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Education Reimagined: Leading Systemwide Change with the ISTE Standards
2018Helen Crompton
Educational leaders play a central role in developing a culture of change and providing the conditions for innovation in schools, and that role varies by job title. District leaders make changes across multiple schools, principals lead change across their schools and teacher leaders guide change within and across grade levels. But no matter the role, a framework that identifies the knowledge and behaviors required for leaders to make student learning possible and for teachers to be empowered is a necessity. The ISTE Standards for Education Leaders offer a concrete framework to help leaders set goals and provide a vision for transformative systems change within educational institutions. The ISTE Standards for Educators and the ISTE Standards for Students are also used by leaders to provide holistic change with a shared vision and direction for all. Education Reimagined provides aspiring and established leaders an on-ramp for using the ISTE Standards to guide change in their educational systems. This booklet contains examples showing how those in specific leadership roles can use the ISTE Standards in their work; reflection questions applicable to all leadership roles; vignettes demonstrating how a variety of leaders in a diverse range of schools have embraced the ISTE Standards for Education Leaders; an explanation of other frameworks and standards that connect with and complement the ISTE Standards for Education Leaders and a crosswalk between the ISTE Essential Conditions and the ISTE Standards for Education Leaders. [Amazon.com]
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Mobile Learning and Higher Education: Challenges in Context
2018Helen Crompton (Editor) and John Traxler (Editor)
Mobile Learning and Higher Education provides case studies of mobile learning in higher education settings to showcase how devices can transform learning at the undergraduate and graduate levels. With the rapid diffusion of networked technologies among the adult populations of many countries and the supersession of the once-ubiquitous lecture approach with active learner-centered teaching for deep understanding, mobile devices are increasingly used in higher education classrooms to offer unique and effective new approaches to teaching and learning. A cutting-edge research volume, this collection also provides a springboard for building better practices in higher education institutions. [From Amazon.com]
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Creative Investigations in Early Art
2018Angela Eckhoff
While the visual and performing arts are powerful curricular companions to early STEM experiences, educators may not have the tools and resources to introduce art beyond painting and drawing. Creative Investigations in Early Art provides them with an inquisitive, explorative approach to boost young learners, creativity and critical-thinking, communication, and problem-solving skills through artistic expression. … [Amazon.com]
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Creative Investigations in Early Engineering and Technology
2018Angela Eckhoff
Early childhood teachers continue to seek activities that promote STEM-based learning. But most STEM books focus on science and math, excluding technology and engineering. Creative Investigations in Early Engineering and Technology helps teachers create a more well-rounded STEM learning program. … [From Amazon.com]
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Creative Investigations in Early Science
2018Angela Eckhoff
Young children are born scientists with an innate desire to analyze and investigate the world around them. Creative Investigations in Early Science helps educators expand and encourage young learners inquisitive nature as they explore the physical, life, and earth sciences. [From Amazon.com]
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Counseling & Helping Skills: Critical Techniques to Becoming a Counselor
2018Edward Neukrug
Counseling and Helping Skills: Critical Techniques to Becoming a Counselor provides counselors and other helping professionals with a complete guide to developing the skills and competencies necessary to support a diverse spectrum of clients.
