Authors:Marianne Schneider Corey, Gerald Corey, Cindy Core
Publisher: Brooks Cole
Keywords: practice, process, groups
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 2008-11-25
List price: $131.95
ISBN-10: 0495600768
ISBN-13: 9780495600763

Learn to blend theory with practice in group work with GROUPS: PROCESS AND PRACTICE, the respected book that so many helpers (and helpers in training) rely upon every day. Focusing on the ?what is? and ?how to?? of group counseling, the authors use up-to-date examples, guidelines, insights, and an enhanced diversity perspective to show you how group leaders can apply the key concepts of the group process to a variety of groups, including work with children, older adults, and in school settings.

Authors:Karen Simmons and Cindy Guinn,  Cindy Gui,
Publisher: Maupin House Publishing
Keywords: projects, learners, thematic, seasonal, perfect, primary
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2007-09-17
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0929895622
ISBN-13: 9780929895628

Encourage the interactive learning that K-2 students thrive on! Primary & Perfect offers nine months of new seasonal and thematic Bag Ladies projects especially designed for little hands and your K-2 curriculum. An extra set of summer activities makes this book a perfect choice for after school and summer school, too! More than 40 hands-on projects and activities, complete step-by-step instructions with blackline masters, and photographs of the finished projects make it easy and fun to teach to the standards. If you re a primary teacher, this book is truly perfect for you.

Author: Deborah Core
Publisher: Chalice Pre
Keywords: writes, student, seminary
Number of Pages: 130
Published: 2000-07-01
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 0827234473
ISBN-13: 9780827234475

Deborah Core offers practical guidance for beginning seminary students who feel overwhelmed and underprepared to write the number and quality of papers their courses require. The book begins with reflections on writing as a sacred action, then addresses such practical matters as choosing and researching a topic; outlining, drafting, and polishing a paper; and using the proper format for footnotes and bibliography. Also included are sample papers in MLA and Chicago styles and an overview of grammar and usage.

Author: Core Knowledge Foundation
Publisher: Delta
Keywords: knowledge, series, core, kindergarten, needs, ready, preschooler
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2008-03-25
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0385341989
ISBN-13: 9780385341981

Prepare your child for a lifetime of learning and wonder.Designed for parents to enjoy with children, filled with opportunities for reading aloud and fostering curiosity, this beautifully illustrated read-aloud anthology offers preschoolers the fundamentals they need to prepare for a happy, productive time in school—and for the rest of their lives. Millions of children have benefited from the acclaimed Core Knowledge Series, developed in consultation with parents, educators, and the most distinguished developmental psychologists. In addition to valuable advice to parents, including what it m

Author: Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
Publisher: Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothe
Keywords: applications, metadata, core, berlin, september, dublin, international, semantic, social, proceedings, conference
Number of Pages: 217
Published: 2008-09
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 3940344494
ISBN-13: 9783940344496

Metadata is a key aspect of our evolving infrastructure for information management, social computing, and scientific collaboration. DC-2008 will focus on metadata challenges, solutions, and innovation in initiatives and activities underlying semantic and social applications. Metadata is part of the fabric of social computing, which includes the use of wikis, blogs, and tagging for collaboration and participation. Metadata also underlies the development of semantic applications, and the Semantic Web — the representation and integration of multimedia knowledge structures on the basis of se

Author: Committee on Core Competencies for Federal Facilit
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: management, transformational, strategies, asset, facilities, competencies, federal, core
Number of Pages: 136
Published: 2008-01-18
List price: $29.00
ISBN-10: 0309114004
ISBN-13: 9780309114004

The U.S. government is faced with growing challenges to managing its facilities and infrastructure. A number of factors such as shrinking budgets, an aging workforce, and increasing costs demand new approaches to federal facilities management. The Federal Facilities Council of the NRC has sponsored a number of studies looking at ways to meet these challenges. This fourth study focuses on the people and skills that will needed to manage federal facilities in the next decade and beyond. The book presents a discussion of the current context of facilities management; an analysis of the forces affe

Authors:Dorothy H. Evensen, Cindy E. Hmelo, Cindy E. Hmelo-S
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: learning, interactions, perspective, research, problem, based
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 2000-01-01
List price: $57.95
ISBN-10: 0805826459
ISBN-13: 9780805826456

This volume collects recent studies conducted within the area of medical education that investigate two of the critical components of problem-based curricula--the group meeting and self-directed learning--and demonstrates that understanding these complex phenomena is critical to the operation of this innovative curriculum. It is the editors’ contention that it is these components of problem-based learning that connect the initiating "problem" with the process of effective "learning." Revealing how this occurs is the task taken on by researchers contributing to this volume. The studies in