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This comprehensive professional development package offers a complete training resource for showing teachers how to successfully design and maintain an environment that supports students’ diverse learning styles.

Includes: VHS Videotape (65 min.), DVD, Facilitator’s Guide, Companion Book

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This facilitator’s guide helps staff developers provide teachers with focused training on twelve differentiation models for organizing, planning, and managing instruction that supports diverse learning styles.

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Ron Owston will help you discover what a powerful tool the Internet can be for developing a continuous, collegial professional development experience. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Mississippi Business Journal, published by Venture Publications on April 28, 2003. The length of the article is 578 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Workforce training number one issue in manufacturing. (Focus Education & Professional Development).(workforce training programs)
Author: Becky Gillette
Publication: Mississippi Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 28, 2003
Publisher: Venture Publications
Volume: 25Issue: 17Page: 18(1)

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This OU reader provide a rich range of case studies and theoretical and methodological perspectives on the practical leadership tasks that underpin educational change. ... Read more

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Successful development in the Middle East remains elusive, although considerable aid is poured into the region and extensive bureaucracies for managing development have been established. This book is a concise political economy of Middle Eastern development and its administration. A major focus is the nature and role of State and bureaucracy. Special attention is also paid to the relation between aid and development. In addition to providing an analytical framework, this book brings together a wealth of up-to-date information in an easily accessible format about the region's economic development and the structure of the countries' development 'machinery'. Extensive original research in the area, combined with a balanced use of Western and Arabic sources allow the author to present the most comprehensive overview of the subject available yet. The book encompasses most of the Arab countries plus Ethiopia. The Arab donors are also examined in detail.

Especially valuable and not elsewhere available are the numerous organisational charts depicting the individual countries' development administrations and the Arab donors' aid administrations.

This book will be of interest to all students of Middle East politics, economics and administration as well as to students of development.

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The power of teacher lore--the stories of teachers and students in the classroom--is the starting place for real reform in education. This book begins with a careful explanation of the history and theoretical foundation that shape the context for teacher lore. A rich collection follows of stories by teachers nationwide--kindergarten through college--in a variety of disciplines. Each story concludes with the author's reflection on important issues imbedded in the writing connected to the daily challenges of teaching. The authors apply teacher lore to current theories and research on change and staff development, include strategies for using teacher lore in professional development, conclude with suggestions for further readings and study. ... Read more

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The global trend toward self-governing schools (SGS) liberates school heads from bureaucratic shackles, making them leaders in their own right. The many challenges posed by the SGS model make it imperative that school leaders pursue professional development in leadership and management. This book draws on the author’s 34 years of experience in guiding, educating and training school leaders to offer a cutting edge prescription for professional development in school leadership.

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This book considers the policy issues, defines good practice, and evaluates and attempts to produce a model for effective professional development. It contrasts the work in Britain with other countries, using case studies and exercises to illustrate points. Many schools are only just coming to terms with the need for planning rational professional development, and may have identified the problems but not the solutions. ... Read more

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Kempe Ronald Hope provides, for the first time, a clear analysis and synthesis of economics and development administration, as well as an appraisal of the problems associated with the application of these concepts in Third World nations. Combining both theory and practice, and providing concrete examples, Hope begins by detailing the evolution of the concept of development from the inter-war years through the 1950s when the expression "Third World" first emerged, to the 1970s and the present when wholesale technology transfer and other new approaches emphasizing economic independence began to take precedence. The chapters that follow chart the history of modern development administration focusing on important issues such as the role of the development administrator in the implementation of public policy; the function of the public servant versus that of the politician; bureaucracy in government; and the increasing need for technical personnel to carry out development policies. ... Read more

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This is a study of what is taking place in professional development in education at the beginning of the 21st century. Through personal accounts, it seeks empirical evidence to explore the impact of policy on individuals, teaching and school effectiveness. ... Read more

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This second edition presents a sharpened, contemporary focus on the growth and development of teachers, documenting the contributors' concerns over professionalizing teaching, restructuring schools and rethinking teacher education. ... Read more

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This book contains guidance, support and training materials for those in leadership roles throughout the Lifelong Learning sector. Addressing key aspects of the occupational standards for Leadership and Management in FE, it examines the role and purpose of leadership through the use of lively case-studies and by presenting current, useful theory in an accessible way.It explains and evaluates leadership styles, giving practical advice and encouraging the reader to analyse their own leadership practice.In addition, it looks at how leaders at every level can contribute towards transforming their organisation. ... Read more

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This is an insightful overview of what is happening at the cutting edge of professional public policy analysis. Written by a well-known expert, the survey assesses the many and varied aspects of the policy studies discipline. Nagel suggests ways for professionals to become more effective and interdisciplinary in their approaches to dealing with public policy. He analyzes cross-cutting governmental activities and different theoretical perspectives. He points to means for achieving policy goals, for selecting among alternative policies, and to the organizations and institutions that are concerned with public policy. ... Read more

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Aiming to help teachers make a fuller contribution to school development, this text provides a guide to "reflective action planning", a teacher-led system for initiating and sustaining educational change. The book also aims to provide higher education tutors, external consultants, LEA advisers and school managers with guidelines for establishing cost-effective school-based support and accreditation for school development work. Facsimiles, checklists, formats and other tools are used in the context of a school-based support programme. ... Read more

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London Deanery, UK. Text provides practical information on the nature and purpose of clinical supervision. Examines the benefits and challenges of supervision within the primary care setting. Cites numerous case studies to describe current approaches to supervision for general practitioners. Softcover. ... Read more