Families Today provides students with the information and skills they need to function well within their current family structure, while preparing them to develop their own strong families. This revised text emphasizes acting responsibly, using values when setting goals and making decisions, building character and lifelong learning of relationship skills. Families Today helps teachers support the goals of NCLB and Perkins legislation by providing point-of-use academic integration applications and real-world relevance to improve students' overall academic performance.
The Handbook is sensitive to the competing demands of teaching, research and scholarship, and academic management. Against the contexts, the book focuses on developing professional academic skills for teaching. Dealing with the rapid expansion of the use of technology in higher education and widening student diversity, the fully updated and expanded edition includes new material on, for example, e-learning, lecturing to large groups, formative and summative assessment, and supervising research students.
New Headway Academic Skills is a three-level series aimed at students in higher education who need English for their academic studies. The course focuses on reading, writing, and study skills, including those required for vocabulary development and for undertaking research.
In this provocative work, Mary Burgan surveys the deterioration of faculty influence in higher education. From campus planning, curriculum, and instructional technology to governance, pedagogy, and academic freedom, she urges far greater consideration for the perspective of the faculty.
When a child has difficulties eating or sleeping, or throws frequent tantrums, many parents cross their fingers and hope it's a phase to be outgrown soon. But when they persist, challenging behaviors can follow children to school, contributing to academic problems, social difficulties, and further problems in adolescence and adulthood.
