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For nearly 50 years students at Atlantic College ran inshore rescue services along a treacherous stretch of the South Wales coast. As auxiliary coast guards, lifeboat volunteers for the RNLI, and beach lifeguards, these 16-18-year-olds from different backgrounds and countries proved competent, courageous and determined. This is an account of the rescue services from their inception in 1962 based on the stories of the students themselves. They are...
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With new standards emphasizing higher-order thinking skills, students will have to demonstrate their ability to do far more than simply remember facts and procedures. But what's the best way for teachers to ensure that students have such skills? In this highly accessible guide, author Susan M. Brookhart shows how to do just that, by providing specific guidelines for designing targeted questions and tasks that align with standards and assess students'...
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The purpose of this book is to help international students navigate the academic issues they will encounter while attending graduate school in the United States. This book provides guidelines for conquering the obstacles that international graduate students often face, such as developing independent ideas based on required readings, participating in classroom discussions effectively, organizing academic papers, and effectively managing academic work...
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Written by Adrian Gray, a former Executive Committee member. It shows that school inspection has been a key factor in the European educational landscape for 200 years. The book also explains how inspection and evaluation approaches have changed and developed, especially over the last fifty years, reflecting changing ideas about school leadership and accountability — and also responding to technical changes such as new data and exam systems.
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Be Awesome on Purpose reflects on a decade of observing student behavior and outcomes, adjusting teaching routines, and eventually all aspects of classroom culture. The stories shared here will inspire you to try new things and realize that what you may consider your classroom failures are simply your growing pains. You will gain strategies focused on how to include the foundational work of weaving non-cognitive skills into your classroom routine...
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Instructors using the textbook, “Supervising Student Teachers: The Professional Way”, 7th Edition, will find its companion instructor's guide a helpful resource. Chapter-by-chapter, the instructor is provided with core ideas for guiding cooperating teachers' understanding and skill development needed for effective supervision of student teachers. This must-have resource provides a multitude of engaging instructional ideas, many discussion questions...
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The only assessment book K–12 teachers need to monitor and maximize student learning.
Classroom assessment is a vital part of teaching. It helps make student learning-or a lack thereof-visible so that teachers can adjust teaching practices and better support learners. But designing and implementing reliable assessments is a complex process.
In this comprehensive book by assessment expert Susan M. Brookhart, you will learn the foundational concepts...
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Accessible, hands-on RTI guidance and strategies for educators at all grade levels
This practical, ready-to-use resource gives teachers and administrators the tools to successfully implement RTI or strengthen an existing program to target students' specific needs. Response to Intervention allows educators to assess and meet the needs of struggling students before they have fallen too far behind. Three expert authors explore this multi-tiered system...
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[2004]
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The future of business growth is in the partnerships that companies and their executives form. Partnering explains how critical it is for business leaders to "partner" effectively, and features original contributions from more than 30 thought leaders, including such luminaries as Ken Blanchard, Jim Kouzes and Brian Tracy. Topics cover: * Ken Blanchard on situational leadership * Beverly Kaye on building, living, and leaving a legacy for the organization...
110) Guide pratique de l'école primaire et maternelle en Belgique: Guide pratique à l'usage des parents
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Les programmes et les apprentissages enfin expliqués aux parents.
La scolarité maternelle et primaire est un des moments les plus importants dans la vie de nos enfants, elle conditionnera bien souvent tout le reste de leur vie.
Mais l'école a changé et change encore. Elle suscite beaucoup de questions qui, à un moment ou un autre, touchent chaque famille.
Il est nécessaire de donner aux parents suffisamment d'informations et de conseils pour...
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Evaluate your learners with Google forms
Are you a teacher and are you feeling the need to put in place an alternative pedagogy to make your learners succeed? Want to know how to set up quizzes easily accessible on smartphone, tablet or computer? This little guide will help you! Discover a simple, step-by-step approach with screenshots
We have more than a decade of experience in initial and continuing education of adults and young pupils or students.
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The debate surrounding testing and accountability in early childhood education continues, but one thing is universally agreed upon: effective observation and assessment of young children's learning are critical to supporting their development. Educators balance what they know about child development with observation and assessment approaches that both inform and improve the curriculum. This foundational resource for all educators of children from...
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Dominique Odry réfléchit à la notion d'évaluation en milieu scolaire et propose des pistes de réflexion pour en maximiser les impacts positifs.
Tantt jugée néfaste pour le développement de l'élève, tantt considérée comme injuste, l'évaluation à l'école est régulièrement décriée par le grand public et souvent remise en question dans les débats politiques. Pourtant, son importance et son utilité pour mesurer l'état des connaissances...
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What's the best way to ensure that grading policies are fair, accurate, and consistent across classrooms? How can schools transition to a grading system that better reflects what students are actually learning? Tim R. Westerberg makes this journey easier by offering a continuum of options, with four "destinations" on the road to improved grading and assessment. Destination 1 critically examines such popular grading mechanisms as the zero, extra credit,...
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Comment les évaluations formative et certificative peuvent-elles se mettre au service des apprentissages des élèves et de leur reconnaissance sociale et institutionnelle? Voici le bilan d'un ensemble de travaux majeurs.
L'évaluation est omniprésente dans le monde de l'éducation et de la formation. Il semble même que l'on tende, aujourd'hui, à vouloir toujours plus évaluer et tout évaluer: des apprentissages, des enseignements, des dispositifs,...
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Une méthode et des outils pour aider à orienter.
Tout au long de notre vie, nous devons faire des choix qui peuvent avoir un impact important sur le reste de notre vie. Ils émanent tantt d'une volonté personnelle de changer, tantt de circonstances qui ne sont pas toujours
entre nos mains. Face aux innombrables possibilités qui s'offrent à nous, il n'est pas toujours évident de savoir quel chemin emprunter, celui qui respectera à la fois...
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Little time? Big responsibility! If you are a cooperating teacher hosting a student teacher, this book is the quick reference tool that you need. We like to say, "It's the little instruction book that should come with your student teacher!" It answers many questions about the evaluation process, the final conference, and the elements of the letter of recommendations. Problematic situations and legal aspects are also addressed. It includes essential...
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Abdou Karim GUEYE, Inspecteur général d'Etat et ancien directeur général de l'Ecole Nationale d'Administration et de Magistrature du Sénégal, publie un deuxième essai sur le management public et la gouvernance, à travers la problématique des Inspections générales d'Etat d'Afrique. L'auteur, Juriste, est aussi diplmé en administration publique et en management des organisations. Il cherche, à travers ses ouvrages qui paraissent progressivement,...
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Building on the bestselling Learning First, Technology Second, this book helps teachers choose technology tools and instructional strategies based on an understanding of how students learn.
After observing teachers and students interact with technology over many years, Liz Kolb began to wonder: While students' attention levels are high when they use digital devices, how can we move them to an equally high level of commitment to their learning tasks?...
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Assessment of student learning outcomes (ASLO) is one of the key activities in teaching and learning. It serves as the source of information in determining the quality of education at the classroom and national levels. Results from any assessment have an influence on decision making, on policy development related to improving individual student achievement, and to ensure the equity and quality of an education system. ASLO provides teachers and school...
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