What if you could succeed with a disruptive student, connect with an angry parent or impress a skeptical principal with a new idea, a new procedure, or a new way of looking at something?
This book explains how movement enhances learning and introduces a unique and highly effective way to energize a team and increase retention through simple body-focused techniques.
Building Online Learning Communities: Effective Strategies for the Virtual Classroom, 2nd Edition Building Online Learning Communities further explores the development of virtual classroom environments that foster a sense of community and empower students to take charge of their learning to successfully achieve learning outcomes.
The Self-Directed Learning Handbook offers teachers and principals an innovative program for customizing schooling to the learning needs of individual students-- and for motivating them to take increasing responsibility for deciding what and how they should learn.
In this much needed resource, Maryellen Weimer-one of the nation's most highly regarded authorities on effective college teaching-offers a comprehensive work on the topic of learner-centered teaching in the college and university classroom.
"e;Gloria Ladson-Billings provides a perceptive and interestingaccount of what is needed to prepare novice teachers to besuccessful with all students in our multicultural society.
In this updated version of her landmark book Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach, celebrated adult educator Jane Vella revisits her twelve principles of dialogue education with a new theoretical perspective gleaned from the discipline of quantum physics.
Scientific Challenges to Evolutionary Theory: How These Challenges Affect Religion addresses all aspects of the giant battle between two major belief systemsthose that believe in a ';naturalistic worldview' and evolution, and those that believe in a miracle-performing God and the Creation of all things.
Containing the largest bank of test questions on the market, How to Pass Advanced Verbal Reasoning Tests provides advice, practice and exercises to help you prepare for the rigorous tests used by employers, helping you to build up speed, accuracy and confidence.
El principal objetivo de este libro es analizar la evaluación como un proceso fundamental para asegurar una formación de calidad basada en competencias.
The revelatory, poignant story of Rosemary Kennedy, the eldest and eventually secreted-away Kennedy daughter, and how her life transformed her family, its women especially, and an entire nation.
Este libro de ningún modo puede entenderse como la recopilación de escuelas universales de pensamiento o como la descripción de las escuelas de pensamiento propias de la Universidad de La Salle, pero sí se configura como una muestra de las múltiples entradas a la compleja oportunidad de transitar por los distintos niveles y posibilidades del pensar deliberado, del pensar que al construirse genera aprendizajes significativos que, a su vez, desestructuran estos pensamientos y los interpelan para que sean mejor pensados al ser repensados.
Con motivo de la celebración de los cincuenta años de la Universidad de La Salle y de los 125 años de presencia lasallista en Colombia, el grupo de profesores de la Maestría en Docencia de la Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación, bajo la coordinación del maestro Fernando Vásquez Rodríguez, decidió llevar a cabo su ya consolidado y reconocido seminario, esta vez alrededor de una lectura contemporánea y en clave de educación superior de la Guia de las Escuelas Cristianas.
A thoroughly revised edition of the classic resource for understanding gender differences in the classroom In this profoundly significant book, author Michael Gurian has revised and updated his groundbreaking book that clearly demonstrated how the distinction in hard-wiring and socialized gender differences affects how boys and girls learn.
A thoroughly revised edition of the classic resource for understanding gender differences in the classroom In this profoundly significant book, author Michael Gurian has revised and updated his groundbreaking book that clearly demonstrated how the distinction in hard-wiring and socialized gender differences affects how boys and girls learn.
An essential reference for all elementary teachers This comprehensive resource contains useful lists on all the subjects elementary teachers need, from core content to tips on classroom management to advice for students on study skills.
An essential reference for all elementary teachers This comprehensive resource contains useful lists on all the subjects elementary teachers need, from core content to tips on classroom management to advice for students on study skills.
Creating a Sense of Presence in Online Teaching This important new resource shows how a strong sense of online presence contributes to greater student satisfaction and retention.
Creating a Sense of Presence in Online Teaching This important new resource shows how a strong sense of online presence contributes to greater student satisfaction and retention.
Ideas for creating an orderly classroom where learning can thrive This unique, hands-on book is packed with tested ideas and strategies to help you create a classroom environment where good conduct and high achievement are the norm and where students become self- motivated and take responsibility for their actions.
Ideas for creating an orderly classroom where learning can thrive This unique, hands-on book is packed with tested ideas and strategies to help you create a classroom environment where good conduct and high achievement are the norm and where students become self- motivated and take responsibility for their actions.
Engaging Hard to Reach Parents This is a readable yet academically rigorous book that draws together findings from contemporary theory, research and practice.
Howard Gardner's groundbreaking theory applied for classroom use This important book offers a practical guide to understanding how Howard Gardner's theory of Multiple Intelligences (MI) can be used in the classroom.
Howard Gardner's groundbreaking theory applied for classroom use This important book offers a practical guide to understanding how Howard Gardner's theory of Multiple Intelligences (MI) can be used in the classroom.
The Challenges and Joys of Juggling There has been growing demand for workshops and materials to help those in higher education conduct and use the scholarship of teaching and learning.
Tap into the power of graphic organizers for classroom success Veteran educator and NCTE trainer Katherine McKnight shows how students can use graphic organizers as an important tool to organize new information.
Tap into the power of graphic organizers for classroom success Veteran educator and NCTE trainer Katherine McKnight shows how students can use graphic organizers as an important tool to organize new information.
This book shows college instructors how to communicate their course organization to students in a graphic syllabus a one-page diagram, flowchart, or concept map of the topical organization and an outcomes map a one-page flowchart of the sequence of student learning objectives and outcomes from the foundational through the mediating to the ultimate.
