Bøger af Roger Kaufman

This revised edition of Mapping Educational Success has been updated to include the latest insights into planning and delivering successful education. The author suggests that principals and administrators should make a strategic shift to an orientation where results are always the central focus. This would involve new methods of planning, developing, implementing and evaluating in order to achieve predictable educational success.

Expert presentation of holistic planning for a learner-focused educational system. Integrates curriculum, facilities, personnel, finance, educational technology, and other significant planning tactics.

Mega Planning involves significant stakeholders in defining success and then identifies what each person and part of an organization must do to succeed. The author uses proven techniques, and covers the basic `how-to's' of quality management, needs assessment, gap analysis, benchmarking, reengineering, and continuous improvement.

This valuable title links the fundamental training design technique of a needs assessment as a basis for all organizational improvement initiatives. Based on an Organizational Elements Model (OEM),authors Kaufman and Guerra-Lopez approach fully complete needs assessment as including not just needs and wants, but also societal value. Incorporating the model to add to the traditional ADDIE design process, this book provides new insight in managing the needs assessment process to structure performance improvement across all aspects of measurement and supportive decision-making tools.

Using fresh ideas with proven methods, Strategic Planning Plus promotes an ethical, holistic approach to the subject of strategic planning. Building on Peter Drucker's dictum that selecting the right job is more important than doing the job right, this book provides a practical guide to defining what should be accomplished, and defining solutions and interventions.Kaufman presents: guidance on how to identify the direction an organization must take; a six-step process for identifying and solving organizational problems; ideas for determining how to achieve desired results; and methods for evaluating progress and revising strategic plans. In addition the book provides a variety of aids including flowcharts, checklists, guidelines, procedures and case studies.