Project Management: Best Practices: Achieving Global Excellence
The bestselling first edition of Project Management Best Practices: Achieving Global Excellence set the course for project managers navigating the increasingly challenging task of working within global corporations and with distant and diverse work teams. This new edition carries that tradition to the next step, presenting a new set of firsthand accounts of how corporations around the world incorporate project management into their strategic business operations.
Bringing together leading authorities, this tightly edited volume reviews the breadth of current knowledge about goals and their key role in human behavior. Presented are cutting-edge theories and findings that shed light on the ways people select and prioritize goals; how they are pursued; factors that lead to success or failure in achieving particular aims; and consequences for individual functioning and well-being. Thorough attention is given to both conscious and nonconscious processes.
A Governor's Guide to Dropout Prevention and Recovery
A new report from the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) addresses the alarming rate at which students in the United States drop out of high school. It recommends actions governors should take to reduce the incidence of students not completing high school, including: promote high school graduation for all; target youth at risk of dropping out; re-engage youth who have dropped out of school; and provide rigorous, relevant options for earning a high school diploma.
This book will take you through each recipe, offering the beginner a helping hand and the expert new ideas, with a few tips and ideas for variations along the way. Over 50 recipes provide a step-by-step guide for achieving the best results. Color photography and cook’s tips make this the perfect culinary guide.
Still the biggest concern for many on initial teacher training courses is the acquisition of subject knowledge and the ability to translate that into effective teaching. This book addresses this - building on the core subject knowledge covered in the Achieving QTS series and relating it to classroom practice. It supports trainees in extending and deepening their knowledge of Maths and demonstrating how to apply it to planning and implementing lessons. Practical and up-to-date teaching examples are used to clearly contextualize subject knowledge.
