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OECD Publishing, 2017
How might we know whether our schools or system are set up to optimise learning? How can we find out whether we are getting the most from technology? How can we evaluate our innovation or think through whether our change initiative will bring about its desired results? Teachers and educational leaders who grapple with such questions will find this…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Educational Environment, Educational Assessment, Educational Principles
Hellman, Andrea B.; Harris, Kathy; Wilbur, Amea – TESOL Press, 2019
TESOL International Association has defined a core set of principles for the exemplary teaching and learning of English as a new language. This exciting new book applies these principles to adults learning English in adult education and workforce development settings. The 6 Principles and their recommended practices are targets of teaching…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vignettes
Witt, Peter A., Ed.; Caldwell, Linda L., Ed. – Sagamore-Venture, 2018
Out-of-school time (OST) settings are powerful contexts for youth development when programs and services are intentionally designed. "Youth Development Principles and Practices in Out-of-School Time Settings" increases the capacity of students and professionals to facilitate youths' optimal transition to adulthood through maximizing the…
Descriptors: Student Development, Adolescent Development, Youth Programs, After School Programs
Bernhardt, Victoria L.; Hébert, Connie L. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017
Experts Bernhardt and Hébert's latest book demonstrates strategies to ensure your entire staff works together to design, implement, monitor, and evaluate a schoolwide prevention system with integrity and fidelity. Each step in this important resource is designed to help administrators, teachers, and other educators improve the learning of every…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, Educational Improvement, Program Implementation, Planning
Alidou, Hassana, Ed.; Glanz, Christine, Ed. – UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2015
One of the greatest challenges in education today is to adapt and respond to a linguistically and culturally diverse world, and to combat social disintegration and discrimination. Participatory and collaborative action research represents an empowering and emancipatory approach to this challenge because the "target groups" become…
Descriptors: Action Research, Youth Opportunities, Adult Literacy, Program Improvement
Hirsh, Stephanie; Killion, Joellen – National Staff Development Council, 2007
NSDC Executive Director Stephanie Hirsh and Deputy Executive Director Joellen Killion outline eight principles to guide professional learning during the next era. If professional development decision makers adopt these principles, the authors believe they will contribute to ensuring that professional learning will improve leading, teaching, and…
Descriptors: Teachers, Faculty Development, Educational Principles
Wiltshire, Monica – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
"Understanding the HighScope Approach" is a much needed source of information for those wishing to extend and consolidate their understanding of the HighScope Approach. It will enable the reader to analyse the essential elements of the HighScope Approach to early childhood and its relationship to quality early years practice. Exploring…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Curriculum, Educational Principles
Elsdon, Ron – National Career Development Association, 2010
This book explores the perspectives of experienced practitioners, sharing ideas about building and sustaining organizational strength through workforce development practices and systems. As the saying goes, a company's greatest resource is its people. When managers really believe that and work to develop organizational capabilities, productivity,…
Descriptors: Career Development, Labor Force Development, Workplace Learning, Organizational Effectiveness
Grant, Jim – Crystal Springs Books, 2007
This book is a survival guide as well as a valuable tool for making our schools more effective and appropriate places for students to learn and achieve. Exploring the often complex, multifaceted, and co-occurring problems in the education system, the book addresses specific problems, discusses the real reasons they developed and persist, describes…
Descriptors: Educational Change, School Restructuring, Instructional Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
Blimling, Gregory S.; Whitt, Elizabeth J. – 1999
This book, based on the conclusions of a study of practices in college student affairs, presents nine papers which identify the best practices in student affairs, review research used to define the best practices, and give examples of how to use these practices in the field. The book is based on a 1996 meeting of an interdisciplinary study group…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Educational Practices, Educational Principles, Higher Education
Fowler, Charles; Elliott, David J. – 1994
The volume contains papers presented at "Winds of Change: A Colloquium in Music Education," and examines the current need for reform in music education. Assessments of music's failure to achieve central curricular status, and outline scenarios for reform and improved status for music education are presented. The reform plans emphasize the value of…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Change, Educational Principles, Elementary Secondary Education
Miller, Melvin D. – 1984
This book is directed toward inferring a philosophy for vocational education. The issues and concerns that surrounded the early development and expansion of vocational education are first discussed. The preferred practices--the principles--are then developed in three categories. "Principles and People" includes the topics of guidance,…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Career Education, Curriculum, Educational Philosophy
Barnett, Ronald – 1992
This book presents two dominant and rival conceptions of quality in higher education. One is based on the expression of the tacit conceptions of value and propriety in the academic community. It is the character and quality of the continuing interactions of higher education's members that are at issue rather than any endpoint or definitive…
Descriptors: College Outcomes Assessment, Educational Improvement, Educational Principles, Educational Quality
Livingston, Sue – 1997
This book asserts that deaf students should be treated no differently from non-deaf students and that American Sign Language (ASL) and English can coexist in the classroom, embedded in the content being taught. It stresses that language acquisition, whether oral or manual, as well as the learning of reading and writing or subject content, are all…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Deafness, Educational Philosophy, Educational Principles
Meinert, Roland; Pardeck, John T.; Kreuger, Larry – 2000
This book provides a critical examination of the major issues that social work education and practice must confront if social work is to remain as a mainline profession. The book explores issues that are not normally covered in social work literature, such as the challenge of reconstructing the social work profession, the use of technology in…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Curriculum Development, Educational Principles, Higher Education
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