"There is no better way to improve student attitudes and outcomes than to blend both meaningful community and global service with improved academic achievement. Sally Berman invites her readers to do just that."-Bob Koehs, Service Learning CoordinatorMarquette-Alger Regional Educational Service Agency"This book is full of practical tips for the classroom teacher, including strategies for assessing student learning."-Jeanine Yard, Learn and Ser...

"Berman provides helpful, guided, step-by-step procedures for new and seasoned teachers to review and reassess their methods for teaching students how to collect, organize, and analyze new ideas."—Jean Eames, Chemistry and Biology TeacherBenson Polytechnic High School, Portland, OR"This book presents strategies to engage students in making meaning out of prior knowledge, texts, and specific content."—Nancy T. Davis, Associate Professor of Midd...

"Provides excellent, thorough examples of lessons for classroom use. The lessons follow a user-friendly pattern and include outstanding rubrics that can be adapted easily by the teacher."—Debra Rose Howell, TeacherMonte Cristo Elementary, Granite Falls, WA"Gives educators new to performance learning a broad collection of examples for using this model. The sample lessons are tied to learning standards and incorporate a myriad of different modalities."...

“An excellent how-to manual for creating structured, well-managed service learning projects for elementary through college-level students . . . A must-have.” —Education ReviewService learning offers students the unique opportunity to learn both in the classroom and in the real world. This exciting teaching strategy, detailed in Sally Berman’s second edition of Service Learning, motivates students to learn content information, processes, and skills...

Service learning offers students the unique opportunity to learn both in the classroom and in the real world. This exciting teaching strategy, detailed in Berman’s second edition of Service Learning, motivates students to learn content information, processes, and skills while making authentic connections to their surrounding community.This valuable resource explains the benefits of service learning and provides a step-by-step guide for using the instructional model. It features nin...

Now there is a text that provides students with a comprehensive blueprint for supervisory practice in the field of education. In Supervision in Education Bernadette Marczely draws on her expertise in both law and education to fully explain different methods of supervision and to carefully identify the legal issues that drive each approach. The book presents the information future educational administrators need to know, plus it offers helpful pointers on what they need to do. Students will...

This updated and expanded edition considers the continuing dismal employment statistics for individuals with ASD. The authors take an in-depth look at entrepreneurship. Using real-life examples, they point out that many of the unique characteristics of individuals on the autism spectrum lend themselves well to entrepreneurial ventures. The book explores many unnoticed aspects of Vocational Rehabilitation programs that provide job training and placement for people with disabilities, as well...

25 Essential Skills & Strategies for the Professional Behavior Analyst is a much needed guidebook for behavior analysts who want to become successful at consulting. Jon Bailey and Mary Burch present five basic skills and strategy areas that professional behavior analysts need to acquire. This book is organized around those five areas, with a total of 25 specific skills presented within those topics. Every behavior analyst, whether seasoned or beginning, should have this book.

The highly acclaimed manual for changing everyday habits-now in an all-newthird edition!We are consuming resources and polluting our environment at a rate that is outstripping our planet's ability to support us. To create a sustainable future, we must not only change our own actions, we must educate and encourage those around us to change theirs. If one individual recycles his plastic containers, the impact is minimal. But if an entire community recycles, enormous ...

Behavior change is central to the pursuit of sustainability. This book details how to use community-based social marketing to motivate environmental protection behaviors as diverse as water and energy efficiency, alternative transportation, and watershed protection. With case studies of innovative programs from around the world, including the United States, Canada Australia, Spain, and Jordan, the authors present a clear process for motivating social change for both residential and commerc...

Change the World with Service Learning is clear, direct and easy to use, and was designed for busy teachers integrating Service Learning into their existing curriculum. This book guides teachers from all content areas and grade levels to create outstanding Service Learning projects with students like no other book does. Change the World with Service Learning is a no-fluff, step-by-step, teacher-to-teacher description of how to create, plan, teach, and celebrate Service Learning projects th...

New, updated edition 2014! Lyn Kelley, Ph.D. is a licensed therapist and certified coach who has been providing seminars, CE courses and consulting for thousands of therapists for over 20 years. She gives you over 40 tried-true-tested, PROVEN, most cost effective methods to get new, well-pay clients and get out of managed care. For all mental health providers. No frill, no fluff, just the facts!Here's what you'll get:6 Benefits of Private Practice5 Factors that Lead to...