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Teacher Induction That Works: A Lasting Impact from Day One
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Tara Link; Beth Whitaker – Eye on Education, 2025
Getting new teachers off to the right start is essential for teacher retention and student success. This book shows the nuts and bolts of induction that really works. Drawing on the successful, research-based SHINE program, the authors demonstrate the key components for setting up or tweaking your new teacher induction program, including involving…
Descriptors: Beginning Teacher Induction, Mentors, Teacher Orientation, Teacher Persistence
Getting Dialogic Teaching into Classrooms: Making Change Possible. Understanding Teaching-Learning Practice
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Sed'ova, Klara; Salamounova, Zuzana; Svaricek, Roman; Sedlacek, Martin – Understanding Teaching-Learning Practice, 2020
This book contributes to our understanding how teachers can improve classroom dialogue and thereby boost student learning. The book reports the results of intervention research based on professional development program for teachers. Participating teachers strived, with the help of the researchers, to instigate a rich and authentic dialogue in…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Learning Processes, Teaching Methods, Intervention
The First-Year Seminar: Designing, Implementing, and Assessing Courses to Support Student Learning and Success: Volume Four: Using Peers in the Classroom
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Latino, Jennifer A.; Ashcraft, Michelle – National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, 2012
"The First-Year Seminar: Designing, Implementing, and Assessing Courses to Support Student Learning and Success," a five-volume series, is designed to assist educators who are interested in launching a first-year seminar or revamping an existing program. Each volume examines a different aspect of first-year seminar design or…
Descriptors: First Year Seminars, National Surveys, Peer Influence, Peer Relationship
Adult Museum Programs: Designing Meaningful Experiences. American Association for State and Local History Book Series.
Sachatello-Sawyer, Bonnie; Fellenz, Robert A.; Burton, Hanly; Gittings-Carlson, Laura; Lewis-Mahony, Janet; Woolbaugh, Walter – 2002
A three-year national study of adult museum programs used a qualitative research approach and naturalistic inquiry and interviewed 508 museum program participants, 75 instructors, and 143 museum program planners in all types and sizes of museums, including art institutes, natural and cultural historical museums, science centers, historic houses,…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Programs
All Things to All People: A Primer for K-12 ESL Teachers in Small Programs.
Flemming, Donald N.; And Others – 1993
This primer describes the comprehensive nature of the role of the public school teacher working directly with children from non-English-language backgrounds. Intended primarily for less experienced teachers of English as a Second Language (ESL), it may be useful to aides, tutors, administrators, counselors, health professionals, mainstream…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Comparative Analysis, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education
The Design of Education. Second Edition. Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series.
Houle, Cyril O. – 1996
This book, which is intended primarily for specialists in the field of adult education (AE) who wish to improve their performance, presents a systematic plan for designing, establishing, and evaluating successful programs for adult learners. The following topics are among those discussed in the book's six chapters: credos and systems (growth of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Andragogy, Behavioral Objectives