- Table View
- List View
Teaching Strategies for Active Learning: Five Essentials for Your Teaching Plan
by Donna E. TilestonTranslating brain research into best practice, this book offers teachers a concise Strategic Learning Model for the active transfer of knowledge to students' long-term memory.
Ten Best Teaching Practices: How Brain Research and Learning Styles Define Teaching Competencies (3rd Edition)
by Donna E. TilestonEngage, motivate, and inspire students with today’s best practices In this third edition of her classic methods text, Donna Walker Tileston engages readers from the beginning with real-life classroom examples, proven techniques for reaching every learner, and up-to-date strategies, all outlined in her reader-friendly style. She incorporates the latest research on brain-compatible pedagogy and learning styles throughout the updated chapters on today’s most critical topics, including: Using formative assessment for best results Integrating technology to connect students’ school and home lives Differentiating instruction to inspire all students Creating a collaborative learning environment
What Every Parent Should Know About Schools, Standards, and High Stakes Tests
by Donna E. TilestonHelp parents understand educational standards, mandated tests, No Child Left Behind, and other issues affecting their children's schools with this reader-friendly guide.
What Every Teacher Should Know About Classroom Management and Discipline
by Donna E. TilestonTileston guides teachers through the root causes of discipline problems and presents seven effective tools to prevent or minimize problem behaviors.
What Every Teacher Should Know About Diverse Learners
by Donna E. TilestonThis updated edition presents critical information about teaching diverse learners, including brain-compatible teaching strategies, six signs of bias to avoid, how culture affects learning styles, and more.
What Every Teacher Should Know About Effective Teaching Strategies
by Donna E. TilestonThe innovative strategies presented in this volume will give you a bag of tools to help your students achieve higher-level learning.
What Every Teacher Should Know About Instructional Planning
by Donna E. TilestonHow will teachers know when students understand? This lesson planning guide provides the answers based on current, quality research on instructional planning.
What Every Teacher Should Know About Learning, Memory, and the Brain
by Donna E. TilestonThe teacher's holistic guide fosters understanding of how the brain acquires, processes, and interprets information, leading to reflective learning opportunities for all students.
What Every Teacher Should Know About Media and Technology
by Donna E. TilestonTechnology plus classroom can equal success for students. This invaluable resource for teachers presents classroom applications of media, technology, and the Internet.
What Every Teacher Should Know About Special Learners
by Donna E. TilestonThis resource will help you differentiate content for special learners by identifying special programs and the laws and regulations that govern those programs.
What Every Teacher Should Know About Student Assessment
by Donna E. TilestonGain a solid foundation for understanding the implications of standards-based instruction in the classroom and sharpen your skill in enhancing student understanding.
What Every Teacher Should Know About Student Motivation (2nd Edition)
by Donna E. TilestonPowerful, brain-friendly strategies for motivating, challenging, and celebrating your students! This second edition is filled with practices for motivating even the most at-risk and reluctant students. Informed by current research on the plasticity of the brain and new insights on the relationship between culture and student motivation, the book features an extended classroom example of motivational techniques in action and vocabulary pre- and post-tests for teachers and details how: Technology influences the brain and motivation Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation are related to celebrations and rewards Specific strategies can motivate students to begin and finish a task Teachers can foster students' positive self-talk and on-task behaviors
What Every Teacher Should Know About the Profession and Politics of Teaching
by Donna E. TilestonNo Child Left Behind and accountability to stakeholders require the up-to-date coverage found here on topics such as the politics of teaching and the changing the face of education.
Deictic Imaginings: Semiosis at Work and at Play
by Donna E. WestThis work represents the first integrated account of how deixis operates to facilitate points of view, providing the raw material for reconciling index and object. The book offers a fresh, applied philosophical approach using original empirical evidence to show that deictic demonstratives hasten the recognition of core representational constructs. It presents a case where the comprehension of shifting points of view by means of deixis is paramount to a theory of mind and to a worldview that incorporates human components of discovering and extending spatial knowledge. The book supports Peirce's triadic sign theory as a more adequate explanatory account compared with those of Bühler and Piaget. Peirce's unitary approach underscores the artificiality of constructing a worldview driven by logical reasoning alone; it highlights the importance of self-regulation and the appreciation of otherness within a sociocultural milieu. Integral to this semiotic perspective is imagination as a primary tool for situating the self in constructed realities, thus infusing reality with new possibilities. Imagination is likewise necessary to establish postures of mind for the self and others. Within these imaginative scenarios (consisting of overt, and then covert self dialogue) children construct their own worldviews, through linguistic role-taking, as they legitimize conflicting viewpoints within imagined spatial frameworks.
