Student category: 717 books
Campus Confidential
How College Works, or Doesn't, for Professors, Parents, and Students
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
A tenured prof. breaks ranks to reveal what's wrong with American higher education and how it affects you.
Professors can be underpaid. Marginalized. Over-reviewed. But one fact remains: The success of your education depends on them. Part industry expose and part call for a return to engaged...
Reaching and Teaching Students in Poverty
Strategies for Erasing the Opportunity Gap
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This influential book describes the knowledge and skills educators need to recognize and combat the bias and inequity that undermine educational engagement for students experiencing poverty. This edition features revisions based on new research and lessons from the author’s professional development...
Western Structures Meet Native Traditions
The Interfaces of Educational Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
As Western educational practices have become global, the cultural aspects and the problems associated with them have become more apparent as they are contrasted with local ways of learning and knowing in the widely diverse societies around the world. The Western world has tended to assume that its...
Surviving High School
Essential Tools to Prepare you for the Road Ahead
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Getting on top of High School success.
The High School years can be the most exciting - yet overwhelming - years of your life! Inside this book, you'll find all the tools and advice you'll need to help make these years easier. If you are already in High School, or planning to go soon - YOU...
by Nicole Maestas, Sarah J. Gaillot
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
This report presents results from a multisite, quantitative evaluation of the international Success for Kids (SFK) after-school program. A nonreligious program, SFK seeks to build resilience in children. Interestingly, the authors found that the program positively affected not just social and internal...
Inquiry-Based Learning
Designing Instruction to Promote Higher Level Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
Inquiry-Based Learning: Designing Instruction to Promote Higher Level Thinking focuses on learning and pedagogy around inquiry using technology as a cognitive tool. Specific inferences and applications of learning through an inquiry approach are explored and illustrations are drawn from educational...
by Sandra McCune, William D. Clark
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
For students who need to polish their calculus skills for class or for a critical exam, this no-nonsense practical guide provides concise summaries, clear model examples, and plenty of practice, practice, practice.
About the Book
With more than 1,000,000 copies sold, Practice Makes Perfect...
The Feedback Fix
Dump the Past, Embrace the Future, and Lead the Way to Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
The secret to giving better feedback isn’t what we say – it’s what others hear. Too often, people hear about a past they can’t control, not a future they can. That changes with “feedforward” – a radical approach to sharing feedback that unleashes the performance and potential of everyone...
Our Mind Is a Tape Recorder.
SHORT STORY #6. Nonfiction series #1 - #60.
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2016
A theory is our mind is a tape recorder. It records everything that it hears, sees, and reads into brain. It stored indiscriminately all information into everyone’s brain database.
The bigger storage of real knowledge and information a person has in brain database—the better he or she is...
by Daniel Marques
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
What can teachers with dozens of years of experience in different countries prove about hierarchy in the classroom was the subject of analysis that led to the resume of the laws expressed in this book.
The conclusions presented here aren't suggested or proposed as examples of a good teaching profile,...
101 Questions You Need to Ask in Your Twenties
(And Let's Be Honest, Your Thirties Too)
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Adulting got you down?
Whether you just polished off your college graduation cake, are in your twenties or thirties struggling through a quarter-life crisis, you're simply trying to figure out how to become all grown up, or you're a parent looking for that perfect college graduation gift or...
by San Bolkan
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
During his time as a professor, the author has learned that although most university students are smart and capable, many of them go about their educations in a fashion that does not lead to success. This is because knowing what it takes to do well in college is never learned in high school, and really,...
by Dr. Paul Toote
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2012
Finally a complete guide that covers each step from your High School years to your final goal of becoming a doctor. In this book you will find step-by-step instructions in plain terms that will demystify the medical school admission process. My goal is that once you complete this book and follow the...
Admission Matters
What Students and Parents Need to Know About Getting into College
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
Make sense of college admissions and prepare a successful application
Admission Matters offers comprehensive, expert, and practical advice for parents and students to guide them through the college admissions process. From building a college list, to understanding standardized tests, to obtaining...