In The Berenstain Bears Patience, Please! Brother, Sister, and Honey jump at the chance to have their own gardens. Buying seeds, using shovels, and making signs are all very exciting. They even imagine the flowers and veggies that will fill their plots of land. But when the growing part takes longer than expected, Brother and Sister Bear get frustrated and start to complain. Mama and Papa must remind the cubs that waiting, watering, and being patient are part of having a healthy garden. And, being patient is a virtue in all of life. This fun, new book in the popular Zonderkidz Living Lights series-beloved by parents, grandparents, children, and grandchildren alike-will quickly earn a prime spot on your child's bookshelf. But not for long! Your child will want to read along with you again and again as the kid-friendly text and easy-to-read, easy-to-remember Scripture verses teach valuable life lessons, encourage discussion, and take you down memory lane with each subsequent reading. Parents and grandparents looking for a Bible-based, read aloud story that encourages faith in Jesus and instills a love of reading in their children and grandchildren need look no further than the newest book in the Living Lights series-The Berenstain Bears Patience, Please!

Spreading across all ethnic groups in South Africa, homeschooling is a growing phenomenon worldwide. More and more concerned parents are choosing homeschooling as an alternative to institutionalised, state-controlled education, which is currently in a crisis, and private education, which in turn can be prohibitively expensive. Because homeschooling is not the educational route that most of our society follows, prospective home-educators often feel that they are setting out into unchartered territory. Homeschooling: The primary years is designed to take the mystery and complexities out of this journey. Families, from single-child and single-parent families to large families with children of almost every age group, are discovering how easily and successfully they can educate their children at home. The book provides home-educators with accessible and comprehensive information on legal issues, socialisation, sport, common mistakes to avoid, the benefits of learning at home, available resources, choosing a curriculum, teaching tips, helping children with special needs, and much more. Homeschooling: The primary years demonstrates that home education, ideally, is not ‘school-at-home’, and even includes practical advice for parents on earning an income while educating their children at home.

"This book, by Robert Ubell and his excellent team of collaborators, adds an important dimension to effective teaching and learning in online environments. It addresses how interaction and collaboration online can be effectively harnessed in virtual teams. It is an important contribution to the larger field of Internet-based education."
--Frank Mayadas, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

How to create and manage highly successful teams online

With the advent of the global economy and high-speed Internet, online collaboration is fast becoming the norm in education and industry. This book takes online collaboration to the next level, showing how you can bolster online learning and business performance with the innovative use of virtual teams.

Written by a team of experts headed by online learning pioneer Robert Ubell, "Virtual Teamwork" covers best practices for online instruction and team learning, reveals proven techniques for managing enterprise and global virtual teams, and helps you choose the best communication tools for the job.

Educators, project managers, and anyone involved in teaching online courses or creating online programs will find a wealth of tips and techniques for building and managing successful virtual teams, including guidance for:

Integrating team instruction in the virtual classroom

Using best techniques for team interaction across borders and time zones

Structuring cost-effective, competitive projects that work

Leveraging leadership, mentoring, and conflict management in virtual teams

Conducting testing, grading, and peer- and self-assessment online

Managing corporate, global, and engineering virtual teams

Choosing the right technologies for effective collaboration

Distrust. Division. Disparity. Is our world in disrepair? Ethics and civics have always mattered, but perhaps they matter now more than ever before. Recently, with the rise of online teaching and movements like #PlayApartTogether, games have become increasingly acknowledged as platforms for civic deliberation and value sharing. We the Gamers explores these possibilities by examining how we connect, communicate, analyze, and discover when we play games. Combining research-based perspectives and current examples, this volume shows how games can be used in ethics, civics, and social studies education to inspire learning, critical thinking, and civic change. We the Gamers introduces and explores various educational frameworks through a range of games and interactive experiences including board and card games, online games, virtual reality and augmented reality games, and digital games like Minecraft, Executive Command, Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, Fortnite, When Rivers Were Trails, Politicraft, Quandary, and Animal Crossing: New Horizons. The book systematically evaluates the types of skills, concepts, and knowledge needed for civic and ethical engagement, and details how games can foster these skills in classrooms, remote learning environments, and other educational settings. We the Gamers also explores the obstacles to learning with games and how to overcome those obstacles by encouraging equity and inclusion, care and compassion, and fairness and justice. Featuring helpful tips and case studies, We the Gamers shows teachers the strengths and limitations of games in helping students connect with civics and ethics, and imagines how we might repair and remake our world through gaming, together.