Best Practices for Education Professionals, Volume Two

✍ Scribed by Schnackenberg, Heidi L.; Burnell, Beverly A

• Publisher: Apple Academic Press
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 242
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This informative new volume provides a hand-picked selection of useful techniques, ideas, competencies, and skills for working with children in school settings. The book comprises both research (qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-design) and conceptual pieces about the most effective, current professional practices for professionals who work with P-12 children in schools. The practices described here will be useful for a wide assortment of professionals within education, including practicing teachers, school counselors, school psychologists, speech language pathologists, administrators, and education students.

✦ Table of Contents

Content: So what's the "big idea?" : the great uncover-up / David Iasevoli and the students of "Content and pedagogy" Fall 2010 --
Teaching and learning with care and commitment : faculty cohorts as best practice / Jean Ann Hunt [and others] --
Applying art-based self-study techniques within qualitative research teaching / Rocci Luppicini and Jessica Backen --
Moving beyond test-driven and textbook-driven curricula : five questions to facilitate school change / Jean Ann Hunt, Caroline Knight, and Robert Ackland --
The literacy tapestry : language arts (the warp) and creativity (the weft) / Peggy L. Snowden --
Students' experiences in learning communities within teacher education / Beverly A. Burnell [and others] --
Inclusion as a design strategy for teacher-preparation programs / Alicia Roberts Frank --
Sexual and gender identity development and school climate : what do professional educators need to know? / Noah S. Jawitz, Matthew M. Wagar, and Beverly A. Burnell --
Understanding and utilizing quantitative research as a best practice in education / Julia Davis --
Technological sophistication and teacher preparation for Generation Y / Heidi L. Schnackenberg and Edwin S. Vega --
A Socratic apology in favor of educational technology / Margarita Garcia-Notario.

✦ Subjects

Education;Methodology;Educational innovations;Educational psychology;Éducation;Méthodologie;Enseignement;Innovations;Psychopédagogie