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From the first steps of student teaching to the first teaching position, Strategies for Successful Student Teaching is a complete guide for pre-service teachers. This book moves pre-service teachers through their practicum experiences sequentially, beginning with the question, "why do you want to be a teacher?" It then progresses to the creation of a portfolio, tips for the job search, and a checklist for setting up a first classroom. The book has a hands-on approach, featuring practical activities that build on theory taught in methods courses and can be used in the field with college supervisors to strengthen the link between theory and practice. Each chapter begins with a lesson plan that serves as an overview for the chapter, and each plan is linked to teaching competencies and themes. This book is a comprehensive resource that offers a variety of activities and ACTions for each chapter, allowing student teachers and supervisors to choose activities that fit the context of the student teacher's placement. This book can be used with A Handbook of Techniques and Strategies for Coaching Student Teachers, 2/e, also written by Pelletier, as companion books either for the teacher working with the student teacher at the school site or the university supervisor. Although each book is designed to stand alone, together these books create a powerful set of tools that will enhance a teacher education program, provide a cohesive program that encourages communication, reflection, and many practical activities. For any student teacher, pre-service or in-service teacher, or educator.
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Based on the best-selling first edition, this greatly expanded and updated version contains forty-seven new activities, more information about how to design and lead retreats, and additional suggestions for how to recover when things go wrong. A CD-ROM allows you to print out chapters for distribution to key leaders, duplicate templates, and produce handouts for specific exercises.
Whether you're planning to lead an offsite retreat for the first time or the ninety-ninth time, this easy-to-use, one-stop resource provides:
- Step-by-step instructions for leading a wide variety of tested exercises.
- Insight into establishing effective working relationships with clients.
- Information on what to include in your retreat designs.
- Suggestions for encouraging participants to speak up and play an active role.
- Tools for managing conflict.
- Guidance on making decisions during a retreat and changing course when necessary.
- Strategies for developing and implementing action plans.
- Tips for follow-up so you can keep the change train on track.
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Customer Reviews:
This book helped me immensely.......2007-09-26
This book is really worth the money. Last year I was asked to faciliate a retreat for a nonprofit organization. I had absolutely no idea what to do or how to start. I researched many books on retreat planning, and Retreats That Work was far and away the most comprehensive and easy to apply. It walks you through interesting exercises that provoke real dialogue and inject energy into the process. I would have been completely lost without this book. The retreat was a complete success and I was asked to repeat the process this year. I recommend this book to novices and professionals alike.
What a great resource!.......2007-09-24
Even though I was trained at a local University in facilitation and have years of experience facilitating meeting and retreats, reading Retreats That Work took my skills to a whole new level.
I've been facilitating retreats of and on for about 18 years as part of my marketing consulting business, and I've always thought I was rather good at it. However, I just facilitated a strategic planning retreat for a professional services firm AFTER reading (in great detail) Retreats That Work, and it was by far the most professional, organized, productive and dynamic retreat I've ever facilitated. The thinking in the book is so very lucid and instructive, that using it as a reference allowed me to cover all of my bases and greatly increase my confidence and creativity.
From here on out, I am going to pursue much more facilitation work, because I feel I understand the process much better than before, and having this book on my desk makes me feel like I have a senior advisor available whenever I need it.
Just to let you know, there are numerous excellent retreat exercises that are categorized to help you choose the ones appropriate to different retreat types, there is a disk with printable resources, and throughout the book, there are numerous referrals to other professional resources that the authors have found useful. I really benefited from the author's thoughts on the consultant/client relationship and tips for managing client personalities and expectations.
If anyone else has ever read a professional resource book that is as good as this one (on almost any topic) I want to hear about it - this one is by far the best one I have ever read.
Retreats that Work: Everything you need to know..........2007-01-12
We design retreats for both large and small groups and needed to pass this knowledge on to others without our background and experience. This book was extremely helpful in providing some fundamentals that we were able to adapt to our clients needs.
A great help.......2007-01-10
I am periodically asked by my coaching clients to support them and their teams by conducting offsites. While I have had a lot of experience participating and doing offsites, this book has introduced me to some additional techniques and activities. I have found the book to be extremely helpful, complete, instructive and have recommended it to others.
