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Preparing and Delivering Scientific Presentations: A Complete Guide for International Medical Scientists
by Ramón Ribes John GibaThe latest in Springer's "Medical English" series, aimed at health care professionals who need English for their work but do not speak English on a day-to-day basis. Although much of the information provided will be useful for scientists of all backgrounds and nationalities, the book is aimed especially at non-native English-speaking physicians and biomedical scientists. It offers clear advice on a variety of topics relevant to the successful preparation and delivery of scientific presentations. Alongside guidance on the actual preparation and delivery of talks, helpful information is provided on such potential difficulties as dealing with questions, chairing sessions, and use of appropriate English. The book will offer encouragement for those embarking on a career in international science as well as practical advice on how to deal with a wide range of situations that may develop in the context of an international congress.
Preparing and Sustaining Social Justice Educators
by Annamarie Francois and Karen Hunter QuartzPreparing and Sustaining Social Justice Educators spotlights the challenging and necessary work of fostering social justice in schools. Integral to this work are the teachers and school leaders who enact the principles of social justice—racial equity, cultural inclusivity, and identity acceptance—daily in their classrooms. This volume makes the case that high-quality public education relies on the recruitment, professional development, and retention of educators ready to navigate complex systemic and structural inequities to best serve vulnerable student populations.Annamarie Francois and Karen Hunter Quartz, along with contributing scholars and practitioners, present an intersectional approach to educational justice. The approach is grounded in research about deeper learning, community development, and school reform. Throughout the book, the contributors detail professional activities proven to sustain social justice educators. They show, for example, how effective teacher coaching encourages educators to confront their explicit and implicit biases, to engage in critical conversations and self-reflection, and to assess teacher performance through a social justice lens.The book illustrates how professional learning collaborations promote diverse, antiracist, and socially responsible learning communities. Case studies at three university-partnered K–12 schools in Los Angeles demonstrate the benefits of these professional alliances and practices.Francois and Quartz acknowledge the difficulty of the social justice educator&’s task, a challenge heightened by a K–12 teacher shortage, an undersupplied teacher pipeline, and school closures. Yet they keep their sights set on a just and equitable future, and in this work, they give educators the tools to build such a future.
Preparing for Christ's Return (Life Principles Study Series)
by Charles F. StanleyThe most exhilarating moment since the resurrection may happen today! Are you ready?This was the attitude of early Christians—to be ready each moment for Christ's promised return, dedicating themselves to His work on earth in the meantime. The disciples and first-century Christians eagerly anticipated Christ's second coming and talked about it daily like we talk about our team's chance for the Super Bowl.In Preparing for Christ's Return, Dr. Charles Stanley will teach you how to live a life of satisfaction, purpose, meaning, and readiness—a life that brings great reward now and in eternity.With over 1 million copies sold, the Charles F. Stanley Bible Study Series is a unique approach to Bible study, incorporating biblical truth, personal insights, emotional responses, and a call to action.Each study draws on Dr. Stanley&’s many years of teaching the guiding principles found in God&’s Word, showing how we can apply them in practical ways to every situation we face.Each of the ten lessons includes:A brief look at what is covered in the lesson.A teaching from Dr. Stanley that unpacks the topic of the lesson.Application and Bible study questions based on the key points.Key takeaways to put into practice today and tomorrow.
Preparing for College and University Teaching: Competencies for Graduate and Professional Students
by Molly Hatcher Joanna Gilmore"This book is a guide for designing professional development programs for graduate students. The teaching competencies framework presented here can serve as the intended curriculum for such programs. The book will also be an excellent resource for evaluating programs, and will be an excellent resource for academics who study graduate students"--Provided by publisher.
