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Stop Talking About Wellbeing
by Katherine HowardStop talking about wellbeing, and start taking action to own your workload. As the teacher retention crisis reaches breaking point, and mental health for teachers features regularly in the press, wellbeing has been pushed to the top of the national agenda in a bid for schools to consider how to look after their staff. However, wellbeing is becoming a tokenistic feature within the education sector, as staff participate in compulsory wellbeing-linked activities that have very little impact on their workload or ability to do what they came into the profession to achieve: inspiring young people. In a critical consideration of a range of educational research, Kat explores the key factors that form a teacher's role within school, outlining a range of ways that teachers can take ownership of their workload, and wellbeing through a sense of true job fulfilment. Interviewing expert teachers in their field and taking a Kat provides practical strategies for teachers at any point of their career to take away and implement immediately, in a bid to improve the educational landscape for teachers everywhere.
Stop Talking About Wellbeing
by Katherine HowardStop talking about wellbeing, and start taking action to own your workload. As the teacher retention crisis reaches breaking point, and mental health for teachers features regularly in the press, wellbeing has been pushed to the top of the national agenda in a bid for schools to consider how to look after their staff. However, wellbeing is becoming a tokenistic feature within the education sector, as staff participate in compulsory wellbeing-linked activities that have very little impact on their workload or ability to do what they came into the profession to achieve: inspiring young people. In a critical consideration of a range of educational research, Kat explores the key factors that form a teacher's role within school, outlining a range of ways that teachers can take ownership of their workload, and wellbeing through a sense of true job fulfilment. Interviewing expert teachers in their field and taking a Kat provides practical strategies for teachers at any point of their career to take away and implement immediately, in a bid to improve the educational landscape for teachers everywhere.
Stop That Virus! (Step into Reading)
by Scott EmmonsThe curious crew from Netflix's Ask the StoryBots star in an all-new Step into Reading leveled readerWhat is a virus? How do you catch a cold? Beep, Boop, and the rest of the robots from Netflix's Ask the StoryBots are looking for answers. The inquisitive team make this timely concern interesting, entertaining, and not-so-scary. Boys and girls ages 4 to 6 who love the StoryBots will enjoy this fun and educational Step 2 Step into Reading leveled reader.Step 2 Readers use basic vocabulary and short sentences to tell simple stories. For children who recognize familiar words and can sound out new words with help.
Stop the Lecturing Start the Conversation: Increasing Your Children's Emotional Intelligence
by Susan SidsworthThis book provides specific strategies for parents, teachers and caregivers who want to enhance the emotional and intellectual intelligence of children. Parents of toddlers often feel frustrated when they cannot communicate with their children in a positive way. Parents of pre-teens and teenagers often feel that their children are "tuning" them out. Many parents resort to lecturing or shouting in order to try and break through these communication barriers. This book aims to provide parents and educators with strategies for establishing a dialogue with children so that they are truly engaged in conversation and the learning process. Establishing a dialogue with children is crucial for our children's emotional, intellectual and social growth. When we establish dialogue or two -way communications with our children we are also part of the learning equation. We have many lessons to teach our children, but our children also have many lessons to teach us. Unfortunately, many of us are trapped in a monologue style of communication. We are telling our children what they can and can not do, we are explaining the rules, we are setting boundaries and we are often not listening to our children. Perhaps you want to protest at this point and say that you do listen to your children and that you try to patiently answer all of their questions. And children are generally asking many questions of the journalistic interrogation kind - Why? Where? When How? What? The fact that children are asking these questions is an indication of their quest to understand the world and the demands that it is making on them. But simply answering a child's questions - patiently or impatiently - is not a true dialogue. A dialogue occurs when two or more people engage in conversation about a subject or a decision and takes turns asking questions and listening to responses. The ideal Socratic Method involves the asking and answering of questions in order to stimulate critical thinking. The opposite of dialogue is a monologue. One person is speaking and others are supposed to be listening. Since monologues eventually become boring and non-engaging children eventually tune out their parents monologues. Many parents will finally exclaim in frustration "Am I talking to myself?" and resort to shouting or talking in an angry tone of voice to get their children's attention. Dialogue, on the other hand, is an engagement and an exchange between two people. This book will provide specific strategies to parents, teachers and caregivers that are designed to enhance the social, emotional and spiritual growth of children and young people.
