingly secular and faithless society to find some resolution with the issues they bring to therapy.

The author offers leaders practical tools and strategies to create legally based and ethically sound approaches to dealing with and preventing bullying in schools.

Narrative Therapy: Making Meaning, Making Lives offers a comprehensive introduction to the history and theory of narrative therapy. Influenced by feminist, postmodern, and critical theory, this edited volume illustrates how we make sense of our lives and experiences by ascribing meaning through stories that arise within social conversations and culturally available discourses.

Social psychology has been deemed a discipline in crisis. This book proposes a way out of the crisis by letting go of the idea that psychology needs new foundations or a new identity, whether biological, discursive or cognitive.

Reframes the perspective taken in most strategy research in two key ways: by describing organizational renewal from a middle-level perspective and by reconceptualizing the theoretical basis for strategy process research.

Presents creative, research-based study strategies covering all content areas and tailored to elementary and middle school students' individual learning styles, including auditory, visual, and kinesthetic modalities.

`Dorothy Langley's book offers a valuable overview of dramatherapy in all its applications. It provides evidence of many years' work as a teacher and practitioner. It is both clear and readable, and will serve as a useful introduction to this unique therapeutic approachr' - Roger Grainger, Senior Practitioner on the Register of Psychologists Specialising in Psychotherapy

A study of infotainment and its globalization by a leading scholar of global communication, offers an analysis of this emerging phenomenon. It argues that infotainment may have an important ideological role, a diversion in which 'soft news' masks the hard realities of neo-liberal imperialism.

A comprehensive guide to the subject knowledge requirements for the teaching of science in early years settings and primary schools. It explores understanding the nature of science, processes of planning, carrying out and evaluating scientific investigations, collecting and using data, hypothesizing, predicting, fair testing, and more.

Combining theory with classroom research, this research-based handbook clearly illustrates how teachers can effectively use six critical strategies to enhance students' reading comprehension.

A majority of educators - for whom scores resulting from standardized tests are vital and informative - have never received formal training regarding how to interpret these scores. This book aims to help teachers and administrators understand the nature of standardized tests and, in particular, the scores that result from them.