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Designed to work seamlessly with the BRIGANCE® Early Childhood Screens III, the powerful, easy-to-use BRIGANCE Online Management System guides administrators and teachers step by step through each process, ensuring consistent and accurate data and reports.

Designed to work seamlessly with the BRIGANCE® Early Childhood Screens III, the powerful, easy-to-use BRIGANCE Online Management System guides administrators and teachers step by step through each process, ensuring consistent and accurate data and reports.

Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) research refers to experiments conducted to address problems in those fields that can be tested using the scientific method. The scientific method is an inquiry process used to systematically study, investigate and to provide explanations for observed phenomenon in the natural world. This method is used by STEM professionals to answer questions they have about important world problems and usually includes carefully orchestrating a situation that allows them to observe, measure and test their ideas.

This anthology introduces the Framework for 21st Century Learning from the Partnership for 21st Century Skills as a way to re-envision learning and prepare students for a rapidly evolving global and technological world. This dynamic new framework promotes innovation through critical thinking, problem solving, collaboration and technology integration, while building on mastery of core content and background knowledge. Highly respected education leaders and innovators address critical concepts supporting the Framework for 21st Century Learning. The afterword by Andy Hargreaves then looks at the implications of the 21st century skills framework and how we can continue to build on the movement.

Differentiation may imply many different things to different people in varying contexts. In an inclusive classroom, what students learn and do, and how they may show understanding and are assessed, may all vary. This book provides practical information for teachers and school leaders on how to address the issues of inclusivity, differentiation, providing challenging learning environments and the development of a classroom culture of thinking that encourages high levels of student engagement in high-order thinking in every lesson, every day.

This book provides school administrators with practical, easy-to-use and inexpensive ways to reward and recognise the efforts of their staff. More than 100 ideas are divided into three categories based on the amount of effort they require. Recognising and rewarding your staff can be as simple as writing a heartfelt thank-you note to a bus driver or as unexpected as taking a teacher's marking duty for a night. This invaluable guide will help principals and administrators everywhere bring out the best in their teachers and staff members. The best part is that rewarding and inspiring your staff will be rewarding and inspiring for you too.

In Wisdom from the field, multi-award winning principal Judy Dixon shares her life experiences and insights about the spirituality of leadership. Drawing on the infinite wisdom of a plethora of philosophers, spiritual mentors and fellow educators, Judy takes you on a journey of self-reflection to help you improve and develop as a leader. By asking reflective questions, such as: Do I create a clear vision for this time in my life and in my leadership? Am I aware of, and awake to, opportunities and challenges? Do I use positive language? What is my language of leadership? The book also includes comments from colleagues about what sustained them when dealing with the stresses and complexities of the leadership role.

The BRIGANCE Inventory of Early Development III is a comprehensive collection of valid, reliable and well-researched developmental assessments for students from birth up to the developmental age of seven. The IED III offers a complete range of information on a student's developmental skill levels as demonstrated under real-life, everyday conditions. Because skills within assessments are developmentally sequenced from the easiest items (earliest mastered skills) to more difficult ones, a student's present level of performance can be pinpointed along the skill continuum. The Brigance IED III: Special Education Classroom Kit includes the Brigance IED III: Special Education, twenty Brigance IED III Record Books, and the Brigance IED III Accessories Kit, all collected in a durable Brigance bag.

The BRIGANCE Inventory of Early Development III is a comprehensive collection of developmental assessments. The IED III Early Childhood Edition helps early childhood educators: address ongoing developmental assessment requirements; provide appropriate child assessment; determine a child's specific strengths and needs to support individualised instructional planning; gather valid data on progress; evaluate school readiness by tapping predictors of school success; communicate a child's development; and support referrals for further evaluations or special services. The Brigance IED III: Early Childhood Classroom Kit includes the Brigance IED III: Early Childhood, twenty Brigance IED III Record Books and the Brigance IED III Accessories Kit, all collected in a durable canvas Brigance tote bag.

The Brigance IED-III Box of Materials contains items needed for administering the Brigance IED-III, all packaged in a sturdy and easy-to-transport carry case. It includes: Pencils (4); Blank sheets of paper for covering items; Box of crayons; Coloured blocks (12); Coloured pencils (five, each a different colour); Nesting containers; Rattle; Shapes (circles and squares) of two colours (16); Counters (12); and a Squeaking toy. The Brigance IED-III Box of Materials is a handy toolkit for administering the IED-III in the easiest and most painless way possible.

The BRIGANCE Inventory of Early Development III Standardised, or IED III Standardised, is a selection of 55 key assessments that span the crucial domains of child development and learning. The valid, reliable and well-researched developmental assessments of the IED III Standardised have been standardised and validated on a normative sample of children from birth up to seven years of age. The IED III Standardised produces a complete range of information about a child's early developmental and academic skill mastery.

This bundle will allow screening of children from 5-6 years to determine their developmental age. Based on the results of the screen children can be assessed at a deeper level using the IED III. Interventions can then be introduced using the Readiness Activities. Once the interventions are complete, children can be re-screened to determine growth in developmental age and to ascertain if further interventions or referrals are required. Examples of persons who might use this kit include but are not limited to Maternal Health Nurses, Doctors, Paediatricians, Kindergarten and Early Childhood teachers and Child Care workers. A degree in Psychology is not required to administer either the Screens III or the IED III.