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What You Don't Know Will Hurt You: Sexual Abuse in Schools takes a
look at the recently publicized concerns surrounding child sexual
abuse in today's schools. It provides an overview of child abuse,
specifically focusing on sexual abuse and move to a discussion on
sexual abuse in the schools, including a look at legislation
designed to protect students and the impact of this legislation in
public schools. A chapter looks specifically at the impact of child
sexual abuse on children with exceptionality to lay a foundation
for protecting this segment of the population who are at greater
risk of abuse. The earlier sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic
church is used as an example to show proactive response that could
be modeled in public education. Additionally, suggestions for
prevention and intervention are presented. This book is a must-read
for educators, administrators, counselors and anyone who is
interested in breaking the cycle of abuse and victimization in
society.
The purpose of The Apple Shouldn't Fall Far From Common Core:
Teaching Techniques to Include All students is to offer teacher
candidates, teachers, teacher educators, administrators, and other
education professionals evidence based interventions to use when
developing and implementing common core state standards or adopted
state standards to children considered at-risk, English Language
Learners, and students having disabilities. Certain evidence based
interventions are offered in this book with the hope that readers
will utilize the chapter author(s)' experiences and knowledge to
inform their own practices. The evidence-based interventions
selected for this book are considered common across the different
accreditation bodies and critical for common core implementation.
Other evidence based interventions have been selected for this book
because they are important to the professional discourse and
present additions to the more mainstream teaching, such as
differentiation of instruction, universal design of instruction,
and adaptions to the lessons, such as accommodations are presented.
The purpose of The Apple Shouldn't Fall Far From Common Core:
Teaching Techniques to Include All students is to offer teacher
candidates, teachers, teacher educators, administrators, and other
education professionals evidence based interventions to use when
developing and implementing common core state standards or adopted
state standards to children considered at-risk, English Language
Learners, and students having disabilities. Certain evidence based
interventions are offered in this book with the hope that readers
will utilize the chapter author(s)' experiences and knowledge to
inform their own practices. The evidence-based interventions
selected for this book are considered common across the different
accreditation bodies and critical for common core implementation.
Other evidence based interventions have been selected for this book
because they are important to the professional discourse and
present additions to the more mainstream teaching, such as
differentiation of instruction, universal design of instruction,
and adaptions to the lessons, such as accommodations are presented.
The editors and authors of Professional Teacher Dispositions:
Additions to the Mainstream contribute to the long tradition in
education of the discussions of teacher dispositions. It is
intended for novice and experienced teachers, for those who educate
future teachers, and for those who hire teachers. This book
includes theoretical aspects of dispositions in education and case
vignettes for discussion and reflection. Professional Teacher
Dispositions provides a resource for school administrators in the
professional selection of teachers, teacher educators in the
selection of candidates for teacher education programs, and as a
basis for developing professional development or pre-service
activities in education. The authors address issues of character
and passion that have a profound impact on the decision to be a
teacher, the reasons for teaching and effect the day-to-day
functioning of teachers in our school classrooms. Chapters address
social justice and equity issues, reflection, caring, love,
teaching as a calling.
The editors and authors of Professional Teacher Dispositions:
Additions to the Mainstream contribute to the long tradition in
education of the discussions of teacher dispositions. It is
intended for novice and experienced teachers, for those who educate
future teachers, and for those who hire teachers. This book
includes theoretical aspects of dispositions in education and case
vignettes for discussion and reflection. Professional Teacher
Dispositions provides a resource for school administrators in the
professional selection of teachers, teacher educators in the
selection of candidates for teacher education programs, and as a
basis for developing professional development or pre-service
activities in education. The authors address issues of character
and passion that have a profound impact on the decision to be a
teacher, the reasons for teaching and effect the day-to-day
functioning of teachers in our school classrooms. Chapters address
social justice and equity issues, reflection, caring, love,
teaching as a calling.
What You Don't Know Will Hurt You: Sexual Abuse in Schools takes a
look at the recently publicized concerns surrounding child sexual
abuse in today's schools. It provides an overview of child abuse,
specifically focusing on sexual abuse and move to a discussion on
sexual abuse in the schools, including a look at legislation
designed to protect students and the impact of this legislation in
public schools. A chapter looks specifically at the impact of child
sexual abuse on children with exceptionality to lay a foundation
for protecting this segment of the population who are at greater
risk of abuse. The earlier sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic
church is used as an example to show proactive response that could
be modeled in public education. Additionally, suggestions for
prevention and intervention are presented. This book is a must-read
for educators, administrators, counselors and anyone who is
interested in breaking the cycle of abuse and victimization in
society.
Here, the authors offer a deeper understanding of the various
concepts and relevance of dispositions to teaching and other
professions that serve in school settings. This book provides a
broad basis for conceptualizing the what and how of dispositions.
Features: Historical and definitional perspectives of dispositions
as traits and beliefs, Pragmatic application, Contemporary views of
dispositions in teaching and teacher education, An overview of the
various methods that have been utilized to incorporate dispositions
and dispositional concepts in educational curricula, Strategies for
identifying features of effective professionals, Discussions on
issues in the selection and retention of candidates in professional
preparation programs and critical dispositions. A valuable
reference given the current emphasis on dispositions as expected
components in many state and professional organization standards,
it also presents: the legal and political implications and
religious traditions of dispositions in teacher education programs,
a model for the classification of research related to dispositions.
Will be of interest to teacher educators, administrators, teachers,
and others in school related professions.
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