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The Flexible Workplace: Coworking and Other Modern Workplace Transformations (Human Resource Management)
by Vanessa Ratten Marko Orel Ondřej DvouletýWith current socio-economic development trends and changing work landscapes, modern workplaces are progressively becoming a subject of flexibilisation and hybridisation. Contemporary office environments are commonly adapting to the needs of the flexible labour markets by offering the non-territorial and rotation-based practice of allocating desks to workers on dynamic schedules. This book explores this growing trend by offering different perspectives on the benefits and challenges of the flexible workplace phenomena. Topics discussed range from defining and comparing flexible, coworking and corpoworking spaces, policies made in local environments, and the flexible working taxonomy.
The Flexible SEL Classroom: Practical Ways to Build Social Emotional Learning in Grades 4–8
by Amber ChandlerHelp middle school students tackle daily challenges both in and out of the classroom. In this new co-publication from Eye On Education and AMLE, author Amber Chandler offers practical strategies for incorporating social emotional learning into your instruction so students can learn to successfully manage their emotions, set goals, build relationships, and make good decisions. Grounded in classroom experience, her advice can be adapted to suit different needs, so you can create a Flexible Classroom and reach all learners. Topics include: Encouraging academic risk-taking without causing stress or fear of failure; Helping students to self-manage through technology and other tools; Teaching self-awareness through solution statements, metacognition, and effective communication; Modeling responsible decision-making and empathy to create a more tolerant classroom environment; Building relationship skills and encouraging students to be Upstanders; and Emboldening students to become more socially aware and cognizant of bias. Bonus: Downloadable versions of some of the handouts in this book are available on the Routledge website at www.routledge.com/9781138302563, so you can print and distribute them for immediate classroom use.
The Flexible SEL Classroom: Practical Ways to Build Social Emotional Learning
by Amber ChandlerSocial emotional learning is more than just helping students be social. In this co-publication from Routledge and AMLE, Amber Chandler shows how middle and high school educators can be intentional about seeing their students for who they are, growing relationships, and building community. Grounded in classroom experience, Chandler's practical strategies can be adapted to suit different needs, so you can create a Flexible Classroom and reach all learners. Topics include encouraging academic risk-taking without fear of failure, helping students self-manage, teaching self-awareness, modeling responsible decision-making and empathy, building relationship skills, and emboldening students to become more socially aware. This updated second edition features new chapters on running Restorative Circles and focusing on resilience instead of deficit analysis. There is also a special section with post-pandemic takeaways, as we learn new ways to help students thrive.
The Flexible Professional in the Knowledge Society
by Rolf van der Velden Jim AllenHigher education policy has increasingly gained a European dimension, with its own distinct influence over national education policies. Against this background, a major project was launched, the REFLEX project, which aims to make a contribution to assessing the demands that the modern knowledge society places on higher education graduates, and the degree to which higher education institutions in Europe are up to the task of equipping graduates with the competencies needed to meet these demands. The project also looks at how the demands, and graduates' ability to realise them, is influenced by the way in which work is organised in firms and organisations. The REFLEX project has been carried out in sixteen different countries and consisted of a large scale survey among some 70.000 graduates. This report presents the major findings and draws important policy implications.
Flexible Pedagogy, Flexible Practice: Notes from the Trenches of Distance Education
by Elizabeth Burge Chère Campbell Gibson Terry GibsonFlexibility has become a watchword in modern education, but its implementation is by no means a straightforward matter. Flexible Pedagogy, Flexible Practice sheds light on the often taken-for-granted assumptions that inform daily practice and examines the institutional dynamics that help and hinder efforts toward flexibility. The collection in international in scope, drawing on the experience of specialists in distance education from North America, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand, South Africa, Singapore, and Japan. Contributors to the volume were asked to reflect candidly and critically on a series of questions, including: What precisely is flexible learning? Who or what is driving the flexibility agenda, and for whose benefit? And who or what is resisting it? What challenges must be overcome in order to achieve flexibility, and what are some of the compromises it can entail?
