MISCELLANEOUS

 

MISC1.

Constructivism

2 Videos & Facilitator’s Guide & Books

(1) Putting the Learner First

(2) Case Studies in Constructivist Teaching

© 1993

This book discusses the development of classrooms that encourage students to understand important concepts.  Contains several examples, suggestions for administrators, teachers, and policymakers.

MISC2.

Challenging the Gifted in the Regular Classroom

A Video & Facilitator’s Guide

 

MISC3.

101 Ways to Develop Student Self-Esteem and Responsibility

A Book by Jack Canfield & Frank Siccone

 

MISC4.

Being Prepared:  The School Emergency Response Plan Handbook

A Book by Efrain Garza Fuentes & Raymond M. Rose

© 1995

This is a handbook dealing with school preparedness.  Serving as a guide to help construct a plan for many emergencies, in order to make the potential response more effective, efficient and complete.

MISC5.

Kindle the Spark

An Action Guide for Schools Committed to the Success of Every Child

A Book by Leslie F. Hergert & Others

© 1991

This book documents efforts to accommodate children to stay in school and do better in school.  The Regional Laboratory presents cases and the information learned by them.

MISC6.

Teaching, Thinking and Reasoning Skills

A Video and Problems and Solutions

© 1987

This book contains various solutions to common problems that occur with the child’s mind.  It takes you through the problems and discusses the solutions throughout the book.

MISC7.

Maps, Mindscapes and More...

A Video with Nancy Margulies

©  1993

A video in which the author uses graphics and mind mapping and mindscaping to present and discuss. Teaches others to be more creative, to mind map, and to use their artistic abilities.

MISC8.

Semantic Mapping:  Classroom Applications

A Book by Joan E. Heimlich & Susan D. Pittelman

 

MISC9a-b

Mapping Inner Space

Learning and Teaching Mind Mapping

A Book by Nancy Margulies

© 2002

Help students take notes more effectively, brainstorm new ideas, create an overview of information, see links between bodies of information, create visual records of ideas, and review for tests. The Table of Contents includes: Learning to Mind Map, Applications, Finding and Creating Symbols, Mapping with Young Students, Mapping with Other Students and Adults, Mapping in Business and Community Settings, Discovering Our Inner Capacities, Anything Goes!

 

MISC10.

Respecting Our Differences

A Guide to Getting Along in a Changing World

by Lynn Duvall

© 1994

A book to help you become more tolerant of the variety of cultures founding schools.  Teach you to examine yourself and your attitudes and stereotypes against other cultures.

MISC11.

Rights To Responsibility

Multiple Approaches to Developing Character and Community

by Alanda Greene

© 1997

Contains 24 activities to encourage students to know their rights and responsibilities to their community.  Use a small group or the entire class.

MISC12.

Teaching in the Diverse Classroom:

Learner-Centered Activities That Work

by Tonya Huber-Bowen

© 1993

This book contains 29 examples of activities to do in the classroom that accommodates to a diverse classroom.

MISC13.

Building Cultural Bridges

by Joby Stafford Robinson & Robert P. Bowman

© 1997

Provides a repertoire of methods and approaches for teachers, families, community workers, and others to teach children the value of diversity.

MISC14.

Teacher Tips and Timesavers

Ready-to-use Classroom Activities

by Cindy J. Christopher

 

MISC15.

Presentation Digest

7 Audio Tapes

Effective Leaders, Assessment, Staff Developer, Scoring Rubrics, Curriculum

© 1995

Set of seven cassette tapes including these specific topics.  Making the Middle School, How Effective Leaders Get Results, Designing Performance-Based Assessment Using Dimensions of Learning, Designing Authentic Tasks and Scoring Rubrics, Redesigning Curriculum-High Schools of the Future, The Principal as a staff Developer and Curriculum and Assessment Design

MISC16a-f

The Making Meetings Work Series

Strategies to help you and your people stop wasting time and start getting things done

#1 To meet, or not to meet?

