Book Description
Since WWII, lawmakers have significantly reshaped educational policy. Most school personnel are aware of the burgeoning litigation and legislation, and some are familiar with the names of a few landmark Supreme Court decisions. Nonetheless, many teachers and administrators misunderstand the basic legal concepts that are being applied to educational questions. As a result, they are uncertain about the legality the daily decisions they make to operate their schools. A bestseller by the topic authors in this subject, this book helps alleviate concerns voiced by educators.
KEY TOPICS: It addresses legal principles applicable to practitioners in a succinct but comprehensive manner. Topics with a direct impact on educators and students are explored: student classification, attendance, teachersÕ constitutional rights, church-state relations, and much more. Every school administrator needs a copy of this best- selling reference on his or her shelf.
Customer Reviews:
Good book for uneducated teachers with regards to law.......2001-03-21
With all the horror stories we hear about teachers being fired and sued over decesions they made about punishment and what to teach and how to teach, this book is a gold mine. It provides information on just about any topic a teach may encounter. Not only does it have great information, it is also written with few "legal trade" words.
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New Edition of Bestseller!
This second edition puts even more tools for writing teacher evaluations at your fingertips!
Now you can write fact-filled, performance-based, high-quality teacher evaluations, quickly and efficiently, even when you are crunched for time.
The updated edition includes even more sample evaluations, forms, performance proficiency statements, and a timesaving CD-ROM. In Part One, performance statements are grouped under five standard areas of teaching competencies:
- Proficiency with Curriculum
- Evaluation of Student Growth
- Preparation and Readiness
- Instructional Performance
- Interaction/Climate
Suggested Pats on the Back following each section help you reinforce your teachers’ good work. Vocabulary Aids also help you select the exact words to customize your review.
Part Two offers easy-to-reproduce forms and sample evaluations, with a new section of statements specifically for commenting on the quality of writing/planning in teachers’ plan books, roll books, and homework assignments formulated for the students.
Other useful sections include:
- Common Areas of Concern, with Suggested Remedies
- Evaluation Organizer to record observed classroom practices in the quickest, most efficient way
- Sample Written Evaluations let you capture the most subtle aspects of observed teaching performance
- Cross-Reference of Key Terms gives a quick way to identify and find statements using the alphabetized lists of words and phrases
- Ready-to-copy forms include Record of Evaluations, Checklist of Basic Documentation and/or Conditions, a Pre-Post Conference Form, and an Informal Observation Form
CD-ROM is PC and Mac compatible and not sold separately.
Customer Reviews:
A Great Resource!.......2006-07-31
I found this book to be a great resource for Administrators who need to write Teacher Evaluations. This resource would also be extremely helpful for Graduate Students who are taking Administration courses. The comments are appropriate. The "pats on the back" are explicit with details. This book is most helpful when comments for improvement need to be written. The negative scenerios come with a bank of suggestions for improvement. The CD made my life easier. I am sure that you will keep this book within arm's reach as I have done.
Great Teacher Evaluation Resource.......2000-05-04
If you need a great reference book on what to say on teacher observation and evaluation reports, this book is it. Offers compliments to give teachers who show strength in certain areas. As well, it offers suggestions for imporvoemnt for those who need it.
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Writing instruction stands at a crossroads. Efforts to define and then assess the key qualities of writing have helped pinpoint what outcomes matter most and how to measure them, yet they threaten to become an end in themselves. Meanwhile, high-quality instruction seeks to create a safe environment that applauds risk taking by supporting students through strategies that are not readily measured. In this landmark book, Vicki Spandel takes on the immeasurable, opening an exciting discussion about the conditions writers need to achieve their full potential and offering practical applications for any writing classroom.
In The 9 Rights of Every Writer Spandel invites nine published authors into a discussion of what makes writing work. Well-known novelists, researchers, science writers, and teacherwriters join this dynamic conversation, and together they draw vital conclusions about teaching strategies that both lead to growth in craft and allow good teaching to flourish. Join Spandel and friends in discovering the personal and instructional importance of:
- reflecting
- finding personally important topics
- going off topic
- personalizing the writing process
- writing badly to unearth and clarify meaning
- observing other writers at work
- assessing constructively - and well
- experiencing structural freedom
- unearthing the power of each writer's voice.
As you will discover, The 9 Rights of Every Writer weaves the philosophical into the practical, offering powerful, ready-to-use lessons that jumpstart the progress of the writers in your classroom and help them reach writing standards.
Harness your passion for writing instruction, let go of rigid practices, and balance the needs of maturing writers with today's classroom realities. Read The 9 Rights of Every Writer, learn to trust your teaching instincts, and concentrate on what matters most: creating an instructional setting where writers can achieve success that soars beyond what can be measured.
Customer Reviews:
A must-read for all teachers of writing.......2006-02-01
Vicki Spandel's infectious faith in writing as thinking will leap into your classroom as you nod your way through this excellent text. In fact, there were parts where I wasn't merely nodding in agreement, I was shouting, "YES!" I love Spandel's encouragement and insights. I love following her advice and feeling her warm support as I work with my third grade writers. This is a wonderful text for new and veteran teachers of writing.