Preparing for College and University Teaching: Competencies for Graduate and Professional Students
by Joanna Gilmore, Molly HatcherThis book is a guide for designing professional development programs for graduate students. The teaching competencies framework presented here can serve as the intended curriculum for such programs. The book will also be an excellent resource for evaluating programs, and will be an excellent resource for academics who study graduate students.This book presents the work of the Graduate Teaching Competencies Consortium to identify, organize, and clarify the competencies that graduate students need to teach effectively when they join the professoriate. To achieve this goal, the Consortium developed a framework of 10 teaching competencies organized around three overarching questions:• What do graduate students need to achieve by the end of their graduate education to be successful teacher-scholars?• What do graduate students need to understand about higher education to have successful careers as educators?• What do graduate students need to do to be successful teachers during their graduate student careers?Although much work has been done to identify the competencies of effective teachers in higher education, only a small portion of this work has been conducted with graduate student instructors. This is an important area of research given that graduate students are critical in the higher education academic pipeline. Nationally, graduate students teach between 25% and 50% of courses offered at the undergraduate level. Graduate student teaching is also critical because during early teaching experiences teachers establish a teaching style and set of teaching skills, which will endure as graduate students enter the professoriate.It is important to develop a teaching competency framework that is specific to graduate student instructors as they often have unique needs and roles as teachers. For example, graduate student instructors are in the unique position of becoming experts in their field concurrent with learning to teach. Moreover, as many professional development programs for graduate student instructors evolve based upon factors such as available resources and perceived needs of graduate students, this framework will be a useful aid for thoughtfully designing strategic, evidence-based, comprehensive professional development opportunities and programs.
Preparing for Disaster: What Every Early Childhood Director Needs to Know
by Elizabeth Shores Cathy GraceWithout warning, a catastrophic event can destroy an early childhood program. Based on Cathy Grace and Elizabeth Shores' experiences working in Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina, Preparing for Disaster explains the steps directors can take to insure the safety of their program and the children they care for. With forms, worksheets, staff-training workshops, and task lists, as well as helpful guidelines and insights, this groundbreaking guide is filled with practical advice for every program director:* Create a Disaster Readiness Master Plan--and implement it. * Train teachers and administrators how to react in a catastrophic event. * Educate parents about your disaster plan to reduce panic. * Learn to create planned evacuation routes and how to notify local emergency management agencies of your plans. * Complete insurance, inventory, records back-up, and rental agreement forms. Preparing for Disaster provides practical advice and information to prepare for and respond to universal disasters like fires and epidemics and regional disasters such as tornadoes and earthquakes. Protect your program before disaster strikes. Preparing for Disaster is the companion book to After the Crisis: Using Storybooks to Help Children Cope.
Preparing for Higher Education’s Mixed Race Future: Why Multiraciality Matters
by Marc P. Johnston-Guerrero Lisa Delacruz Combs Victoria K. Malaney-BrownIncreasing attention and representation of multiraciality in both the scholarly literature and popular culture warrants further nuancing of what is understood about multiracial people, particularly in the changing contexts of higher education. This book offers a way of Preparing Higher Education for its Mixed Race Future by examining Why Multiraciality Matters. In preparation, the book highlights recent contributions in scholarship – both empirical studies and scholarly syntheses – on multiracial students, staff, and faculty/scholars across three separate yet interrelated parts, which will help spur the continued evolution of multiraciality into the future.
Preparing for Life in a Digital Age: The IEA International Computer and Information Literacy Study International Report
by Julian Fraillon John Ainley Wolfram Schulz Tim Friedman Eveline GebhardtAbility to use information and communication technologies (ICT) is an imperative for effective participation in today's digital age. Schools worldwide are responding to the need to provide young people with that ability. But how effective are they in this regard? The IEA International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS) responded to this question by studying the extent to which young people have developed computer and information literacy (CIL), which is defined as the ability to use computers to investigate, create and communicate with others at home, school, the workplace and in society. The study was conducted under the auspices of the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) and builds on a series of earlier IEA studies focusing on ICT in education. Data were gathered from almost 60,000 Grade 8 students in more than 3,300 schools from 21 education systems. This information was augmented by data from almost 35,000 teachers in those schools and by contextual data collected from school ICT-coordinators, school principals and the ICILS national research centers. The IEA ICILS team systematically investigated differences among the participating countries in students' CIL outcomes, how participating countries were providing CIL-related education and how confident teachers were in using ICT in their pedagogical practice. The team also explored differences within and across countries with respect to relationships between CIL education outcomes and student characteristics and school contexts. In general, the study findings presented in this international report challenge the notion of young people as "digital natives" with a self-developed capacity to use digital technology. The large variations in CIL proficiency within and across the ICILS countries suggest it is naive to expect young people to develop CIL in the absence of coherent learning programs. Findings also indicate that system- and school-level planning needs to focus on increasing teacher expertise in using ICT for pedagogical purposes if such programs are to have the desired effect. The report furthermore presents an empirically derived scale and description of CIL learning that educational stakeholders can reference when deliberating about CIL education and use to monitor change in CIL over time.
