Caring for Kids in Communities: Using Mentorship, Peer Support, and Student Leadership Programs in Schools (Counterpoints)
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| Rating | : | 4.24 (556 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 082041834X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 284 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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Jan Small-McGinley is an educational and behavioral programming consultant working with a multidisciplinary team to provide assessment, consultation, and programming to sensory multihandicapped students across Alberta for Alberta Learning. She has taught first, second, and foreign languages to students ranging from grade one to adults in Canada and abroad. Lucy De Fabrizio received her M.A. Ellis is editor of Teaching from Understanding: Teacher as Interpretive Inquirer and co-editor of Girls, Women, and Giftedness. She has published many articles related to narrative inquiry with children and youth, gender issues, multiculturalism, troubled children and youth, and mentorship, peer support, and student leadership programs. She received her Ed.D. About the Author The Authors: Julia Ellis is Professor in the Department of Elementary Education at the University of Alberta. . She taught in the
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candidate in the Department of Secondary Education at the University of Alberta. from the University of British Columbia. Ellis is editor of Teaching from Understanding: Teacher as Interpretive Inquirer and co-editor of Girls, Women, and Giftedness. She has published many articles related to narrative inquiry with children and youth, gender issues, multiculturalism, troubled children and youth, and mentorship, peer support, and
Caring for Kids in Communities invites schools to consider the use of mentorship, peer support, and student leadership programs to positively support the growth and learning of all students. It presents research on successful programs spanning kindergarten through grade 12 and includes a wealth of case studies of individual programs as well as individual pairs of mentors and mentees. Thus, this book provides insight into the experiences of students, mentors, teachers, and coordinators from these programs as well as descriptive, practical material for implementing similar programs.