The text is divided into two sections. Part I begins with a chapter that describes nine characteristics of an effective counselor and then moves on to chapters that examine foundational, essential, and commonly used skills. Some skills discussed include nonverbal behaviors, forming an equal relationship, non-pathologizing, honoring and respecting clients, listening, empathy, affirmation giving, offering alternatives, self-disclosure, modeling, collaboration, and more. A separate chapter on information-gathering and solution-focused questions is provided next. Part I concludes with a chapter on specialized skills such as advocacy, assessment for lethality, confrontation, cognitive-behavioral responses, interpretation, positive counseling, life-coaching, and crisis, trauma, and disaster counseling. … [From Amazon.com]
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Group Therapy
2017Nina W. Brown
This book presents the basic knowledge needed for becoming an effective group leader, a rationale and guide for the group leader’s personal development, descriptions and examples for different types of groups that used in varying settings for a range of target audiences, and suggested skills and techniques to facilitate groups. Each chapter focuses on a major portion for the art and science of group leadership as the basic premises underlying this presentation are that there are subjects and topics that emerged from research as supportive of specific topics related to groups and group leaders, such as group developmental stages, and other topics that are more abstract and complex because these also need and rely on the inner resources and development of the group leader, such as group process commentary. The art factors provide the group leader with the expertise and knowledge for deciding when and how to intervene, helping to assist when members or the group become stuck, using the material generated in the here and now, facing the challenges of difficult members and difficult groups, constructive use of emotional intensity, conflict, and prevention of the negative impact of the leader’s counter transference on members and/or on the group. Covered are becoming a group leader, group dynamics and therapeutic factors, cultural and diversity factors, ethics, professional standards and legal concerns, effective use of developmental group stages, general guidelines for planning and implementing groups, group facilitation skills, the group leader’s personal development, strategies for building a therapeutic self, group challenges, difficulties and interventions: member level, and group level challenges and interventions. [From Amazon.com]
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Counselor Self-Care
2017Gerald Corey, Michelle Muratori, Jude T. Austin, and Julius A. Austin
Self-care is critical for effective and ethical counseling practice and this inspirational book offers diverse, realistic perspectives on how to achieve work–life balance and personal wellness from graduate school through retirement. In addition to the authors’ unique perspectives as professionals at different stages of their careers, guest contributors—ranging from graduate students, to new professionals, to seasoned counselors—share their experiences and thoughts about self-care, including what challenges them most. Both personal and conversational in tone, this book will help you to create your own practical self-care action plan through reflection on important issues, such as managing stress, establishing personal and professional boundaries, enhancing relationships, and finding meaning in life.
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ISTE Standards for Educators: A Guide for Teachers and Other Professionals
2017Helen Crompton
This guide is your go-to resource for understanding, preparing for and adopting the ISTE Standards for Educators. It provides a deeper look at the Educator Standards, advice on getting started with implementing the standards, and profiles and tips for adopting the standards by role. This booklet includes: the ISTE Standards for Educators with concept definitions and testimonials, analysis of how the Educator Standards connect to other standards and frameworks, reflective questions and tips for implementing specific competencies within the standards and profiles by job role identifying tips and approaches to adopting the standards. [From the publisher]
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Organizational Behavior for School Leadership: Leveraging Your School for Success
2017Leslie S. Kaplan and William A. Owings
Organizational Behavior for School Leadership provides a theoretical and practical framework to help emerging leaders build the mental models they need to be effective. Presenting traditional, modern, and contemporary perspectives, each chapter offers opportunities for readers to reflect on the ideas and apply their leadership perspective and skills to their own work settings. In this way, this important book helps graduate students in educational leadership understand organizational situations and circumstances, an essential step in making appropriate decisions about people, school operations, and the community that generate improved student and teacher outcomes. [From the publisher]
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Multicultural Education of Children and Adolescents
2017M. Lee Manning, Leroy G. Baruth, and G. Lea Lee
Multicultural Education of Children and Adolescents explores the foundations of diversity through cultural portraits of young people from a variety of backgrounds, and provides practical strategies for shaping and implementing a multicultural curriculum. In Part I, the authors introduce multicultural education as a concept and document the increasing cultural diversity of the United States. The text describes, in Part II, various cultural groups―including African, American Indian, and Hispanic cultures―to help pre-service teachers better understand the backgrounds of diverse learners. Part III focuses on topics that educators should consider when planning and implementing programs that teach acceptance and respect for cultural diversity. Through this series of applied chapters, teacher candidates will learn to use the most effective instructional practices with diverse learners, and to work successfully with families, school personnel, and administrators to implement a multicultural program. … [Amazon.com]
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20 Formative Assessment Strategies that Work: A Guide Across Content and Grade Levels
2017Kate Wolfe Maxlow and Karen L. Sanzo
This book provides teachers and school leaders with practical, effective, and proven assessment strategies that are immediately implementable in classrooms. You’ll learn about 20 high-impact formative assessment strategies, with details on how they can be applied to a variety of content areas and grade levels, including mathematics, science, language arts, social studies, and various electives. In this accessible book, these experienced authors demonstrate the how and why, along with a framework for folding these new ideas into job-embedded professional development. 20 Formative Assessment Strategies that Work provides the full toolkit for implementing, managing, and modifying these assessment strategies in your school and classrooms today. [Amazon.com]
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Dictionary of Counseling and Human Services
2017Edward Neukrug, Mike Kalkbrenner, and Kevin Snow
The Dictionary of Counseling and Human Services offers professionals and others interested in the helping professions common definitions of close to 3,000 major words and terms used by a wide variety of mental health professionals. In addition, the book provides a focused study tool for human service professionals and counselors who are studying for credentialing exams (e.g., comps, NCC, HS-BCP). Using a coding system, the book distinguishes words and terms most likely used by human service professionals from those used by counselors and ranks them based on the likelihood that they will be asked on a credentialing exam. We think you will find the book a useful resource as you delve further into the fields of counseling and human services. [From Amazon.com]
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Counseling Theory and Practice (2nd Edition)
2017Edward S. Neukrug
Developed for helping professionals, Counseling Theory and Practice explains what it means to be an effective helper, discusses foundations of classic counseling and psychotherapy theories, provides an overview of emerging theories, and gives students the opportunity to develop their own approaches to counseling and psychotherapy practice.
