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Today's bubble-wrapped and highly regulated society isn't helping kids learn how to think for themselves. And test-obsessed education that teaches children to parrot facts without gaining much knowledge, wisdom or maturity only holds them back further. This hands-on guide offers out-of-the-padded-box strategies that target deep, lasting knowledge and life skills. Though designed especially for the free-thinking, secular homeschooler, The Secular Homeschooler...
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Using simple language and a high text/photo correlation, young readers will learn about what to expect from a day at school, including how kids get to school, what subjects teachers teach, and where students have recess and lunch. A Words to Know section at the beginning of the book helps students learn new vocabulary they will encounter in the text, while suggestions for other titles and websites encourage students to learn more. "Did You Know?"...
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With crowded classrooms and outside influences, many teens have problems staying on task. This program discusses how to stay focused. Subjects covered include the positive effects of staying focused; the negative effects of not staying focused; ways to stay focused; bad habits; good habits; setting goals; scheduling; various distractions; and ways to make it easier to focus. Correlates to all applicable National and State Educational Standards including...
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Offers a guide to forty colleges and universities that place a greater focus on the students than on academic achievement. Describes each school's program and personality and provides a "ten-years-later evaluation" at the end of of each profile. Also includes information about the progress of graduates and contains a senior's tips to freshmen.
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Living life without a goal is like taking a trip without selecting a destination. This program explains the difference between goals and dreams; distinguishes between short- and long-term goals as well as personal, physical, financial, academic, and career goals; and offers strategies for achieving them. The importance of putting goals in writing, setting a timetable, staying focused, and being flexible is stressed.
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In spite of a growing dependence on technology, studies show that as students move through grade levels they become progressively less interested in the sciences. This program illustrates how teachers can use inquiry-based learning, a powerful teaching method, to motivate students to deepen their understanding about the world around them. Students tackle problems and ask questions instead of simply memorizing concepts in the abstract. What makes this...
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Demonstrates how transforming school culture can benefit both teachers and students and offers tips on improving leadership, teaching, learning, confidence, and trust in various key areas. Outlines real-world action plans and discusses how to involve parents and the community in this process.
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This program thoroughly describes the concept of self-esteem: what it is, where it comes from, and how to build it, maintain it, and protect it. The power of positive thinking, the importance of a supportive home environment, and the harmful effects of advertising are considered, along with the negative impact of a poor attitude, destructive comments, and unrealistic thoughts of one's own worth.
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Kids who have high self-esteem feel confident, adjust to change more easily, learn how to interact with others, and are less likely to abuse drugs. This program presents ten specific ways in which parents can build self-esteem in their children through everyday interactions such as responding to a baby's emotional needs, helping a child solve his or her own problems, encouraging independence, and promoting creativity.
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This program explores alternative approaches and explanations of learning, including latent learning, learning sets, insight learning, ethology, social learning, and neuroscience. The program emphasizes the recent move towards a cognitive theory of learning and examines research in this area. The program includes archival film featuring B. F. Skinner and Dr. Robert Epstein, who demonstrated apparent "insight" learning in pigeons using behaviorist...
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The battle to promote academic success cannot be won solely by administrators, principals, and teachers. This program examines how parents can become a driving force for school reform by increasing their involvement in their children's instruction both at school and at home-and why it is imperative for parents to communicate with schools on a continuing basis about their children's progress, discipline, and achievements.
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Frequent and regular assessment of student progress is an effective method for driving schools towards equity and academic excellence. This program focuses on how student assessment data can be used to evaluate and improve instructional priorities and strategies, to communicate high expectations, and to involve parents and the community in a school's efforts.
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Working together, administrators, principals, and teachers can give priority to the essential skills children must develop in order to succeed. This program presents the value of a no-nonsense approach to teaching. By maximizing learning time, by structuring curriculums so that mastery of academic content is required to proceed, and by quickly providing extra assistance for students having difficulty, the processes of both teaching and learning can...