Flexible Multilingual Education
by Jean-Jacques WeberThis book examines the benefits of multilingual education that puts children's needs and interests above the individual languages involved. It advocates flexible multilingual education, which builds upon children's actual home resources and provides access to both the local and global languages that students need for their educational and professional success. It argues that, as more and more children grow up multilingually in our globalised world, there is a need for more nuanced multilingual solutions in language-in-education policies. The case studies reveal that flexible multilingual education - rather than mother tongue education - is the most promising way of moving towards the elusive goal of educational equity in today's world of globalisation, migration and superdiversity.
Flexible Mindsets in Schools: Channelling Brain Power for Critical Thinking, Complex Problem-Solving and Creativity
by Julie Dunstan Susannah ColeFlexible Mindsets in Schools abandons painstaking evolution in favour of a bold, transformative revolution. It blends research and easily implementable practice to drive solutions that give learners and educators the freedom to become self-directed: to unleash questioning, problem-solving and creativity. This key text explores how to blend existing and new practices and unlock the potential of student agency as the pathway towards resilience and adaptation. The Flexible Mindsets Model fuses three components that rely on each other to drive self-directed learning: metacognition, "I CAN" mindset messages and executive function processes. This book presents a roadmap for how to create an environment and culture where learners are aware of what works when, feel safe to take learning-related risks, believe that they are capable and have the tools they need to learn. Flexible Mindsets in Schools will give educators hope that there is a way to revolutionise education to meet the needs of students during these uncertain times by taking small, manageable steps.
Flexible Learning in Higher Education (Teaching And Learning In Higher Education Ser.)
by Alison Smith Winnie Wade Keith Hodgkinson John ArfieldAnalyzing the collective experiences of staff from a variety of departments within organizations of higher and further education, this study demonstrates how flexible learning strategies have been adopted to face new challenges.
Flexible Learning in Action: Case Study in Higher Education (SEDA Series)
by Hudson, Rachel Lyn, Oates Maslin-Prothero, SianFirst Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Flexible Learning in a Digital World: Experiences and Expectations (Open and Flexible Learning Series)
by Collis, Betty Moonen, JefBetty Collis and Jef Moonen present a series of proven and practical guidelines, based on their balanced experience of using technology in education. Together, these give readers an overview of how technological applications in education can be developed and harnessed.
The Flexible ELA Classroom: Practical Tools for Differentiated Instruction in Grades 4-8
by Amber ChandlerFind out how to differentiate your middle school ELA instruction so that all students can become better readers, writers, and critical thinkers. Author Amber Chandler invites you into her classroom and shows how you can adjust your lessons to suit different learning needs while still meeting state standards and keeping your students accountable. She provides a wide variety of helpful tools and strategies, ranging from easy options that you can try out immediately to deeper-integration ideas that will reshape your classroom as a flexible, personalized learning environment. Topics include: Using choice boards and menus to teach vocabulary, reading, and presentation skills in fun and interactive ways; Grouping students strategically to maximize learning outcomes and encourage collaboration; Making vocabulary learning interesting and memorable with visual aids, tiered lists, and personalized word studies; Designing your own Project Based Learning lessons to unleash your students’ creativity; Assessing students’ progress without the use of one-size-fits-all testing; And more! Bonus: downloadable versions of some of the rubrics and handouts in this book are available on the Routledge website at http://www.routledge.com/9781138681040. Also, check out the book’s website, doyoudifferentiate.com, for additional articles and strategies.
Flexibility and Lifelong Learning: Policy, Discourse, Politics
by Katherine NicollWhat can the politics of discourse tell us about the discourse of politics? How are flexibility and lifelong learning positioned within policy? Flexibility and lifelong learning have become key aspects of education policy in nation states and bodies such as the European Union and Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development in recent years. They are positioned as necessary for the knowledge economy and social inclusion. The failure to adapt through becoming more flexible and participating in lifelong learning is held up as a failure at individual, organisational and national levels. But how has that narrative come to be constructed? In what ways is it persuasive? And what forms of political action are possible and necessary? These are the questions addressed in this text. Drawing upon the work of Michel Foucault and on the notion of rhetoric, this book forensically explores examples of the work of policy texts in the discourses of education, lifelong learning and flexibility that they construct. In so doing, it argues for the need to take policy discourse seriously and not simply dismiss it as ‘spin’. Through a detailed examination of policy texts from primarily Australia, the UK and European Union, this text provides insights into the strategies through which flexibility and lifelong learning become realized and realizable as part of the common sense of educational discourse. Rather than simply rejecting these ideas, or suggesting they are merely the window dressing for the more malign interests of the knowledge economy or globalization, it suggests a politics of the wedge and possibilities for the insertion of different meanings. Central to the claims of this text are that we need to engage closely with the discursive and rhetorical strategies of policy, in order that we understand both how it is constructed and thus how it can be deconstructed.