Really helpful whether you're new to retreats or a pro.......2006-12-02
After using the first edition (Retreats that Work) for advice and how-to help when I planned my first executive retreat a few years ago, I was sold on the methods the authors describe to make the most of an off-site work session. Alas, I lent my book to a colleague and he passed it on to another. I went to buy another for the retreat I recently planned and was thrilled to find the expanded edition--even better than the first. The CD-ROM is a stroke of genius. Buy this book and you will look forward to planning a successful retreat because you will be so well prepared!
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Since the publication of 'Return on Investment in Training and Performance Improvement Programs,' many individuals have attempted to implement the ROI methodology in their organizations. Having a credible process does not guarantee that an organization will implement the process effectively throughout the various functions and divisions. 'The ROI Fieldbook' will help organizations implement ROI successfully, by providing concrete techniques, tools, strategies, and reproducible items.
Jack Phillips and Patti Phillips and their associates have helped hundreds of organizations and individuals with their ROI workshops. 'The ROI Fieldbook' provides many different strategies for tackling the critical issues of implementation. The authors examine every key barrier to implementation and suggest strategies for overcoming, minimizing, or removing the barriers.
The accompanying CD contains dozens of tools, instruments, and templates aimed at providing helpful resources for the individual or the team responsible for implementing ROI. Case studies from a variety of organizations illustrate the broad range of application and implementation. The CD also includes interactive material such as "Are You Ready for ROI"a self-assessment test. Other material includes templates for data collection, ROI analysis plan, action plan, and a cost summary sheet.
* The first book to provide the basic steps to implementing the ROI process for HR professionals
* Templates and tools allow you to apply ROI to your organization
* Strategies and tools result from the authors' work in over 1,000 organizations implementing the ROI process
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This newly revised volume in the successful Comprehensive Chess Course sharpens and tightens your game through examination and study of the 300 most important chess game positions. The most important and instructive positions over the last 100 years arranged as challenges, with illuminating explanations and solutions. Lev Alburt, Grandmaster of Chess and renowned three-time US chess champion, presents and analyzes the 300 most important game positions an average player should understand and remember to become a chess expert. These most crucial and instructive positions taken from games over the last 100 years are arranged as challenges, with instructive explanations and solutions on facing pages. Besides giving students this essential knowledge, this book also helps them to train their chess abilities and improve their skills steadily and efficiently. These practical exercises, easy to read and to understand, take the reader from beginner to tournament-strength chess player.
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The most important and instructive positions over the last 100 years arranged as challenges, with illuminating explanations and solutions. Lev Alburt, Grandmaster of Chess and renowned three-time US chess champion, presents and analyzes the 300 most important game positions an average player should understand and remember to become a chess expert. These most crucial and instructive positions taken from games over the last 100 years are arranged as challenges, with instructive explanations and solutions on facing pages. Besides giving students this essential knowledge, this book also helps them to train their chess abilities and improve their skills steadily and efficiently. These practical exercises, easy to read and to understand, take the reader from beginner to tournament-strength chess player.
Customer Reviews:
A unique very practical book for the average player.......2007-08-12
Some people don't seem to admire Alburt's works (for moronic reasons IMHO), but I love them because they're easy to follow, well illustrated and highly instructive without being simplistic.
This book is eminently practical. On one page is a group of 4 board positions, each one being a problem for you to figure out. On the facing page are "answers" and their explanations, along with a title that summarizes the principle you're supposed to learn. And the idea is that if you study all 300 positions, you've learned fundamental ideas for ALL aspects of chess (which is the unique aspect of the book, versus a tactical problem collection).
It's a book you can pick up and learn a complete idea in a matter of minutes and put it back down again. And it's nice and compact.
It should be 6 stars, don't be misled by the cover!!!!!!.......2007-07-17
I have brought about 20 to 30 books on tactics, I totally agrees 200% that chess is 99 % tactics and I cannot disagree anymore with the author of rapid chess improvement. But this tactic book is unique, I recieved it today and from 2 p.m. up to 10 p. m. , whenever I have time, I would study it. All the examples are very interesting and instructive. Do not be misled by the picture of the cover that this book is for children, no, it is for intermediate to advanced players. Compared with John Nunn's book " Learn chess tactics ", some of the examples are even more difficult. I can assure you that, after studying all these 300 problems,no matter you solve them all, or part of it, or even none, just memorising all those moifs would make you at least 100 points higher!!!Though I have Lef Alburt's other book, only after readinig this one did I realize why he is one of the most after sought chess teacher! He deserves it!!!!
