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Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful
introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and
law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to
be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of
the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject
areas. This insightful Advanced Introduction provides a road map
for building and maintaining a sustainable career. Delving into the
meaning of a 'sustainable career', the book examines the factors
that threaten a career's sustainability, such as economic
turbulence, changes in organizational practices, and advances in
technology, offering actions that can be taken to overcome these
threats and strengthen the sustainability of careers. Key Features:
Identifies the role of gender in building a sustainable career
Introduces a new model of career sustainability, emphasizing the
relevance of employees' home life in building a sustainable career
Demonstrates how building a sustainable career is the shared
responsibility of employees and their families, employers, and
society Establishes that some groups in society are substantially
more vulnerable than others and require additional or different
resources to build and maintain a sustainable career This Advanced
Introduction will be a valuable guide for scholars and advanced
students of sustainable careers, human resource management, and
organizational behavior. It will also be useful for practitioners
and policy makers in these fields as well as individuals who want
to build a more sustainable career.
Underscoring the complex relationship between civic engagement and
education at all stages of life, this innovative Handbook
identifies the contemporary challenges and best approaches and
practices to encourage civic engagement within education. Chapters
cover the theoretical and historical background of civic engagement
and education, ideological and social movements, civic-oriented
education, curriculum, and outcomes. Using empirical comparative
data and unique context-specific studies, the Handbook explores
ecopedagogy, education in emergencies, and the novel concept of
social contract pedagogy. Addressing contemporary challenges to
civic engagement in education, it examines polarization and
extremism, accelerating planetary and societal changes,
environmental crises, the digital divide, and post-Covid civic
education. Ultimately, it finds that civic engagement is best
supported by education practices that are characterized by
humanizing, negotiated, collaborative, and dialogical approaches
which encourage students to develop civic knowledge, critical
thinking skills, and moral and ethical values. Interdisciplinary
and international in scope, this Handbook will prove vital to
students and scholars of sociology and education studies. Its
holistic understanding of how civic engagement and education
interrelate at local, regional, and global levels will also be
useful to policymakers concerned with improving civic and student
support, engagement, and participation in education.
Course Design and Assessment offers design strategies,
educator-in-action perspectives, and real-world suggestions for
engaged educators, creating inclusive and meaningful learning
opportunities and developmental student growth. With a brief
history situating engaged learning among educational models, the
book shows the vital and practical connections between an
educator's overall learning philosophy and their pedagogical
choices. The authors unpack the definitions and practices common to
engaged learning, exploring the assumptions educators make about
students, teaching, learning, and instructional contexts that
underlie engaged educators' pedagogical decisions. Ultimately a
vehicle for inclusive learning and transparent design, the book
outlines pre-course planning steps, suggestions for adjusting the
course mid-stream, and a thorough discussion of assessment
activities with planning and implementation steps. For beginning
and advanced instructors worldwide, this book serves as a
real-world workbook and resource for engaged course design and
assessment practices.
Instant, systematic, and engaging These ready-to-use activity mats
give young children the focused practice they need to really learn
important high-frequency words. Each side of the double-sided mats
targets a specific sight word and provides practice in word
recognition, visual discrimination, spelling, writing, reading
comprehension, and following directions. Great for independent
work, centers, and homework. For use with Grades K-2.
Assessment is an essential part of teaching and learning, but too
often it leads to misleading conclusions-sometimes with dire
consequences for students. How can educators improve assessment
practices so that the results are accurate, meaningful,
informative, and fair? Educator and best-selling author Myron Dueck
draws from his firsthand experience and his work with districts
around the world to provide a simple but profound answer: put
student voice and choice at the center of the process. In this
engaging and well-researched book, Dueck reveals troubling issues
related to traditional approaches and offers numerous examples of
educators at all levels who are transforming assessment by using
tools and methods that engage and empower students. He also shares
surprising revelations about the nature of memory and learning that
speak to the need for rethinking how we measure student
understanding and achievement. Readers will find sound advice and
detailed guidance on how to: Share and cocreate precise learning
targets. Develop student-friendly rubrics linked to standards.
