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Creating Powerful Learning Relationships: A Whole School Community Approach
$19.95
HB7649 | 14th May, 2012
Sometimes we wonder if our schools are really helping people be better human beings. As leaders we need to reflect on whether we are actually doing the right thing. The authors of this book got into education because we wanted to make a difference. Yet, we have all wrestled with understanding how we can make a difference as educational leaders. This book describes a framework for leading a school that focuses all school activity on the factors that deliver the best learning outcomes. It is about what we really know is important for every child to succeed. The school leader can use this handbook to create opportunities for teaching and learning that mobilise all stakeholders. We, as leaders, have found this framework has helped us lead by a moral imperative rather than personal preferences.
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Who Owns the Learning?: Preparing Students for Success in the Digital Age
$21.95
SOT4099 | 9th May, 2012
In Who Owns the Learning?, author Alan November uses his Digital Learning Farm model to show teachers how technology allows students to take ownership of their learning, creating their own learning tools, and participate in work that has meaning to them and others. In his model, every student is a teacher and a global publisher.
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Intelligence Quest: Project-Based Learning And Multiple Intelligences
$27.95
IST3115 | 9th May, 2012
Today’s classrooms should support multiple learning styles while incorporating technology use in an authentic, real-world manner. To help you grow this digital age learning environment, Walter McKenzie brings together ideas from multiple intelligences and project-based learning to develop a new instructional model, the Intelligence Quest (IQuest). This flexible, self-directed learning journey approach provides educators with a clear structure and specific goals for a technology-infused classroom. Intelligence Quest provides an in-depth overview of the IQuest – what it is and how you can adapt it for use in any subject or any classroom.
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Twelve Best Practices for Early Childhood Education: Integrating Reggio and Other Inspired Approaches
$39.95
TCP1700 | 7th May, 2012
In her new book, popular author Ann Lewin-Benham draws on her intimate knowledge and experience with the Reggio Approach to present 12 "best practices" inspired not only by Reggio, but also by play-based and Montessori approaches to early childhood education. These practices are demonstrated, one per chapter, with scenarios from classrooms, dialogues of children and teachers, and work samples showing the outcome of using each practice. Used together, the 12 best practices offer a new framework for early education. Written in the accessible style that her readers appreciate, this book expands on Lewin-Benham's earlier works by showing the foundations for teachers to practise the Reggio Approach in their own settings.
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Phonics for Reading Student Book Second Level (Set of 5)
$125.00
CA12690 | 7th May, 2012
Support students who struggle with reading comprehension due to weak phonemic awareness and decoding skills with the Phonics for Reading series. The books across the three levels of the series help build phonemic awareness, decoding and fluency skills to strengthen reading comprehension. They include systematic, explicit instruction that builds confidence and motivation. Furthermore, the books are specifically designed to appeal to older students, so that they can be used across the curriculum and year levels to bring instruction to the students who need them most, regardless of age. The Second Level in the Phonics for Reading series focuses on long vowels, vowel combinations, CVCe words, word endings and r-controlled vowel sounds.
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Study Guide - What Great Principals Do Differently (2nd Edition)
$18.95
EYE4044 | 7th May, 2012
Designed to be used for facilitators and participants in seminars, books study groups or other professional development events, this book guides critical thinking, collaboration and professional growth based on the concepts in Todd Whitaker’s best-selling titles What Great Principals Do Differently (2^nd Edition). Each chapter includes key concepts, discussion questions, journal prompts, group activities and strategies for applying what participants have learned.
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Study Guide - What Great Teachers Do Differently, 2nd Edition
$18.95
EYE4167 | 7th May, 2012
Written to accompany Todd Whitaker’s best-selling title, What Great Teachers Do Differently (2nd Edition), this study guide can be used by facilitators and participants in seminars, books study groups or other professional development events. The variety of activities and strategies in this book will help teachers engage in critical thinking, collaboration and professional growth.