The book is organized into four primary sections, each addressing theoretical schools. Section 1 explores psychodynamic approaches, including psychoanalysis, Jungian therapy, and Adlerian therapy. Section 2 is devoted to existential-humanistic approaches such as existential therapy, Gestalt therapy, and person-centered counseling, while Section 3 discusses cognitive-behavioral approaches, including behavior therapy, cognitive behavior therapy, rational-emotive behavior therapy, and reality therapy. Section 4 describes post-modern therapies and examines the relatively new approaches of narrative therapy, solution-focused brief therapy, and relational cultural therapy, a form of feminist therapy. The final chapter explores a number of more recent and emerging theories. [Amazon.com]
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Theory, Practice, and Trends in Human Services: An Introduction
2017Edward S. Neukrug
This easy-to-understand text addresses critical topics in human services to provide you with a comprehensive overview of the field. You'll learn about professional issues and major theories related to human service work as well as about how to work with varying client populations and become a culturally competent helper. Major content areas include professional issues, standards in the profession (skill standards, ethics, accreditation, and credentialing), history, counseling theory, helping skills, human development, group and family counseling, community systems, consultation and supervision, and research, testing, and evaluation. The last chapter (on career development) gives you an opportunity to examine whether human services is the right field for you and helps you understand the career counseling process. The book is further distinguished by its experiential emphasis, unique use of personal vignettes, and focus on the development of the helper. [From Amazon.com]
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The Oxford Handbook of Aphasia and Language Disorders
2017Anastasia M. Raymer (Editor) and Leslie J. Gonzalez Rothi (Editor)
What is immediately clear when meeting individuals with acquired brain damage is that the patterns of communication impairments vary in remarkable ways among these individuals. Aphasia and related communication disorders, while devastating life events for individuals who acquire brain damage, provide lessons of considerable interest to many clinicians and researchers trying to understand the brain's neurological and psychological complexity and develop methods to facilitate optimum recovery of lost language and communication functions following brain damage. The Oxford Handbook of Aphasia and Language Disorders weaves theoretical and neurological foundations with rational, motivated clinical approaches to assessment, diagnosis, and intervention for aphasia and related communication disorders. The contributing authors, experienced clinicians and scientists with strong backgrounds in neurological and cognitive neuropsychological theories, bridge theory to clinical practice, reviewing the extant literature in each aphasia syndrome while exploring implications for guiding clinical decision-making. … [From Amazon.com]
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Nutrition for Health, Fitness, and Sport
2017Melvin H. Williams, Eric S. Rawson, and J. David Branch
Nutrition for Health, Fitness & Sport, now in its Eleventh edition, provides the reader with thorough coverage of the role nutrition plays in enhancing one’s health, fitness, and sport performance. Current research and practical activities are incorporated throughout… [From Amazon.com]
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Postmodern Career Counseling: A Handbook of Culture, Context, and Cases
2016Louis A. Busacca (Editor) and Mark C. Rehfuss (Editor)
This practiced-based handbook describes postmodern career counseling models and methods designed to meet clients’ diverse needs in today’s challenging work environment. Readers will gain a solid understanding of the theoretical underpinnings of postmodern career counseling and learn practical approaches to counseling clients of various ages and backgrounds on occupational choice and other issues, such as coping with developmental tasks, career transitions, and work traumas.