Stop the World I Want to Get Off: A guide to understanding and supporting the recovery of autistic burnout in children and young people
by Jodie ClarkeWith mental health crisis in autistic young people on the rise we need to accept that Living as an autistic person in a world that doesn't cater to your needs is exhausting at best and harmful at worst.Autistic burnout is a common experience for autistic children and young people. This book, authored by a neurodivergent practitioner with firsthand experience as both an autism parent and researcher, delves into the recognition and management of burnout. It offers parents and professionals practical strategies to prevent autistic burnout and provides guidance on supporting those already in distress.For every child that has been forced into school in pyjamas, for every parent blamed for their child's non-attendance, for every professional who wants to learn more and for every young person traumatized by those who thought they knew best-this book is for you.
Stop, Think, Act: Integrating Self-Regulation in the Early Childhood Classroom
by Megan M. McClelland Shauna L. TomineyStop, Think, Act: Integrating Self-regulation in the Early Childhood Classroom offers early childhood teachers the latest research and a wide variety of hands-on activities to help children learn and practice self-regulation techniques. Self-regulation in early childhood leads to strong academic performance, helps students form healthy friendships, and gives them the social and emotional resources they need to face high-stress situations throughout life. The book takes you through everything you need to know about using self-regulation principles during circle time, in literacy and math instruction, and during gross motor and outdoor play. Each chapter includes a solid research base as well as practical, developmentally-appropriate games, songs, and strategies that you can easily incorporate in your own classroom. With Stop, Think, Act, you’ll be prepared to integrate self-regulation into every aspect of the school day.
Stopping Bad Things Happening to Good Schools - and Good School Leaders
by Mike WatersThis unique book has been written to save schools and their leaders from going belly-up. While no book can anticipate every possible horror situation, Mike Waters' book provides anyone who wants their school to steer clear of shocking events the guidance to do just that. But since such things can happen anyway, it is also about preparing and responding to them if they do occur. Think a school-harming won't happen to you or your school? They are happening more and more and often to the best schools and school leaders. Think your crisis management procedures will see you through? Don't bank on it. Many of the events that rock schools don't start off as obvious crises. They may start off as something seemingly minor and containable - a routine parental complaint, perhaps, or a stupid action by a member. Then things spiral out of control. That's the world that many school leaders find themselves in today. And if you want painful, first-hand evidence for this, you have only to read the school leaders' own accounts of their harrowing experiences provided in the book.Because Dr Waters' book draws directly on his experiences of working with schools rocked by crises they never saw coming, it is filled with practical wisdom. But it is also blessedly short. It's a book for busy people who want to save themselves stress and turmoil. If that's you, then read it before it's too late.
Stopping Bad Things Happening to Good Schools - and Good School Leaders
by Mike WatersThis unique book has been written to save schools and their leaders from going belly-up. While no book can anticipate every possible horror situation, Mike Waters' book provides anyone who wants their school to steer clear of shocking events the guidance to do just that. But since such things can happen anyway, it is also about preparing and responding to them if they do occur. Think a school-harming won't happen to you or your school? They are happening more and more and often to the best schools and school leaders. Think your crisis management procedures will see you through? Don't bank on it. Many of the events that rock schools don't start off as obvious crises. They may start off as something seemingly minor and containable - a routine parental complaint, perhaps, or a stupid action by a member. Then things spiral out of control. That's the world that many school leaders find themselves in today. And if you want painful, first-hand evidence for this, you have only to read the school leaders' own accounts of their harrowing experiences provided in the book.Because Dr Waters' book draws directly on his experiences of working with schools rocked by crises they never saw coming, it is filled with practical wisdom. But it is also blessedly short. It's a book for busy people who want to save themselves stress and turmoil. If that's you, then read it before it's too late.
