Counseling Guidance category: 1714 books
Editors Talk about Editing
Insights for Readers, Writers and Publishers
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2013
The work of «editing» is by and large something that happens behind the scenes, noticed only when it is done badly, or not done at all. There is not much information about what editors do. The result is that editing is not often talked about in its own right – not even by the people who do it....
by Derek Birley
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
First published in 1972, this book explores the nature of the British education service up until the early 1970s, looking at its complex administration and financial and legislative constraints. Derek Birley, an experienced educational administrator himself, explores radical methods of approach to...
by Frank Banks, Ann Shelton Mayes
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Early Professional Development has recently been recognized throughout the UK as a key area for improving the quality of teaching and learning in schools. All teachers need support to move from novice to expert. Set out here is a range of articles to help them achieve that goal. Included are practical...
Improving Student Retention in Higher Education
The Role of Teaching and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
Improving Student Retention in Higher Education provides a practical, curriculum-based response to the current situation in higher education, where participating students emanate from a range of backgrounds; international and lower socioeconomic backgrounds, mature aged students, students with disabilities...
Epistemic Fluency and Professional Education
Innovation, Knowledgeable Action and Actionable Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
This book, by combining sociocultural, material, cognitive and embodied perspectives on human knowing, offers a new and powerful conceptualisation of epistemic fluency – a capacity that underpins knowledgeable professional action and innovation. Using results from empirical studies of professional...
by Mary Nestle-Hallgren
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
The goal and purpose of this book is to present a model of how, we as humans, link up memories and how this relates to feelings. Memory and feelings are tied together neurologically. By focusing on a feeling we can trace back to the beginning or source of any feeling for the purpose of changing it....
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Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
The development of competency in management and leadership skills as well as clinical supervisory skills is of increasing importance to professional counselors who seek advancement in their careers. This is the first text to integrate both the clinical supervision and agency management skills needed...
Bully Proof
The Gift of Self-Esteem
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
We have all been affected by violence, intimidation, and bullying to some degree. Children are especially vulnerable to the lasting pain and trauma of these experiences. When we give them the tools and understanding to become assertive and self-aware, however, bullying can become a blessing in disguise:...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2011
Educators in the professions have always had unique demands placed upon them. These include the need to keep pace with rapidly evolving knowledge bases, developing skills and attitudes appropriate to practice, learning in the workplace and fostering public confidence.
For twenty years,...
The Systems Thinking School
Redesigning Schools from the Inside-Out
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
This book examines the school as an operational organization through the lens of systems thinking. In this way it serves as an invitation to look again at schools and how they operate as learning systems. It begins by showing exactly why our inherited, industrial school model, can never be made to...
Angels and Superheroes
Compassionate Educators in an Era of School Accountability
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
The school accountability movement’s focus solely on improving standardized test scores is dehumanizing. There is no standardized child. In the rush to quantify, evaluate, and ostensibly improve the American educational system, we have forgotten that education is complicated. Any attempt to distill...
Merrell's Strong Kids—Grades 3–5
A Social and Emotional Learning Curriculum, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Teach social-emotional competence—the foundation of school and social success—with the NEW editions of the Strong Kids™—Grades 3–5 curriculum! Strong Kids is the fun and easy way to help your students develop the social-emotional skills they need to manage their challenges and succeed in...
Breakdown
The Facts About Teacher Stress
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
Between 1989 and 1999 half the teachers in England and Wales quit their posts. By the late nineties more than six thousand teachers a year were retiring early on grounds of ill health. In recent years hardly a school in the country has not lost at least one teacher because of a 'nervous breakdown'.
Breakdown...
Building Positive Momentum for Positive Behavior in Young Children
Strategies for Success in School and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Providing practical solutions to common behavioral problems, this book shows how to use the positive momentum approach to encourage long-term positive behaviour among children aged 3-9.
Covering issues such as what to do when a child avoids doing work, when they engage in rough play, and when...