The Learning Habit

The Learning Habit
Author: Stephanie Donaldson-Pressman
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2014-09-02
Genre: Study Aids
ISBN: 0698139259

A groundbreaking approach to building learning habits for life, based on a major new study revealing what works – and what doesn’t Life is different for kids today. Between standardized testing, the Common Core Curriculum, copious homework assignments, and seemingly endless amounts of “screen time,” it’s hard for kids – and parents – to know what’s most essential. How can parents help their kids succeed – not just do well “on the test” -- but develop the learning habits they’ll need to thrive throughout their lives? This important and parent-friendly book presents new solutions based on the largest study of family routines ever conducted. The Learning Habit offers a blueprint for navigating the maze of homework, media use, and the everyday stress that families with school-age children face; turning those “stress times” into opportunities to develop the eight critical skills kids will need to succeed in college and in the highly competitive job market of tomorrow – skills including concentration and focus, time management, decision-making, goal-setting, and self-reliance. Along with hands-on advice and compelling real-life case studies, the book includes 21 fun family challenges for parents and kids, bringing together the latest research with simple everyday solutions to help kids thrive, academically and beyond.

Effective Teacher Interviews

Effective Teacher Interviews
Author: Jennifer L. Hindman
Publisher: ASCD
Total Pages: 63
Release: 2014-10-07
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1416619941

Teacher quality is the school-related factor that most affects student learning, so selecting the best candidate for open teaching positions has enormous implications. In Effective Teacher Interviews, Jennifer L. Hindman provides practical advice on how to conduct hiring interviews that reliably predict a teacher’s success, including guidance on applying research to the interview process; developing meaningful, legal interview questions; assembling and training an interview team; matching candidates’ skills to your schools’ needs; and using the best interview strategies. With these tips on refocusing the interview process, you’ll be better prepared to select and hire the teachers who will make a positive difference for your students and your school.

Effective Teacher Hiring

Effective Teacher Hiring
Author: Kenneth D. Peterson
Publisher: ASCD
Total Pages: 123
Release: 2002
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0871206757

To get the very best teachers for your school or district, you have to hire the best. Unfortunately, most educators have had very little--if any--training in how to screen potential employees and ensure that only the best available candidates are ultimately chosen. Here's a guide with all of the steps and strategies you need, including *Six principles of good teacher hiring. *Basics of creating a selection committee and ensuring a broad diversity of candidates. *Stages of the screening process. *Sample recruitment flyers, contracts, and interview questions. *Legal issues related to hiring. An innovative teacher selection framework provides for checks and balances at every turn and guarantees students and parents a voice in the process. The framework is flexible enough to use in school systems large or small.

Building Your Building

Building Your Building
Author: Jasmine K. Kullar
Publisher: Solution Tree
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-08-14
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781947604810

"In Hiring and Keeping Great Teachers, authors Jasmine Kullar and Scott A. Cunningham discuss how principals can respond to the demand for effective teachers in schools of all levels. A growing teacher attrition rate, combined with fewer teachers entering the profession in the first place, has created a teacher shortage in many schools, and the authors share strategies school administrators can use to ensure they hire--and retain--great teachers"--

Letters to a Young Teacher

Letters to a Young Teacher
Author: Jonathan Kozol
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2008-08-05
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0307393720

“This remarkable book is a testament to teachers who not only respect and advocate for children on a daily basis but who are the necessary guardians of the spirit. Every citizen who cares about the future of our children ought to read this.”—Eric Carle, author of The Very Hungry Caterpillar and other classic works for children “Kozol’s love for his students is as joyful and genuine as his critiques of the system are severe. He doesn’t pull punches.”—The Washington Post In these affectionate letters to Francesca, a first grade teacher at an inner-city school in Boston, Jonathan Kozol vividly describes his repeated visits to her classroom while, under Francesca’s likably irreverent questioning, he also reveals his own most personal stories of the years that he has spent in public schools. Letters to a Young Teacher reignites a number of the controversial issues Jonathan has powerfully addressed in his bestselling The Shame of the Nation and On Being a Teacher: the mania of high-stakes testing that turns many classrooms into test-prep factories where spontaneity and critical intelligence are no longer valued, the invasion of our public schools by predatory private corporations, and the inequalities of urban schools that are once again almost as segregated as they were a century ago. But most of all, these letters are rich with the happiness of teaching children, the curiosity and jubilant excitement children bring into the classroom at an early age, and their ability to overcome their insecurities when they are in the hands of an adoring and hard-working teacher.

