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Creative Problem Solving is a process that allows people to apply both creative and critical thinking to find solutions to everyday problems. Creative Problem Solving eliminates the tendency to approach problems in a haphazard manner and, consequently, prevents surprises and/or disappointment with the solution. Used by thousands of group leaders seeking a friendly introduction to using Creative Problem Solving, this book is a time-honored classic. Creative Problem Solving: An Introduction is based on more than five decades of extensive research, development, and field experience in educational settings, businesses, and many other organizations. Written for both group leaders and individuals ...
This professional resource provides educators with research-based strategies to engage students in a meaningful and effective learning environment. Included are step-by-step instructions to involve learners, ideas for assessment, and application activities. These strategies will help students to create their own knowledge and develop higher-order thinking, decision-making skills, and more. Presented in a multi-modal approach, this resource provides opportunities to develop the skills needed to be successful across the content areas in all four domains. The ultimate goal is to create college- and career-ready young adults. The fun and purposeful strategies presented in this book will get students on their feet, creating an active learning environment in the classroom!
Build students' creativity while implementing standards-based instruction! This resource helps teachers learn how to merge teaching the standards and creative-thinking strategies in order to help students solve problems, think effectively, and be innovative. This unique resource includes classroom management ideas, lesson examples, and assessment information
In a competitive and dynamic job market, having the right workplace skills is essential to securing a successful career. From finding a job and learning your way around a new work environment to scheduling projects and working effectively with colleagues, workers must know how to be effective, organized, and professional in the modern workplace. Each volume in the Career Skills Library details key competencies identified by the Department of Labor as essential to solid job performance. Through case studies, exercises, quizzes, and additional resources, these books will help readers learn and master the personal and professional skills essential for any career. Book jacket.
Being kind in education is about much more than being nice. This unique book shows how transformational kindness needs to be an explicit, essential part of classroom and school culture in order to improve student success. Author Hope E. Wilson offers practical steps for creating a culture of transformational kindness through your approach to classroom management, relationships, assessment, and the content areas. She also demonstrates how to build kindness toward colleagues, parents, and families, and what to do in situations where supervisors are not so supportive. Finally, she describes how you can show more kindness toward yourself, including by giving grace. Throughout this book, you’ll find vignettes about the educators who have influenced their own communities through transformational kindness. You’ll come away feeling inspired and encouraged to imagine a world in which schools are places where kindness and humanity are felt by all.
Everything your students need to solve problems, manage change and deliver innovation using the Creative Problem Solving framework This text is the most comprehensive and contemporary overview and description of Creative Problem Solving (CPS) available today. Friendly and highly practical for a broad base of researchers and practitioners, the book provides a framework, language, guidelines, and set of easy-to-use tools for understanding challenges, generating ideas, and transforming promising ideas into action. New and Hallmark Features The authors expanded their emphasis on CPS as a flexible, dynamic process that enables users to select and apply CPS tools, components, and stages in a meani...
コロンビア大学教育者大学院で教育学を研究し、世界約170カ国が参加するグローバルサイト“キッズスペース”代表者が解説する説得の論理テクニック。1960年代以降に生まれたアメリカ人なら誰でも学んだ教育メソッドを体系的に日本初紹介。
Everyone knows how to solve problems. But persistent problems, such as low-morale, reduced productivity, or a gradual reduction in business metrics, can often seem insurmountable. Chris Christensen, a recognized management authority, provides a proven, straightforward approach to permanently resolve the most difficult and complicated problems that plague organizations. Follow the seven-step process detailed in How to Solve Persistent Problems and ensure that those difficult, recurring, and often debilitating problems that plague your organization get, and stay, solved.
Учебник нового поколения для обучения бакалавров представлен авторским коллективом преподавателей кафедр социального управления и управления образованием и кадрового менеджмента Института экономики и управления, занимающихся подготовкой кадров для системы дополнительного образования и работающих практически в организациях дополнительного образования преподавателями, т...