#2 Prepare!

#3 Leadership!

#4 Getting unstuck!

#5 Decisions

#6 Follow through

By Career Track

This video series serves as a wise helpful "coach" for anyone who conducts or attends meetings with any regularity. A must for every training library!

MISC17.

Stress Management for Professionals

Staying balanced under pressure

3 videos

Volume 1

Volume 2

Volume 3

By Roger Mellott

© MCMXCII

In this upbeat, information-packed program stress expert Roger Mellott addresses the topic of stress management at its very core, your self-esteem.  You’ll learn that the better you feel about yourself, the less vulnerable you are to stressful situations.  You’ll also discover that stress is an essential part of life, leaving you ready to lead a brighter, more balanced life.

MISC18.

A Step-by-Step Video Tutorial for The Microsoft Network

By Microsoft Press

© 1995

Gives instructions on how to be able to maneuver throughout the Microsoft Network.

MISC19.a-b

A Step-by-Step Video Tutorial for Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows 95

a. #1 Introductory Skills Course

b. #2 Intermediate & Advanced Skills Course

By Microsoft Press

© 1995

A set of two videos to help you to become more skilled in Microsoft PowerPoint.

MISC20.a-b

A Step-by-Step Video Tutorial for Microsoft Excel for Windows 95

a. #1 Introductory Skills Course

b. #2 Intermediate & Advanced Skills Course

By Microsoft Press

© 1995

A set of two videos to help you to become more skilled in Microsoft Excel

MISC21.a-b

A Step-by-Step Video Tutorial for Microsoft Word for Windows 95

a. #1 Introductory Skills Course

b. #2 Intermediate & Advanced Skills Course

By Microsoft Press

© 1995

A set of two videos to help you to become more skilled in Microsoft Word.

MISC22.

Powerful Presentation Skills

How to get a group’s attention, hold people’s interest and persuade them to act.

4 Audio Tapes & Workbook

By Debra Smith

This program is designed to address the speaking situations you face every day.  You will learn how to master the ability to inform and persuade by listening to these tapes.  It also teaches you how to increase you visibility and clout, feel more confident and poised, and to get people on your side of an argument.  All of these things make for a more powerful presenter.

MISC23.

Powerful Presentation Skills

3 Videos & Workbook

#1 Focusing on your audience, Creating openers and transitions, Developing structure and closing

#2 Overcoming presentation errors, using visual aids, Improving your vocal and verbal image

#3 Understanding visual image, Handling audience questions, Mishaps, disasters and detractors

By Debra Smith

© MCMXCIII

How do you hold up when the spotlight is on you? Can you think fast on your feet? Do listeners respect you? With the skills you'll learn in this program, you'll discover proven ways to increase your visibility and clout ... boost your confidence and poise ... control your nervousness ... and get people to listen -- and act on -- what you have to say.

MISC24.

Psycho-Geometrics

#1 The Science of Understanding People, and the Art of Communicating With Them

#2 Shaping Up the Workplace

#3 Shaping Up Your Sales Skills

By Dr. Susan Dellinger

© MCMXCVII

This highly entertaining program will keep you thinking, laughing and learning as you explore the “geometry” of the personality.  You’ll discover what your ‘Shape” says about you:  Why you feel…act…worry…plan…communicate… work and live the way you do.  You will also see why others act the way they do.

MISC25.

How To Delegate Work

And Ensure It’s Done Right

4 Audio Tapes

By Dick Lohr

© 1987

This series provides ways to obtain a variety of skills dealing with delegating the workplace.

MISC26.

High-Impact Leadership

How to Move Beyond Manager...To Leader

4 Audio Tapes

By Mark Sanborn

© MCMXC

In this series you’ll learn what motivates leaders, and how they project personal power to achieve their goals. You’ll explore courage and creativity, and learn ways to use them to tap your people’s talents.  And you’ll discover how to take your team to new heights.

