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Service-Learning and Social Justice: Engaging Students in Social Change
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Cipolle, Susan Benigni – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2010
This book provides everything administrators and teachers need to build service-learning programs that prepare students as engaged citizens committed to equity and justice. The author describes practical strategies for classroom teachers along with the theoretical framework so readers can deftly move beyond the book to a meaningful program for…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Student Empowerment, Elementary Secondary Education, Service Learning
You Don't Have To Dread Cafeteria Duty: A Guide to Surviving Lunchroom, Recess, Bus, and "Other Duties as Assigned."
Novak, Dori E.; Strohmer, Joanne C. – 1998
This book offers educators ideas, plans, games, and reproducibles for making the school cafeteria into an inviting place where students can learn and have fun. Chapter 1, "The Dreaded School Cafeteria Scene," discusses observing the big picture and getting others involved. Chapter 2, "What Could Be," helps create a vision of…
Descriptors: Dining Facilities, Discipline, Elementary Secondary Education, Program Development
Women Reformed, Women Empowered: Poor Mothers and the Endangered Promise of Head Start. Women in the Political Economy Series.
Ames, Lynda J.; Ellsworth, Jeanne – 1997
By exploring the everyday experiences of women in a rural Head Start program, this study examines the processes of underprivileged women working to make a better life for themselves and their families. In all, researchers interviewed 42 parents, 7 of them fathers, 18 staff members, and 4 community representatives. To empower mothers, the Head…
Descriptors: Administration, Empowerment, Females, Low Income Groups
Mentoring New Teachers.
Portner, Hal – 1998
This book presents a guide for setting up a new teacher mentoring program. Chapter 1, "Relating," stresses the important part a relationship plays in the mentoring process. A set of introspective exercises teaches ways to establish trust and pay attention to nonverbal communication. Chapter 2, "Assessing," provides ways to gather and diagnose data…
Descriptors: Beginning Teacher Induction, Beginning Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Interpersonal Competence
Program Content. Perspectives on Consumer Education. A NASBE Monograph Series.
Prentice, Dinah, Ed. – 1978
This document is one in a series of three monographs developed by the National Association of State Boards of Education and designed to acquaint the reader with consumer education issues and how they affect policies. Included in these monographs are articles on what should be taught as part of consumer education, how consumer education programs…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Business, Consumer Education, Economics Education
Evaluating Teaching: A Guide to Current Thinking and Best Practice.
Stronge, James, Ed. – 1997
This guide presents current research and thinking about teacher evaluation and combines that research with practice. Chapters contain illustrations and examples to make a research-practice connection and present a comprehensive approach to designing, implementing, and monitoring quality teacher-evaluation systems. Chapters include: (1) "Improving…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Faculty Development
Career Education: Contributions to an Evolving Concept.
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Hoyt, Kenneth B. – 1975
The volume gathers together in one source a collection of Kenneth Hoyt's published and unpublished speeches, articles, and papers which trace the development of Hoyt's ideas on career education. Following an introductory section, Part 2 deals with stages in the development of career education concepts: defining career education, career choice,…
Descriptors: Anthologies, Career Development, Career Education, Concept Formation