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Dotger, Benjamin H. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2014
Clinical simulations provide school leaders with opportunities to enact and examine their leadership approaches, decisions, and policies, without consequence. Building on medical education's use of standardized patients, this book introduces standardized individuals and clinical simulations into the field of school leader preparation. In live,…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Instructional Leadership, Simulation, Leadership Qualities
Cahnmann-Taylor, Melisa; Souto-Manning, Mariana – Teachers College Press, 2010
If teachers want to create positive change in the lives of their students, then they must first be able to create positive change in their own lives. This book describes a powerful professional development approach that merges the scholarship of critical pedagogy with the Theatre of the Oppressed. Participants "act up" in order to explore…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Learning Experience, Professional Development, Multicultural Education
Checkley, Kathy – Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2007
Today's fixation on math and literacy testing makes it tough for social studies teachers to deliver a challenging curriculum. But you can overcome those constraints and prepare students to actively participate in a democratic society with the ideas from this new volume in our "Priorities in Practice" series. Firsthand accounts from talented and…
Descriptors: Activism, Democracy, Program Effectiveness, Social Studies
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Bagley, Donna M. – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 1993
Recommends using teacher vacations to help students learn about other countries and cultures. Asserts that visiting schools and classrooms can have useful professional development results. Includes a list of classroom activities that can be based on teacher vacations. (CFR)
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Exchange, Early Childhood Education
Herrington, Tony; Herrington, Jan – Information Science Publishing, 2006
As greater accountability in higher education grows, authentic learning has found a prominent place in the education agenda. Technology continues to open up possibilities for innovative and effective learning opportunities, and students and teachers are no longer happy to accept familiar classroom-based pedagogies that rely on content delivery and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Environment, Student Centered Curriculum, Graduate Study