Socratic Seminars in the Block

Socratic Seminars in the Block
Author: Wanda H. Ball
Publisher: Eye On Education
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2000
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781883001797

Shows how teachers can plan and implement Socratic Seminars, a strategy that is particularly appropriate for teaching in a block schedule and which leads to active learning.

A Collection of Performance Tasks & Rubrics: Primary Mathematics

A Collection of Performance Tasks & Rubrics: Primary Mathematics
Author: Charlotte Danielson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2013
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1317920392

This book provides a collection of performance tasks and scoring rubrics for a number of important topics in primary school school mathematics. Included are many samples of student work which clarify the tasks and anchor the points of the scoring rubrics.

Teaching Foreign Languages in the Block

Teaching Foreign Languages in the Block
Author: Deborah Blaz
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2013-11-20
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317920651

Provides detailed instructional strategies, sample lesson plans, and sample assessments so that foreign language teachers can make the best use of the additional time.

Teaching in the Block

Teaching in the Block
Author: Michael D. Rettig
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2013-11-20
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317921232

This bestseller describes alternatives to lecturing, traditional questioning, and individual pencil and paper tasks. It offers practical advice on how teachers can harness the potential of the extended period.

Leadership Through Collaboration

Leadership Through Collaboration
Author: Jeanne Baxter
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2013-11-20
Genre: Education
ISBN: 131792102X

With a foreword by Thomas Sergiovanni, this book exposes the myths about school leadership which impede educational improvement. It also profiles 8 successful schools at which student achievement has flourished after collaboration was introduced.

Oral and Nonverbal Expression

Oral and Nonverbal Expression
Author: Ivan Muse
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2013-12-17
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317921100

With this book, principals will become more successful at communicating with difficult people, delivering speeches, and will maximize the effectiveness of groups and committees.

Organizational Oversight

Organizational Oversight
Author: Peggy Stark
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2013-10-18
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317921143

Using many illustrations, this book takes time to describe a strategy for enhancing organizational trust and productive communication and to demonstrate how these can be used to plan and organize, both in maintaining the school organization and in adpating it for change.