Education Professional Development
Learning in Safe Schools
- Publisher
- Pembroke Publishers
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2011
- Category
- Professional Development
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781551388311
- Publish Date
- Oct 2011
- List Price
- $25.95
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Description
The tools that teachers need for building safer, more inclusive schools, from a school-wide code of conduct to creating, enforcing, and supporting a behaviour plan. Committed to teaching so all students can learn, the book offers ideas for planning and adapting curriculum for a wide range of students. It also encourages strategies that build collaborative learning, with examples of effective problem solving. This completely updated resource includes examples of resource models, simple adaptations, and more. Ideal for both new and experienced teachers, with simple suggestions, hands-on activities, and reproducibles that will help teachers meet the diverse needs of all students.
About the authors
Faye Brownlie has worked in staff development with teachers, co-planning and co-teaching, providing seminars, workshops and keynote presentations in Canada, the United States, Europe and Asia. She’s passionate about including and supporting all learners, and her work focuses on literacy, teaching for thinking, assessment and inclusion. She has co-authored many books for teachers, including
It’s All about Thinking in English, Social Studies and Humanities and It’s All about Thinking in Mathematics and Science. Faye believes, "We know enough, collectively, to teach all our students to read, and more importantly, to create readers who not only can read but want to read." Faye lives in Vancouver.
Judith King is an educator who is committed to helping classroom teachers provide rich learning environments for diverse groups of students. She has taught in both elementary and secondary schools and has worked as a school district consultant in special education. Judith holds an M.A. in special education and in curriculum development. She is currently working in the area of School Completion in the Okanagan-Skaha School District in British Columbia. Judith lives in Kaleden, BC.