9 Answers for Every Writing Teacher.......2005-08-30
Often books come out that we ought to read. Less often books come out that we want to read. 9 Rights for Every Writer is one you HAVE to read. In this test-crazed world, Vicki Spandel brings us back to our writing-workshop center--to the joy that only comes from teaching writing well. Vicki takes us on a journey, reminding us how effective writing instruction teaches deep thinking and much more. It's essential that our writers have what they deserve. In a reader-friendly style, Vicki eloquently and gently reminds us why we became writing teachers for in the first place, giving us 9 principles to teach by. Did I say you HAD to read this book? You NEED to read this book.
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“In
Why Can't We Get It Right? Second Edition
, Marsha Speck and Caroll Knipe provide a thorough overview of what is known about the nature of professional development that produces high levels of learning and performance for teachers and their students. They admirably achieve their goal of showing how well-designed professional development with a clear focus on improved student learning can make a difference in teaching and student success.”
—From the Foreword by Dennis Sparks, Executive Director
National Staff Development Council
How can we use professional development to provide the best teaching and learning opportunities for all students?
To increase student achievement and prepare all students to meet standards, educators must be well prepared. Teachers who know their content and strategies can open a virtual toolbox and take out what they need to help all students become successful. This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Why Can’t We Get It Right? explains how educational leaders can design, deliver, and evaluate collaborative standards-based professional development.
In this unique and indispensable guide, Marsha Speck and Caroll Knipe provide professional development designs, challenging teachers to make a difference for students and resulting in dramatically improved schools. This excellent resource contains:
- Essential questions about high-quality professional development
- Information on creating the culture for a learning community
- Conditions and processes for professional development
- Suggestions on designing your own model
- Tools for evaluating and rethinking professional development and learning
- Strategies for deepening a leader’s impact on a standards-based system
If we are to improve learning and achievement in our schools, we must also nourish the growth of educators and foster a learner-centered environment!
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Jim Burgett draws on 40+ years as a top administrator, principal, and teacher in Illinois to share invaluable how-to information for teachers, mostly through stories, examples, and fun. This is the core material from Jim's popular program offered nationwide called "How to Be a More Effective Teacher, Remain Sane, and Stay Out of Jail--all at the same time!"
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In a personal and profound examination of the United States legal system and its effect on African Americans, Patricia J. Williams uses the term alchemy--the medieval, mysterious practice of turning base metal into gold--as a haunting metaphor for the nearly mystical process by which United States law emboldens and endangers blacks through arcane interpretation, as well as the heroic will of a people to make those laws manifest. "I'm interested in the way in which the legal language flattens and confines in absolutes the complexity of meaning inherent in any given problem," she writes. "I am trying to challenge the usual limits of commercial discourse by using an intentionally double-voiced and relational, rather than a traditionally legal black letter, vocabulary."
With an authorial voice that draws upon Williams's perspective as teacher, lawyer, black American, and woman, The Alchemy of Race and Rights uses a palette of court cases, educational encounters, and personal experiences--including her discovery of her slave ancestor and her interactions with school deans over how to teach law--to create a literary cubist portrait detailing the rhetoric and reality that color the complexion of American justice. --Eugene Holley Jr.
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Patricia Williams is a lawyer and a professor of commercial law, the great-great-granddaughter of a slave and a white southern lawyer. The Alchemy of Race and Rights is an eloquent autobiographical essay in which the author reflects on the intersection of race, gender, and class. Using the tools of critical literary and legal theory, she sets out her views of contemporary popular culture and current events, from Howard Beach to homelessness, from Tawana Brawley to the law-school classrom, from civil rights to Oprah Winfrey, from Bernhard Goetz to Marth Beth Whitehead. She also traces the workings of "ordinary racism"--everyday occurences, casual, unintended, banal perhaps, but mortifying. Taking up the metaphor of alchemy, Williams casts the law as a mythological text in which the powers of commerce and the Constitution, wealth and poverty, sanity and insanity, wage war across complex and overlapping boundaries of discourse. In deliberately transgressing such boundaries, she persues a path toward racial justice that is, ultimately, transformative.
Williams gets to the roots of racism not by fingerpointing but by much gentler methods. Her book is full of anecdote and witness, vivid characters known and observed, trenchant analysis of the law's shortcomings. Only by such an inquiry and such patient phenomenology can we understand racism. The book is deeply moving and not so, finally, just because racism is wrong--we all know that. What we don't know is how to unthink the process that allows racism to persist. THis Williams enables us to see. The result is a testament of considerable beauty, a triumph of moral tactfullness, The result, as the title suggests, is magic.
Customer Reviews:
passionate diatribe.......2006-04-22
There is a lot to complain about regarding race and civil rights and this author questions how far we've come.
We have NOT arrived, she reminds us.
She is a downer and does not leave much hope, yet, somehow it is energizing to read.
