First published in 1976, Supervision in Social Work has become an essential text for social work educators and students, detailing the state of the field and the place, function, and challenges of supervision in social work practice.This fifth edition takes into account the sizable number of articles and books published on supervision since 2002. Changes in public health and social welfare policy have intensified concern about the social work supervision of licensed practi...

Uncover the hidden business history of mass production, an economic revolution that radically transformed human labor. Perfect for a thought-provoking daily commute, this sweeping industrial saga reveals how breaking work into standardized tasks reshaped global capitalism. It captures the relentless drive for efficiency from ancient arsenals to modern manufacturing floors.For lifelong learners craving an immersive deep dive into the history of technology, this narrative offers a fa...

Uncover the hidden business history of mass production, an economic revolution that radically transformed human labor. Perfect for a thought-provoking daily commute, this sweeping industrial saga reveals how breaking work into standardized tasks reshaped global capitalism. It captures the relentless drive for efficiency from ancient arsenals to modern manufacturing floors.For lifelong learners craving an immersive deep dive into the history of technology, this narrative offers a fa...

Uncover the hidden business history of mass production, an economic revolution that radically transformed human labor. Perfect for a thought-provoking daily commute, this sweeping industrial saga reveals how breaking work into standardized tasks reshaped global capitalism. It captures the relentless drive for efficiency from ancient arsenals to modern manufacturing floors.For lifelong learners craving an immersive deep dive into the history of technology, this narrative offers a fa...

Uncover the hidden business history of mass production, an economic revolution that radically transformed human labor. Perfect for a thought-provoking daily commute, this sweeping industrial saga reveals how breaking work into standardized tasks reshaped global capitalism. It captures the relentless drive for efficiency from ancient arsenals to modern manufacturing floors.For lifelong learners craving an immersive deep dive into the history of technology, this narrative offers a fa...

Student-Centered Leadership offers a timely and thoughtful resource for school leaders who want to turn their ideals into action. Written by educational leadership expert Viviane Robinson, the book shows leaders how they can make a bigger difference to the quality of teaching and learning in their school and ultimately improve their students' performance.This book is based not on fad or fashion but on the best available evidence about the impact of different types of leadership on ...

This anthology brings the ideas and recommendations of many of the world’s education leaders into one resource that illustrates the many perspectives on effective assessment design and implementation. From involving students in the assessment process to ensuring accuracy and applying assessments to English learners and students with special needs, you will find compelling insights and proven strategies.

Organizations thrive or struggle as a result of interactions among team members. To optimize the performance of teams, Group Dynamics and Team Interventions bridges the gap between the most up-to-date academic research findings about group behavior and real-life practice. Chapters summarize the theories behind group and team behavior while offering proven application and intervention techniques that can be utilized in workplace settings. Topics addressed include team formation and...

If you are committed to helping young adolescents become successful, responsible, global citizens, the Association for Middle Level Education, formerly National Middle School Association, invites you to read and implement This We Believe: Keys to Educating Young Adolescents. This book describes the 16 vital characteristics of successful middle grades schools, and is a critical resource for everyone involved in the education, health, and well being of today’s young adolescents. Now in its f...

In this second edition of the classic work Learner-Centered Teaching, Maryellen Weimer—one of the nation’s most highly regarded authorities on effective college teaching—offers a comprehensive introduction to the topic of learner-centered teaching in the college and university classroom. This thoroughly revised and updated edition includes the most current examples of practice in action from a variety of disciplines and contains new information on the research support for learner-...

Top Business Psychology Models is a quick, accessible overview to the fundamental theories and frameworks that will help you understand human behaviour, emotions and cognition at work. Each model is presented in a short and crisply written summary, which could be easily converted into materials for use in training or in coaching conversations. Clear, succinct and well-referenced chapters also offer routes into accessing further information. Free of academic jargon...

In this comprehensive resource, Raymond J. Wlodkowski and Margery B. Ginsberg describe how to meet the challenge of teaching intensive and accelerated courses to nontraditional learners and working adults. By making motivation and cultural relevance essential to instruction, they clearly show what instructors can do to enhance learning in classes that can last from three to six hours. Teaching Intensive and Accelerated Courses makes full use of the authors' twenty years of experie...