Student category: 717 books
You're On Your Own (But I'm Here If You Need Me)
Mentoring Your Child During the College Years
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
Realistic and practical advice for parents of college-age kids.
Parents whose kids are away at college have a tough tightrope to walk: they naturally want to stay connected to their children, yet they also need to let go. What's more, kids often send mixed messages: they crave space, but they...
Learning, the Hardest Job You'll Ever Love!
Helpful Ideas for Students and Parents
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
Learning, the Hardest Job You'll Ever Love is a collage of ideas designed for eighth through twelfth grade students and their parents to have better relationships with one another and with the entire school community, to help and support their communities in different ways, and to appreciate the value...
by Delfi Vijja
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
Do you know the secrets that can make you success in your school life? There are a lot of students who want to success in their school years and make their parents proud of them. But, they don't know how to do it. That's why Delfi Vijja writes this book. She wants to share with you what is the formula...
Christmas With the Presidents
Holiday Lessons for Today's Kids from America's Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Everyone celebrates the Christmas holidays in their own way, and that includes the President of the United States. Some have enjoyed large gatherings, while others took part in a quiet, relaxing atmosphere. This book takes a look at each of the country's leaders approach to the year's biggest holiday season, and some of the traditions they started.
Turd Ferguson & the Sausage Party
An Uncensored Guide to College Slang
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2004
Turd Ferguson & the Sausage Party is an uncensored guide to college slang that offers a steaming, no-holds-barred slice of campus life.
Would you rather be a sonny or a wedge? Does a turkey dump have anything to do with taking the kids to the pool? And most importantly, who's Turd Ferguson...
The Roommate Book
Sharing Lives and Slapping Fives
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
The Roommate Book is all about celebrating this short season of life. It’s the time between parental curfews and settling down with a significant other. It is for the single and proud, silly and crafty, witty and thrifty. It’s a non-serious look at how to live with a friend (or total stranger)....
by Leonie Martin
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
The world of volunteering has undergone a huge transformation over the past 50 years. With over 170,000 general charities currently registered in the UK, there are more opportunities than ever before to get involved.
The combined impact of global economic uncertainty and an ageing population...
Getting Ready for College
Get the most out of college life
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Get ready for the best years of your life!
College Survival - Getting Ready for College contains everything you need to know about preparing for the next few years. With advice from deciding what to bring to your dorm room to the pitfalls of credit cards to the thrills of living on your own for the first time, you’ll be big man (or woman) on campus in no time.
The College Dorm Survival Guide
How to Survive and Thrive in Your New Home Away from Home
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
The Ultimate Guide to Surviving and Thriving in the Dorm
Dorm life offers you a great chance to meet new people and try new things. But leaving the comforts of home for the first time to enter the roommate-having, small-room-sharing, possibly-coed-bathroom-using world of the dorms can be overwhelming...
by Angelos Georgakis
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Superlearner is the same as superforgetter. Research in cognitive psychology, which goes back more than one hundred years, has shown that effective learning is hard and requires time and effort. You can feel like a superlearner by consuming tons of information in record time, but, in that case, you...
Using Experiential Learning in the Classroom
Practical Ideas for All Educators
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2005
While research and common sense tells us that experiential learning is more effective than the more traditional process of information assimilation (where teachers lecture, test, and grade), high school, college, and university teachers continue to use paper-and-pencil tests as their primary grading...
Strong Spirits, Kind Hearts
Helping Students Develop Inner Strength, Resilience, and Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Strong Spirits, Kind Hearts is the first practical teacher resource to provide comprehensive coverage of all aspects of developing strong spirits and caring young people. It is focused on middle years’ students but most lessons can be adapted for older and younger students as well. This resource...
Digital Competence Development in Higher Education
An International Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
This book seeks to foster the successful incorporation of digital competence in Bologna-adapted language degrees. To this end, it pools the insights of a set of international practitioners and investigators who report on classroom- and research-based experiences which have integrated ICT (information...
Adolescent Emotions: Development, Morality, and Adaptation
New Directions for Youth Development, Number 136
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Take an in depth look at how emotions relate to adolescents’ decision making, reasoning, and behavior in morally relevant situations. It provides a summary of current research on emotions, morality, and adaptive behaviors. Furthermore, it discusses new approaches to research on emotions, morality,...