Professional Development Education

In today's fast-paced, competitive business environment, we all need to communicate clearly and use our time productively. Even seasoned writers will find tips, tools, and ideas in this book that can improve the quality - and reduce the quantity - of email in the workplace. This book will help you write concise, clear emails that advance your business needs.

Best-selling author Rafe Esquith, the only teacher to receive the National Medal of Arts, has garnered the American Teacher Award and numerous other honors. Still teaching fifth graders in a small, leaky classroom in downtown Los Angeles, Esquith fosters a wholesome climate where character, humility, and diligence matter and support is unconditional. For his mostly poor and Hispanic students, Esquith models two maxims: Be nice and work hard, and There are no shortcuts. And his students thrive!

Jadie never spoke. She never laughed, or cried, or uttered any sound. Despite efforts to reach her, Jadie remained locked in her own troubled world - until one remarkable teacher persuaded her to break her self-imposed silence. Nothing in all of Torey Hayden's experience could have prepared her for the shock of what Jadie told her - a story too horrendous for Torey's professional colleagues to acknowledge.

A dramatic and remarkable narrative of an extraordinary teacher's determination, from the author of the Sunday Times bestsellers The Tiger's Child and One Child. Torey Hayden faced six emotionally troubled kids no other teacher could handle - three recent arrivals from battle-torn Northern Ireland, badly traumatized by the horrors of war; an eleven-year-old boy, who only knew life inside an institution; an excitable girl, aggressive and sexually precocious at the age of eight; and seven-year-old Leslie, perhaps the most hopeless of all, unresponsive and unable to speak.

In this book, I'll reveal the powerful techniques employed by best-selling authors, and I'll show you how to apply them to rivet your readers. I'll start with the basics of Point of View - if you're already familiar with the concept, you can treat them as a refresher - and then guide you to advanced strategies for taking your reader deep.

Despite ongoing professional development for urban educators, many inner-city school students are still not performing on high levels or even grade level. This book is a practical guide to helping educators understand the innate difficulties of transferring expertise from the experts, through the teachers, and into the students in a meaningful way that demonstrates student learning.

Teaching has never been easy, but these days, it seems to keep getting harder. As the pressure builds, many educators are calling it quits on a profession that once felt like a calling. Planning to Stay offers a hopeful alternative.

Networking for Career Success shows professionals how to enhance their careers through effective networking. It covers everything from basics of networking to targeted techniques for making a career change, funding a new business venture, adding clients, and more.

It's hard to find an educational book that relates to the boots-on-the-ground educator right away. But project-based learning and student-centered learning is the direction education is going no matter your context. Project Based Learning Stories and Structures is a practical guide to starting a PBL journey complete with examples of fails, wins, and a place to get started. Everyone on your staff will have a place to relate in the practical structures and the humorous stories from the classroom.

Career Pathways: From School to Retirement brings together leading workforce researchers and practitioners to provide new perspectives on school-to-work and workplace career pathways. This groundbreaking book explains the transformations that have taken place in the workplace over the past several decades and how those transformations have combined to produce a dramatically different career landscape.

Shift Teaching Forward showcases the ecosystem of elements that characterizes a successful job-training program. We need to prepare students to interact with others, contribute to inclusive workplaces, and become collaborators-whatever their industry or career goals. This book shows the way.

You might have a step-wife or a step-husband. Chances are that this phantom relationship is haunting your life and you might even wonder how much longer you can hang on. Here is the reality: Whether it’s a good situation or a bad situation, this relationship is going to impact your life for as long as you live. It can be like having a third person in your bedroom, or a third person on your bank account, or even an extra person undermining your relationship with the children.

We all know what is wrong with today’s schools - or do we? Tracy Kidder spent a year in a fifth grade class in Holyoke, Massachusetts. The teacher is excellent, but something else is very wrong. Kidder skillfully presents the problems and leaves the listener to ponder the solutions.

Hiring is a major concern for companies, who face tough times. The job market has changed, and things are even tougher for the job seeker, with such trends as: cutbacks, mass layoffs, downsizing, and offshoring. It is harder to find a good job and to stay employed. Being unemployed is stressful, with worries about self-worth, income, and the future. You need a competitive edge when applying for jobs, in addition to the knowledge and skills required for the position.

Study for your ASWB social work licensing exam on the go! With this audio study guide from social work exam coach Jeremy Schwartz, author of Pass the LMSW Exam and LMSW Passing Score, you can review content and practice questions during gaps in your day. This volume covers human development and behavior--one of the core content areas for the ASWB master's level social work licensing exam--and includes 80 practice questions with detailed answer explanations.

Ein Studium ist oft mit Stress verbunden, gerade vor Klausuren, Hausarbeiten und mit Blick auf die Thesis. Auf der einen Seite werden Lernanforderungen immer komplexer, auf der anderen Seite arbeiten viele Studierende nebenbei. Der AST für Studierende gibt Tipps, wie junge Studierende gelassener ihr Studienziel erreichen. Dazu wurden über die letzten fünf Jahre aktive Studierende verschiedener Hochschulen zu ihren best practices befragt.

Im Pflegealltag die richtigen Worte finden. Kommunikation und Gesprächsführung sind für die Pflege zentral. Zugleich stellt die Arbeit mit kranken, stark belasteten und emotional instabilen Personen oft eine große Herausforderung dar. Dieses Hörbuch richtet sich an alle, die mit pflegebedürftigen Menschen, Patienten, Heimbewohnern und Angehörigen arbeiten.

Communication is a must-have skill for all people, especially leaders and professionals. It does not matter what industry you’re working in, the role, or size of the organization you’re leading, you will inevitably interact with many different people. And effective communication is the main component to ensure professional success. Communicate NOT Communihate will empower you with vital tools, techniques, and advice you need to become an effective communicator.

Getting fluent in the language of emotions is guaranteed to improve your life. Discover the basics of controlling and “hacking” your emotions so that you can get more from your life.

Verbal communication is only a small part of how we communicate with others. All our actions have a certain impact on others and vice versa. Knowing, recognizing, and understanding the underlying cause of these can be of immense help for everyone. Whether at home, work, or in any social situation, the ability to read people is a great asset and can mean the difference between harmony and discord. Do you want to be a master analyzer with the ability to figure people out right from the time you meet them?