Involve students in ongoing assessment procedures. Replace flawed
grading systems with ones that better reflect what students know
and can do. Design structures for students' self-reporting on their
progress in learning. Inspired by the origins of the word
assessment-derived from the Latin for ""to sit beside""-Dueck urges
educators to discard old habits and instead work with students as
partners in assessment. For those who do, the effort is rewarding
and the benefits are significant
Growing Musicians: Teaching Music in Middle School and Beyond
focuses on teaching adolescents within the context of a music
classroom, regardless of content area (orchestra, band, choir, or
general music). It provides a look at the importance of music
courses in the lives of adolescents as they navigate the path
between being a child and an adult. As every music student is
completely unique, there is no one-size-fits-all prescriptive way
of working with this age group. Rather, music educators must
approach adolescents with high musical standards and aspirations to
learn and achieve within music; a willingness to honor the
individuality of each adolescent musician; a sense of structure,
but an ability to be flexible; a desire to foster and promote a
safe classroom environment where students feel empowered to be
themselves and speak openly about what they think and believe; an
understanding that music classes are not only safe places where
students learn how to become better musicians but also better
people through musical experiences focused on humanity and empathy;
and a dose of humor, or at least the ability to acknowledge that
adolescents are extremely funny whether or not they realize it. In
addition, this book encourages pre-service and practicing music
educators to mindfully examine and better understand their own
teaching practices.
Step up your presentation skills with our 6-page laminated guide,
focusing on graphic features, animation, audio and a variety of
ways presentations can be formatted and distributed. Joan Lambert,
author of multiple books on the Microsoft Office Suite, creator of
many Lynda.com videos and an experienced corporate trainer used her
experience and knowledge to cover the most relevant functions for
users at different levels. Also look for the "PowerPoint 2016"
QuickStudy for more general coverage of software use, then use the
pair to become a power user that can create presentations that
"wow". Suggested uses: Workplace -- flat for easy storage and
access at a moments notice to find a function you need to use, or
to jog your memory for a function you do not use often; Company
Training -- reduce help-desk calls and keep productivity flowing
for a team or for your entire company; Students/Teachers/Parents --
help with the learning curve in a classroom or for your child and
any projects requiring PowerPoint; College Professors/Students --
give polished presentations to your classes that give your hard
work the look it deserves.
Easy-to-make manipulatives help students understand the inner
workings of the human body. Reproducible patterns and easy
step-by-step instructions help students construct bone and stomach
books, a spinal column out of cardboard and string, paper models of
the major organs and systems of the human body, and more Includes
background information, facts about drugs, nicotine, and alcohol,
plus an updated resource list and web links For use with Grades
3-6.
First published as "Tracks: The Cv" work directory in 1997, the
tenth revised and updated edition is published in 2006. It gives
information of over 130 professions in the UK, organised in eight
booklets, from communications media to service industries. Titles
include pathways in the arts, construction industry, financial
services, health care, insurance, land and sea work, law, leisure
and tourism, local government, manufacturing crafts, marketing,
planning and public services. Qualifications are listed from GCSE
and NVQ/BTEC to degree level. There are work descriptions and pay
scales with interviews and advice from British chartered institutes
and individuals established in the particular field. Designed in an
easy to access format of a page per profession, the handbooks also
include contacts for working in countries in the European Union,
and a detailed index of internet recruitment sites for each sector.
"Tracks 8" provides information about national and personal
services which range from the armed forces to fire fighter,
hairdressing and call centre work. The wide scope indicates the
varied opportunities for individual development.
Always in the thick of it. A Chronology of the service with the
R.A.F.R. from 1948. to 1958 R.A.F.R. Squadron Leader J.F.Wallace.
M.C. 1948/1958. Mi D ROYAL AIR FORCE REGIMENT 2nd June 1948.
J.F.Wallace, Commissioned. Flight Lieutenant, Royal Air Force.
(59948) June 1948 - November 1948 J.F.Wallace Flight Lieutenant,
Passed Officers Conversion Course and Tactics Course at Royal Air
Force Regiment Depot. Attachment to Airbourne Squadron, and LAA
Gunnery School. Posted to B.A.F.C. Germany. November 1948-
September 1949. Flight Commander J.F.Wallace, No.56 (Rifle)
Squadron, Germany. Attached 10 months for Berlin Airlift Staff
Duties at Adv. H.Q. No 46 Group RA.F. Germany. September 1949-May
1951. Flight Commander, No 1 Armoured Car Squadron, Germany, passed
Signals Instructors Course. Short Periods as Adjutant, H.Q. No 4
Wing R.A.F.R. when Adjutant on leave or courses etc. May 1951-
September 1952 Officer i/c. Junior Gunner Instructors Courses.