Preparing for Power: America's Elite Boarding Schools
by Caroline Hodges Persell Peter W. Cookson Jr.Why do private boarding schools produce such a disproportionate number of leaders in business, government, and the arts? In the most comprehensive study of its kind to date, two sociologists describe the complex ways in which elite schools prepare students for success and power, and they also provide a lively behind-the-scenes look at prep-school life and underlife.
Preparing for a Successful Faculty Career: Achieving Career Excellence as a Faculty Member (Springer Texts in Education)
by Robert S. FlemingThis book provides valuable information and practical insights regarding preparing for and pursuing a successful faculty career. It offers essential guidance through sequential chapters that consider the various stages of a successful faculty career, including what faculty members need to know with respect to each lesson and the role of each topic in contributing to career success. Each lesson also provides useful career guidance regarding things that faculty members should do as well as avoid doing during each stage of a faculty career. The book is designed to serve as an essential learning tool in related career preparation courses as well as a valuable self-study and reference source for faculty members. The unfortunate reality is that most graduate programs do not provide essential career guidance regarding the roles and responsibilities of becoming and succeeding as a faculty member. The phrase “hidden curriculum” has been used to describe this unfortunate reality. New faculty members often discover that they are expected to know so many essential things once they become a faculty member. The mission of this book is, therefore, to contribute to the success of readers throughout their careers as faculty members and enhance their ability to meet and exceed the expectations of their students, institution, and other stakeholders. The various lessons are designed to enhance faculty success throughout one’s career as well as the meaningfulness and pleasure of one’s faculty career.
Preparing for the 2024 California Clinical Social Work Law & Ethics Exam
by Benjamin E. CaldwellPrepare yourself effectively for the California LCSW Law & Ethics Exam with the leading study guide. With a summary of key knowledge, practice exams (one full-length and one mini) with rationales, test-taking strategy, and anxiety management, this book is the test prep you need to help you succeed. Updated to 2024 state law, including changes in elder and dependent adult abuse reporting, involuntary hospitalization, conservatorship, privileged communications, and more. 20 of the 100+ total practice questions are new to this edition.
Preparing for the AP: English Literature and Composition Examination
by Angelia C. Greiner Skip NicholsonNIMAC-sourced textbook
Preparing for the Certified OpenStack Administrator Exam
by Matt DornMaster the objectives required to pass the Certified OpenStack Administrator exam. About This Book • Focuses on providing a clear, concise strategy so you gain the specific skills required to pass the Certified OpenStack Administrator exam • Includes exercises and performance-based tasks to ensure all exam objectives can be completed via the Horizon dashboard and command-line interface • Includes a free OpenStack Virtual Appliance to practice the objectives covered throughout the book • Includes a practice exam to put your OpenStack skills to the test to prove you have what it takes to conquer the live exam • Updated for the 2017 exam featuring OpenStack Newton Who This Book Is For This book is for IT professionals, system administrators, DevOps engineers, and software developers with basic Linux command-line and networking knowledge. It's also a great guide for those interested in an entry-level OpenStack position but have limited real-world OpenStack experience. After passing the exam, Certified OpenStack Administrators will prove they have the required skills for the job. What You Will Learn • Manage the Keystone identity service by creating and modifying domains, groups, projects, users, roles, services, endpoints, and quotas. • Upload Glance images, launch new Nova instances, and create flavors, key pairs, and snapshots. • Discover Neutron tenant and provider networks, security groups, routers, and floating IPs. • Manage the Cinder block storage service by creating volumes and attaching them to instances. • Create Swift containers and set access control lists to allow read/write access to your objects. • Explore Heat orchestration templates and create, list, and update stacks. In Detail This book provides you with a specific strategy to pass the OpenStack Foundation's first professional certification: the Certified OpenStack Administrator. In a recent survey, 78% of respondents said the OpenStack skills shortage had deterred them from adopting OpenStack. Consider this an opportunity to increase employer and customer confidence by proving you have the skills required to administrate real-world OpenStack clouds. You will begin your journey by getting well-versed with the OpenStack environment, understanding the benefits of taking the exam, and installing an included OpenStack all-in-one virtual appliance so you can work through objectives covered throughout the book. After exploring the basics of the individual services, you will be introduced to strategies to accomplish the exam objectives relevant to Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Heat, and troubleshooting. Finally, you'll benefit from the special tips section and a practice exam to put your knowledge to the test. By the end of the journey, you will be ready to become a Certified OpenStack Administrator! Style and approach Clear, concise, and straightforward with supporting diagrams and lab environment tutorials, this book will help you confidently pass Certified OpenStack Administrator objectives on the Horizon dashboard and command-line interface.
