This book will help international students navigate the academic, professional, and social issues they will encounter while attending graduate school in the United States. This book is an invaluable tool for international graduate students and for their instructors and mentors.
Author Bruce S. Cooper looks at truancy as an indication that curricula and pedagogy are not serving students' needs, especially for ethnic minorities and English language learners. This book explores different types of truancy, major research in the field, and how teachers, school leaders, and students can work together to solve this problem.
Author Bruce S. Cooper looks at truancy as an indication that curricula and pedagogy are not serving students' needs, especially for ethnic minorities and English language learners. This book explores different types of truancy, major research in the field, and how teachers, school leaders, and students can work together to solve this problem.
Creating an Environment for Social and Academic Success
Student mobility is an issue that affects school districts large and small across the nation. Schools can do very little to control the causes of mobility, but a great deal can be done to reduce the negative effects for mobile students through effective planning and consistent practices.
Creating an Environment for Social and Academic Success
Student mobility is an issue that affects school districts large and small across the nation. Schools can do very little to control the causes of mobility, but a great deal can be done to reduce the negative effects for mobile students through effective planning and consistent practices.
How world-class research makes its way into lecture halls and seminar roomsMajor research universities expect faculty to conduct significant research but also to excel as teachers. Too often those outside the classroom assume that these two functions have little in common when in fact the best teachers conduct exciting and innovative research that ......
How world-class research makes its way into lecture halls and seminar roomsMajor research universities expect faculty to conduct significant research but also to excel as teachers. Too often those outside the classroom assume that these two functions have little in common when in fact the best teachers conduct exciting and innovative research that ......
This book is based on the professional experiences and research of Drs. Litchka, Polka, and Calzi who possess a combined total professional experience of over 100 years as educators in the United States. Living on the Horns of Dilemmas discusses the various pitfalls that school leaders face in making important decisions.
Making Mentoring Work is a practical guide for school leaders interested in beginning or enhancing their mentoring programs for new teachers. Readers can use the mentoring program rubric to pre-assess their program and then choose the chapters that correspond to areas of growth.
