School Development

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.

Want to make the most of your time in school? Whether you’re just starting out your high school career or about to finish, you owe it to yourself to have more fun and stress less. How do you do that? One of the most important and easy to overlook methods is this: Communicate better with your teachers. This book can help you with that.

They say that raising a child is difficult. If you ask us, you have to be more specific. First, raising a baby and a child are two completely different things. From the moment your baby is born to when they reach an age they can follow what you are saying, the journey is not that difficult. The road that comes after that is treacherous filled with temper tantrums and unreasonable requests. Not to mention the imaginary friends and the blanket or stuffed toy they are not ready to let go of.

Becoming a new parent is overwhelming. Your life is changed forever. Every choice you make for your new baby will have lasting, possibly life-long consequences. Parenting advice is tossed your way from all sides, but who should you trust? The most trustworthy source might surprise you: Satan. Based on Satan's observations and interactions with humanity over the course of millennia, Satan's Advice for the New Parent is a concise parenting manual, ideal for the sleep-deprived new parent.

Lehrerverbände schlagen Alarm: Die Anzahl verhaltensauffälliger Kinder explodiert. Die größte Verantwortung für eine körperlich und seelisch stabile Entwicklung eines Kindes trägt das Elternhaus. Eine falsche Erziehung durch die Eltern hat gravierende Folgen auf das spätere Leben des Kindes. Katharina Lowe hat viele Jahre Erfahrung als Schulsozialarbeiterin. Sie hat nun unverzichtbares Hintergrundwissen zusammengestellt und zeigt, wie Eltern “schwierigen” Kindern richtig begegnen.

Ich will aber nicht! Das kann ich schon alleine! Eltern von Trotzphasenkindern kennen es nur zu gut. Die so genannte Trotzphase ist eine der meist gefürchtetsten Phasen der kindlichen Entwicklung. Die ersten beiden Lebensjahre sind rasant vergangen, bis zu dem Zeitpunkt, an dem das Kind deutlich den eigenen Willen zeigt und seine Eltern damit vor schwierige Herausforderungen stellt. Die Autorin und Bloggerin Susanne Mierau verrät uns die besten Rezepte, damit der Alltag sich wieder entspannt und die Wutigel vertrieben werden.

Most Valuable Parents: A Guide for Parents of Student Athletes provides insight into different hot topics of discussion relating to helping student athletes. It is a masterfully composed, comprehensive resource for parents of student athletes in any level and every sport. It is a journey that will educate, empower, and enlighten parents of student athletes as they support their children's sports endeavors.

When ten-year-old Michael Baughman moves to Hawaii with his parents, he is troubled and confused. His father doesn’t provide the guidance Baughman needs, and the boy doesn’t know who to turn to. When a larger-than-life Hawaiian beach boy named Boat takes Baughman under his wing, the boy finds a teacher and mentor. Boat is 285 pounds of solid muscle and gentle spirituality.

Naked Parenting: 7 Keys to Raising Kids with Confidence is parenting stripped down to the bare basics, focusing on seven keys to raising kids who are self-sufficient, respectful, and resilient - nudity not required. It is a sensible, realistic, and practical guide for parents with children of all ages. Fun, honest, and easy to comprehend, it provides creative tips and ideas that any parent can start using today.

You’ve achieved your dream of becoming a teacher. Now it’s time to thrive in your academic environment. Fostering positive relationships within schools can be more complex than teachers expect. For instance, how do you manage a challenging parent or communicate with a struggling child? What about developing a healthy relationship with your school principal? Building Productive Relationships in a Secondary School Environment breaks down all those potentially tricky situations and explains how to handle them professionally.

In the fast-paced world where knowledge is power, the ability to learn quickly and effectively is essential. "BULLET-PROOF, Memory Strategies for High School & College Students" is a guide that addresses this need. Whether you're a student aiming for academic excellence or a professional adapting to a dynamic career landscape, rapid learning is a valuable asset.

Sie sind auf der Suche nach einer neuen Art der Kommunikation? Einer Möglichkeit, Ihr Kind endlich zu verstehen, die andauernden Konflikte, um die immer gleiche Sache endlich der Vergangenheit angehören zu lassen und wieder ein respektvolles Miteinander zu erleben? Mit einer guten Prise Humor und viel Mitgefühl, begleitet Sie dieses Buch auf Ihrer Entdeckungsreise, hin zu einer neuen und innovativen Kommunikation.

Maddy was always being asked to sing jingles for commercials. She'd sung about chocolate, cereal and dog food. Now she wanted a real acting job. But was she good enough to be an actor? Then came the announcement in class: "Maddy, you have an audition for Halfway Hospital." An audition! She just had to get the job. The second book in a series of entertaining short novels about four girls who attend The Shooting Star drama school.

Jimmy Carter has been teaching Sunday school ever since he was a young midshipman in Annapolis. In later years he conducted religious services on submarines on which he served, and he even led the occasional class in Washington while he was president. For the last 25 years, President Carter has taught the adult Bible study at his church in Plains, where several hundred visitors join him each Sunday to understand the wisdom of the Bible and apply it to their lives.

Aaaaaaaaghhhhhhh! Dene screamed at the TV. A commercial for ice-cream had just come on and it starred those twins Evie and Cameron Billingham. We've never spoken to them but we just know they're vomitus. If you walked into an audition and the terrible twins were there, you could forget about it! The first book in an entertaining series of short novels about four girls who attend The Shooting Star drama school.

After publishing the New York Times best seller The Essential 55, award-winning teacher Ron Clark took his rules on the road and traveled to schools and districts in 49 states. He met amazing teachers, administrators, students, parents, all kinds of people involved in bringing up great kids. In the best of these people, he noticed the same qualities that he'd observed in so many of the teachers, children, and parents he'd worked with during his time teaching in North Carolina and Harlem.

Since the beginning of time, human beings have tried to achieve their goals in the most optimal way possible by developing long-term strategies and plans. However, as the social beings we are, our goals are often that others act or think in a certain way. How can we solve this problem? One of the methods that can be used to this end is to try to change the behaviour, affection, or opinion of others in a way that promotes their own interests. That is, use persuasion.

Great study skills. Study smarter. Reach your full potential! We’re all told to study hard in high school but none of us are ever taught how to study, let alone how to balance the increasing workload and demands of teenage life. You don’t have to sacrifice your life to get through high school and I am going to show you step-by-step exactly how to do it and become your most organised, productive, motivated, and confident self! This is exactly what I do in The High School Survival Guide.

Do you wake up every day with a sense of purpose, inner-peace, and knowledge that you are living your very best life? Most believe that "success" has to do with one's wealth or accomplishments. Not so, says author and father YPR, who explains in these two fascinating letters to his children that it is not what you achieve in life, rather how you live your life that determines your ultimate success.

Give your child a black belt in resilience for life. Children today are more likely to experience bullying than not, with cyberbullying a major factor. Bullying is not usually a one-off event, but you can support your child in breaking through the cycle of bullying using the 6P process.