Best Practices for Education Professionals, Volume Two

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

• Publisher: Apple Academic Press
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 243
• 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

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Contributors
List of Abbreviations
About the Editors
Introduction
1. Who Knew? Best Practices: A Retrospective
2. The Method to My Madness: Using Humor and Silliness to Improve Learning
3. The Greater Hudson Promise Neighborhood: One Community’s Attempt to Care for Its Youngest Members
4. Moving from Concrete to Abstract Understandings: Studying a Concept’s Development in Context
5. Crossing the Barriers, Expanding Knowledge, Fostering Relationships: Teacher Preparation Partnering with Community Organizations
6. Throwback Technologies: Interactive Whiteboards in Schools
7. At Your Service: A College at Work with Its Community as a Means of Outreach and Mutual Enrichment
8. Resistance to Racism in the Social Studies: Reflections, Pedagogies, and Criticality
9. “But How Do I Know If It Is Authentic?” Examining Picture Books Representing Chinese Culture
10. Power of the Heart and Limitations of Love: Preservice Teachers’ Perceptions of the Teaching Profession and Their Implications
Index