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Systems for Change offers specific - and, quite often, unique - suggestions for planning and implementing a literacy professional development course. ... Read more

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Build a community in your school and improve learning outcomes with this one-stop sourcebook that features the latest educational issues, new research-based strategies and activities, and more! ... Read more

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Spectacular!!!!
This is the best book EVER written to assist with understanding the nuts and bolts of school leadership. I have recommended this book to all my colleagues and it is now used as a guide to 85 school principles that I know. ... Read more

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This unique text provides principals with the tools needed to help teachers and staff enhance their skills and improve student learning. The authors guide readers through a step-by-step process to formulate, implement, and evaluate long-term professional development. ... Read more

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Great Service!
The product arrived to me so quickly after ordering, the book is also in great condition!

A new way of looking at the principal's role.
Lindstrom, P.H. & Speck, M. (2004).The principal as professional development leader.Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin.

If you are batting for the intelligent, renewist and compassionate approach to student learning you are in the same team as Linda DarlingHammond, Richard Elmore, Raymond Barth, Linda Lambert and others, and you will enjoy this book.

The principal as a professional development leader is a new way of looking at the principal's role.This approach re-states teachers' professionalism.The hegemony of the blighted concept instructional leadership is predicated on the now dated view of the mythical hero principal who almost single handedly turns around failing schools.Far better to have a collaborative, shared leadership that builds on and strengthens teachers' professional skills and knowledge.

The difficulty in bringing about long-term change in schools has re-focussed attention on teachers' professional learning.A feature of this book is the "big-picture" thinking such as the nine components of professional development and the evaluation rubric (Table 2.1) which have international appeal.

This book is an excellent mix of theory and good practice, and will provide some of the best professional learning that most principals will undertake this year.

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Great book on professional development evaluation!
The greatest!If you are in need of "how to" build a strong professional devlopment program and then the how and why to evaluate!I bought two, one to keep, and one to give away to all the folks I was trying to convince as to "how to".

Hegelian Dialectic Process
This book is an extension of the dialectic conscious process applied to staff 'developement'.A diverse group of people dialoging to conscious, over a social issue in a facilitated meeting to a predetermined outcome. This Socialist process is dominating current educational practices. Use extreem caution.

Must Read for Staff Developers
Dr. Guskey gives us clear, concise research on a topic that has long been neglected-professional development practices that work. This book offers clear direction to practitioners who want to increase the effectiveness ofprofessional development and improve student learning. Should be requiredreading for everyone involved in changing what educators do by changingwhat they know. ... Read more

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(Kogan Page) A text clarifying the use of reflection as a learning and development technique. Includes coverage of the literature of reflection, different reflection techniques, a new model of learning, and reflective activities for learning and development. For education researchers, psychologists, trainers, and others in this field. Softcover. ... Read more

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In this age of mandated reforms, reflective practice is a truly effective, empowering way to make meaningful, positive changes. The authors explain its potential to create meaningful change in schools and show you how to integrate it effectively into the daily work of schools. ... Read more

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The Continuing Professional Development (CPD) of physicians, formerly called Continuing Medical Education, greatly expands what physicians can do with the help of educational experts to provide optimal patient care. The Continuing Professional Development of Physicians: From Research to Practice takes the concept of CPD, which has been adopted by the American Medical Association, and turns it from theory into practice as an agent for positive physician performance change.

The book embraces a broad view of lifelong learning for physicians and contains:

-16 chapters edited and organized into three major sections

-The opinions of more than two dozen noted contributors from throughout medical education

-Thoughts on how forces driving the evolution of the physician workforce are affecting the approach to lifelong learning

-The importance of physicians reflecting on their clinical experience to direct their learning

-Specific examples of ways to help the self-directed learner ... Read more

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This book was written by a pioneer in the field of CPD ( Dave Davis ) , I read this book and find it very helpful.
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The Doctor of Nursing Practice provides information regarding the DNP degree and related role and professional topics. This unique reference includes chapters on the discussion of the evolution of doctoral education in nursing and the development of the DNP, rationale for the development of the DNP degree including relevant discussion of the American Association of Colleges of Nurse s (AACN) Essentials of Doctoral Education for Advanced Practice Nursing, the AACN s Position Paper on the DNP, and the Institute of Medicine s Report calling for higher education among health care professionals. This book also discusses of the various roles of the DNP prepared advanced practice nurse including researcher, health policy advocate and nurse leader. ... Read more