Royal Air Force Regiment Depot. September 1952-September 1953
Officer i/c Pre-O.C.T.U Courses. Royal Air Force Regiment Depot.
Passed Promotion examination "C"for Squadron Leader Rank. October
1953- September 1954 Squadron Commander. Arab Rifle Squadron. Royal
Air Force Levies (Irac). J.F.Wallace Promoted Squadron Leader 10th.
September 1954. September 1954-April. 1957 Squadron Commander.
J.F.Wallace No. l Squadron, Aden Protectorate Levies. Activities
included several actions against Yemen Regular Army and tribesmen
along-the frontier and numerous smaller actions against dissident
tribesmen in the West Aden Protectorate. Also quelling of a tribal
revolt, the siting and construction of operation airstrips, the
opening up of trade routes closed by hostile tribesmen, and Aid to
the Civil Power in Aden Colony. Commended by His Excellency the
Governor of Aden. April 1957 - December 1957 Squadron Commander.
J.F.Wallace Staff Appointment. RA.F.R. HQ Fighter Command Royal Air
Force Bentley Priory, Stanmore. December 31st. 1957 Retired
retaining the rank of Squadron Leader. Government White Paper 1957
refers. RA.F. Squadron Leader J. F. Wallace. M.C.M.i.D 1948/1958 By
David C. Wallace.
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Kalmer en Kerneels Breytenbach, skrywers en joernaliste soos Celesté Fritze,
Theunis Strydom, Leroux Schoeman, Marnus Hattingh en Pieter van Zyl, en vele
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The recent imperative for online teaching has brought many
educational challenges to the fore. Featuring current topics such
as accessibility, diversity, and mobile access, this guide contains
everything a teacher needs to make a great online course in one
read. The author provides step by step instructions for coding
classes, appendices with relevant laws and a copyright checklist, a
resource list for online course design and a bibliography of theory
and applied pedagogy. In addition, she shares techniques to improve
engagement for both students and instructors. Professors,
instructors, and librarians in higher education teaching online,
hybrid or flex courses that are looking for ways to build
interesting classes for a diverse student body will find
inspiration and direction in Creating Inclusive and Engaging Online
Courses.
Helping bring mathematics and engineering to life, these
challenging lessons give teachers an exciting tool for engaging
advanced learners through creativity and hands-on products. Units
are driven by standards and invite students to become baseball
field architects, create flying jellyfish, make a gnome hat
parachute, scale skyscrapers, and more! Each project includes
step-by-step lesson plans with reproducible templates, time
estimates, and a materials list. While centered on STEAM (science,
technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics) competencies, true
to real-world experiences, these hands-on projects span the
curriculum-including writing and public speaking-and while they
suit entire classrooms and smaller groups, they can also be easily
adapted to individual projects for independent study and home
school.
If we want to nurture students as informed, progressive agents of
change, we need to adopt non-traditional, transdisciplinary
approaches when teaching them about ethics and sustainability. This
innovative book demonstrates the best pedagogical techniques and
approaches to incorporate sustainability, corporate social
responsibility, and ethics in business and law education.
Experienced teachers discuss the use of techniques such as
Responsible Management Learning (RML) and non-linear
decision-making gameplay in education, and find that alternative
teaching and learning methods can encourage deep learning,
integrated thinking and a transformative consumer research
perspective. Forward-thinking, this book emphasises the importance
of infusing the values of the United Nation's 17 Sustainable
Development Goals into future curriculums, and discusses the
eco-centric, embedded, transdisciplinary and personally
transformative learning and teaching required to achieve these.
With illustrative case studies and real-life reflections from
students, it will prove invaluable for researchers of
sustainability, corporate social responsibility and business
ethics. Its discussions of assessment methods and student wellbeing
will also prove a vital resource for educators and policymakers
working in higher education in both the UK and internationally.
Consumption was the deadliest, most common disease that mankind has
faced up till now. Three billion people in Europe and North America
died between the fourteenth and the end of the eighteenth century.
