First Published in 1998. Relationships are the core of teaching. The author of this book considers deep, underlying aspects. Michelle Mac Grath explores and evokes the positive, sensitive, realistic approach to teaching which makes it such a rewarding profession, enabling children to become successful students: the art of teaching peacefully.

Classroom management is key to a successful teaching career. This book has survival advice for NQTs as well as ideas to develop the skills of more experienced teachers. It should: appeal directly to the reader with engaging examples from real classrooms; help readers to cope with every aspect of school life, including the staff room and teacher/parent meetings; and enable readers to pre-empt general classroom management problems.

The original edition of this book made accessible to primary school teachers and student teachers the means of putting many of the Elton Report's findings into practice. The author's philosophy on behavior management still stands, but the ideas have been revised and updated to take account of more recent thought about good practice in primary education and the management of schools today. The book suggests tried and tested strategies for forestalling behavior problems through thoughtful class management and lesson planning; responding positively to behavior incidents; communicating positive expectations; and enhancing pupil motivation. There are useful checklists throughout and material for experienced staff as well as for students and newly qualified teachers.

The original edition of this book made accessible to primary school teachers and student teachers the means of putting many of the Elton Report's findings into practice. The author's philosophy on behavior management still stands, but the ideas have been revised and updated to take account of more recent thought about good practice in primary education and the management of schools today.

The book suggests tried and tested strategies for forestalling behavior problems through thoughtful class management and lesson planning; responding positively to behavior incidents; communicating positive expectations; and enhancing pupil motivation.

There are useful checklists throughout and material for experienced staff as well as for students and newly qualified teachers.

First Published in 2000. This book helps primary teachers improve behaviour, preserve motivation and foster cooperation by developing positive relationships with pupils and their parents, creating a calm environment for learning and using non-confrontational communication skills. It outlines an empathetic approach to understanding and managing disruptive behaviour that avoids conflict and demoralisation. As such, it is an ideal text for student teachers, newly qualified teachers and more experienced practitioners.

Classroom management is key to a successful teaching career. This book has survival advice for NQTs as well as ideas to develop the skills of more experienced teachers. It should: appeal directly to the reader with engaging examples from real classrooms; help readers to cope with every aspect of school life, including the staff room and teacher/parent meetings; and enable readers to pre-empt general classroom management problems.

This text aims to help primary teachers improve behaviour, preserve motivation and foster cooperation by developing positive relationships with pupils and their parents, creating a calm environment for learning and using non-confrontational communication skills. It outlines an empathetic approach to understanding and managing disruptive behaviour that avoids conflict and demoralization.

Students, newly qualified and diffident teachers faced with challenging behaviour in secondary classes will welcome this accessible resource at a time when the public is focused on poor behaviour and conflict in schools. It will help teachers reduce conflict by developing positive relationship with pupils, creating a calm environment and using non-confrontational communication skills. It also outlines an empathetic approach to understanding and managing disruptive behaviour and defusing aggression. Finally, it includes curriculum ideas and there are techniques to enable teachers to minimize stress, conserve energy and remain calm. Throughout, the emphasis is on the practical detail of how to improve teaching skills and pupil behaviour.

Four hundred years since its publication, Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote continues to inspire and to challenge its readers. The universal and timeless appeal of the novel, however, has distanced its hero from its author and its author from his own life and the time in which he lived. The discussion of the novel's Catholic identity, therefore, is based on a reading that returns Cervantes's hero to Cervantes's text and Cervantes to the events that most shaped his life. The authors and texts McGrath cites, as well as his arguments and interpretations, are mediated by his religious sensibility. Consequently, he proposes that his study represents one way of interpreting Don Quixote and acts as a complement to other approaches. It is McGrath's assertion that the religiosity and spirituality of Cervantes's masterpiece illustrate that Don Quixote is inseparable from the teachings of Catholic orthodoxy. Furthermore, he argues that Cervantes's spirituality is as diverse as early modern Catholicism. McGrath does not believe that the novel is primarily a religious or even a serious text, and he considers his arguments through the lens of Cervantine irony, satire, and multiperspectivism. As a Roman Catholic who is a Hispanist, McGrath proposes to reclaim Cervantes's Catholicity from the interpretive tradition that ascribes a predominantly Erasmian reading of the novel. When the totality of biographical and sociohistorical events and influences that shaped Cervantes's religiosity are considered, the result is a new appreciation of the novel's moral didactic and spiritual orientation.

The least understood feature of cloud computing, Platform as a Service (PaaS), is also the most powerful and cost effective. This concise overview shows you why organizations that properly wield PaaS can quickly gain a strong competitive advantage. You'll learn how PaaS enables developers to pursue low cost R&D projects, lets system administrators focus on systems rather than servers, and helps architects evaluate new technology quickly and directly.

Many reliable PaaS providers are available today, including services from Amazon, Red Hat, and Google. This book offers valuable advice for technically and not-so-technically minded people who want to understand how PaaS can change the way organizations do computing. Get rudimentary examples of how to initiate projects with a typical PaaS provider Consider language selection, feature set, and general capabilities when evaluating a PaaS solution Automate tasks like continuous integration, unit tests, and builds Learn how to design applications by understanding how PaaS works under the hood Discover the critical difference between scaling up and scaling out Anticipate subtle but important differences between traditional computing and PaaS computing Change the way you think about security in the cloud

A collection of over 70 contemporary photographs by Irish born photographer, Michael McGrath. The photographs have been gathered from across North America and Europe and are divided into seven distinct parts or themes. These are; "Angels in the Architecture - Marveling at humanity's desire to emulate heaven on earth" "People - Those complex creatures who make up our society" "Places - Places to visit" "Flora - Plants and Trees" "Panoramas - Wide views of the world" "Competition - Recent competitive entries" and "Miscellany - A collection of unrelated photographs". The purpose of this book is to raise funds for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) a charitable body funding research to find a cure and better treatments for Type 1 Diabetes and support those living with it.

This book shows you how to make the M&A dream an M&A reality. If you: Work for a bank going through an M&A deal Work in a professional services firm that wants to offer services to support a banking M&A Are a regulator Are curious about how it all works Then this book is for you. This is a simple straightforward handbook of how to manage the M&A integration process written by some who has been responsible for managing the planning and logistics for some of the major banking deals of recent years. It shows you what has to be done before, during and after the change of control of a business unit of a whole bank from one owner to another.

One of the key determinants of success for today’s high-technology companies is product strategy—and this guide continues to be the only book on product strategy written specifically for the 21st century high-tech industry. More than 250 examples from technological leaders including IBM, Compaq, and Apple—plus a new focus on growth strategies and on Internet businesses—define how high-tech companies can use product strategy and product platform strategy for competitiveness, profitability, and growth in the Internet age.