Relentless Pursuit: A Year in the Trenches with Teach for America
by Donna FooteFoote, a freelance journalist, provides a narrative illustration of the Teach for America program within the framework of a poor, largely-neglected Los Angeles school. Teach for America, since its founding in 1990, has sought to provide better educational opportunities for disadvantaged children. The book chronicles a year in the life of the school through the eyes of four of Teach for America's briefly-trained, but idealistic corps members who relate their frustrating, maddening, and exhilarating experiences in the classrooms. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc. , Portland, OR (booknews. com)
Set Your Voice Free
by Roger Love Donna FrazierInternationally acclaimed for his work as a vocal coach to a wide range of top recording artists and celebrities -- among them Eminem, Wilson Phillips, Smashing Pumpkins, Al Jarreau, the Beach Boys, Phish, Billy Idol, Tyra Banks, Billy Baldwin, Alicia Silverstone, and many others -- Roger Love has pioneered a technique that effectively connects speakers and singers to parts of their voice they've never used before. Whether your goal is to carry a tune, expand your vocal range, or speak with ease and confidence before an audience, Roger Love provides you with exactly the help you need. Through the innovative techniques and enjoyable exercises in this book and accompanying CD, Love demonstrates how you can strengthen your "middle voice" and navigate smoothly through several octaves without pressure or strain. Set Your Voice Free holds the key to vocal success and satisfaction -- it's like professional voice lessons in book form.
Set Your Voice Free: How to Get the Singing or Speaking Voice You Want
by Roger Love Donna FrazierThe greatest vocal coach in the world will help you get the voice you want. Every time we open our mouths, we have an effect on ourselves and the way others perceive us. The ability to speak clearly and confidently can make or break a presentation, an important meeting, or even a first date. Now, with the advent of Skype, YouTube, podcasting, Vine, and any number of reality talent competitions, your vocal presence has never been more necessary for success or more central to achieving your dreams.Roger Love has over 30 years of experience as one of the world's leading authorities on voice. Making use of the innovative techniques that have worked wonders with his professional clients, Love distills the best of his teaching in SET YOUR VOICE FREE, and shares exercises that will help readers bring emotion, range, and power to the way they speak.This updated edition incorporates what he's learned in the last 15 years as the Internet and talent competitions have completely changed the role your voice plays in your life. These are the new essentials for sounding authentic, persuasive, distinctive, and real in a world that demands nothing less.
The End of Sex: How Hookup Culture is Leaving a Generation Unhappy, Sexually Unfulfilled, and Confused About Intimacy
by Donna FreitasHookup culture dominates the lives of college students today. Most students spend hours agonizing over their hopes for Friday night and, later, dissecting the evenings’ successes or failures, often wishing that the social contract of the hookup would allow them to ask for more out of sexual intimacy. The pressure to participate comes from all directions-from peers, the media, and even parents. But how do these expectations affect students themselves? And why aren’t parents and universities helping students make better-informed decisions about sex and relationships? In The End of Sex, Donna Freitas draws on her own extensive research to reveal what young men and women really want when it comes to sex and romance. Surveying thousands of college students and conducting extensive one-on-one interviews at religious, secular public, and secular private schools, Freitas discovered that many students-men and women alike-are deeply unhappy with hookup culture. Meaningless hookups have led them to associate sexuality with ambivalence, boredom, isolation, and loneliness, yet they tend to accept hooking up as an unavoidable part of college life. Freitas argues that, until students realize that there are many avenues that lead to sex and long-term relationships, the vast majority will continue to miss out on the romance, intimacy, and satisfying sex they deserve. An honest, sympathetic portrait of the challenges of young adulthood, The End of Sex will strike a chord with undergraduates, parents, and faculty members who feel that students deserve more than an endless cycle of boozy one night stands. Freitas offers a refreshing take on this charged topic-and a solution that depends not on premarital abstinence or unfettered sexuality, but rather a healthy path between the two.
The Possibilities of Sainthood
by Donna FreitasWhile regularly petitioning the Vatican to make her the first living saint, Antonia Labella prays to assorted patron saints for every help with preparing the family's fig trees for a Rhode Island winter to getting her first kiss from the right boy.
Leaving Ordinary: Encounter God Through Extraordinary Prayer (InScribed Collection)
by Donna Gaines InScribedHow to develop an intimate relationship with God through prayer. The deepest longing of the human heart is to know and be known by God. God longs for an intimate relationship with us as well. But how do we develop that kind of relationship with a holy God? It is one thing to long for such a relationship, but quite another to experience intimacy with Him. In Leaving Ordinary, Donna Gaines shares from her personal experience how prayer can become the channel that links the believer&’s heart to the heart of God.God gave the pattern of the tabernacle to the Israelites. It was a temporary and portable dwelling for His glory. Through it God taught them how to approach and worship Him before He led them to their reward—the promised land. Using the tabernacle and its articles as a guide, Donna teaches readers how to interact with God in that secret place of true intimacy that leads to worship. Your ordinary daily practice of prayer can become an extraordinary encounter with the living Lord. Leaving Ordinary is essential reading for anyone who desires to enter into and experience the reality of God&’s presence.As you read, you will:Explore the tabernacle and discover how it can be a guide for prayer today.Learn how to gain a stronger, more intimate relationship with God.Develop your own personal prayer testimony as you experience His presence.