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An English Teacher's Guide to Performance Tasks & Rubrics: Middle School
$42.95
EYE1753 | 7th May, 2012
The English Teacher’s Guide to Performance Tasks and Rubrics: Middle Sckchhool is a comprehensive resource that has a wealth of concrete materials that can be employed immediately into any daily classroom practice. Along with activities and exercises, student examples, and sample rubrics, this book explains how a range of performance tasks and rubrics can be presented in any classroom, regardless of the text used. Benjamin provides step-by-step procedures of specific performance tasks that suit students of all abilities, including special education, gifted and heterogenous groups. This is a handy and valuable resource for all English teachers, whether novice or experienced.
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What Great Teachers Do Differently: Seventeen Things That Matter Most (2nd Edition)
$37.95
EYE4068 | 7th May, 2012
In the second edition of this renowned book, you will find pearls of wisdom, heartfelt advice and inspiration from one of the nation’s leading authorities on staff motivation, teacher leadership and principal effectiveness. With wit and understanding, Todd Whitaker describes the beliefs, behaviours, attitudes and interactions of great teachers and explains what they do differently.
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GameWize: Making Science Fun! with Microsoft Office
$37.95
VIS1258 | 7th May, 2012
GameWize: Making Science Fun! With Microsoft Office features fun and simple activities that will excite and entertain students in any classroom. Using Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, Making Science Fun! teaches students that not all learning has to come straight from textbooks. With these fun competitive games, students will master skills in order to surge ahead of their competition. The easily customisable game templates included on the accompanying CD-ROM will have teachers understanding, using and enjoying Making Science Fun! almost as much as their students. Take advantage of the activities in GameWize: Making Science Fun! with Microsoft Office, and get your students to enjoy science for the rest of their academic career.
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Phonics for Reading Student Book Second Level
$35.95
CA126901 | 7th May, 2012
Support students who struggle with reading comprehension due to weak phonemic awareness and decoding skills with the Phonics for Reading series. The books across the three levels of the series help build phonemic awareness, decoding and fluency skills to strengthen reading comprehension. They include systematic, explicit instruction that builds confidence and motivation. Furthermore, the books are specifically designed to appeal to older students, so that they can be used across the curriculum and year levels to bring instruction to the students who need them most, regardless of age. The Second Level in the Phonics for Reading series focuses on long vowels, vowel combinations, CVCe words, word endings and r-controlled vowel sounds.
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What Great Principals Do Differently: Eighteen Things That Matter Most (2nd Edition)
$37.95
EYE4051 | 7th May, 2012
Inspire yourself and others with the second edition of the best-selling book. With heartfelt advice, practical wisdom and examples from the field, leadership expert Todd Whitaker explains the qualities and practices that distinguish great principals. Discover what you can do differently.
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Evaluating What Good Teachers Do: Eight Research-Based Standards for Assessing Teacher Excellence
$39.95
EYE4020 | 7th May, 2012
This book is based on the author’s 20-plus years of consulting with school districts and other educational organisations in designing, piloting and training educators in the use of teacher performance evaluation systems. Its primary purpose is to help both teachers and their evaluators collect more comprehensive and accurate assessment data for judging teacher effectiveness. It provides field-tested teacher evaluation systems based on performance standards which include data collection tools and performance appraisal rubrics.
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The Complete Handbook of Coaching
$49.95
SA3542 | 5th May, 2012
This comprehensive guide to coaching explores the full variety of coaching theories, approaches and settings, and offers strategies for the reader to identify and develop a personal style of coaching. Part 1 explores the theoretical traditions underpinning coaching, such as cognitive-behavioural, gestalt and existential. Part 2 covers applied contexts, formats or types of coaching, such as developmental, life, executive, peer, team and career coaching. Part 3 focuses on professional issues that impact on the coach, such as ethics, supervision, continuing professional development, standards and mental health issues.
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Developing Emotional Literacy with Teenage Boys: Building Confidence, Self Esteem and Awareness
$35.95
SA3672 | 4th May, 2012
Growing concerns about the emotional development and mental health of young men is often reported in the media, frequently accompanied by statistics showing that the majority of young people with behavioural and learning difficulties are male. This programme, which has been developed from research, practice and teaching, as has been tried and tested in a student referral unit, helps the participants to acknowledge the importance of emotional development and the fact that they have a responsibility to do something about it. Drawing on the authors’ work and experience, the activities are suitable for a wide range of students, including boys who present as extremely challenging in terms of their behaviour and social skills development.
