Bilingual Program Management

A collection of essays on the management of bilingual education programs is organized in three units: managing in a culturally diverse setting, balancing critical interactions, and special issues. The following papers are included: "Recruiting and Retaining Competent Personnel for Bilingual Education Programs" (Joan E. Friedenberg, Curtis H. Bradley); "Leadership and Motivation in a Changing Environment" (William M. Bloomfield); "Managing Conflict: Dealing Productively with Differing Ideas, Priorities and Goals" (Emily J. Shamieh); "Performance Appraisal: Using Feedback for Staff Development" (Jill Izett McCarthy); "Environmental Considerations in the Success of the Bilingual Program" (Sylvia R. Cowan); "Management of Bilingual Programs: The Local Community Context" (Terry L. Baker, Dori Collazo); "Governmental Context of the Bilingual Program: National and State" (Myrna Delgado, Barney Berube); "Some Considerations in Planning Your Inservice Training Component" (Denise McKeon); "Writing Proposals for Funding Agencies" (Eleanor Lien Sandstrom); "Finding, Adapting and Developing Bilingual Curriculum" (Betsy Tregar); "Bilingual Program Evaluation" (Robert W. Consalvo, Mary C. Madaus); "Dimensions of Data Collection and Management" (Lisanio R. Orlandi, Joseph J. Foley); and "A Computer as an Aid(e) to a Manager" (Richard W. Willard). (MSE)

2012 International Conference on Teaching and Computational Science (ICTCS 2012) is held on April 1-2, 2012, Macao. This volume contains 120 selected papers presented at 2012 International Conference on Teaching and Computational Science (ICTCS 2012), which is to bring together researchers working in many different areas of teaching and computational Science to foster international collaborations and exchange of new ideas. This volume book can be divided into two sections on the basis of the classification of manuscripts considered. The first section deals with teaching. The second section of this volume consists of computational Science. We hope that all the papers here published can benefit you in the related researching fields.

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