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Blueprint for Learning: Creating College Courses to Facilitate, Assess, and Document Learning
** An acclaimed educator presents hands-on advice on teaching that meets today’s emphasis on learning outcomes and assessment ** Informed by the most up-to-date research on how people learn ** For all instructors in higher education--as well as high school teachers Laurie Richlin has been running a workshop on course design for higher education for over fifteen years, modifying and improving it progressively from the feedback of participants, and from what they in turn have taught her. Her goals are to enable participants to appropriately select teaching strategies, to design and create the conditions and experiences that will enable their students to learn; and in the process to develop the scholarly scaffold to document their ongoing course design and achievements. This book familiarizes readers with course design elements; enables them to understand themselves as individuals and teachers; know their students; adapt to the learning environment; design courses that promote deep learning; and assess the impact of the teaching practices and design choices they have made. She provides tools to create a full syllabus, offers guidance on such issues as framing questions that encourage discussion, developing assignments with rubrics, and creating tests. The book is packed with resources that will help readers structure their courses and constitute a rich reference of proven ideas. What Laurie Richlin offers is a intellectual framework, set of tools and best practices to enable readers to design and continually reassess their courses to better meet their teaching goals and the learning needs of their students..
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Discovering the Essence of Your Soul: Learn How to Facilitate Your Spiritual Growth by Accessing Your Akashic Records
Have you ever noticed that life is like a treasure hunt? The more we understand ourselves, our relationships, and the world around us, the wiser we become. The challenges we face in our lives are hidden gems of wisdom that are waiting to be discovered and added to our personal treasure box. The events in our lives are irrelevant. They are simply the foundations we lay for our personal growthand opportunities to add other gemstones to our treasure box. It is up to us to discover the gemstones of wisdom that are buried within the events of our lives. This book will help you gain insights into your buried treasures by teaching how to connect with your Akashic Records. With the loving assistance of your Divine Spiritual Family (God/Goddess, All That Is, Ascended Masters, etc.) and the connection to your Akashic Records, you will experience a deeper understanding of yourself and the world around you. The Akashic Records can help you find the gemstones within any arenarelationships, repeating patterns and behaviors, influences from past lives, spiritual growthand help you open to more peace and joy in your life..
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Appreciative Inquiry for Change Management: Using AI to Facilitate Organizational Development
Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is one of the most exciting and increasingly recognized concepts being used to facilitate organizational change. This book studies AI in depth, illustrating the method of asking particular questions and envisioning the future, encouraging staff to consider both the positive and negative systems in place and to recognize the need to implement change. It demonstrates how AI can be practically applied by combining the skills, perspectives and approaches presented here into a practical conversational approach to organizational challenges. It also takes a look at other techniques used to create change through conversation. Case studies from organizations that have already integrated conversational methods into their change management practice show why the processes are valuable, why they are effective, and how to generate such conversations yourself. Written in jargon-free language, this is an excellent resource for discovering the benefits that conversational techniques can have on an organization and its performance. .
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Beyond the Myths and Magic of Mentoring: How to Facilitate an Effective Mentoring Process, Revised Edition
Many managers believe that effective mentoring is most often the lucky result of personal chemistry between two people. But in this book, author Margo Murray lays that myth to rest. Her guide gives you all the expert advice, tools, and case studies you'll need to harness the power of mentoring. Building on the solid principles outlined in the first book, this revised edition adds examples of mentoring from recent publications and the author's client experience. It also includes international examples. It reveals how mentoring can maximize employee productivity and provides information on how to assess organizational needs and link them to the mentoring process. Includes all the information needed to evaluate the effectiveness of a mentoring program..
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Classroom Management and Discipline: Methods to Facilitate Cooperation and Instruction
- Comprehensive, realistic, up-to-date coverage of K-12 classroom management and discipline
- Practical, easy-to-use strategies for establishing a classroom management system.
- User-friendly pedagogy:
- "Teachers in Action" case studies bring to life a wide variety of school situations.
- "Decision Points" present readers with specific classroom issues they must resolve using chapter content.
- Two chapters on student misbehavior that offer step-by-step procedures for restoring order.
- Abundant practical strategies for motivating student learning. working with parents, and accomadating student diversity.
- A comprehensive, annotated list of audio-visual resources for teaching classroom management, discipline, and related issues.
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The Team Leader's Survival Guide
Packed with day-to-day advice and team training exercises and activities, this superbly illustrated guide features a month-by-month, week-by-week training plan that shows leaders how to take a team successfully through the four essential phases of team development--from Preteam and New Team Development, to New Team maintenance and Mature Team stages. Created for team leaders at every level of experience, the book offers a flexible format that enables them to handpick activities that are appropriate to their team's current development level. Can be used alone or with The Team Member's Survival Guide..
Price: $19.75
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