Stopping Gender-based Violence in Higher Education: Policy, Practice, and Partnerships
by Graham J. Towl Clarissa J. HumphreysStopping Gender-based Violence in Higher Education provides a unique insight into how gender-based violence at universities is impacting students and staff and outlines the path toward tangible changes that can prevent it. Bringing together perspectives from academics, activists, practitioners, and university administrators, the book presents a diverse range of voices to constructively critique the field. Structured in three parts, the book begins by addressing the context, theory, and law that stipulates how universities can effectively respond to reports of gender-based violence. It goes on to discuss the most pragmatic ways to address the issue while contributing to prevention and supporting victim-survivors. Finally, the book advocates for the development of beneficial working partnerships with key external services available to university communities and also working with students as partners in an ethical and safe way. Throughout the book, contributors are invited to demonstrate a comprehensive institution-wide and trauma-informed approach to centre the needs of the victim-survivor and prioritize resources to undertake this vital work. Each chapter ends with a brief summary of key points or recommendations and suggested further reading on the chapter topic. Although the authors draw on research and policy from the UK Higher Education sector, the insights will be a useful resource for those in universities around the world. This book is an essential reference point and resource for professionals, academics, and students in Higher Education, as well as indispensable reading for activists, policymakers, police, rape crisis groups, and other organisations supporting these universities who want to make meaningful change in reducing, responding to, and preventing gender-based violence in Higher Education.
Stoppt die Kompetenzkatastrophe!: Wege in eine neue Bildungswelt
by John Erpenbeck Werner SauterDieses Buch zeigt Ihnen, warum unsere Gesellschaft in eine Kompetenzkatastrophe schlittertJohn Erpenbeck und Werner Sauter vertreten in diesem Buch eine radikale These: Unsere Gesellschaft wird von der Kompetenzkatastrophe überrollt. Seit der ersten Auflage dieser Streitschrift haben sich wirkungsstarke Initiativen entwickelt, um Lösungen für die aktuellen Herausforderungen in der Bildung zu entwickeln und umzusetzen. Hinzu kommen unzählige richtungsweisende Einzelprojekte von engagierten Lehrern, Dozenten oder der betrieblichen Aus- und Weiterbildung. Doch aus Sicht der Autoren ist das noch nicht genug – im Gegenteil. Sie sind der Meinung, die Situation habe sich noch deutlich zugespitzt. Vor allem mit Blick auf die Digitalisierung stellen Erpenbeck und Sauter in diesem Werk neue Anforderungen an das Bildungssystem. Jedoch blockierten Schulen, Hochschulen und berufliche Bildung mehrheitlich die notwendige Entwicklung einer neuen Werte- und Kompetenzgesellschaft. Daher analysieren beide Autoren in diesem Buch die von Ihnen proklamierte Kompetenzkatastrophe, weisen auf innovative Wege zu ihrer Überwindung hin und fordern konkrete Bildungsreformen für die Gesellschaft. Mit diesen Impulsen wenden Sie die Katastrophe noch rechtzeitig abIm ersten Abschnitt dieses Buchs beschreiben John Erpenbeck und Werner Sauter, wie sie den Begriff Kompetenzkatastrophe definieren und stellen dieses Konzept der Wissenskatastrophe gegenüber. In den anschließenden Kapiteln setzen sich die Autoren u. a. mit diesen Aspekten und Fragestellungen auseinander:Wissensblödigkeit und KompetenzintelligenzKannten unsere Altvorderen keine Kompetenzen?Kompetenzentwicklung und PISAWissensweitergabe oder Kompetenzentwicklung an UniversitätenKann man Kompetenz lehren?Gehirn, Gehirnmechanik und SelbstorganisationInformations-, Wissens- und Kompetenzgesellschaft Für die Autoren stellt das bisherige Konzept des Bildungssystems – nämlich Wissens- statt Kompetenzweitergabe – eine große Gefahr dar. Mit diesem Werk fordern Erpenbeck und Sauter, in den Lehrplänen und damit auch in Unterrichtsformen aller Art Eigenverantwortung und Selbstorganisation stärker in den Mittelpunkt zu rücken. Denn nur unter realen Anwendungssituationen könnten sich Fähigkeiten ausbilden. Auf diese Weise liefert Ihnen dieses Buch konkrete Handlungsempfehlungen, um die Kompetenzkatastrophe schnellstmöglich aufzuhalten.