Preparing for the New SAT: Mathematics Student Edition
by Richard J. Andres Joyce BernsteinNIMAC-sourced textbook
Preparing for the Statistics AP Exam with Stats: Modeling the World Bock
by Anne M. Carroll Ruth E. Carver Susan A. Peters Janice D. RicksThis book presents Key Concepts, Skills, and Examples for the AP curriculum in a compact and student-friendly form.
Preparing to Include Special Children in Mainstream Schools: A Practical Guide
by Liz FlavellTeachers in both special and mainstream schools have to be confident in their abilities to implement inclusion effectively, in order for the child to have any chance of a successful inclusive school career. This book demonstrates how mainstream and special schools can work together in preparing the special school child to succeed in a mainstream environment. It also shows how to prepare existing mainstream pupils and other members of staff involved in or affected by the inclusion process.The author provides photocopiable forms for evaluating pupils' academic and social process and advice on how physical resources, such as sensory rooms, can enhance the learning opportunities of all pupils. She offers jargon-free communication strategies for effective interaction with the child, which is also considered within the framework of the whole-school policy. The book also presents sample lesson plans, resource ideas and plans for daily record keeping for use across the curriculum subjects; and suggestions for ways in which special and mainstream schools can work together to enhance the whole curriculum. Any teacher in a mainstream or special school who is concerned about making inclusion really work for their pupils will find this book an invaluable companion.
Preparing to Study Abroad: Learning to Cross Cultures
by Steven T. DukeStudy abroad is a potentially valuable experience in today’s global economy. With proper preparation it can be transformational. It can open you to the appreciation of other cultures; develop the transferable intercultural skills for interacting with people from different backgrounds; and deepen your self-awareness about your values and expectations. It can build confidence as you learn to navigate unfamiliar situations, and help you deal with the ambiguities of life.Study abroad also develops knowledge and insights about our interconnected world that will serve you well whether you choose a career in business, non-profits, education, or government. A recent study by IES Abroad found that many employers value the intercultural skills and personal development that students gain from their travel. Students who had studied abroad reported higher starting salaries and were more likely to have landed a job within six months of graduation than the national average. This book is written for you, as a student who is learning about the world first-hand, and probably traveling abroad for the first time. It addresses the challenges of adapting thinking and behavior as you travel in an unfamiliar environment, of making the most of the opportunities, and of meeting and interacting with the locals.This book is designed to help you prepare for your study abroad experience so you can get the most from it, and gain critical intercultural skills while crossing cultures. It offers strategies for learning about and exploring cultural differences and similarities of the country you will visit; and advice about how to actively observe and participate in the life of the locality in which you will find yourself. Each chapter illustrates key concepts through the personal accounts of students who have "been there, done that.” This book aims to help you with your own personal journey, and to make your study abroad experience as meaningful, rewarding, and insightful as possible.
Preparing to Teach Social Studies for Social Justice
by Ruchi Agarwal-Rangnath Alison G. Dover Nick HenningThis practical book shows how veteran, justice oriented social studies teachers are responding to the Common Core State Standards, focusing on how they build curriculum, support students’ literacy skills, and prepare students to think and act critically within and beyond the classroom. In order to provide direct classroom-to classroom insights, the authors draw on letters written by veteran teachers addressed to new teachers entering the field. <P><P> The first section of the book introduces the three approaches teachers can take for teaching for social justice within the constraints of the Common Core State Standards (embracing, reframing, or resisting the standards). The second section analyzes specific approaches to teaching the Common Core, using teacher narratives to illustrate key processes. The final section demonstrates how teachers develop, support, and sustain their identities as justice-oriented educators in standards-driven classrooms. Each chapter includes exemplary lesson plans drawn from diverse grades and classrooms, and offers concrete recommendations to guide practice.
Preparing to Teach Writing: Research, Theory, and Practice
by James D. WilliamsPreparing to Teach Writing, Fourth Edition is a comprehensive survey of theories, research, and methods associated with teaching composition successfully at the middle, secondary, and college levels. Research and theory are examined with the aim of informing teaching. Practicing and prospective writing teachers need the information and strategies this text provides to be effective and well prepared for the many challenges they will face in the classroom. Features Current—combines discussions and references to foundational studies that helped define the field of rhetoric and composition, with updated research, theories, and applications Research based—thorough examination of relevant research in education, literacy, cognition, linguistics, and grammar Steadfast adherence to best practices based on how students learn and on how to provide the most effective writing instruction A Companion Website provides sample assignments and student papers that can be analyzed using the research and theory presented in the text.
Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector
by Ann GravellsMost people new to teaching require a good basic introduction to all the key aspects at an appropriate level. This text provides just that, being specifically targeted at those with little or no previous experience. It is appropriate for a range of courses and a variety of settings including FE colleges, work-based learning and adult and community contexts. It is easy to read, with clear text, friendly presentation and plenty of practical activities and case studies throughout. This third edition has been fully revised and updated with amended terminology and additional information on functional skills and legislation.
Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector: The New Award (Further Education and Skills)
by Ann GravellsThis highly popular and accessible guide to the PTLLS Award is a comprehensive introduction to teaching in a variety of settings within the Lifelong Learning Sector. This includes further education, adult and community learning, work-based learning, the forces and offender learning and skills. It is easy to read with plenty of practical activities and examples throughout and the content is fully linked to the Teacher Training Standards. This fifth edition is written for the NEW four unit PTLLS Award. The book reflects current practice at levels 3 and 4 and 'Extension Actitivities' specifically target those taking the Award at Level 4. Chapters are based around the teaching and learning cycle and are focused on the PTLLS assessment criteria. - updated for the NEW four unit PTLLS Award - contents specifically follow the teaching and learning cycle and match the qualification requirements - the text is readable, relevant and easy to understand - provides valuable support for prospective teachers and trainers with little or no previous experience - an excellent foundation for those considering or progressing to further teaching qualifications
Preparing to Teach: Learning from Experience
by John Gordon Jeff BattersbyThis book gives student-teachers the chance to learn from the experiences of students who have just completed a course in preparing to teach. They offer all manner of insights, from the amusing to the cautionary to the thought-provoking. Course tutors provide additional commentary, identifying key themes and structuring chapters and the whole book to mirror the process of learning to teach. Each chapter takes a different facet of learning to teach, and issues covered include: observing experienced teachers interaction with pupils discussions with mentors and new colleagues exploring the concept of ‘subject knowledge’ what this means in practice. Later chapters consider the many frameworks in which student-teachers will find themselves working, the Qualifying to Teach Standards included, but also acknowledging tacit frameworks such as the ‘hidden’ curriculum. Students who are thinking of learning to teach, applying for a course or just starting one, will find voices here that give them a sense of how it feels to work through that process. The book is a companion; its tone friendly, conversational, and relaxed. Even at the most testing times in a course, you can turn to Preparing to Teach: Learning from Experience and find voices that say ‘yes, I’ve felt like that too’.
Presbyterian College
by Nancy GriffithFounded in 1880, Presbyterian College exists today as the manifestation of one man's dream. William Plumer Jacobs, minister of Clinton's first Presbyterian church and founder of Thornwell Orphanage, envisioned Clinton as a center for Presbyterian education in South Carolina. His dream, supported by generations who followed him, has created and maintained this strong liberal arts college, keeping it rich in the ideals of honor and service.Presbyterian College includes more than 200 vintage photographs that trace the course of the college's development over its near 125-year existence. Dedicated presidents, inspiring faculty, and a variety of students are featured, as well as the campus's Georgian architecture, which immediately signifies Presbyterian College. The long and rich Blue Hose athletic tradition is thoroughly explored and varied aspects of student life-from choir tours to Greek life-are recounted.
Preschool Adequacy and Efficiency in California
by Lynn A. Karoly David R. Howell Tom Latourrette David E. Mosher Lois M. Davis Preston NiblackThe California Preschool Study examined gaps in school readiness and achievement in the early grades among California children and the potential for high-quality preschool to close those gaps, the use of early care and education (ECE) services and their quality, and the system of publicly funded ECE programs for three- and four-year-olds. This analysis integrates the results from the prior studies and makes recommendations for preschool policy.
Preschool Art: Drawing
by MaryAnn F. KohlExplore and create with chalk, crayons, stencils, textures, and more! Encourage children to experience the joy of exploration and discovery with this view series by MaryAnn Kohl. Excerpted from the national best-seller Preschool Art, each book in the series emphasizes the process of are, not the product. Make art fun and accessible to children of all ages with these creative, easy-to-do activities! - See more at: https://www.gryphonhouse.com/books/details/preschool-art-drawing#sthash.6HK3Q5Pw.dpuf