Very good book for interesting chess positions .......2007-01-15
This book its very good , the positions are well chosen but most of them can be found in other books ,but Its good to have those posisions in one volume . I think it help me to improve my chess level . Good size u can really have it at ur pocket .
Great for Tournaments and Improvement in Pattern Recognition.......2006-10-29
I had the opportunity to preview this book when I got my local public library to order Lev Alburt's complete training series. It was so good as a tournament trainer that I just bought it on Amazon. This book conveys many tactical and endgame concepts in puzzle form, many taken from famous games, such as Lasker's double bishop sacrifice. On the left hand side of the page are four problems, and on the right hand side are the solutions with explanations that vary in degrees of extensiveness. Alburt recommends to try to solve these problems quickly and don't worry about getting them correct, because the value in the book is repeatedly going over the problems until your recognition of the patterns the problems contain is automatic. I followed Alburt's advice and noticed a decent improvement in my tactical recognition when I played in a tournament in Chicago and on line. The beauty of this book is that it is truly a "pocket book" so that I was able to do puzzles on the bus and other places of leisure while sitting. :) My only quip is that the commentary on problems varies from extensive to none at all and I would like to see a categorization of problems. The price is also slightly on the high end (but in my opinion worth it) for the amount of material provided.
The best tactical exercise book available.......2006-05-05
I'm not a big fan of Lev Alburt's other works, but this particular book is a real gem.
The size, layout, and selection of chess problems is the best I've ever seen. The book does not fall apart after a lot uf use either. I sometimes wonder if some of the other tactical exercize books were designed intentionally to self-destruct.
The book is smaller than average, and easy to carry around. The board size displayed and text solutions are larger than in most puzzle books and easy to see/read.
Many of the problems are common themes that occur over and over in actual games.
Not all the problems have a solution. Some are trick questions, where the apparent solution fails because of a hidden resource. This makes you look at each position more critically.
The problems are not arranged in any particular order. Some puzzle book authors seem to think we want a clue to the solution before trying to solve them (i.e. arranging problems by tactical theme). This is not one of those.
There are many practical endgame problems included, such as the Lucena technique and Philidor defense (rook and pawn vs rook drawing method).
The solutions are on the opposite page of the problems. This is very convenient. I don't have to look in the back of the book for the solution, and the solution is not staring me in the face while I'm trying to solve the problem. It's a perfect placement.
The solutions have a verbal explanation and most include the players involved. If the actual player to move missed the combination, that is also mentioned.
Most players will find these problems challenging and the book is suitable for any chess player of any rating. If you find all these problems simple, then I'd guess you already went through the book before. The correct solution to many of these problems were missed by grandmasters in an actual game.
I gave my copy of this book to a friend who really wanted it. Now I have buy it again.
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A Handbook for Training Strategy
Martyn Sloman
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Book Description
When the first edition of Martyn Sloman's Handbook appeared in 1994, it made an immediate impact on the HRD community. Its starting point was the idea that traditional approaches to training in the organization were no longer effective. The Handbook introduced a new model and set out the practical implications. The world of HRD has moved on, and Martyn Sloman has now drastically revised the text to reflect the increased complexity of organizational life and the many recent developments in the field. His aim remains the same: to help readers to develop a framework in which training can be effectively managed and delivered. In Part I of the text the author draws attention to the opportunities created for training by the current emphasis on competition through people. In Part II he poses the question: 'What should training managers be doing to ensure that training in their organization is as good as it can be?' Here he stresses the need to keep training aligned with business objectives, and to encourage line managers to work alongside the human resource professionals. The third and final Part considers the trainer as a strategic facilitator and examines the skills required. Martyn Sloman writes as an experienced training manager and his book is concerned, above all, with implementation. Thus the text is supported by questionnaires, survey instruments and specimen documents. With its combination of thought-provoking argument and practical guidance, the Handbook will continue to serve all those with an interest in organizational
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E-learning--the delivery of training and performance support directly to employees' desktops--is exploding in growth and complexity. The 2002 ASTD E-Learning Handbook gives readers the very juiciest, most practical, most recent articles and reference information from leading experts and gurus. Covering E-Learning best practices and useful reviews of the literature, the book gives guidance on getting better results for dollars committed to E-Learning and provides a directory of contact information for key E-Learning organizations, sources, conference schedules, and more.