Stoppt die Kompetenzkatastrophe!: Wege in eine neue Bildungswelt
by John Erpenbeck Werner SauterSeit der ersten Auflage dieser Streitschrift haben sich wirkungsstarke Initiativen begründet, um Lösungen für die aktuellen Herausforderungen in der Bildung zu entwickeln und umzusetzen. Hinzu kommen unzählige richtungsweisende Einzelprojekte von engagierten Lehrern, Dozenten oder betrieblichen Aus- und Weiterbildnern, die häufig der Öffentlichkeit nicht bekannt werden. Also sind wir auf einem guten Weg? Leider nein!Die Katastrophe hat sich im Gegenteil noch deutlich zugespitzt. Unsere Welt verändert sich rasend mit zunehmender Geschwindigkeit und mit ihr die Anforderungen an uns. Wir benötigen heute völlig neue Fähigkeiten, um uns in der zunehmend digitalen Welt mit Künstlicher Intelligenz zurechtzufinden und trotzdem menschengerecht zu handeln. Diesen Anforderungen wird das Bildungssystem immer weniger gerecht. Sein Grundprinzip – Wissensweitergabe statt Kompetenzentwicklung – führt direkt in eine Bildungskatastrophe.Die künftige Arbeitswelt wird eine Kompetenzwelt sein, in der Werte als Handlungsanker für selbstorganisierte Prozesse mit digitalisierten Systemen und virtuellen Assistenten dienen. Die Digitalisierung führt dabei zu einem radikalen Wandel des Lernens. Schulen, Hochschulen und berufliche Bildung blockieren jedoch mehrheitlich die notwendige Entwicklung der Werte- und Kompetenzgesellschaft. John Erpenbeck und Werner Sauter analysieren diese Kompetenzkatastrophe und weisen Wege zu ihrer Überwindung.Die dritte Auflage wurde unter dem Aspekt der aktuellen rasanten Entwicklungen im Bereich Künstlicher Intelligenz grundlegend aktualisiert und ergänzt.
Storekeeper I: Passbooks Study Guide (Career Examination Series)
by National Learning CorporationThe Storekeeper I Passbook® prepares you for your test by allowing you to take practice exams in the subjects you need to study. It provides hundreds of questions and answers in the areas that will likely be covered on your upcoming exam, including but not limited to: supervision; storekeeping inventory and control; keeping inventory records; name and number checking; arithmetic computation; understanding and interpreting written material; and more.
Storekeeper II: Passbooks Study Guide (Career Examination Series)
by National Learning CorporationThe Storekeeper II Passbook® prepares you for your test by allowing you to take practice exams in the subjects you need to study. It provides hundreds of questions and answers in the areas that will likely be covered on your upcoming exam.
Storekeeper: Passbooks Study Guide (Career Examination Series #C-861)
by National Learning CorporationThe Storekeeper Passbook® prepares you for your test by allowing you to take practice exams in the subjects you need to study. It provides hundreds of questions and answers in the areas that will likely be covered on your upcoming exam, including but not limited to: supervision; storekeeping methods and procedures; keeping records, processing forms and preparing reports; storekeeping operations and problems; employee conduct; and more.
Storeroom Supervisor: Passbooks Study Guide (Career Examination Series)
by National Learning CorporationThe Storeroom Supervisor Passbook® prepares you for your test by allowing you to take practice exams in the subjects you need to study. It provides hundreds of questions and answers in the areas that will likely be covered on your upcoming exam, including but not limited to: procedures related to receipt, storage, issuance and transporting of stock; supervision; job-related mathematics; record keeping and inventory control; workplace safety; and more.
Stores Clerk: Passbooks Study Guide (Career Examination Series)
by National Learning CorporationThe Stores Clerk Passbook® prepares you for your test by allowing you to take practice exams in the subjects you need to study. It provides hundreds of questions and answers in the areas that will likely be covered on your upcoming exam, including but not limited to: stores keeping and inventory control; keeping simple inventory records; name and number checking; clerical operations with letters and numbers; and more.
