In this exciting book, education professionals will tune in to how 4- to 8-year-olds think and learn--and get sound research-based information and developmentally appropriate teaching practices in four crucial areas: Literacy--including promoting enthusiasm for reading, developing phonological awareness, and improving reading comprehensionMathematics--including creating data displays, looking for patterns, drawing on everyday experiences, and working math into classroom conversationsMulticultura...
Foundations of Education
by Professor Allan C Ornstein, Daniel U Levine, Gerry Gutek, and David E Vocke
FOUNDATIONS OF EDUCATION, Twelfth Edition, helps students understand the key educational issues and policies affecting American education. Through an array of applied features, the authors help to prepare students for their careers by tying the book's themes to students' future practice. These include "TeachSource Video Activities," "From Pre-Service to Practice" real-world case studies, "Taking Issue" boxes, and "Certification Connection Activities." Reflective pedagogy encourages students to f...
Meeting the Challenge of Learning Disabilities in Adulthood
by Arlyn J. Roffman
How do adults face the hurdles of learning disabilities (LD) in their professional and personal lives? A group of adults with LD, many of whom also have attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), describe how they've met disability-related challenges at work and at home.
Texas Middle School Edition (20-Minute Learning Connection)
by Mr Douglas B Reeves
Basic College Research Skills
by Steven Bookman and Christopher Warburton
For Introduction to Educational Psychology courses.Revised and expanded, this is the new edition of the most applied introduction to educational psychology on the market today. Long recognized for its groundbreaking innovations in placing educational psychology firmly within the context of classrooms, this text examines every educational psychology theory-learning, motivation, and development-and every pertinent concept through the viewpoint of the teacher. Once again in this edition, the author...
From Tiny Seeds Grow Mighty Trees Teacher Planner 2019-2020
by Mary Bloom and Timeline Publishers
This handbook provides an introduction to modern manufacturing techniques, explaining their concepts and capabilities. It covers employee empowerment, total quality management, quality systems ISO 9000 and QS 9000, total preventative maintenance, just-in-time manufacturing, computer simulations, process re-engineering and project management. Each technique is presented in a self-contained chapter, and is supported by figures, tables and examples. Each chapter moves from a definition of the manuf...
Universitaetsreform Zwischen Liberalisierung Und Staatlichem Dirigismus (Oekonomische Theorie Der Hochschule, #9)
by Jurgen Schramm
Die Entwicklung der deutschen Hochschulen wird durch das Spannungsverhaltnis von Wissenschaftsanspruch und Arbeitsmarkterfordernissen bestimmt. Dies erfordert eine oekonomische Theorie der Hochschulpolitik. Den oekonomischen Bezug liefert die liberale OEkonomie beginnend mit Adam Smith insbesondere aber in der Formulierung von J. St. Mill und in der neueren Fassung von Hayek und Friedman. Die heute postulierte "Grosse Wissenschaftsreform" genugt nicht den liberalen Forderungen und wird zuruckgew...
Universities and economic development in Africa
by Nico Cloete, Tracy Bailey, Pundy Pillay, Ian Bunting, and Peter Maassen
"Which MBA?" is the most authoritative and prestigious guide to MBAs and other executive education programs on the market. New to this edition is a focus on the skills that every executive of the future will need, as well as a new orientation that highlights the growing sectors of executive programmes and part-time and distance MBAs.
Geared for an Introduction to Business course. This best-selling text continues to present a briefer, no-nonsense approach to the fundamentals of business which spans the range of all functional areas - management, marketing, operations, accounting, information systems, finance, and legal studies. *New organization: Streamlines content into 16 chapters divided into 6 parts with 2 appendices. *Crafting Your Business Plan Exercises: Chapter-ending exercises apply chapter material to the task of de...
Five Year Planner 60 Month Yearly Planner (Personal and Business Yearly Planner, #8)
by Joanne Gehlert
Leadership and Role Modelling (Palgrave Studies in Leadership and Followership)
This edited volume explores the influence of role modelling as a process in the workplace; in particular, whether it can aid career development, offer psycho-social support, and provide the motivation and means to achieve goals. Chapters examine whether the dynamics of personal identification and self-belief can affect the way that role models are chosen, placing emphasis on geographical diversity and cultural aspects. By including studies of gender and followership in both American and Indian s...
The Science of Expertise (Frontiers of Cognitive Psychology)
Offering the broadest review of psychological perspectives on human expertise to date, this volume covers behavioral, computational, neural, and genetic approaches to understanding complex skill. The chapters show how performance in music, the arts, sports, games, medicine, and other domains reflects basic traits such as personality and intelligence, as well as knowledge and skills acquired through training. In doing so, this book moves the field of expertise beyond the duality of "nature vs. nu...