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Teaching Tips From Your One-Minute Mentor is a must-have resource, written for new and seasoned teachers. It is filled with essential advice, tested techniques, and reliable methods for achieving classroom success. Designed for the visual learner, all the information is distilled into easily managed lists and illustrated with clever cartoons, diagrams, and thoughtful epigrams. Through its many teacher-friendly illustrations, the book explores common classroom management challenges and provides a wide range of classroom-tested strategy suggestions designed to make classes safe, efficient, and well managed.
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- Winning Strategies- a Winner
- full of dog care facts with humor and common scence , great
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Winning strategies for distance mushers
Joe Runyan
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Customer Reviews:
Winning Strategies- a Winner.......1999-07-08
I wish I had purchased this book instead of some others on mushing I already had. If you are a beginning musher, you will still probably need something like Miki and Julie Collins "Dog Driver", but if you are at all interested in distance mushing (for racing, work, or pleasure), this is a must read. There are some glaring typos and grammatical errors through the text, but I forgive these in favor of the superior content. Also, be prepared for some hyper-competitive threads. Joe didn't get to the top of the sport by waiting for the right opportunity to come by, but rather made his own opportunities and suggests the reader do also. Interspersed with the practical considerations of distance mushing are some anecdotes that Joe uses well to illustrate his points. These are not only entertaining, but enlightening. As far as practical training, feeding, and management advice for distance mushing, this one is hard to beat.
full of dog care facts with humor and common scence , great.......1999-02-28
THIS WINNING IDITAROD CHAMPION has wriiten an excellent overall care book for the working dog. The title does not clue the reader into the entertaining stories that are contained between the cover. I was particularly impressed with the author's great sense of humor and his story-building abilities. Even more impressive is the fact that Runyan's book is Joe's creation and no professional co-authors who might have diluted the real character of the author. It's rather amazing to find a real Will Roger's amoung the ranks of writting mushers. His honest assessment of the sled dog racing scene--how it was and how it has developed into what it is today, can be appreciated by anyone. The "politically correct bug" never bit Joe and for that this reader is grateful. Joe's willingness to call a spade a spade is evident throughout the book. The book is largely on the authors experiences as a dog breeder, trainer, and racer, but a good portion is devoted to his observations as a commentator on the iditarod trail and can be used for any working dogs life. It makes for easy reading as Joe provides valuable information in a very entertaining form.
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This book provides practical solutions and hundreds of tips for the new and experienced trainers facing the challenge of how to help users learn new technology.
Customer Reviews:
Good Book, but Out of Date.......2004-10-18
I wish Elliott Massie had updated this book since writing it in 1995. It is a useful book, but there have been many improvements in technology and I would have liked to have seen his opinion about what works and what does not work in an online setting.
Even for an experienced trainer, this book contained some helpful suggestions.
One of the Best Computer Training Books.......2000-10-29
This is one of my favorite books about computer training (the other is Paul Clothier's "Complete Computer Trainer"). This is a denser read than Mr. Clothier's tome, with more theory and fewer real world examples. If you have to design a computer training program for a single individual, or for hundreds of people - as I have done - then this is one of the must have books. Get this one, and get Mr. Clothier's book, and you'll have all the library you need to design an excellent computer training program.
Book Description
This unique and comprehensive handbook is written for cooperating teachers, mentors, college teacher educators, or anyone within the profession who works with student teachers. It serves as a guide to assist cooperating teachers in supporting both those student teachers who arrive for the teaching experience with natural gifts and abilities, and for those who must be carefully guided to reach their full potential.
This book does not promote one right way of teaching; rather, it encourages the cooperating teacher to recognize diverse approaches. It can be used as a resource by referring to specific chapters that are most useful or of most interest, or it can be followed chapter by chapter.
For supervisors and mentors of student teachers.
Customer Reviews:
Great Resource.......2006-04-29
I am currently in a master's class with 9 other teachers. We are creating a course for teachers who have or will be working with a student teacher. We all LOVED this book. It is not overwhelming, it is user friendly, helpful, and realistic. It is simple to use and organized well! We are using this book as a guideline for our class syllabus. The diversity of the reproducible forms save time and prevent any teacher from re-inventing the wheel. Highly recommended!!!!
Rather basic.......2001-08-18
I was somewhat disappointed in this book. As a supervisor of student teachers I had hoped it would be more thorough and helpful but I found most of the information too basic to be relevant to my situation. It would be most useful for someone who had no experience with student teachers. One nice aspect of the book is that the pages are reproducible and many of them are forms which can be used over and over.
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