MISC27.a-b

Learn How to Build A Web Page Step-by-Step

Learn how easy it is to design, build, and update your own World Wide Web site.

2 Videos

© 1996

A set of two videos designed to provide a step-by-step lesson of designing, building, updating, improving and livening your web site.

MISC28.

Interpersonal Communication Skills

4 Videos & Program Workbook

By Debra Sutch

© MCMXCIV

Effective communication is not just about talking and listening. It's about building team-oriented relationships marked by cooperation, honesty, accuracy and mutual respect. With this audio and video program, you and your team will gain easy-to-use techniques that will help you be more effective and productive -- immediately and permanently.

MISC29.

Inclusion

Video Set-3 Videos & Facilitator’s Guide

#1 Educating All Students

#2 Strategies for the Classroom

#3 Profiles on Successful Students

© 1995

This program explores the issues and practicalities of inclusion in elementary, middle, and high schools.  Using a combination of structured activities and videotapes to engage participants actively in a variety of workshop formats.  This program focuses on ways to provide a significant level of involvement for those who are eager to contribute to education of those students with special needs.

MISC30.

9 Traits of Highly Successful Work Teams

Basic training for building and growing effective teams

Video & Workbook

By Loren Ankarlo

© MCMXCV

This book answers questions people have about the encompassing idea of “TEAMS”.  Answering questions such as the types of teams there are, the proven results of teams, the future of teams and what the highly successful team is.

MISC31.

K-12 Foreign Language Education

A Book by The Eric Review

Volume 6 Issue 1--Fall 1998

Focuses on foreign language education in the United States in grades K-12.  It describes the current status of K-12 foreign language education and highlights the importance and benefits of knowing more that one language.

MISC32.

Pattonville Vertical Teams

A Video

 

MISC33.

Just for Starters in Search of Teams Terrific

A Video

© MCMXCVI

This video is a lighthearted look a how organizations and teams deal with the topics of team conflict, trust and communication, brain-storming and motivation.

MISC34.

How To Train with Video

A Video

27 min.

©MCMXCIV

This program was created to help you make the most of video training in your organization.  It tells you what to look for in a video program.

MISC35.

Grantseeking Primer for Classroom Leaders

A Book by David G. Bauer

 

MISC36.

Grant Writing for Teachers

If You Can Write a Lesson Plan, You Can Write a Grant

How to Put the Pieces Together!

A Book by Linda Karges-Bone

 

MISC37a-b.

Chef Combo’s Fantastic Adventures In Tasting & Nutrition Combo

Teacher’s Guide & Chef Puppet

© 1995

This manual can take you and your 4-5 year old students anywhere on earth to learn about nutrition and to taste nutritious food.  The adventures take students back into the past, over the rainbow, and into their imaginations.

MISC40a.

The 4MAT System: Teaching to Learning with Right/Left Mode Techniques

A Book by Bernice McCarthy

© 1980

A book about the wonderful differences in people, and how to capitalize on these differences, it explains the current research on learning styles and right/left brain processing in clear understandable language.  It is a book for anyone interested in how people learn.

MISC40b.

4MAT Coursebook I Fundamental Training

A Comprehensive Guide to the Study and Presentation of the 4MAT Instructional Method Level I

A Book by Excel, Incorporated

© 1997

The purpose of Part one is to acquaint participants with the natural cycle of learning , with current research on learning styles, and with current research on right/left hemisphere dominance.  To explain the connections found between the two fields of research.  To explain the educational/training model developed from this combination of research.  To facilitate group/ individual development of 4MAT unit.

MISC40c.