Flexibilisierung der betrieblichen Berufsausbildung: Neue Rollen hauptamtlicher Ausbilder*innen als Schlüssel zur Modernisierung von Ausbildung (AutoUni – Schriftenreihe #161)
by Johanne F. KitzlerFlexibilität ist in der betrieblichen Berufsausbildung in Großunternehmen als Reaktion auf sich im Wandel befindende Einflussfaktoren wie der Digitalisierung und dem demografischen Wandel unverzichtbar. Besonders hauptamtliche Ausbilder*innen können diese entscheidend prägen. Durch die Einnahme neuer Rollen wie zum Beispiel der des Lernprozessbegleiters wird ein flexibleres Handeln möglich, was wiederum die Anpassungsfähigkeit der Ausbildungsabteilung im Ganzen stärkt. Johanne F. Kitzler entwickelt im Verlauf des vorliegenden Buches ein ganzheitliches Konzept, durch das hauptamtliche Ausbilder*innen nachhaltig in der Ausübung neuer Rollen unterstützt werden. Sie leistet damit einen Beitrag zu einer Flexibilisierung der betrieblichen Berufsausbildung im Allgemeinen.
Flex Education: A guide for flexible working in schools
by Lindsay Patience Lucy RoseThe perfect companion to help you understand the benefits of flexible working in education and how to make it work in school. Finding the right balance between your life and your job is not easy. Many teachers and leaders leave the profession due to the lack of flexible working opportunities that could help them find that balance. In this practical book, Lindsay Patience and Lucy Rose will guide you on how you can make flexible working work for you, take you through the different kinds of flexible working and their benefits, and explain how to improve recruitment by offering flexible working to suit your school context. Featuring real life case studies, examples of best practice and a how-to for successful implementation of flexible working in schools, this book is the go-to manual for anyone interested in improving working culture in education. Lindsay Patience is a secondary teacher and co-founder of Flexible Teacher Talent. Lucy Rose is a secondary teacher and co-founder of Flexible Teacher Talent.
Flex Education: A guide for flexible working in schools
by Lindsay Patience Lucy RoseThe perfect companion to help you understand the benefits of flexible working in education and how to make it work in school. Finding the right balance between your life and your job is not easy. Many teachers and leaders leave the profession due to the lack of flexible working opportunities that could help them find that balance. In this practical book, Lindsay Patience and Lucy Rose will guide you on how you can make flexible working work for you, take you through the different kinds of flexible working and their benefits, and explain how to improve recruitment by offering flexible working to suit your school context. Featuring real life case studies, examples of best practice and a how-to for successful implementation of flexible working in schools, this book is the go-to manual for anyone interested in improving working culture in education. Lindsay Patience is a secondary teacher and co-founder of Flexible Teacher Talent. Lucy Rose is a secondary teacher and co-founder of Flexible Teacher Talent.
The Flat World and Education: How America's Commitment to Equity Will Determine Our Future
by Linda Darling-HammondDrawing on her broad experience, Darling-Hammond examines the roots of the U. S. modern education system and shows how the skills required for our 21st-century global economy cannot be learned in traditional education systems, which have been in place since the early 1900s. She identifies an "opportunity gap" that has evolved as new kinds of learning have become necessary, a gap where low-income students, students of color, and English language learners often do not have the same access as others to qualified teachers, high-quality curriculum, and well-resourced classrooms. After setting the stage on current conditions in the U. S. , Darling-Hammond offers a coherent approach for effective reform that focuses on creating successful systems, inducting and supporting quality teachers, designing effecting schools, establishing strong professional practice, and providing equitable and sufficient resources. The Flat World and Education lays out what the U. S. needs to do in order to build a system of high-achieving and equitable schools that ensures every child the right to learn.