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Realizing the Promise of 21st-Century Education: An Owner's Manual
$37.95
CO3788 | 4th May, 2012
While many futurists tout the value of teaching students 21^st-century skills, bridging the concept with the practice is best accomplished by professional educators. Authors Bruce Joyce and Emily Calhoun know how to actualise the critical reforms that enable schools to prepare students for today’s workforce. They outline a clear vision for advancing school reform that emphasises infusing technology across the curriculum. We have a tremendous opportunity to bridge education with the information and communications technology revolution. Joyce and Calhoun show how to deliver on the promise of a 21^st-century education by teaching students the skills they need to achieve in their careers and in life.
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Tools for High-Quality Differentiated Instruction: An ASCD Action Tool
$159.95
707017 | 4th May, 2012
As teachers undertake the transition to differentiating instruction, they're going to have lots of questions about how to discover learning needs and plan appropriate instruction. That's why they need this practical resource. Inside the binder are 60 tools that can be used in every year level and subject, designed to help teachers reach high levels of expertise with differentiation. By using the tools in workshops and team meetings, and making them available in classrooms, you support teachers throughout the critical stages of implementing DI. Included with the tools are more than 40 samples that show teachers how to use the tools in various years levels (primary to secondary school) and subject areas, so they get a clear idea of how to make DI an everyday reality in their classrooms.
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From Idea to Exit: The Entrepreneurial Journey
$49.95
SOT0183 | 3rd May, 2012
While most small business books cover niche components of the startup model, From Idea to Exit tackles the entire entrepreneurial journey from the initial seed idea through a well-planned exit strategy. Small business activist and advocate Jeff Weber uses his own success story to frame a practical call to action for those who dream of taking that first big step. Weber sets out to answer fundamental questions for anyone who has had a new business idea: What causes someone to actually take action on that idea? What is the Entrepreneurial or E-Formula, and how does someone break out of what Weber calls the Risk Box? Weber then maps out four phases of the entrepreneurial journey: Idea, Startup, Running and Exit.
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Going Google: Powerful Tools for 21st Century Learning
$45.95
CO3870 | 1st May, 2012
Google is more than a search engine – it offers many tools that give people the opportunity to work virtually from anywhere, with anyone, at any time they choose. And these tools are available to teachers and students for free. This book for P–12 educators explores the wide array of Google tools and shows how to use them in the classroom to foster digital learning. Aligned with the ITSE-NETS standards, the text is organised by the 21^st century skills each tool promotes: communication, collaboration, creativity, innovation, critical thinking, and problem solving. Included are specific classroom activities that teachers can use immediately to engage students and enhance learning.
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Encouraging Learning: How You Can Help Children Learn
$9.95
HB3955 | 1st May, 2012
James Nottingham is a parent, teacher and award-winning education consultant. He advises schools, universities, companies and governments around the world about the best ways to enhance learning. In this inspiring, humorous and practical book he shows what you can do to help children of all ages develop into confident, thoughtful and independent learners. Highlights include: the dangers of calling our children clever, bright and gifted; the best ways to teach wisdom; how to help children excel in exams; and why curiosity did not kill the cat. If you want to help children succeed then read this book!
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Preparing Children for Success in School and Life: 20 Ways to Increase Your Child’s Brain Power
$21.95
CO3771 | 1st May, 2012
As children’s first teachers, parents need to provide a firm foundation for lifelong learning. In this new book, award-winning educator Marcia L. Tate provides a research-based road map for raising respectful, responsible children who achieve to their fullest potential. The best-selling author, mother and grandmother shares brain-compatible strategies for guiding children toward personal, academic and career success. Preparing Children for Success in School and Life shows parents how to help children’s brains “grow dendrites” in everyday ways such as telling them stories, using music to enhance memory, turning homework time into fun time, and allowing them freedom to draw and write.
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