August 29, 2008
TECHNOS PRESS PRESENTS...
An Interactive Guidebook for Designing Education in the 21st Century
by Jerrold E. Kemp, Ed.D.
An experienced-based, practical procedure for planning and implementing a systematic process that can guide toward necessary achievements and cost-effective results on a local school level—designed for use by persons affiliated with public schools, either directly or indirectly.
An Interactive Guidebook provides a Systematic, Progressive Approach to—
- Principles, Practices & Outcomes
- Instructional Design & Development
- Restructuring
- School Improvement
- Transformation of Teaching
- Successful Learning Results
- Accountability
This book is unique among publications on the subject of educational reform. It offers a realistic perspective and practical activities that encourage the reader to participate and consider local applications in terms of interests and needs.
An Interactive Guidebook for Designing Education in the 21st Century is the second in the Leadership Series of books for school administrators published by TECHNOS Press of the Agency for Instructional Technology (AIT). It is a joint publication with the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT).
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jerrold Kemp obtained his doctorate in instructional technology at Indiana University and served as a junior- and senior-high school science teacher and media coordinator for four years in Miami, FL. He was employed as a professor of education and coordinator of media production and instructional development services at San Jose State University for 30 years and is a former president of AECT. Dr. Kemp is author or co-author of five textbooks and has consulted on innovative educational projects and practices in numerous schools, universities, and agencies in foreign countries and UNESCO. He has guided the redesign of training programs for companies in California's Silicon Valley and elsewhere.
“In this book, Jerrold Kemp—an educational pioneer—has summed up and integrated what he and others have found will create the kinds of schools that our next generations will depend on. Practical, pragmatic, and conceptually solid, this book will help educators reform in order to add value to our society.”
—Dr. Roger Kaufman, Professor and Director of the Office
for Needs Assessment
and Planning at Florida State University
“Designing Education, by Dr. Jerrold Kemp, offers education leaders in K–12 schools a very useful and detailed plan to dramatically improve today's schooling, using the McBeath Model for transformational change. A great guide with a gangbuster's attitude to attack our present-day doldrums.”
—Dr. James Fryer, Editor of California Curriculum News Report
“This book should be required reading for every school superintendent, principal, and member of a board of education. It brings together in one resource the components necessary to enable interested persons to bring about change needed to truly improve public education. Designing Education is well organized, provides a comprehensive guide to making positive changes in schools, and is focused on the core of education, the student. Using this book as a guide will give the persons interested in improving our schools the foundation necessary to involve a critical mass of people in the process. I would think it will be popular not only with the professional educators around the country but also with the parents of schoolchildren, and should be a bestseller with the PTA group.”
—Robert Hale, Assistant Director of the Bureau of Curriculum
and Instruction at the
Connecticut Department of Education (retired)
“Wow! This is complete. Forget about reading further and use Dr. Kemp as your guide for improving your class's or school's learning program now.”
—Richard E. Ingalls, Social Studies Teacher at Crenshaw
Gifted and High
Ability Magnet High School (Los Angeles)
“Dr. Kemp has done an admirable job of providing guidance for educators to redesign their instruction within the framework of educational transformation.”
—Dr. Charles M. Reigeluth, Professor of Instructional
Systems
Technology at Indiana University
For more information, contact:
Customer Service at AIT
Box A
Bloomington, IN 47402-0120
Tel: 800-457-4509 Fax: 812-333-4278
Click here to access Dr. Kemp's TECHNOS Quarterly
article:
John Dewey Never Said It Would Be Easy: Designing
Education in the 21st Century