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Communicate Effectively by Lani Arredondo
Category: No Category | Series: McGraw-Hill Professional Education Series
This book helps improve readers' communication through e-mail and voice mail. It shows how to boost employees' productivity and raise morale through everyday conversation. It also explains the effects of listening filters, and reveals must-dos for great presentations.
Creativity Crisis: Toward a Post-Constructivist Educational Future by Robert Nelson
Category: Australiana | Series: Education Ser.
In Creativity Crisis, Robert Nelson argues that university education is systematically uncreative and suggests how this might be changed. Constructive alignment, the centrepiece of today's university pedagogy, promotes mechanistic thinking and the anxious gathering of manipulative skills. Learning happe ...Show more
Cultural Competence : A Primer for Educators by Jerry Diller, Jean Moule
Category: Education | Series: What's New in Education Ser.
We all know that an appreciation of diversity is important, but how do you teach that to students? CULTURAL COMPETENCE: A PRIMER FOR EDUCATORS, 2nd Edition, shows you the basics of multicultural education strategies in a short, easy-to-use education textbook. The author also offers insights into the psy ...Show more
Dealing with Difficult People by Dr. Rick Brinkman & Dr. Rick Kirschner
Category: Business | Series: McGraw-Hill Professional Education Series
"Dealing with Difficult People" provides specific strategies and actions you can take to understand difficult people, recognize why they act the way they do, and influence them to change their behavior toward the positive. Written by Doctors Rick Brinkman and Rick Kirschner, today's most respected autho ...Show more
Designing Courses for Higher Education by Susan Toohey
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Society for Research into Higher Education Ser.
* What issues need to be considered in designing a course or unit of study in higher education? * Who should be involved in designing a course, and how can they best work together? * What should students get out of a course? Susan Toohey focuses not on teaching techniques but on the strategic decisions ...Show more
Developing Learning in Professional Education - Partnerships for Practice by Imogene Taylor
Category: No Category | Series: Society for Research into Higher Education Ser.
This text covers professional education and developing the required knowledge and skills to equip students for the pressing needs of professional practice. Imogen Taylor explores how professional education can develop approaches to teaching and learning which both help learners to be reflexive, self-mon ...Show more
Discovery Education: STRIVING TO THE SUMMIT MOUNTAINEERING by Australian Geographic Staff
Category: No Category | Series: Discovery Education Ser.
Explore the real work, its history, peoples, animals and technology. Discover unusual topics and intriguing facts. Learn about recent advances and global events. The Discover Education programme is a high-quality illustrated series of books for young readers. 40 titles cover four popular subject areas ...Show more
Discussion As a Way of Teaching - Tools and Techniques for University Teachers by Stephen Brookfield; Stephen Preskill; Society for Research into Higher Education Staff (Contribution by)
Category: No Category | Series: Society for Research into Higher Education Ser.
This book is written for all university and college teachers interested in experimenting with discussion methods in their classrooms. Discussion as a Way of Teaching is a book full of ideas, techniques and usable suggestions on: how to prepare students and teachers to participate in discussion; how to g ...Show more
Distributed Leadership by James P. Spillane
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Jossey-Bass Leadership Library in Education Ser.
James Spillane, the leading expert in Distributed Leadership, shows how leadership happens in everyday practices in schools, through formal routines and informal interactions. He examines the distribution of leadership among administrators, specialists, and teachers in the school, and explains the ways ...Show more
Education in Indigenous, Nomadic and Travelling Communities by Rosarii Griffin (Editor); Colin Brock (Contribution by); Piaras MacEinri (Editor)
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Education As a Humanitarian Response Ser.
Education in Indigenous, Nomadic and Travelling Communities provides a thorough examination of up-to-date case studies of educational provision to travelling communities and indigenous people in their homelands or in host countries. Education is usually under-utilised during phases of transition. In man ...Show more
Educational Management - Strategy, Quality and Resources by M. Preedy
Category: No Category | Series: Leadership and Management in Education Ser.
Draws together three interrelated priorities for the educational manager - developing and maintaining quality, using resources effectively, and establishing a strategic overview and direction for the organization. The book focuses on approaches that teachers can test in their own environment.
Enhancing Adult Motivation to Learn - A Comprehensive Guide for Teaching All Adults by Raymond J. Wlodkowski
Category: No Category | Series: Education Ser.
The classic interdisciplinary reference on adult education, updated for today's learning environmentEnhancing Adult Motivation to Learn provides adult educators with the information and strategies they need to guide non-traditional students toward positive educational outcomes. Providing a clear framewo ...Show more