Storied Doctorates: Studying Environmental Sustainability Education Internationally (Transdisciplinary Perspectives in Educational Research #1)
by Elsa LeeThis book brings together the diverse narratives of researchers’ personalized stories about the process of doing doctoral research (PhD) in the field of Environmental and Sustainability Education (ESE) and about the life after the completion of such life-forming experience. The narratives go beyond the academic to discuss the different ways in which doctoral study in the field of environmental and sustainability education is experienced at the personal and professional level. Contributors are located in different countries in Europe, Australasia and Latin America. The different countries that the authors write from matters because it contextualizes both the process of studying environmental and sustainability education and the way in which this is experienced at a time when the world has become increasingly conscientized towards environmental challenges. As such the book is appreciated by established and emerging scholars in this field and in related fields around the world. Readers are presented with a comprehensive volume ideal for aspiring ESE researchers, supervisors, policy-makers and practitioners.
Stories For Circle Time and Assembly: Developing Literacy Skills and Classroom Values
by Mal LeicesterCircle time is a very popular activity in today’s schools and creates a safe, fun environment where children can think about their relationships, their behaviour, and be honest about their problems and feelings. In this book, the highly successful and popular author Mal Leicester offers a range of lively and engrossing stories, poems and songs for use in circle time activities and assemblies. They are specially written to develop the cognitive and emotional development of young children and aim to encourage active and responsible participation. Using plentiful illustrations, photocopiable pages and practical activities, the author links twelve key value-based themes in the circle time stories to stimulate discussion and enhance pupils’ literacy skills and citizenship education.
Stories From the Heart: Teachers and Students Researching their Literacy Lives
by Richard J. MeyerStories from the Heart is for, by, and about prospective and practicing teachers understanding themselves as curious and literate beings, making connections with colleagues, and researching their own literacy and the literacy lives of their students. It demonstrates the power and importance of story in our own lives as literate individuals. Readers are encouraged to: tell, write, or re-create the stories of their literacy lives in order to understand how they learn and teach; begin the journey into writing the stories of others' literacy lives; find support in their researching endeavors; and examine the idea of framing stories by using the work of other teachers and researchers.
Stories Jesus Still Tells: The Parables
by John R. ClaypoolAesop told fables, Solomon told proverbs, and when Jesus needed to communicate difficult ideas in a calm, persuasive way, He told parables. These were simple stories, whose endings listeners could sometimes anticipate, but whose point they could always grasp. And there was always a surprise in the parables Jesus told. As the parable began, the listeners thought that the story was about someone else, but by the parable's end they knew it was pointed at them. Among the stories Jesus told were the ones about the talents; the treasure, the pearl, and the dragnet; the vineyard owner and his workers; the petulant children; the rich fool; and the great banquet. In this book, John Claypool retells in his own style the familiar stories Jesus once told, and in the retelling Jesus's sweet, clear voice can still be heard. John Claypool invites the reader to open up the deep places in his or her being so that "the Light that enlightens up every person" can illuminate him or her as well.
Stories Sell: Storyworthy Strategies to Grow Your Business and Brand
by Matthew DicksWIN CUSTOMERS AND BUILD BRANDS THROUGH THE POWER OF STORYTELLING Moth GrandSLAM all-time champion storyteller, writer, and business coach Matthew Dicks presents a guide to using the power of storytelling for success in business of any type or size. Matt has found that the basic principles of effective storytelling are universal, teachable, and more crucial than ever for business communication. Jam-packed with examples, Stories Sell reveals the ingredients of a compelling story and then demonstrates how they can be incorporated into persuasive marketing copy, productive face-to-face conversations, effective sales pitches, and presentations that people actually want to hear. Topics include: • The three elements of a winning story: stakes, suspense, and surprise • Finding the right narrative structure (and why beginning at the beginning isn’t always the best method) • The power of being vulnerable: how admitting your mistakes can build rapport with audiences • When and how to use humor • Zigging while others zag: making yourself stand out from competitors Whether you’re an online marketer, advertising professional, salesperson, small business owner, independent contractor, or Fortune 500 executive, Stories Sell will teach you to find your voice and get your message across for maximum impact and profit.