Drawing directly from their experiences with clients, career counseling experts link theory to practice in 17 application chapters that demonstrate the process of postmodern career assessment and intervention embedded in culture and context. Multicultural case vignettes and a “Practical Application Guide” in each of these chapters facilitate classroom learning and discussion. [Amazon.com]
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Guide to Studying Spanish in Spain: Everything You Need to Know to Experience Studying Spanish in Spain
2016Sharon Judge
Have you always dreamed of studying Spanish in Spain but found you didn’t know where to go, what school to choose, or what courses to take? ? Do you have a teenager who wants to spend a gap year or summer studying Spanish in Spain? This up-to-date guide will help you decide whether, where, and how to choose the city you wish to study in, as well as the school, the specific course, the type of accommodations, and other aspects of your trip. You’ll be able to avoid some pitfalls and cope with others, giving you the confidence you need to select the best Spanish school in Spain. [From Amazon.com]
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A Brief Orientation to Counseling: Professional Identity, History, and Standards
2016Edward S. Neukrug
A BRIEF ORIENTATION TO COUNSELING provides the unique knowledge and skills you need as you begin your journey toward building an identity as a professional counselor. Neukrug clearly and concisely addresses 13 critical areas related to Professional Orientation and Ethical Practice that will form the foundation for your success in practice. Along the way, he provides real-world advice, vignettes to reflect upon, experiential activities, and case studies that will help you prepare for a career in the helping professions. [Amazon.com]
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Graduate Education at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs): A Student Perspective
2016Robert T. Palmer (Editor), Larry J. Walker (Editor), Ramon B. Goings (Editor), Charmaine Troy (Editor), Chaz T. Gipson (Editor), and Felicia Commodore (Editor)
Highlighting the voices and experiences of Black graduate students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), this book features the perspectives of students from a variety of academic backgrounds and institutional settings. Contributors discuss their motivation to attend an HBCU for graduate studies, their experiences, and how these helped prepare them for their career. To be prepared to serve the increasing number of Black students with access to graduate programs at HBCUs, university administrators, faculty, and staff require a better understanding of these students’ needs and how to meet them. Addressing some of today’s most urgent issues and educational challenges, this book expands the literature on HBCUs and provides insight into the role their graduate schools play in building a diverse academic and professional community. [From the publisher]
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Bring Your Own Device: Engaging Students and Transforming Instruction
2016Kipp D. Rogers
Utilize technology to put students at the center of learning. This book shows educators how to incorporate students' personal technology tools (cell phones, iPads, and laptops) into instruction. BYOD allows students to be active participants in their learning and helps teachers give them an authentic education that equips them with the skills required to be college, career, and citizenship ready. … [Amazon.com]
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Strategies for Developing and Supporting School Leaders: Stepping Stones to Great Leadership
2016Karen L. Sanzo
Strategies for Developing and Supporting School Leaders assists personnel in school districts to deliver appropriate development and support practices for aspiring and current school leaders. This book explores a variety of research-based and best-practice processes that can be implemented in school districts to prepare leaders to meet the technical and adaptive demands of school leadership and the needs of a diverse student population. Sanzo lays out a cohesive framework of key processes and activities that range from the very simple and immediately implementable, to the more complex and nuanced. Providing both the "how," and "why," this important resource shares ideas, strategies, tools, and systems to develop effective and meaningful professional learning opportunities to help promote highly effective schools and districts. [Amazon.com]
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Mobile Learning and Mathematics: Foundations, Design, and Case Studies
2015Helen Crompton (Editor) and John Traxler (Editor)
Mobile Learning and Mathematics provides an overview of current research on how mobile devices are supporting mathematics educators in classrooms across the globe.
Through nine case studies, chapter authors investigate the use of mobile technologies over a range of grade levels and mathematical topics, while connecting chapters provide a strong foundational background in mobile learning theories, instructional design, and learner support. ... [From Amazon.com]
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Mobile Learning and STEM: Case Studies in Practice
2015Helen Crompton (Editor) and John Traxler (Editor)
In recent years, there has been a renewed focus on STEM education in the United States, fueled by evidence that young learners’ competencies in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics are falling behind those of their global peers.
Scholars and practitioners are beginning to utilize the new pedagogical opportunities offered by mobile learning to improve the successes of teachers and K-12 students across STEM subjects. Mobile Learning and STEM: Case Studies in Practice is a comprehensive collection of case studies that explore mobile learning’s support of STEM subjects and that utilize mobile technology to facilitate unique and effective K-12 teaching and learning experiences. In addition to its focus on STEM achievement for researchers, this volume is a resource for teachers working to implement mobile learning initiatives into their classrooms. ... [From Amazon.com]
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