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No nursing library should be without these!
Lisa Astalos Chism's THE DOCTOR OF NURSING PRACTICE: A GUIDEBOOK FOR ROLE DEVELOPMENT AND PROFESSIONAL ISSUES provides students with information on the DNP degree and related professional topics. From case scenarios and bulleted summaries to reflection questions at chapters' end, this is a fine textbook choice for any studying for the degree. No nursing library should be without these!
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This much-needed text provides a coherent and strategic approach to teacher developmentTeacher Development for Language Teachers examines ten different approaches for facilitating professional development in language teaching: self-monitoring, support groups, journal writing, classroomobservation, teaching portfolios, analysis of critical incidents, case analysis, peer coaching, team teaching, and action research. The introductory chapter provides a conceptual framework.All chapters contain practical examples and reflection questions to help readers apply the approach in their own teaching context. ... Read more

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Therapists must increase their understanding of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) to maintain and improve competence. Every practitioner will need to take steps to maintain and demonstrate continued competence under the provisions of the new Health Act 1999.

This book considers current policy on CPD and discusses the theoretical basis for maintaining competence and for adult learning. Primarily, however, it provides practical guidance on how to develop a strategy for professional and career development, and on portfolio preparation that shows evidence of professional updating and CPD. Many examples are given of activities in the areas of clinical work, management, education and research that can be used for CPD. The development and use of learning skills such as reflection and critical evaluation is considered central to the process.

Written specifically with the therapist in mind, this book will provide invaluable practical advice to occupational therapists, physiotherapists, radiographers, speech and language therapists, and podiatrists. ... Read more

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This new edition of a best-selling book provides an up to date overview of Continuing Professional Development (CPD), combined with a guide to best practice.

Changes include:

- expanded sections on the professional

development of support staff and the

wider school workforce (particularly

important in the light of workforce

remodelling) and the evaluation of CPD

- more on making sure that professional

development has an impact, and

provides good value for money

- the common core of skills and

knowledge for the children's workforce,

the newstandards for qualified teacher

status, induction, threshold, excellent

teachers and advanced skills teachers as

well as those for higher level teaching

assistants.

Drawing on the latest research, the contents include:

- a clear explanation of CPD and latest

developments;

- practical tips on how to lead and

manage CPD for a range of staff in

schools - identifying training needs,

designing and implementing

programmes and evaluating their impact;

- detailed guidance on CPD for staff at

different stages of their careers.

Written in a clear readable style it covers the latest standards and offers examples of current good practice. It is an essential professional reference for all those responsible for leading and managing professional learning in schools (headteachers, deputies, CPD and staff development coordinators) and Local Authorities (LAs). It will also prove invaluable to training providers and universities.

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As the presence of immigrant students is felt in schools nationwide,school staff are increasingly under pressure to examine their assumtions concerning the students in their classes and their own intructional practice. ... Read more

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Developed by Dr. Joe Pace and incorporating the same material he has used to guide thousands of students and to train hundreds of instructors across North America, The Professional Development Series is designed to teach the personal skills that lead to college, job, and career success.

The result? Confident, motivated students who have the goals and skills to succeed in your program and in their chosen careers.

Professional success in the 21st century demands that people work together to achieve their goals.Book Two: Interpersonal Strengths and Leadership, explores and develops the skills that make a person a good teammate and a good leader. This book helps students develop a standard of excellence and pride in work and addresses ethics, trust, respect, strategic thinking, and modeling leadership techniques.

Each of the four books of the Series can stand-alone or be purchased in a discounted package with the other texts. ... Read more

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CCIE Professional Development

Network Security Technologies and Solutions

A comprehensive, all-in-one reference for Cisco network security

Yusuf Bhaiji, CCIE No. 9305

Network Security Technologies and Solutions is a comprehensive reference to the most cutting-edge security products and methodologies available to networking professionals today. This book helps you understand and implement current, state-of-the-art network security technologies to ensure secure communications throughout the network infrastructure.

With an easy-to-follow approach, this book serves as a central repository of security knowledge to help you implement end-to-end security solutions and provides a single source of knowledge covering the entire range of the Cisco network security portfolio.  The book is divided into five parts mapping to Cisco security technologies and solutions: perimeter security, identity security and access management, data privacy, security monitoring, and security management. Together, all these elements enable dynamic links between customer security policy, user or host identity, and network infrastructures.

With this definitive reference, you can gain a greater understanding of the solutions available and learn how to build integrated, secure networks in today’s modern, heterogeneous networking environment. This book is an excellent resource for those seeking a comprehensive reference on mature and emerging security tactics and is also a great study guide for the CCIE Security exam.

