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Here's a fast, down and dirty guide that offers you sound advice and solid information for anything-and everything-you could possibly want to buy. Smart shopping takes on a whole new meaning with Trade Secrets, an all-encompassing, fact-filled compendium on how to make the right buying decisions every time. From minute details about dozens of products to tips on dealing with merchants who hand you the inside skinny on how to get the most value for your money, including such topics as: Doing Y...

The tools used in data collection have the ability to influence the ways information is perceived and generated. Analyzing research processes is a concept that can be overlooked, though is as important as the information itself. Methods and Paradigms in Education Research addresses the innovative formulaic approaches taken in research to challenge their effectiveness. Featuring coverage on selection, forms, and analytical procedures of data, this publication is essential for researchers, studen...

International Research on the Impact of Accountability Systems: Teacher Education Yearbook XV presents multiple perspectives from well-known teachers and researchers involved in the creation and maintenance of accountability systems, both nationally and globally. These essays will help readers make well-informed and productive decisions when designing and assessing these kinds of systems. Accountability systems can direct or redirect entire educational systems-supporting and strengthening or lim...

For many years, new teachers have complained that they were not well prepared for many of the daily realities of classroom teaching. Based on Singer's personal experience as a teacher, dean, counselor, and administrator, this book will provide specific tools and insights to help new teachers become successful in assisting students with a variety of issues including drug abuse, legal matters, and communication with parents. Intended for beginning teachers.

James L. Conro's study on best practices used by teachers features real-life classroom examples, do's and don'ts of classroom management, critical components of teaching and learning, and observations of successful teachers in action. The Faculty Parking Lot Is Not for Planning is an important tool for every new teacher as well as for teacher mentors, department chairs, directors of instruction, and building administrators.

Updated annually, East & Southeast Asia provides just enough historical background on the evolution of Modern East & Southeast Asia to help students gain a thorough understanding-in one semester-of contemporary developments in this vital region. Broad introductory regional and comparative chapters are followed by distinct sections on each country in the region. The combination of factual accuracy and up-to-date detail along with its informed projections make this an outstanding resource for rese...

Peterson's Graduate Programs in the Physical Sciences, Mathematics, Agricultural Sciences, the Environment & Natural Resources 2018lists more than 2,900 graduate programs in disciplines such as: Agriculture and food sciences Astronomy and astrophysics Chemistry Environmental sciences and management Geosciences Mathematical Sciences Marine sciences and Oceanography Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences Natural resources Physics This long-awaited 52nd edition profiles graduate progra...

This clear yet authoritative book affirms the vital role of creativity in writing and considers and encourages flexible, innovative practices in teaching. Importantly, the book reflects upon teachers' imaginative and artistic involvement in the writing process as role models, collaborators, artists, and as writers themselves. Arguing that children's creative use of language is key to the development of language and literacy skills, this book focuses on the composition process and how children c...

Covering 356 periodicals in psychology and education, this international guidebook offers information about where to submit papers for publication and which journals to read or subscribe to. For each journal, the author gives journal title, publisher, editor, manuscript, and notes. The journal title heading contains information on the focus of the journal, content of articles, special features, and recent topics covered. Editor and publisher headings list these addresses. The manuscript head...

The reputation of a college or institution depends upon the integrity of its faculty and administration. Though budgets are important, ethics are vital, and a host of new ethical problems now beset higher education. From MOOCS and intellectual property rights to drug industry payments and conflicts of interest, this book offers AAUP policy language and best practices to deal with all the campus-wide challenges of today's corporate university: *Preserving the integrity of research and public resp...

On oublie trop souvent que les competences de base en lecture et en redaction, ca ne s'acquiert pas comme par magie. Ce manuel est une introduction au travail intellectuel essentiel a toute personne qui entreprend ou retourne faire des etudes collegiales ou universitaires.

What happens when teachers face difficult options? Examining ourselves_why we do what we do_is the very essence of human psychology and of ethics. The purpose of this book is not to illustrate the difference between right and wrong, but to show how educators might choose among ethical approaches to decision-making as they face the difficult choices they make every day. However, to be just and ethical, we need to know something about the demands of justice and how they apply in our own circumstan...

Practical and rich in resources, this book provides a roadmap to monitoring, evaluating, and implementing effective literacy instruction in grades PK-12. Designed for district and school leaders as well as literacy coaches and consultants, this book contains all the strategies, guidance, and tools you’ll need to monitor the effectiveness of literacy instruction in your school or system. Top literacy experts Angela Peery and Tracey Shiel share concise, well-researched information about how to ide...

This book can easily be marketed alongside our leading Criminology textbooks in the UK (Newburn; South et al), as well as our Research Methods texts (i.e. Caulfield and Hill). Most Criminology students will complete a dissertation, so the size of the market is quite large. The book is supplemented by web resources, offering a range of template and example of good practice in writing, research and analysis. The book is relatively short, to easily digestible for an undergraduate student.

"The Virgin 2011" guide is the only university guide to offer a uniquely students' eye view of what it's like to study at a particular university. As well as hard facts and practical information on every UK university - such as official ratings for teaching, statistics on where graduates end up and employment prospects by subject - the guide is also packed with useful information such as what the social scene is like, how much living costs are likely to be and what the student profile at a parti...