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Major speeches from the 1997 AAHE Conference on Assessment & Quality.
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• Quick FAQ's about the NGSS for Physics Teachers - Overview and History of the NGSS - Reading the NGSS - Physics and the NGSS - Resources for Implementing the NGSS

This book aims to help K-12 physics teachers understand how their classroom practice aligns with the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), first drafted in 2012. It provides an overview and history of the NGSS, as well as guidelines to reading and interpreting performance expectations, which are embedded with the three dimensions of science learning. Teachers can find out how they can effectively align their practice should their state adopt the NGSS. Key highlights: --Identifies physics concepts across all kindergarten through high school grade bands --Analyzes the high school physics standards that are included in and excluded from performance expectations --Identifies weaknesses and omissions in the guidelines, with recommendations for improvement. Physics and 21st Century Science Standards will help K-12 physics and science teachers better understand how their classroom practice is or could be aligned with the NGSS

Designed to both help both school psychologists and reading specialists effectively assume the consultation role, this volume provides an overview of reading problems while serving as a guide to effective practice.
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• Supporting Student-Centered Teaching Sheila's Vision The Process Is the Content Reconceptualizing the Roles Colliding with 'Institutional Realities' Developing the Mentoring Relationship Teaching in a Student-Centered Classroom.
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Teachers who want to develop a meaningful curriculum, requiring students to develop problem-solving skills and pursue their individual interests, often face criticism from colleagues with traditional teaching styles. Through a rich case study, Elizabeth Aaronsohn illustrates the difficulties of becoming a student-centred teacher within a traditional school which conforms to teacher- or content-centred education. She argues that student-centred teaching ought to become the norm in schools.
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• Preface Introduction Chapter 1: Why Another Book About Education? Chapter2: The Excuse-riddled Mindset Some Preliminaries Number One: "You Just Don't Get Our Problem" Number Two: "Students Aren't Interested in Learning" Number Three: "Our Community Doesn't Support Us, is Probably Against Us" Number Four: "Change is Something That Teachers by Nature Resist" Number Five: "Tenure Makes Good Teaching About as Valuable as Acne" Number Six: "School Leaders are Really Terrible Models of Excellence" Number Seven: "School Board Politics Will Destroy Every One of Us Anyway" A Few Reflections Ideas for Further Consideration
• Chapter 3: Defeating the Excuses, Part 1 The Dirty Little Secret in an Excuse-riddled Organization Where We Go Right: The Culture of Success The Critical Role of Leadership: Performing the Truth The Lessons of Authentic Leadership Challenging the Ghosts of the Past Ideas for Further Consideration Chapter 4: Defeating the Excuses, Part 2 The Excuses Examined A Few More Points about Eliminating Excuses Ideas for Further Consideration Chapter 5: Can These Things Work in Any School? Even Mine? You're Kidding! Leadership Underscored (Again) The Model: Plan-Do-Check-Act Systems Thinking and Leadership The Excuses Re-examined: The Power of I.D.E.A.S. The Journey to High-achieving Schools IDEAS at Work: One District's Experience What the Case Shows Ideas for Further Consideration Chapter 6: Every Journey Has a Few Potholes. Here's Some Help in How to Handle Them. The Frustration Factor Magic Bullet Myths The "Good Enough" Syndrome Damn the Facts-Full Speed Ahead! The Blame Game Organizational Amnesia Conspiracy Theory Fire Fighting Blurred Vision One or Two Concluding Thoughts Ideas for Further Consideration Appendix The Eight Lessons of Authentic Leadership An Authentic Leader's Self-assessment A Glossary of Some Useful Terms Leaders and Leadership: Some Sources IDEAS Project Report Template.
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Journey to a High-Achieving School: Eliminate Destructive Excuses examines the range of devastating excuses often expressed for failure to attain significant improvement in our schools. Using the methods of systems thinking and leadership practices that are employed in high-performing organizations of all kinds, this book shows concretely and specifically that what is at the root of these excuses can be overcome. The core ideas at work in the volume are based on the authors' well-regarded Academy for Education Leaders, an intensive course of seminars conducted for school superintendents, principals, and other educational leaders for the past several years. This is not a "quick fix" manual offering magic wands or silver bullets. It is a carefully-structured guidebook that can clearly and demonstrably help educational leaders at all levels of accountability begin to build a serious culture of excellence within their schools and school districts. Improvement will take time, but as the processes become familiar, school leaders can uncover and address the complex, but confused assumptions that keep standing in the way of the substantial and measurable improvements that must be made for our society's educational future.
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• To the Reader 1
• Introduction 2
• A Library Ethnography 3
• Fundamentals 4
• The Preliminary Phase 5
• Midphase Bibliography 6
• Midphase Scanning, Browsing, and Brute Force 7
• Reading 8
• Midphase Files and Organization 9
• Midphase Analysis 10
• Midphase Writing 11
• Midphase Design 12
• Endphase Glossary
• Index.
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Today's researchers have access to more information than ever before. Yet the new material is both overwhelming in quantity and variable in quality. How can scholars survive these twin problems and produce groundbreaking research using the physical and electronic resources available in the modern university research library? In Digital Paper, Andrew Abbott provides some much-needed answers to that question. Abbott tells what every senior researcher knows: that the research process in such materials is not a mechanical, linear process, but a thoughtful and adventurous journey through a non-linear world. He breaks library research down into seven basic and simultaneous tasks: design, search, scanning/browsing, reading, analyzing, filing, and writing. He moves the reader through the phases of research, from confusion to organization, from vague idea to polished result. He teaches how to evaluate data and prior research; how to follow a trail to elusive treasures; how to organize a project; when to start over; when to ask for help. He shows how an understanding of scholarly values, a commitment to hard work, and the flexibility to change direction combine to enable the researcher to turn a daunting mass of found material into an effective paper or thesis. More than a mere how-to manual, Abbott's guidebook helps teach good habits for acquiring knowledge, the foundation of knowledge worth knowing. Those looking for ten easy steps to a perfect paper may want to look elsewhere. But serious scholars, who want their work to stand the test of time, will appreciate Abbott's unique, forthright approach and relish every page of Digital Paper.
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• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. Transnational Education and Educational Sovereignty: A Framework for Analysis
• Chapter 3. Historical and Political Background of Post-Secondary Education in Indonesia
• Chapter 4. Foreign Education Presence and Indonesian Education Laws
• Chapter 5. Reciprocity in Transnational Post-Secondary Education in Indonesia
• Chapter 6. Nature of the Indonesia-United States Education Relationship
• Chapter 7. Equality in the Indonesia-US Education Relationship
• Chapter 8. Indonesian Identity and Cultural Values
• Chapter 9. Normative and non-normative discourses in transnational educacation partnership: Indonesia-New Zealand Case Study
• Chapter 10: Conclusion.
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This book examines the effects of education exchange on educational sovereignty in Indonesia. Since independence, Indonesia has increasingly relied on the education programs of foreign providers. The author draws from critical education, dependency, and transnational and interdependence theories to highlight the defining features of educational sovereignty and demonstrate the role of state and non-state actors in its maintenance.
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