“Yusuf’s extensive experience as a mentor and advisor in the security technology field has honed his ability to translate highly technical information into a straight-forward, easy-to-understand format. If you’re looking for a truly comprehensive guide to network security, this is the one! ”

–Steve Gordon, Vice President, Technical Services, Cisco

Yusuf Bhaiji, CCIE No. 9305 (R&S and Security), has been with Cisco for seven years and is currently the program manager for Cisco CCIE Security certification. He is also the CCIE Proctor in the Cisco Dubai Lab. Prior to this, he was technical lead for the Sydney TAC Security and VPN team at Cisco.

• Filter traffic with access lists and implement security features on switches
• Configure Cisco IOS router firewall features and deploy ASA and PIX Firewall appliances
• Understand attack vectors and apply Layer 2 and Layer 3 mitigation techniques
• Secure management access with AAA
• Secure access control using multifactor authentication technology
• Implement identity-based network access control
• Apply the latest wireless LAN security solutions
• Enforce security policy compliance with Cisco NAC
• Learn the basics of cryptography and implement IPsec VPNs, DMVPN, GET VPN, SSL VPN, and MPLS VPN technologies
• Monitor network activity and security incident response with network and host intrusion prevention, anomaly detection, and security monitoring and correlation
• Deploy security management solutions such as Cisco Security Manager, SDM, ADSM, PDM, and IDM
• Learn about regulatory compliance issues such as GLBA, HIPPA, and SOX

This book is part of the Cisco CCIE Professional Development Series from Cisco Press, which offers expert-level instruction on network design, deployment, and support methodologies to help networking professionals manage complex networks and prepare for CCIE exams.

Category: Network Security

Covers: CCIE Security Exam

Customer Reviews (10)

Title is Misleading
Depending on where you are in your career is how I'm going to rate this book. If you are somewhat new to security, especially in the Cisco world, this book is the book for you and deserves 5 stars.If you have been in the Cisco security world for several years, are looking to study for your CCSP or CCIE, this book is NOT for you and deserves 1 or 2 stars.

This book does a great job on going over much of the Cisco security portfolio.It goes over the Cisco firewalls, AAA, NAC solutions, IPS, MARS, VPNs, etc.It gives some basic configurations for most of these.Again, I said basic and for a lot of these I would go as far as to say MINIMAL.

Again, if you are looking for study material for some of the CCSP exams or CCIE, this book wont get you close.Those exams dive WAY deeper into the different technologies than what this book offers.

My real issue with the book is the top line in the title "CCIE professional developement".If I see this and I see its 700+ pages, I'm thinking a Jeff Doyle TCP/IP Vol content book.Nope, not even close.If the authors wanted to cover all the different technologies that they did, but consider this book a "CCIE developement", they should of split this book into two books and expanded GREATLY on the different technologies.

Beware of the errors
This book is ok as a reference, but I would recommend it only as an introduction or guide - perhaps to give an idea of the topics that you might encounter on CCIE written, and which could be the basis of further research of your own.I agree with the previous review that said the book is too brief in many sections - some sections (esp. in Chapter 3) provide minimal value.

I am also very annoyed with the number of basic errors in this book.The technical reviewers have done a truly lousy job here.
Here's some of the most basic I have found in the just the first couple of chapters.

1. Page 25 - Class D addresses first byte range 224-247.
2. Page 27 - RFC1918 Class B range 172.16.0.0 through 172.32.255.255

I am amazed at how Cisco can let such fundamental gaffes like this out in a book targeted to CCIEs.
Neither of these are currently corrected in the errata on the [...] site either.

"During the rebootubf (sic) process" on Page 59 - I understand that typos can be missed but I wonder if the reviewers from Cisco have actually read this paragraph!

For me the book does provide some value in CCIE preparation, but for books priced around $60 I would have hoped the completeness, accuracy and quality would have been a lot higher.Perhaps later editions of the book will correct these issues (I have the Mar 2008 printing).

Good but it takes more
The book is surely a good reference and deals with many security topics,and is up to date.
Unfortunately many links provided are not working.
However it takes far more research on Internet to prepare for CCIE Security, and in some cases (such as Transparent Firewall or Multiple Contexts) to understand better, since they are very important and somehow too shortly addressed.

Well written Easy to Use Network Security Resource...!
Yusef Bhaiji offers an extremely well written, easy to understand, highly descriptive solution to network security technologies and solutions from a Cisco network security stand point.
In addition to dividing the book into five parts mapping to Cisco security technologies and solutions: perimeter security, identity security and access management, data privacy, security monitoring, and security management, the book also offers a Best Practices Framework.This is accomplished by noting critical Regulatory compliance and Legislative Acts, such as GLBA - Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, HIPAA - Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, SOX - Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the applicable Cisco solutions to each of these regulatory compliance and legislative acts in a clear, descriptive manner.
Specific attack vectors and mitigation techniques are described through vulnerability, threats, and exploits that are a very common threat to today's networks.In addition to describing the risk assessment, specific solutions and mitigation techniques are offered to offset these threats.A security incident response methodology discusses the specific steps which helps prepare for any security event.

