SCHOOL LEADERSHIP THAT WORKS: From Research to Results
What does research tell us about the effects of school leadership on student achievement? What specific leadership practices make a real difference in school effectiveness? How should school leaders use these practices in their day-to-day management of schools and during the stressful times that accompany major change initiatives? Robert J. Marzano, Timothy Waters, and Brian A. McNulty provide answers to these and other questions in School Leadership That Works.
Beginnings & Beyond: Foundations in Early Childhood Education, Eighth Edition
The primary strength of BEGINNINGS AND BEYOND, 8TH EDITION, is its blend of simplicity and depth. In a clear and easy-to-understand style, the book's five sections lay out basic questions any student of early childhood education would want answered. At the same time, the chapters present key concepts, the latest research, and practical examples so that questions are thoroughly answered. Coverage of the current Developmentally Appropriate Practices (DAP) are woven throughout the text and highlighted by new margin icons and DAP footnotes for easy reference.
Best Practices for Teaching Social Studies - What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do
This collection of outstanding, teacher-tested methods for K–12 social studies instruction for diverse classrooms offers fresh ideas and strategies covering citizenship, diversity, community, and more.
Fundamentals and Practices in Colouration of Textiles
Colouration of textiles is an art and less complicated than actually thought; just needs due attention to ascertain look, quality and consistency in product. Each textile is coloured with specific colourants through its own technology. Thorough realization of basics of colouration is the basic need to achieve that. Fundamentals and Practices in Colouration of Textiles explains basics of colouration with a match in practical application precisely but in detail. It covers academic as well as industrial aspects of colouration, defines problems and solutions to develop quality product with greater ease.
A Clumsy Encounter offers an interrogation of inclusive education by exploring the point at which dyspraxia and drawing from observation meet within formal learning environments. Drawing on stories of individual experience, this book seeks to promote the interrogation of implicit educational practices. Here the complexity of observational drawing is examined not within a closed community of art education but within the social and cultural domain of other critical debates within education, specifically those related to inclusion. Pupils do not experience inclusion and exclusion in the abstract but through discipline-based and situated practices.
