This text supports teachers in preventing management problems and responding to unwanted behavior when it occurs in classrooms. Managing Disruptive Behaviors in the Schools offers a comprehensive presentation of three levels of behavior management strategies: school-wide, classroom, and individual. Although all of these levels contribute to a ...
Delightful rogue, romantic comedian, the ideal leading man. Here is a rich, intimate look at an actor whose enduring talent transcends today. Drawing on Grant's own reflections and those of his closest friends, Evenings with Cary Grant is an engaging portrait of an actor who was like no other: an actor with grace, impeccable taste, a detached and ...
Research Methods thoroughly covers both quantitative- and qualitative-oriented research. Unlike many texts which begin with an introduction to research and then move directly to how to conduct research, this text develops critical thinking skills about research and is designed to produce knowledgeable and informed critical research consumers. Each ...
This contributed text is intended to serve three primary functions. First, it examines and reflects upon the Language Experience Approach (LEA) as an educational approach, reviewing its history and offering different perspectives. Second, it provides practical classroom applications for early childhood, primary and middle school teachers and ...
This is a practical guide to the history, rationale, and fundamentals of safe patient handling and movement (SPHM). The book will include nursing care plans, algorithms for decision making in specific lifting and movement situations, the history of 'body mechanics' (i.e., how the nurse/caregiver positions her body to avoid injury), risk assessment ...
This incredible book retells the true-life account of three American missionaries who, while serving in the jungles of Panama, were kidnapped in January 1993 by leftist rebels. The hostages' wives worked together to create a complete account of their story.
"The Constructivist Metaphor" presents a major reconsideration of constructivist theory through an applied examination of the ways in which people create meaning for texts. Spivey first delineates major constructivist positions from the early 20th century, including Frederic Bartlett's description of the discourse processes of individuals, small ...
A richly detailed account of the experiences of teachers, tutors, and students in a university writing center whose main mission was to enable basic and ESL writers to handle college writing demands.
In the mainstream American imagination, the 1950s were an era of conformity when women strove to be perfect middle-class suburban housewives a la June Cleaver. But in reality, the 1950s were the decade of "The Kinsey Report" and "The Bell Jar", of Cold War Communists and civil rights activism, and change for women. In this engaging collection, ...
This volume seeks to show that the separation of the teaching of reading and writing has been a dominant feature of educational practice at the elementary and secondary levels in the USA since colonial times. It identifies current movements in education which have fostered connections between reading and writing and also those which have tended to ...
Doodles are as unique to each person as handwriting. Try an untraditional - and extremely revealing - approach to journaling with "The Doodle Diary." In addition to graph paper pages and doodle-inspiring designs, the journal contains a dictionary for decipering hundreds of doodles. Fill up a page every day and learn what those lines, circles, ...
Considers adolescence in broad terms, as " a dynamic of social construction". This volume examines the changes in various social contexts in which teenagers live - family, school, community institutions, peer groups and workplace - and shows how these factors can significantly alter the progress of social and cognitive developmental tasks.
Divided into four sections, the first and third reflect the fact that there are two types of equipment required in the plant - one in which the actual product is synthesized or processed such as the fermentor, centrifuge and chromatographic columns; and the other that supplies support for the facility or process including air conditioning, water ...
"The Society of Layerists in Multi-Media demonstrates through its members' art the dynamic transition taking place: the collective awareness is shifting from seeing humanity as separate and disconnected, to viewing it as an integral part of the cosmic whole. The Layerists depict the magnificence of this transformed vision through metaphysical ...
FLYFISHING: FIRST CAST TO FIRST FISH's nine richly illustrated chapters will help take the 'mystery' out of learning how to fish with a fly. Each how-to chapter guides the reader through selection of equipment- basic & advanced casting & fishing techniques- reading the water & locating fish in streams, lakes & saltwater.
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