It was a death sentence with no known cause which led to the
development of unusual empirical therapies. Lucky Consumptive
patients reached a Sanatorium. Sanatoria were developed to house
sick patients in an environment where they stood the best chance of
recovery from their illness. There was no organised healthcare
system and funding for a Sanatorium depended upon provision
provided by wealthy individuals, or societies. Charles Dunnell Rudd
was a Cape Merchant who had made a fortune in South Africa
successfully prospecting for Gold and Diamonds. His mother had died
from Consumption and he wished to invest some of his money in
building a Sanatorium. It had been shown that Consumptive patients
survived longer if they took vigorous exercise, slept out of doors,
and were nursed on higher land near to forests. Rudd anonymously
purchased raised land at Northwood for this purpose. Helena (later
Princess Christian) was Queen Victoria's third daughter, and had a
marked social awareness, arranging charitable meals for the less
fortunate. She was very hard working and became the Principal
Patron for Mount Vernon Hospital, donating money and attending
annual fundraising Festival Dinners. Contemporary photographs from
this period show female patients walking around the grounds and
occupying designated rest shelters. The male patients had a more
vigorous lifestyle, working in the gardens and sleeping in their
beds out of doors. Those surviving often acquired new skills which
might enhance their future employment prospects. These measures
greatly improved the prognosis for consumptive patients. After Koch
discovered the Tubercle Bacillus effective curative
anti-tuberculous therapy evolved.
These easy-to-manage, ready-to-reproduce practice packets are a
perfect way to target the phonics skills children need to master.
Activities include word-shape recognition puzzles, fill-in rhymes,
riddles, and stories, word searches, scrambled sentences, word
sorts, and much more. Children can work through the packets
independently and at their own pace. Perfect for in-class use or
homework. An effective tool for supporting second-language learners
and RTI instruction. For use with Grades K-3.
Arguing that traditional approaches to planning are insufficient to
address the complexities of transforming cities and regions in
contemporary society, this innovative book makes the case for
training planners in new and creative ways as coordinators,
enablers and facilitators. An international range of teaching case
studies offer a wide and distinctive set of ideas for the future of
planning education along with practical tips to assist in adapting
pedagogical approaches to various institutional settings.
Additionally, the book promotes a stimulating interdisciplinary
dialogue with contributions by leading educational specialists that
situate the new and emergent approaches in planning education
within the context of urban and regional challenges and the broader
framework of contemporary pedagogical debates. This original book
will be a valuable resource for academic scholars in urban,
regional and spatial planning, and all those concerned with the
future of higher education in relevant subjects. Chapters provide
food for thought on making responsible choices while training
planning professionals to act in a socially responsible manner and
to support communities to think, design and deliver change in
qualified ways.
In this timely and thoughtful call to action, author and educator
Starr Sackstein examines the critical intersection between
assessment and social and emotional learning (SEL), particularly as
it affects students of color and other marginalized groups. The
book addresses the five SEL competencies identified by the
Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning
(CASEL)-self-awareness, self-management, social awareness,
relationship skills, and responsible decision making-and explains
how teaching students to develop their abilities in these areas can
help them improve their learning and assessment
experiences.Sackstein also raises important considerations for
educators, urging them to * Examine their implicit biases to
improve their relationships with students. * Deepen their
understanding of the impact of grades and assessments on students'
self-image and their ability to reach their full potential as
learners. * Develop personalized assessment systems that ensure an
accurate, fair, and equitable portrayal of what students know and
can do. In addition to presenting the relevant research, Sackstein
draws from personal experience and the reflections of students,
teachers, and administrators to present a compelling case for
approaching assessment through the SEL lens. Educators at all
levels who have witnessed the devasting effects that testing can
have on students' beliefs in themselves as learners will find
Assessing with Respect to be an invaluable guide to ensuring better
outcomes-and better emotional health-for all students.
180 Days of Language is a fun and effective daily practice workbook
designed to help students improve their grammar skills. This
easy-to-use kindergarten workbook is great for at-home learning or
in the classroom. The engaging standards-based activities cover
grade-level skills with easy to follow instructions and an answer
key to quickly assess student understanding. Students will practice
punctuation, capitalization, and spelling with daily activity
pages. Watch as students improve their grammar and writing skills
with these quick learning activities.Parents appreciate the
teacher-approved activity books that keep their child engaged and
learning. Great for homeschooling, to reinforce learning at school,
or prevent learning loss over summer.Teachers rely on the daily
practice workbooks to save them valuable time. The ready to
implement activities are perfect for daily morning review or
homework. The activities can also be used for intervention skill
building to address learning gaps.
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