Lily and Dunkin
by Donna GephartLily Jo McGrother, born Timothy McGrother, is a girl. But being a girl is not so easy when you look like a boy. Especially when you’re in the eighth grade. <p><p> Dunkin Dorfman, birth name Norbert Dorfman, is dealing with bipolar disorder and has just moved from the New Jersey town he’s called home for the past thirteen years. This would be hard enough, but the fact that he is also hiding from a painful secret makes it even worse. <p> One summer morning, Lily Jo McGrother meets Dunkin Dorfman, and their lives forever change.
Olivia Bean, Trivia Queen
by Donna GephartOlivia Bean knows trivia. She watches Jeopardy! every night and usually beats at least one of the contestants. If she were better at geography, she would try out for the show's kids' week. Not only could she win bundles of money, she'd get to go to the taping in California, where her dad, who left two years ago and who Olivia misses like crazy, lives with his new family. One day Olivia's friend-turned-nemesis, Tucker, offers to help her bulk up her geography knowledge. Before Olivia knows it, she's getting help from all sorts of unexpected sources: her almost-stepdad, superannoying Neil; her genius little brother, Charlie; even her stressed-out mom. Soon she has breezed through the audition rounds and is headed for Hollywood! But will the one person she wants to impress more than anyone else show up to support her?From the Hardcover edition.
Comparative Information Technology: Languages, Societies and the Internet (Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research #4)
by Joseph Zajda Donna GibbsThis volume offers a critique of the nexus between ICT and its impact on society, individuals and educational institutions. One of the most significant dimensions of globalisation has been the rapid development of information and communications technologies (ICTs). Our lives have been changed by ICTs in numerous ways and the implications for education are enormous. The ICTs have transformed the linguistic, cognitive and visual dimensions of human communication, as well as our perceptions of the self, and social identity in the global culture. They have facilitated the development of new dimensions of digital literacy, such as blogging and sms messaging. In this sense, cyberlanguage continues to evolve by borrowing and adapting familiar words, coining new expressions, and embracing particular styles. The book provides directions in education and policy research, relevant to transformational educational reforms in the 21st century.
The Organized Student: Teaching Children the Skills for Success in School and Beyond
by Donna GoldbergA must-read for parents, The Organized Student contains hands-on strategies for teaching your disorganized child how to organize for success in middle school and high school, with special tips for kids with ADD/ADHD and learning disorders.The overstuffed backpack, the missing homework, the unused planner, the test he didn’t know about. Sound familiar? When the disorganized child meets the departmentalized structure of middle school, everything can fall apart. Even the academically successful child will start to falter if she misses deadlines, loses textbooks, or can’t get to class on time. This practical book is full of hands-on strategies for helping parents identify and teach organizational skills. Educational consultant Donna Goldberg has developed these methods by working with hundreds of students and in this book she provides: -Assessments to gather information about your child’s learning style, study habits, and school requirements -Guidelines for taming that overstuffed binder and keeping it under control -PACK—a four-step plan for purging and reassembling a backpack or locker -Instructions for organizing an at-home work space for the child who studies at a desk or the child who studies all over the house -Ways to help your child graduate from telling time to managing time -Special tips for kids with learning disabilities and kids who have two homes...and more The Organized Student is a must for any parent who has heard the words, “I can’t find my homework!”
Reflexivity and Change in Adaptive Physical Activity: Overcoming Hubris (Disability Sport and Physical Activity Cultures)
by Donna Goodwin and Maureen ConnollyThis provocative and challenging book argues for the vital importance of critical self-reflexion in the field of adaptive physical activity (APA). It makes a powerful case for embracing discussions of the harm caused by ableist assumptions of the ideal body, maximizing capabilities and perfecting normativebased movement that dominate contemporary discourse in APA, and calls for more critical introspection about what APA is, how it is performed, and what might be needed to bring a collaborative relational ethic to this field. This book focuses on two key themes: Firstly, how ableism as a foundational belief system of APA is present in the undergraduate curriculum, professional preparation, professional practice, and organizational policies. Secondly, how to make the comfortable uncomfortable by openly debating the harm that results from non-reflexive (nondisabled) hubris in APA. The goal is to spark an exchange of ideas among scholars, practitioners, and organizational leaders and therefore to shift the paradigm from one of professional expertism to one that centres disability wisdom holders, bringing a fundamental change yo how we perform adaptive physical activity. This book is important, progressive reading for anybody with an interest in adaptive physical activity, adapted physical education, disability sport, inclusive education, the philosophy and ethics of disability and sport, or disability in wider society.