Excellent Security Reference
This book is an excellent security reference, possessing both great scope and great depth, which is difficult to achieve in one book for such a large field.

The structure is very good, starting with an overview of security, providing the objectives of it, the reason behind it, the 'Why'. This is followed by the 'How' where it gives clear and concise overviews and explanations of the multitude of technologies complete with configuration examples and good use of diagrams and screenshots. Every chapter has a very helpful list of references for even more information. Advanced topics such as Network Admission Control (NAC), Security Monitoring and Correlation (MARS), and Attack Vectors and Mitigation are covered. Finally the book closes with the business side including security management, explanation of policies, frameworks, governance and the myriad of regulations.

As part of my preparation for the CCIE Security Written exam, I read this book and found it to be invaluable. I highly recommend this book for not just for CCIE preparation but for all levels of readers looking for one of the best books on network security.
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Essential for fostering the professional development and enhanced competency of school psychologists, this book discusses administrative and clinical supervision and offers vignettes, assessment tools, and methods for evaluating professional growth. ... Read more

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Very comprehensive and well written
If you are going to be supervising, or even if you aren't and want to know how you should be supervised, this is an excellent book. I cannot think of anything she left out. It is extremely comprehensive and well written and provides many scenarios which could occur and she provides the solution or suggestions for how to deal with it. There are many forms which are also very helpful. This book even made me chuckle a few times.

Appears in its second updated edition to substantially revise a classic
Virginia Smith Harvey and Joan A. Struzziero's PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND SUPERVISION OF SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGISTS FROM INTERN TO EXPERT appears in its second updated edition to substantially revise a classic, addressing administrative and clinical supervision skills needed for school psychologists to thrive. From expanding professional roles in offering prevention services to tools for assessing supervisor effectiveness and sample dilemmas to study, this extensive survey is based on the latest research and is a 'must' for any college-level educator's collection. ... Read more

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Foreword by Marsha Levine

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The revised classic for designing mathematics and science professional development presents an updated planning framework and many professional development strategies and emphasizes continuous program monitoring and building professional cultures. ... Read more

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Any professional educator will find this a fine blend of theory and practice
The third updated edition of Susan Loucks-Horsley, et.al.'s DESIGNING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR TEACHERS OF SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS provides an expanded edition of a fine professional resource, presenting an updated planning framework and blending in the latest research on PD design. Any professional educator will find this a fine blend of theory and practice.
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This book integrates in a unique way all that is known about changing teachers' practice, the key to all educational development. All attempts to `raise standards' or to 'make schools relevant to the 21st century' rest on helping teachers to develop new skills.
The Professional Development of Teachers: Practice and Theory draws on the author's 30 years of experience, on a series of new empirical studies, and on the extensive literature on staff development to develop an integrated model of effective professional development. The model relates concepts of belief change, collegiality, school ethos, school and local government leaders, as well as key features of effective PD programmes such as longevity, constructivism, theory-bases, and coaching. It has theoretical validity and can be used as a practical guide to anyone involved in educational change: teachers, researchers, curriculum innovators, school leaders, university staff, educational policy makers, local government and government Ministers. In spite of its deep scholarly roots, this book is written in a lively, accessible style. It will challenge established theoreticians in the field while providing very direct advice to practitioners. ... Read more

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Dr. Joe Pace and his Professional Development Series inspire career confidence and success.

Developed by Dr. Joe Pace and incorporating the same material he has used to guide thousands of students and to train hundreds of instructors across North America, The Professional Development Series is designed to teach the personal skills that lead to college, job, and career success.

The result? Confident, motivated students who have the goals and skills to succeed in your program and in their chosen careers.

Time management and stress management come to mind when we talk about Personal Skills for Success and in Book 3 students develop and practice these skills.Students are also encouraged to reflect on their personal values as they establish goals for the future and develop a plan to achieve those goals. Communicating, presenting ideas and concepts as well as thinking critically and creatively are also covered.

Each of the four books of the Series can stand-alone or be purchased in a discounted package with the other texts. ... Read more

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A must read for English undergrads and grads!
I found this book to be very helpful. It really made me think about what I wanted to do with my BA in English. It helps you understand the different jobs and responsibilities within academics but also other job opportunities that are starting to open up for English majors. It gives very practical guidance on how to get the most out of your education and other experiences to build a good resume or vita for a job. ... Read more