4MAT Coursebook II Intermediate Training

A Comprehensive Guide to the Study and Presentation of the 4MAT Instructional Method Level II

A Book by Excel, Incorporated

The purpose of part two is to enhance the ability to identify concepts when designing curriculum.  To deepest he understanding of the conceptual rationale underlying Experiential Learning Theory.  To further the understanding of whole-brained research, and increase facility in instructional design through the application of hemisphericity research.  To create a concept-based 4MAT unit plan.  To explore the usefulness of 4MAT as a vehicle for curriculum integration.  To have plans critiqued by colleagues and the presenter(s).

MISC40d.

The 4MAT Research Guide

Review of Literature on Individual Differences and Hemispheric Specialization and their Influence on Learning

A Book by Bernice McCarthy and Clif St. Germain

These studies are intended to provide for practitioners an overview of he research constructs that have been used to analyze and further validate the 4MAT System for Teaching, Learning and Leadership.

MISC40e.

About Learning

Audio Tapes Narrated by Bernice McCarthy

© 1997

Offers a penetrating look into the structure of learning:  how we encounter and absorb new information, how radically different our methods can be, and how those differences affect the ways we deal with ourselves and with on another.

MISC41.

Meeting the Challenge

Video on April 21, 1999 by DESE

 

MISC42.

Meeting the Challenge

Video on May 5, 1999 by DESE

 

MISC43.

Visions of Excellence In Southeast Missouri (2)

A Video by DESE

© 1998

 

MISC44.

Missouri Mentoring Program

© n/a

The purpose of this handbook is to provide mentors with information and strategies that will guide them in their work with new teachers.

MISC45.

Focusing the Professional Development Plan on Student Performance and Achievement by Dr. Joyce A. Dana Southwest Professional Development Center

© 1999

This book contains information about the CSIP, as well as specific samples in each of the area for which the Professional Development Centers have responsibilities.

MISC46.

Handbook for Improving School Success Dr. Joyce A Dana, Southwest Professional Development Center

© n/a

Some of the current guidelines are being updated in this handbook is being prepared.  Therefore, the handbook for Success Teams is to be considered a working document that will be updated.

MISC47a.

A Guide to Alternative Intervention Strategies: Inservice Training Supplement

Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education

a. Handbook/ Guide

b. Masters for transparencies and handouts.

By Robert E. Bartment, Commissioner of Education

1989

Participants will develop an awareness of the issues, concept and process involved with the program and the training supplement.  Contains transparency masters that are formulated with the program.

MISC48.

Literacy’s of Power

What Americans are not allowed to know

A book by Donaldo Macedo

© 1994

This book convincingly demonstrates that a critical reading of the world is intimately related to a historical and cultural reading of the world.  Such a reading allows us to make linkages and comparisons, arrive at conclusions, and speak in relation to the world both theoretically and practically.

MISC49.

Studying Your Own School

An educator’s guide to qualitative practitioner research

A book by Gary L. Anderson, Kathryn Herr, and Ann Sigrid Nihlen

© 1994

Describes the theory and methods for conducting “action-oriented,” qualitative practitioners research as they guide educators through the research process, they explain how to adapt traditional research methods to the real-life demands of the dynamic and often unpredictable classroom environment.

MISC50.

Classrooms Under the Influence

Addicted Families/Addicted Students

A book by Richard R. Powell, Stanley J. Zehm, and Jeffrey A. Kottler

© 1995

This book explores how addiction affects behavior and the dynamics of the classroom for both the student and the teacher.  The authors examine two important manifestations of the problem: cases in which the student is addicted and situations in which a student’s life is affected by the addictions of relatives.

MISC51.

Improved Instruction

A book by Dr. Madeline Hunter

© 1976

In this book, the content for meetings is presented in a logical sequence for scheduling during the school year.  Each meeting is an independent unit and is not dependent on the content of other meetings having been learned.

MISC52.

Retention Theory for Teachers

A book by Madeline Hunter

© 1967

This book is one of a series written to make this important knowledge available to the classroom teacher.

MISC53.

Teach for Transfer

A book by Madeline Hunter

© 1971

This book translates psychological principals into the language of the classroom.

MISC54.