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Learning Through Serving
This substantially expanded new edition of this widely-used and acclaimed text maintains the objectives and tenets of the first. It is designed to help students understand and reflect on their community service experiences both as individuals and as citizens of communities in need of their compassionate expertise. It is designed to assist faculty in facilitating student development of compassionate expertise through the context of service in applying disciplinary knowledge to community issues and challenges. In sum, the book is about how to make academic sense of civic service in preparing for roles as future citizen leaders. Each chapter has been developed to be read and reviewed, in sequen...
Learning Through Serving
""This substantially expanded new edition of this widely-used and acclaimed text maintains the objectives and tenets of the first. It is designed to help students understand and reflect on their community service experiences both as individuals and as citizens of communities in need of their compassionate expertise. It is designed to assist faculty in facilitating student development of compassionate expertise through the context of service in applying disciplinary knowledge to community issues and challenges. In sum, the book is about how to make academic sense of civic service in preparing for roles as future citizen leaders.""--Amazon.com."
Cooperative Learning in Physical Education
Grade level: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, e, i, s, t.
Changing Corporate America from Inside Out
Despite the backlash against lesbian and gay rights occurring in cities and states across the country, a growing number of corporations are actually expanding protections and benefits for their gay and lesbian employees. Why this should be, and why some corporations are increasingly open to inclusive policies while others are determinedly not, is what Nicole C. Raeburn seeks to explain in Changing Corporate America from Inside Out. A long-overdue study of the workplace movement, Raeburn's analysis focuses on the mobilization of lesbian, gay, and bisexual employee networks over the past fifteen years to win domestic partner benefits in Fortune 1000 companies. Drawing on surveys of nearly one ...
Service Learning
"There is no better way to improve student attitudes and outcomes than to blend both meaningful community and global service with improved academic achievement. Sally Berman invites her readers to do just that." -Bob Koehs, Service Learning Coordinator Marquette-Alger Regional Educational Service Agency "This book is full of practical tips for the classroom teacher, including strategies for assessing student learning." -Jeanine Yard, Learn and Serve Program Officer Michigan Community Service Commission Provide authentic, lasting learning opportunities for students in their own community Service learning offers students the unique opportunity to learn both in the classroom and in the real wor...
Hired Minds
Written in an upbeat, entertaining style, this guide reveals the personal experiences of beginning engineers to illustrate the different paths for developing engineering experience as an undergrad, landing the job, and starting off right as an engineer. It includes tips on resume writing and interviewing skills.
Recalling Education
In this searching and relentlessly logical critique, a distinguished professor of philosophy argues that the purpose of education -- enabling students to achieve intellectual autonomy -- has been largely forgotten. Hugh Mercer Curtler challenges prevailing myths about education and indoctrination, explains the significance of a proper understanding of education in a democracy, and offers recommendations to reverse current trends.
A Mother's Love Forever
Christine M. Shannons mother was only sixty-five-years old when she died in 1997, and the death left a void in Christines life. Nine years later, her mother appeared to her and visited her in her dreams. Christine tried hard to grasp the message and finally determined her mother was warning her about a cancer danger. After a few examinations, Christine was diagnosed with cervical cancer at age fifty-four. In A Mothers Love Forever, she narrates her story, describing the dreams, the tests, the diagnosis, the treatment, and her survival. Christine acknowledges the importance of the spiritual blessing she received from above. Offering insight into Christines experiences, A Mothers Love Forever helps other people suffering from cancer know they arent alone, and to understand everyones experience are unique. She shares her advice: Time heals all wounds mentally and physically. Stay positive, and believe in your inner strength. Its there when you need it most, and it will surely surprise you.
The Complete Guide to Service Learning
This project-based guide is a blueprint for service learning—from getting started to assessing the experience—and integrates the K–12 Service-Learning Standards for Quality Practice. It provides ideas for incorporating literacy into service learning and suggestions for creating a culture of service. An award-winning treasury of activities, ideas, annotated book recommendations, author interviews, and expert essays—all presented within a curricular context and organized by theme. Digital Content contains all of the planning and tracking forms from the book plus bonus service learning plans, and more.
