Stay ahead of the curve with these fresh ideas for engaging adolescents through today’s new media! Learn to make technology work for you with this guide to integrating hypermedia into your content area curriculum. Authors Susan O’Hara and Bob Pritchard navigate the virtual learning waters with you, demonstrating how to utilize meaningful hypermedia to develop students’ content area vocabulary. Their strategies are concrete and research-based and provide a wealth of ways you can engage your students in building vocabulary as they create their own hypermedia applications. A CD-ROM of authentic classroom scenarios, internet links, and video demonstrates the techniques and tools discussed in the book and lets you see how the authors’ ideas can work with your students. In this increasingly technological age, students are often out on the cutting edge all alone; teachers and schools may not reach adolescents through the tools those learners use more and more. Don’t let technology outpace your instruction; let Susan and Bob show you how to make the best use of hypermedia today.

Teaching Vocabulary with Hypermedia, 6-12

Pritchard, Robert

O'Hara, Susan

Computers & Technology

PRENTICE/HALL

Productivity has become a national priority. Its effects are being felt on all levels--national, industrial, and individual. An organization must be able to measure productivity before effectively improving it. This volume is the first practical guide for developing productivity measurement systems. It describes the use of the Productivity Measurement and Enhancement System (ProMES) designed by its author and his colleagues. An important tool for organizations, this step by step guide discusses how to measure productivity and then how to use this measurement.
Robert Pritchard's guide first presents a detailed description of the development and uses of ProMES. The background and description of ProMES is followed by details on how to develop ProMES in any organization. Questions and answers about using the system are discussed together with further issues on how to implement the system. The use of the system with other productivity improvement techniques is also covered. The volume concludes with a discussion on evaluating the effects of a productivity improvement system. It is a valuable practical source for industrial and organizational psychologists, management consultants, classes, and workshops.

Measuring and Improving Organizational Productivity: A Practical Guide

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

Praeger

Improving organizational productivity is an important current and future issue. The improvement can be effected by changing technology, or by changing the way in which people work. The concern of this work is how to structure work so that people can and will want to maximize their productivity using a special approach to measurement and improvement of organizational productivity defined by the author - ProMES (Productivity Measurement and Enchancement System). ProMES is a way of motivating people to maximize their productivity. This book describes a series of cases where ProMES was applied to improve productivity in service and manufacturing organizations in a variety of different organizations in different countries. Results indicate very large increases in productivity, much larger than those typically found. Lessons learned from these cases for future productivity improvement efforts are summarized.

Productivity Measurement and Improvement: Organizational Case Studies

Literacy Classrooms That S.O.A.R.: Strategic Observation And Reflection in the Elementary Grades

SOAR Teaching Frames for Literacy provides a unique approach to planning, implementing, and elevating instruction that drives improvement in teaching and learning. SOAR focuses on the high-impact teaching practices that research identifies as key to student learning. In this book, the authors present and unpack these practices within the context of Teaching Frames. The frames provide a common language and a set of tools to foster informal self-evaluation, as well as teacher-to-teacher and coach-to-teacher collaboration. All stages of implementation are illustrated with classroom examples from the authors' 15 years of research and professional development throughout the United States. School principals, coaches, and classroom teachers can use Literacy Classrooms That S.O.A.R. to support professional learning and growth across schools and districts. Book Features: <ul> <li>Instructional strategies with step-by-step guidance for implementation.</li> <li>Vignettes that demonstrate how to implement SOAR in a variety of contexts.</li> <li>Visuals of instructional resources that teachers can use.</li> <li>Rubrics that can be used by instructional leaders, literacy coaches, and professional learning communities.</li> <li>Question and answer sections to help teachers differentiate practices to meet the needs of all students.</li> </ul>

Education & Teaching

Pitta, Debi

Schools & Teaching

Teachers' College Press

Industrial gas utilization

Bowker

Here is an excellent resource full of practical information on teaching reading to students who are not native English speakers. Written for teachers who are working with students from diverse backgrounds and with a broad range of experiences, this comprehensive text includes background information on reading, ESL instruction, and ESL learners, as well as specific strategies that have proven effective with this student population.

Kids Come in All Languages: Reading Instruction for Esl Students

Reference

Spangenberg-Urbschat, Karen

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Intl Literacy Assn

This three volume treatise for the Tennessee practitioner covers the law of wills and the administration of estates of decedents, both testate and intestate. Dozens of sample forms are included in the work.

Pritchard on the law of wills and administration of estates embracing the law and practice in Tennessee

Michie Co.

The Reluctant Landlord's Guide to Profitable Real Estate Property: Financial and Management Foundations for Making Lucrative Real Estate Investments

Real Estate

Pritchard Consulting, Inc.

The Common Core State Standards require students to do more with knowledge and language than ever before. Rather than be mere consumers of knowledge, students must now become creators, critics, and communicators of ideas across disciplines. Yet in order to take on these new and exciting roles, many students need daily teaching with an extra emphasis on accelerating their academic communication skills. 
Common Core Standards in Diverse Classrooms describes seven research-based teaching practices for developing complex language and literacy skills across grade levels and disciplines: using complex texts, fortifying complex output, fostering academic interaction, clarifying complex language, modeling, guiding, and designing instruction. Most important, you will find clear descriptions and examples of how these essential practices can—and should—be woven together in real lessons. You will also find the following:
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<li>Classroom activities based on the practices </li> <li>Dozens of classroom examples from lessons in different grade levels and disciplines</li> <li>Detailed lessons with annotations focused on language and literacy development</li> <li>Strategies and tools for building system-wide capacity for sustained growth in the practices </li>
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Common Core Standards in Diverse Classrooms is a concise guide for helping us improve our practices to strengthen two vital pillars that support student learning: academic language and disciplinary literacy.

Common Core Standards in Diverse Classrooms: Essential Practices for Developing Academic Language and Disciplinary Literacy

Zwiers, Jeff

Words, Language & Grammar

Routledge

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