Now in its fourth edition, Adult Education and Lifelong Learning is well established, and is regarded as the most widely used text about adult education. Fully revised and updated with substantial additional material, this new edition takes account of many changes which have occurred in the field of adult education.
This District Administration Reader’s Choice award-winning book features over 60 ways to ensure that students are interacting with the concepts, processes, and information in the TEKS, the Virginia SOLs, the Common Core, and other rigorous state learning standards.
This book by Laura Allen and Ryan Hoyme contains practical advice for massage school educators, owners, and administrators, and continuing education providers. Based on the authors’ combined years of serving in positions as instructors, massage school administrators, state board members, and accreditation site reviewers, they offer practical advice learned the hard way–through trial and error.…
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Does the capacity to learn increase or decrease over time? How does the sense of self and identity change over the adult years? What are the educational implications of that change? And how can teachers acknowledge the experience their adult students bring to the classroom? In this book, Mark C. Tennant and Philip Pogson draw…
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How to Deliver a TED Talk by Jeremey Donovan is designed for people who are not veteran presenters and need to prepare a talk that does not include many slides. Within hours you will get lots of ideas to improve your talk. Contents include how to design, open, verbally deliver, create visuals and overcome nervousness.…
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Unlike most presentation books that say the same things regarding presentation design and delivery (less is more, get rid of bullets and use images, emulate Steve Jobs, and so on), How to Be a Presentation God by Scott Schwertly actually divulges step-by-step secrets for how to build, design, and deliver blockbuster presentations. By providing entertaining…
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This is an essential resource for anyone designing or facilitating online learning. It introduces an easy, practical model (R2D2: read, reflect, display, and do) that shows online educators how to deliver content in ways that benefit all types of learners (visual, auditory, observational, and kinesthetic) from a wide variety of backgrounds and skill levels. this…
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This guide to the 5 licensed complementary and alternative healthcare professions, written by vetted experts, is a desk reference for clinicians and a textbook and resource for educators and students. Also included is information on emerging fields of traditional world medicines, holistic nursing and holistic and integrative medicine.
This revised and greatly expanded edition offers teachers at all levels how-to advise on classroom assessment, including: • What classroom assessment entails and how it works. • How to plan, implement, and analyze assessment projects. • Twelve case studies that detail the real-life classroom experiences of teachers carrying out successful classroom assessment projects. • Fifty…
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This free e-book on classroom management covers how to: eliminate disruptive behavior; connect appropriately with your students on a deeper level; find flexible “work-arounds” that let your problematic students complete assignments using acceptable alternatives; use physical proximity to your advantage; use key words; go home refreshed instead of frustrated.
The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher’s Life by Parker Palmer takes teachers on an inner journey toward reconnecting with themselves, their students, their colleagues, and their vocations, and reclaiming their passion for one of the most challenging and important of human endeavors. It builds on a simple premise: good teaching…
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This book explores the facets of bringing education to adults and bringing adults to education. It is a substantive book and one that should cause us to think about the learning society and how we are going to plan for it now and in the future. Although this book was written quite a while ago,…
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Revised and updated from the award-winning classic Effective Teaching and Mentoring, this second edition is a practical, engaging exploration of mentoring and its power to transform learning. Filled with inspiring vignettes, Mentor shows how anyone who teaches can become a successful mentor.
In this updated landmark book, the authors have gathered the seminal work and most current thinking on adult learning into one volume. Learning in Adulthood addresses a wide range of topics including: Who are adult learners? How do adults learn? Why are adults involved in learning activities? How does the social context shape the learning…
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This volume is an overview of key variables influencing teaching and learning, and the application of empirical findings to develop and refine new systems of teaching and learning that provide the infrastructure for the day-to-day organization and assessment of student learning over the course of an academic term. It also offers an assessment of the…
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