Flat Stanley's Worldwide Adventures #9: The US Capital Commotion
by Macky Pamintuan Jeff BrownStanley on parade! Stanley has been chosen to receive a medal of honor in the nation's capital! But once in Washington, DC, Stanley is swarmed in a crowd and separated from his family. Now he's on the run in a city filled with monuments-and with shadowy figures on his trail. What's a flat boy to do now?
Flat Stanley's Worldwide Adventures #8: The Australian Boomerang Bonanza
by Macky Pamintuan Jeff BrownG'day, Stanley! Stanley and his brother, Arthur, have just won a trip to Australia! They fly down under on a private jet and go diving in the Great Barrier Reef. But when Arthur launches Stanley into the air for a game of boomerang, the flat kid is accidentally sent spinning into an amazing adventure deep in the heart of the Australian outback!
Flat Stanley's Worldwide Adventures #7: The Flying Chinese Wonders
by Macky Pamintuan Jeff BrownWatch out, Stanley! Ouch! Stanley accidentally caused twin acrobats Yin and Yang to take a tumble, right before their Chinese New Year show. Yang's foot is broken-but luckily, Flat Stanley is flexible enough to take his place. To make up for his mistake, Stanley travels to China to help out-but can he learn all their amazing tricks in time?
Flat Stanley's Worldwide Adventures #6: The African Safari Discovery
by Jeff Brown Macky PamintuanStanley's not the only flat one! When a flat skull is discovered in Africa, Stanley Lambchop decides to travel there with his brother, Arthur, and their father, George. Maybe studying the skull will give them clues to Stanley's flatness. But once in Africa, the Lambchops are in for more adventure than they bargained for. From lions to zebras to elephants, it's the safari of a lifetime!
Flat Stanley's Worldwide Adventures #5: The Amazing Mexican Secret
by Macky Pamintuan Jeff BrownSpecial delivery: Danger! When Stanley's mother needs the secret ingredient for a special recipe, Stanley mails himself to Mexico to track down its mysterious maker. But when a band of spies threatens to steal the secret, Stanley's simple trip becomes a race against an opponent that even a flat boy like himself can't slip past!!
Flat Stanley's Worldwide Adventures #3: The Japanese Ninja Surprise
by Jeff Brown Macky PamintuanA Flat Ninja? Stanley and his brother, Arthur, are such huge fans of the movie star ninja Oda Nobu that they decide to send him something even better than fan mail--Stanley himself! Soon enough, Flat Stanley is in Japan, seeing the country with his idol. But when trouble surprises them, it will take a real hero to save the day.
Flat Stanley's Worldwide Adventures #2: The Great Egyptian Grave Robbery
by Macky Pamintuan Jeff BrownAncient pyramids can be flat-out dangerous! Ever since Stanley was flattened by a bulletin board, there are places he can get to that no one else can. So when Stanley receives a letter from an archaeologist, he travels by airmail to Egypt to help find an ancient treasure deep in the heart of a great pyramid. But what if even the flattest boy on earth can't wriggle out of this dark tomb--and the terrible mess he finds himself in?
Flat Stanley's Adventures in Classroom 2E #2: Riding the Slides (Flat Stanley's Adventures in Classroom2E #2)
by Jeff Brown Kate EganBeloved character Flat Stanley is back with a whole new set of friends in this brand-new STEM-focused chapter book series. In this second book, Stanley and his friends learn all about the scientific method, gravity, and friction through a heated contest on the playground! Ever since Stanley Lambchop was flattened by a bulletin board, each day brings new adventures!According to Stanley’s second grade teacher, Ms. Root, everyone in classroom 2E is a scientist. That’s good news for Stanley because he has a problem in need of solving! Both his classmate, Josie, and his little brother, Arthur, think he’s been using his flatness to cheat during playground games. But Stanley can’t help being flat!It’s time to test how flatness affects Stanley on the playground. Will science be on his side?Featuring adorable black & white illustrations, an accessible approach to STEM topics, and a fun experiment in the backmatter for readers to try themselves. Don’t miss any of Flat Stanley’s classroom adventures!