Why I Love Homeschooling

Why I Love Homeschooling
Author: Mary Jo Tate
Publisher:
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2020-07-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781734718409

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of families worldwide have been thrust into schooling remotely at home. Some parents look forward to sending their kids back to school, but others have found they prefer schooling at home. They've noticed things like, "My child has learned more at home with me in the last 2 months than in the past 2 years at school!" Or, "I kind of like spending so much time with my kids and learning alongside them." Many parents are considering continuing homeschooling beyond the pandemic, and this book is here to help them make an informed decision about their children's education.Homeschooling is not about trying to reproduce a school environment at home. It's not hours and hours sitting at a desk with a parent or in front of an online class. Homeschooling is about creating an environment outside of the school structure that fosters a love of learning, creativity, family closeness, and flexibility. There is no one size that fits all in homeschooling; every family is different, and approaches homeschooling and parenting in their own unique way. In this book, 24 seasoned homeschooling families share their experiences. The authors include both religious and secular homeschooling parents from all walks of life. They represent a variety of homeschooling styles (from self-directed learning/unschooling to more formal approaches), abilities and disabilities, marital statuses, educational achievements, job statuses, races, and socioeconomic levels. The authors have children of all ages, from babies, preschoolers, and kindergarteners, to students in elementary school, middle school, or high school. And some have children who are now adults. They discuss what they love about homeschooling and also the challenges they've overcome. We hope that this book will inspire and encourage those who are considering homeschooling, as well as those who are already on their homeschooling journey. And we hope it will expand your ideas about the concept of education, and what's possible for yourselves and your children.

Teachers with The Magic

Teachers with The Magic
Author: M. Scott Norton
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2015-05-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1475817630

This book centers on the fact that needed improvements in our schools will not occur unless education is able to attract and retain great teachers in the school’s classrooms. Teachers with The Magic is directed to administrative leaders as well as those individuals that are seeking ways to become better teachers. Great teachers themselves will be inspired by the book’s discussion of what great teachers do the classroom to engage students in learning.

Hitmen for Hire

Hitmen for Hire
Author: Mark Shaw
Publisher: Jonathan Ball Publishers
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2017-07-10
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 1868427129

Hitmen for Hire takes the reader on a journey like no other, navigating a world of paid hitmen, informers, rogue policemen, criminal taxi bosses, gang leaders, and crooked politicians and businessmen. Criminologist Mark Shaw examines a society in which contract killings have become commonplace, looking at who arranges hits, where to find a hitman, and even what it is like to operate as a hitman – or woman. Since 1994, South Africa has seen a worrying increase in the commercialisation of murder – and has been rocked by several high-profile contract killings. Drawing on his research of over a thousand incidents of hired assassinations, from 2000 to 2016, Shaw reveals how these murders are used to exert a mafia-type control over the country's legal and illegal economic activity. Contracted assassinations, and the organised criminal activity behind them, contain sinister linkages with the upperworld, most visibly in relation to disputes over tenders and access to government resources. State security actors increasingly mediate relations between the under and upper worlds, with serious implications for the long-term success of the post-apartheid democratic project.

Overseas Teachers

Overseas Teachers
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Retirement and Employee Benefits
Publisher:
Total Pages: 100
Release: 1976
Genre: Military post schools, American
ISBN:

The Spoonflower Handbook

The Spoonflower Handbook
Author: Stephen Fraser
Publisher: Abrams
Total Pages: 531
Release: 2015-09-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1613129858

An accessible guide to understanding and using Spoonflower to design your own fabric, wallpaper, and gift wrap. Designing fabric, wallpaper, and gift wrap used to be the stuff of dreams. Only a few select creatives got to do it, and it required formal training and significant financial investment. But times have changed, and today anyone with a computer, Internet connection, and idea can upload a file and order their own fabric or paper, printed affordably one yard or more at a time. At the forefront of this revolutionary DIY movement is Spoonflower, a North Carolina startup that produces designs for hundreds of thousands of users worldwide—twenty-four hours a day/seven days a week to keep up with demand. With step-by-step tutorials and projects that span a wide spectrum of skills, The Spoonflower Handbook is written for both new and experienced users of this print-on-demand technology. Covering everything from equipment to software to working with photos, scans, repeats, vector files, and more, it is an essential guide to a booming new creative outlet.