A Widely Read Manifesto of Regressive Race Relations.......2004-04-01
A great deal of discourse has come out of the use of this book in my law class on the interaction of law in society, but I find it's use counter-productive to the forward-thinking goals of most academic institutions. Prof. Williams cannot seem to make up her mind on anything. She attacks Marxist lawyers, while at the same time advocating an affront to the bourgeoise, especially those without black skin (whites, Hispanics and Asians are all vilified to some degree in this book). While masquerading as a socialist activist herself, she then advocates a very right-wing goal of keeping each other in our respective racial boxes to keep order, even refusing to accept that she herself can be at once black, female and educated -- these three identities always appear separately for her. Her book is a regressive look at the future that denies the possibility of progress in race and gender relations. She is sadly unable to employ the power in her rights and instead prefers to wallow in a viscious cycle that refuses to recognize nuance, and prefers rather to assume racial categories, because they are simpler. Very few new ideas are presented in this racist, ethnically intolerant and misandric text and it is hardly worth a read, beyond the fact that it may come up in discussion.
More gibberish from the good professor.......2003-06-21
What a dreary tome. Ms. Professor Williams has a unique ability to obscure the most obvious and trite revelations in pedantic and turgid prose that she thinks is thrillingly poetic because the words are long-winded and flowery. and that's when she's making sense, which isn't very often. the rest of her writings tend to be either outright calls for more preferences for her preferred friends camouflaged as courageous iconoclasm, or just plain idiocy posing as intellectually daring originality. Sadly enough, if Thomas Kuhn is right, we'll have the likes of Professor Pat around for another couple of decades. (But hey, if you have the money, you can always sign up for the Nation's annual cruise and talk about the revolution with Pat and the gang for a mere 8 grand or so....)
Fabulous Book for the Open-Minded.......2003-05-05
This is an extraordinary book. Through the use of a wide array of reasoning and writing methods, Williams makes it possible for us to get a glimpse of the dangerous and contradictory legal world that ethnic minorities must negotiate to survive. It may be a bit of a stretch for people unaccustomed to thinking outside the box as well as those unfamilar with literature and literary theory. But the insight Williams offers is well worth the effort. It also provides members of the privileged class with the unusual & valuable experience of not being the central focus of the text. A fabulous experience for readers with an open mind!
Incoherent BROKEN Necklace of Thoughts.......2002-07-03
Williams style is more of a problem than her substance. She uses numerous anecdotal stories, told from one side, some of which are dubious in truth, and rare questionably-derived statistics, to demonstrate an invisible undercurrent of racism from whites against blacks, and these are the issues she addresses best. Her style could perhaps best be described as varying between insightful and incoherent, with I'm afraid more of the latter.
Williams argues in the beginning of her book against generalization, that "reconceptualizing from "objective truth" to rhetorical event will be a more nuanced sense of legal and social responsibility," (p.11) then proceeds to generalize and polarize whites and blacks and generalize about numerous other issues throughout the book:
"White women are prostitutes; black women are whores" p. 175
"To say that blacks never fully believed in rights is true" p. 163
"Blacks are thus, in full culturally imagistic terms, not merely unmothered but badly fathered, abused and disowned by whites." p. 163
Argues would probably be a bad choice of word, for logic is the study of arguments, and Williams is neither consistent nor logical. In style, Williams is neither clear nor concise, and in one word, rambles.
Customer Reviews:
too much ground covered.......2007-09-26
This book is prevented from being a practical guide by covering too much ground in one volume. A better approach would have been to divide the content into two volumes - one for teachers only. While it is a good thing to review case law, I would have found it more helpful if it had included steps for remedy.
Book Description
Educators have puzzled over why new concepts in professional development do not always translate into improved student learning. Now this pioneering and daring book by Speck and Knipe offers new practices to raise student achievement while strongly advocating for responsible changes in the policies, structures, and operations of schools. Key highlights: - Essential questions about professional development - Focusing professional development in a standards-based system - Creating the culture for a learning community - Addressing teacher work concerns through professional development - Promoting individual growth through professional learning - Challenging districts to sustain professional growth - Designing your own model - Tools for implementing a professional development design - Evaluating professional development - Revisiting past perspectives to underscore the need for change - Facing the emerging issues and challenges of professional learning Over the years, the focus of professional development has changed from what others “do to” educators to what educators “do with” their own inside and outside experiences. This is the book that brings that new focus into sharp relief, and makes it real through insight scenarios, quotations, and tools. The result: a new perspective that helps educators face the challenge of professional learning on a deeply personal level.
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The Teacher?s Right Hand is a resource guide for upper elementary and middle school language arts teachers. It was written by educator, Kimberly S. Gibbons to help teachers work with the average learner.
Customer Reviews:
Awesome Teacher Resource.......2003-04-18
The Teacher's Right Hand is an educator's dream. It really does have practical, ready to use activities. I refer to this resource several times a week, and my students thoroughly enjoy the teacher-created games. If you are a middle school educator, this book is a must have!
Excellent Resource For Teachers and Parents.......2003-04-05
I found this book to be an excellent resource for teachers and parents. This book has numerous activities that can be used either in the classroom or by parents at home. I found each of the activities to be very detailed, outlining the objectives, and needed materials. The book contains numerous reproducible transparencies and worksheets.
This book has helped me to organize my daily instruction and has saved me hours in planning time!!! I also use it at home with my own children. This is an exellent resource and HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!!
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