Stories for Classroom and Assembly: Active Learning in Values Education at Key Stages One and Two
by Mal LeicesterThis book is an indispensable resource for use in both the classroom and assembly, providing a delightful collection of fifteen original themed stories and activities, designed to develop key values and skills. Using the power of story, it stimulates reflection and discussion on a range of topics. The material is presented to maximise fun in learning, flexibility and coverage of National Curriculum guidelines for values education teaching. Amongst the key values discussed are: personal responsibility and independence co-operation and sharing honesty and justice respect for world religions. Each session contributes to key skills in English, whilst many of the activities involve use of co-ordination, numeracy and science skills. In addition, the stories are implicitly multicultural in flavour, giving a diverse and innovative feel to the book as a whole. An irresistibly charming, and yet practical tool, its topical tales and photocopiable resources make it an essential classroom companion.
Stories for Inclusive Schools: Developing Young Pupils' Skills
by Mal Leicester Gill JohnsonThis gem is the ideal companion for the busy primary school teacher. Packed with timesaving resources for both the classroom and assembly, it provides a wealth of activities to develop key values and skills in your pupils. Using the power of stories, the authors champion a fresh and inspiring approach to inclusive education across the curriculum, integrating key values into classroom learning. The twelve themed tales stimulate reflection and discussion on such sensitive areas as: bullying prejudice physical disability as well as 'hidden' disabilities alternative lifestyles, cultures, and different appearances parental difference. Lively characters of various ethnic origins, who embody respect for diversity, enhance these multicultural stories. In addition, each session contributes to key skills learning in English, including speaking and listening, reflecting, reasoning and concentrating. Many of the activities also integrate coordination and art and craft skills, numeracy and science skills. The many photocopiable activity pages make this an essential tool for teachers or heads who wish to ensure that inclusion is genuinely working for all children throughout their school.
Stories from Inequity to Justice in Literacy Education: Confronting Digital Divides (Routledge Research in Education)
by Jennifer Rowsell Ernest MorrellChallenging the assumption that access to technology is pervasive and globally balanced, this book explores the real and potential limitations placed on young people’s literacy education by their limited access to technology and digital resources. Drawing on research studies from around the globe, Stories from Inequity to Justice in Literacy Education identifies social, economic, racial, political and geographical factors which can limit populations’ access to technology, and outlines the negative impact this can have on literacy attainment. Reflecting macro, meso and micro inequities, chapters highlight complex issues surrounding the productive use of technology and the mobilization of multimodal texts for academic performance and illustrate how digital divides might be remedied to resolve inequities in learning environments and beyond. Contesting the digital divides which are implicitly embedded in aspects of everyday life and learning, this text will be of great interest to researchers and post-graduate academics in the field of literacy education.
Stories of Becoming: Demystifying the Professoriate for Graduate Students in Composition and Rhetoric
by Juliette C. Kitchens Claire Lutkewitte Molly J. ScanlonBased on findings from a multiyear, nationwide study of new faculty in the field of rhetoric and composition, Stories of Becoming provides graduate students—and those who train them—with specific strategies for preparing for a career in the professoriate. Through the use of stories, the authors invite readers to experience their collaborative research processes for conducting a nationwide survey, qualitative interviews, and textual analysis of professional documents. Using data from the study, the authors offer six specific strategies—including how to manage time, how to create a work/life balance, and how to collaborate with others—that readers can use to prepare for the composition and rhetoric job market and to begin their careers as full-time faculty members. Readers will learn about the possible responsibilities they may take on as new faculty, particularly those that go beyond teaching, research, service, and administration to include navigating the politics of higher education and negotiating professional identity construction. And they will also engage in activities and answer questions designed to deepen their understanding of the field and help them identify their own values and desired career trajectory. Stories of Becoming demystifies the professoriate, compares what current new faculty have to say of their job expectations with the realities that students might face when on the job, and brings to light the invisible, behind-the-scenes work done by new faculty. It will be invaluable to graduate students, those who teach graduate students, new faculty, and hiring administrators in composition and rhetoric.