Authors:Julia Clarke, Ann Hanson, Roger Harrison, Fiona Reeve
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: learning, volume, supporting, lifelong, perspectives
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2001-12-07
List price: $55.95
ISBN-10: 0415259274
ISBN-13: 9780415259279

This Open University Reader examines the practices of learning and teaching which have been developed to support lifelong learning, and the understanding and assumptions which underpin them. The selection of texts included trace the widening scope of academic understandings regarding learning and teaching, and considers the implications for those who develop programs of learning. The particular focus of this Reader is on the psychological, or cognitive phenomena, that occur in the minds of individual learners, with readings representing a range of experience in different sectors of education a

Author: Martha Meyer
Publisher: Lit Verlag
Keywords: people, supporting, older, europe, carers, family, empirical, evidence, germany, background, national, report
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 2010-02-11
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 3825801071
ISBN-13: 9783825801076

Author: Jill McMinn
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: adhd, children, supporting
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 2002-06-01
List price: $38.95
ISBN-10: 0826480586
ISBN-13: 9780826480583

This book is a collection of practical suggestions and materials to use with pupils who have ADHD or demonstrate ADHD type behaviour. It provides a variety of materials to help the child get to know their own personality and mind, and in doing so, become more able to control their own feelings, thoughts and actions. The material is easy to use, straightforward and flexible so that it can be easily adapted to provide a programme of work for individual pupils. This book is meant to demystify ADHD and to enable all those who use it to understand a little more about this complex personality type.

Author: Lynn F. Howard
Publisher: Advanced Learning Press
Keywords: teachers, success, new, supporting, anything, ready
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2006-03-29
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0974734381
ISBN-13: 9780974734385

Ready for Anything is a year-long, site-based professional development support model for new teachers. It includes ready-to-use forms and checklists for the busy administrator.

Author: Jan Wurm
Publisher: Birkhäuser Architecture
Keywords: supporting, skins, construction, design, structures, glass
Number of Pages: 255
Published: 2007-08-17
List price: $89.95
ISBN-10: 3764376082
ISBN-13: 9783764376086

Flat glass opens up more possibilities for the planner than virtually any other material. Because of the technological complexity of using it, however, no specific structural forms have been developed for glass supporting frameworks as they have been for wood, concrete, and steel. This book is thus the first to present a coherent guide to the planning and design of glass supporting frameworks. The focus is on the pressure-resistant, flat supporting element as a basic building block for broad supporting structures. The spatial and constructive forms of multifunctional, self-supporting glass env

Author: Lorna Cork
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: understanding, improving, parents, pupils, black, supporting
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2005-08-10
List price: $180.00
ISBN-10: 041534056X
ISBN-13: 9780415340564

Drawing on her extensive teaching experience, Lorna Cork explores the day-to-day needs and expectations of black parents and their children in education. Exclusion rates of black children in the UK and around the world continue to rise, highlighting that something is very wrong with the way their teaching and learning is supported in today’s schools. Focusing on contemporary situations and using real-life case studies, Cork emphasises the human consequences of the true issues behind the statistics. This topical text offers a detailed look at five key organisations that exist to support bl

Author: Catherine Watson Genna
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Keywords: infants, breastfeeding, skills, sucking, supporting
Number of Pages: 355
Published: 2007-07-27
List price: $53.95
ISBN-10: 0763740373
ISBN-13: 9780763740375

A resource for any health care professional working with new mothers and infants, Supporting Sucking Skills in Breastfeeding Infants provides information and strategies needed to assist normal infant feeding. Taking a deliberately multidisciplinary approach, the author draws on varied clinical experiences and empirical evidence to help consolidate information in a complete, usable framework for breastfeeding evaluation and support. This books provides instructors with an advanced, broad knowledge of breastfeeding knowledge required for selecting the right level of intervention for supporting