The fourth edition of this bestselling book is a practical guide for teachers that wish to conduct research in their classrooms and for schools that wish to improve their practice. Classroom research, as described in this book, will enable teachers to enhance their own or their colleagues’ teaching, to test the assumptions of educational theory in practice and to implement and evaluate whole school developments.
Trust Rules: How to Tell the Good Guys from the Bad Guys in Work and Life
Leading executives demonstrate the value of trustworthy relationships and offer tools to help managers spot both the good guys and bad guys in their lives.
The Pass Trinity 9 & 10 helps students to reflect on and improve their language learning. It helps students to organise their work and show the very best they are capable of in their Language Portfolio, Trinity Integrated Skills Examinations (ISE I and II), or Trinity Spoken English Examinations from Grades 1-10. Pass Trinity 9-10 is suitable for young adults.
The benefits of collaborative learning are well documented and yet, almost every teacher knows how group work can go wrong: restless students, unequal workloads, lack of accountability, and too little learning for all the effort involved. In this book, educators Nancy Frey, Douglas Fisher, and Sandi Everlove show you how to make all group work productive group work: with all students engaged in the academic content and with each other, building valuable social skills, consolidating and extending their knowledge, and increasing their readiness for independent learning.
Ideaship: How to Get Ideas Flowing in Your Workplace
Innovative, original ideas are a company’s most powerful competitive advantage. Nathan Mhyrvold, former chief technology officer at Microsoft, has said that a great employee is worth 1,000 times more than an average one simply because of his or her ideas. In Ideaship, the sequel to his bestselling book, How to Get Ideas, Jack Foster shifts from how individuals spark their new ideas to how to unleash the creative genius of an entire organization. To create an idea-prone workforce, Foster proposes a totally new concept of leadership: "ideaship."
