Books published by SAGE Publications Inc

As schools increasingly focus on standards-based educational requirements, many educators face significant issues about equitable grading policies for diverse student populations. This edited volume offers specific suggestions for improving grading policies and practices at the school and classroom levels.

This updated edition provides information about common exceptionalities, ADHD and bipolar disorder, legal considerations, and discussions on postsecondary transition, NCLB, and the reauthorization of IDEA 2004.

Communicate effectively with all stakeholders through these invaluable tips, including how-to's for dealing with disasters and approaching sensitive topics such as sex, gangs, and substance abuse.

Start the school year in a powerful way with this edition's new activities, tips for the classroom environment, and revised instructional materials in English and Spanish.

Featuring updated research, grade-specific individual and group activities, and suggestions for assessment, this resource outlines how teachers can inspire their students to become self-motivated learners.

With reproducibles and a new section on designing activities, this revised edition presents strategies and standards-aligned lessons that strengthen student comprehension and higher-level thinking skills in science.

This book provides lesson plans and activities for promoting a positive social and emotional school.

This unique guide offers practical strategies for using WebQuests to optimize learning in social studies, foster student inquiry and higher-level thinking, and promote greater intercultural understanding.

Provides differentiated instructional techniques, lesson examples, and assessment rubrics across core subject areas to nurture a love for learning in socially, culturally, and academically diverse learners.

This book provides information on common disabilities and practical strategies for creating inclusive environments, building student relationships, and teaching all young children, including those at risk.

Known for its uncompromising academic rigour and easy-to-read style and format, Stephen B Klein's Learning is back in its Fifth Edition!

Combining the latest research and policy developments, this book helps kindergarten teachers - preservice, novice, and experienced - improve their classroom practices and maximize student success.

The authors discuss research-based questionnaire design and offer guidelines for establishing guiding questions, formatting replies, categorizing responses, and using the Internet effectively for gathering information.

The author provides general and special education teachers with ready-to-use techniques, sample completed forms, and tips for increasing the involvement of parents of students with special needs.

Compiled and edited by a recognized leader in the field and author of the best-selling text on content analysis of recent times.

Based on practice and research, this book will support trainee maths teachers to develop their teaching skills and wisdom

Written by established and successful authors in this area, this book will provide everything that a teacher dealing with speech and language difficulties needs: practical exercises, information and case studies. 6% of all students are affected, so there is lots of demand for resources in this area.

A detailed overview of the different research used in methods in counselling and psychotherapy and the specific studies that illustrate these methods.

This resource examines how one of the nation's largest districts improved performance outcomes and achieved significant gains by integrating strategies from educational and business arenas.

The guide for novice researchers who want to master how to produce first-class research their contemporaries will want to read!

Drama is a key tool in helping children to build skills such as speaking and listening, in enhancing self-esteem, and in connecting learning across subjects. This book gives professionals practical examples of how it can work in classroom settings across a range of curriculum subjects.

Featuring helpful tools, authentic examples, teacher reflections, and more, this resource identifies the critical attributes of schools that enable all students to attain academic excellence.

Presents readers with an unbiased perspective on the major curriculum philosophies that have exerted influence on American educators and schooling over the last century. This work enables readers to more easily accept changes in their own evolving curricular beliefs and pursue new curricular initiatives.

An update of a popular text with both lecturers and students that has a conversational tone.

Visual methods are becoming more popular across many subject areas in the social sciences, since the technology necessary is now so accessible. Mitchell is a big name in visual methods, and this book is an easy intro for anyone new to using visual methods.

Coaching is happening in every school, and this resource will provide anyone engaged in coaching with everything they need to make sure they're doing it right.

For readers who want to make huge improvements in the lives of children at risk of abuse and neglect

Explores the key issues of post-communist transformation in Eastern Europe. Using case studies, it discusses the nature of change and continuity, including: historical, socio-economic and political effects; how workers and their organizations respond to change; and how they experience change.

The authors seek to provide an accessible account of how politics is undergoing a shift from the modern to the postmodern. They outline the concepts of postmodernity, postmodernism and postmodernization to explain the transformation of the personal and public worlds in contemporary Western society.

This study of the Russian army since Russian independence in December 1991 focuses on the interaction between the army and politics. It reveals not only the impact political transformations have had on reforming military structures but also the impact of the military on political decision making.