Tweak To Transform

Tweak to Transform

Improving teaching is the key to genuine and sustainable school improvement. Improvement involves persuading teachers to change and develop their practice but, as anyone who has ever tried will testify, this is far from easy. The focus of Tweak to Transform is what head teachers and school leaders can do to manage the change process and improve the quality of teaching in a school. Essentially, Tweak to Transform is a practical handbook that seeks to address three questions. What do we know about change? What do we know about learning? What do we know about leading and managing the improvement process? While there is no single successful recipe for improving teaching in a school, this book attempts to establish some key principles. The result is a collection of thoughts, activities strategies and models that have been developed and successfully implemented in a wide range of schools. >

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Mechanical Desktop

This project-based textbook provides a working overview of the newest version of AutoCAD Designer, the parametric modelling tool which works with AutoCAD 13. The author places the use of this tool within the larger context of engineering design and shows how it can be used as a creative tool for testing and implementing design ideas. The book is suitable for either beginning or advanced CAD users, and provides boxed review material on necessary AutoCAD commands. It begins with simple 2D models (in Chapter 2) and progresses to more complex 3D mechanical assemblies (Chapter 8). The design process presented by the author takes full advantage of Designer's parametric modelling and automatic drafting capabilities.