"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...

"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."...

"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...

This audiobook features music and special effects. Listen along and enjoy the fun that is Gray Wolf (Young Zoologist).A guide to gray wolves from wolf expert Brenna J. Cassidy.You might know that gray wolves live in packs, but there’s so much more to learn about these incredible predators! Find out what makes wolves howl, why wolves sniffing each other’s butts is their way of shaking hands, and how some wolves in Yellowsto...

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 ...

How to transfer your organization’s most important knowledge-before it walks out the doorWhen highly skilled subject matter experts, engineers, and managers leave their organizations, they take with them years of hard-earned, experience-based knowledge-much of it undocumented and irreplaceable. Organizations can thereby lose a good part of their competitive advantage. The tsunami of boomer” retirements has created the most visible, urgent need to transfer such kno...

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...

You give feedback every day, even if you aren't realizing it. Whether it's with a spouse, your child, a co-worker, or an employee, or if you are a trainer or group and learning facilitator, it will be a rare day if you aren't helping someone learn a task, or just learn a little about themselves.It's time to sharpen your feedback skills, and abilility to work with someone to help them learn, formally, informally. We know from research over fifty years that feedback is THE key to lear...

For the first time, a book exists that compiles all the information candidates need to apply for their first LPTA job, or to apply for a better job.What you'll find especially helpful are the worksheets. It is so much easier to write about a work experience using these outlines. It ensures that the narrative will follow a logical structure and reminds you not to leave out the most important points. With this book, you'll be able to revise your application into a much stronger docum...