Student Student Life category: 717 books
The Family Link to Education
The Road to Personal and Professional Success
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
The Family Link to Education: The Road to Personal and Professional Success is a source of information that is current and relevant for families, educators and communities that want to provide the best possible opportunities for the up and coming generations. Beginning with the family, the book gets...
Thinking Diagrams
Processing and Connecting Experiences, Facts, and Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
Higher-order thinking questions (and their answers) are considered by many to be the holy grail of teaching. Teachers know when students “get it”, but the question remains “How do you teach students to think explicitly and intentionally?” This book uses a series of diagrams to make thinking...
Carpe College!
Seize Your WHOLE College Experience
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
College just got easier!
You have spent the last year or two of your life trying to get in, and now you need to know what to do once you get there. To make the most of it, you’ll need to Carpe College! By seizing all the wonderful opportunities, both inside and outside...
Classroom Crisis: The Teacher's Guide
Quick and Proven Techniques for Stabilizing Your Students and Yourself
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2004
Today's teachers are faced with unprecedented challenges ranging from suicides to school violence, shootings, and terrorism. Classroom Crisis The Teacher's Guide explores children's reactions to emergencies and gives steps for stabilizing the classroom. The book describes how to manage individual...
Going Inward
The Role of Cultural Introspection in College Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Going Inward is a pragmatic text for faculty in all disciplines who desire to deepen their reflection on teaching. Through the culturally introspective writings of faculty in a variety of academic disciplines, readers will gain a deeper understanding of faculty cultural influences on college teaching...
Thriving in Childhood and Adolescence: The Role of Self Regulation Processes
New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, Number 133
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
Opening with a discussion on the need to integrate self-regulation processes and to create a life-span oriented framework of these processes, this volume explores several perspectives in the current scholarship. Chapter contributors examine theoretical concepts including
Vygotsky/Luria Insights...
Undergraduate Global Education: Issues for Faculty, Staff, and Students
New Directions for Student Services, Number 146
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
Find practical research, strategies, and advice in this issue on the power of global education for 21st-century college learners.This volume assists campus professionals and faculty members as they:
Design courses for study abroad
Implement programs of various lengths and types
Consider their...
Am I Safe Here?
LGBTQ Teens and Bullying in Schools
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
This book is written for teachers, administrators, pre-service teachers, guidance counsellors, social workers, trustees, parents, and other LGBTQ allies who want to promote student safety and school improvement by creating a safe and inclusive school for LGBTQ students.
by Hiten Vyas
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
Are you a student experiencing the following about exams?
* Anxiety and worry about your exams and your ability to pass them.
* Low self-confidence about your ability to take exams.
If so, then this eBook (6320 words) will help you do the following:
* Creating empowering...
Hanging Out and Hanging On
From the Projects to the Campus
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014
Hanging Out and Hanging on: From the Projects to the Campus chronicles the progress of students from Hartford and Manchester, Connecticut, who are enrolled in the Dual College Enrollment Program (DCEP) at Eastern Connecticut State University. “Hanging Out” sets the stage for describing the program...
Writing and Understanding Poetry for Teachers and Students
A Heart's Craft
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
Grounded in craft, this book was composed on three premises: That the study and modeling of great poems is integral to understanding poetry and learning to write poems, that scaffolded learning builds a writer’s and a reader’s confidence and knowledge base and increases learning, and that teachers...
Race and Social Change
A Quest, A Study, A Call to Action
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
A powerful study illuminates our nation's collective civic fault lines
Recent events have turned the spotlight on the issue of race in modern America, and the current cultural climate calls out for more research, education, dialogue, and understanding. Race and Social Change: A Quest, A Study,...
Common Sense Questions About Learners
Answers to Reveal Essential Steps for Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
Parents asked educators about their children’s learning. Frustrated when they were ignored, they asked politicians to put pressure on the educators. They were then surprised when the politicians provided personal advice about the optimal way to nurture learning. They were even more surprised when...
Gender Fairness in Today's School
A Breach of Trust for Male Students
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
This book traces back how male students are currently disadvantaged in school by instruction in an overwhelmingly female environment devoid of male role models, who can inspire the love of learning in male students. Further, teachers are unduly influenced by biases related to compliant behaviors which...