Isbn: 9780968870167 - making educational changes sustainable: a guide (2 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Billions of dollars are wasted on unsuccessful educational innovations. The results: failure to improve student outcomes, discouraged teachers, and wasted hope, time and money!This Guide demonstrates how to introduce positive and sustainable educational improvements - based on leading research. Practical step-by-step methods demonstrate: -preplanning: analysis of influential social, political, educational, financial, and policy characteristics of contexts into which changes will be introduced - make contextually-valid decisions; -how to identify and prevent impediments to change; -Implementation: use systematic strategies for introducing change; -how to create a culture of collaboration, collegiality, and authenticity - united in the focus: 'We can improve student achievements!' -how to team with stakeholders: the government, school boards, teachers, students, parents and the community;-how to deliver effective, classroom-valid, professional development;-how to establish active and engaged communication for mutual feedback, mentoring and reinforcement; -Evaluation: how to select valid and reliable methods of program evaluation; -how to make data-based decisions for program; -Sustainment: how to make durable educational changes. Written by an award-winning author, David Baine, academic and practitioner. If you want to improve student achievements, this is a must have Guide.…

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