Engaging Children's Minds

Engaging Children's Minds
Author: Lilian Gonshaw Katz
Publisher: Praeger
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000
Genre: Early childhood education
ISBN: 9781567505016

This new edition incorporates many insights and strategies the authors have learned while working extensively with teachers to implement the project approach. Since the popular first edition was published in 1989, the authors have continued to help teachers around the world understand the benefits of this approach. Katz and Chard discuss in great detail the philosophical, theoretical, and research bases of project work. The typical phases are presented and detailed suggestions for implementing each one are described. Using specific examples, this book clarifies and articulates the process and benefits of the project approach. These specific examples outline how children's intellectual development is enhanced. Years of working with teachers and young children from preschool to primary age provide the authors with first hand experience for employing the project approach. Helpful guidelines will aid teachers in working with this approach comfortably in order to gain the interset of children and in order for those to grow and florish mentally.

Maritimes Phase II Project

Maritimes Phase II Project
Author: United States. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Office of Pipeline Regulation
Publisher:
Total Pages: 880
Release: 1998
Genre: Environmental impact statements
ISBN:

Pa Mong, