How can you support both colleagues and families as they enhance their knowledge, develop new skills, and promote health development of young children? Coaching is the key - and the new edition of this bestselling guide is packed with even more practical tools to help early childhood professionals conduct skillful coaching.
"Developed by the experts who pioneered the Primary Service Provider approach, The Early Intervention Teaming Handbook, 2nd Edition discusses the benefits of the PSP model and shows readers how to put it into action. Readily usable forms, checklists, and other tools assist practitioners in implementing the practices at the program and family ......
A professional reference designed for coaches, educator teams, and administrators in PreK-12th grade school settings. The authors discuss coaching for both improved educator practice and systems change, resulting in a synthesis of relevant research combined with hands on guidance and resources.
Veteran professors synthesize their combined 60+ years of expertise at primarily undergraduate, teaching-focused universities into easy-to-follow advice for graduate students and current faculty seeking to build thriving careers at similar institutions. Writing in a friendly tone that includes their personal reflections, the authors guide readers ......
Examines challenges that arise for educators teaching social justice and diversity-related courses and offers best practices for addressing them. Contributors cover issues such as incorporating current events related to social justice into classroom discussion, navigating one's own stigmatized or privileged identities, and dealing with bias.
The first book to focus specifically on practical gerontology field experiences This innovative text guides gerontology students step by step through the process of searching for, securing, and completing an aging-based internship, practicum, or field placement. It underscores the value of hands-on, community-based learning and provides a ......
Addresses the unique challenges of educators in the helping professions who have minimal or no experience with online technologies. Written for online instructors, clinical faculty, program directors, administrators, and other educators, it describes practical and effective ways to teach material that is intrinsically based on face-to-face ......
The Roadmap to Investing in Yourself: The Real Costs of a College Education, 2nd Edition discusses many of the economic misconceptions about earning a college degree. While it is widely believed that attending college in itself guarantees wealth, thinking of a college degree as a commodity has kept students, parents, and higher education ......
The Roadmap to Investing in Yourself: The Real Costs of a College Education, 2nd Edition discusses many of the economic misconceptions about earning a college degree. While it is widely believed that attending college in itself guarantees wealth, thinking of a college degree as a commodity has kept students, parents, and higher education ......
Written for the soon-to-be, novice, or adjunct counselor educator, this is an accessible, practical guide to preparing and teaching a graduate counseling course from start to finish. Authored by skilled counselor educators, the book proffers their hard-earned wisdom to help new faculty confidently take over the role of instructor.
Many parents and teachers struggle with math. How many times have you heard, "I hate math," "Math is not my thing," or, "I can't do math"? In our culture, innumeracy is acceptable. This acceptance fails to account for innumeracy's lifelong consequences, from not understanding statistics used in science and news to difficulty managing finances. The ......
The Journey, the Challenges, the Questions, the Struggles, and the Joy o
Inspired to Climb Higher: The Journey, the Challenges, the Questions, the Struggles, and the Joy of Earning Your Doctoral Degree invites readers to experience the personal stories of eight women with unique doctoral journeys who, while facing or overcoming the sometimes-mountainous challenges of everyday life, accepted the call to seek the highest ......
Many parents and teachers struggle with math. How many times have you heard, "I hate math," "Math is not my thing," or, "I can't do math"? In our culture, innumeracy is acceptable. This acceptance fails to account for innumeracy's lifelong consequences, from not understanding statistics used in science and news to difficulty managing finances. The ......
Simple Approaches and Understandings to Realize Growth
Schools are the bridge to the future. Their success is vital for the success of communities and the country. There are opportunities and avenues to improvement that are unfortunately overlooked and underutilized. The path to improving schools, districts and education overall is not a singular one, but there are common areas that should be ......
Simple Approaches and Understandings to Realize Growth
Schools are the bridge to the future. Their success is vital for the success of communities and the country. There are opportunities and avenues to improvement that are unfortunately overlooked and underutilized. The path to improving schools, districts and education overall is not a singular one, but there are common areas that should be ......
Perspectives from Multicultural Community Building
This volume adopts a community-based approach to language learning in order to argue for the creation of inclusive and equitable language policies in Japan.
Sisyphus No More presents compelling psychological, sociological, ethical, and financial grounds for providing more and better education and training to our incarcerated population. The arguments show that education and training programs humanize prisoners, support their reintegration into society and securing a living-wage job.
Theories of Knowledge for Effective Student Building
The major stakeholder classes in education have three distinct ways by which they judge the quality of knowledge claims. At times this can cause considerable distraction or mis-communication among stakeholders.