communication in education

"Provide school leaders at all levels with simple, practical, easily learned and applied coach-like conversational techniques that will lead to open and reflective conversations with all members of the school community"--OCLC.

"Dan Feigelson refocuses reading and writing conferences to help all students reach their full potential. His practical approach centers on active listening--an equitable way to listen to, learn from, and guide students. His book is packed with sample conferences, if/then strategies, rubrics, and tips for starting conferences and keeping them going"--Provided by publisher.

Explains to readers their responsibility to listen to their teachers so that they may do their best in school.

"[This book] is designed to support the efforts of all educators to increase learning outcomes by engaging with the first and most influential teachers in children's lives: their families. The book is a framework for implementing best practices to increase the likelihood of engaging every family with an emphasis on those families that have been traditionally disengaged and disenfranchised from schools"--Provided by publisher.

"This book will help teachers examine their language habits and intentionally improve their classroom practice so their language matches and supports their goals"--OCLC.

Provides strategies for teaching English as a second language (ESL) students in the elementary classroom.

Teaching is more than a job--it's a responsibility, one of the greatest responsibilities in civilized society. Teachers lay bare the mysteries of the world; train minds to explore, question, investigate, and discover; and ensure that knowledge is not lost or forgotten but passed on to future generations. Teachers shape lives in limitless ways, both inside and outside of the classroom. But teaching is no easy task. It's an art form that requires craft, sensitivity, creativity, and intelligence. Whether the classroom consists of 3 students or 300, it's important to be as effective and successful a teacher as possible, both for the students and for professional and personal growth. This course is designed to help develop and enhance teaching style; provide methods, tools, and advice for handling all manner of teaching scenarios; and help viewers achieve new levels of success as teachers.

Describes strategies educators can use to prevent and effectively respond to problem behavior in kindergarten through high school classrooms, and includes reproducible checklists, assessment tools, and planning forms.

"[Demonstrates] how education leaders can learn to deliver feedback in a way that strengthens relationships as well as performance and builds the capacity for growth. Drawing on constructive-developmental theory, the authors describe four stages of adult growth and development and explain how to differentiate feedback for colleagues with different 'ways of knowing'"--Provided by publisher.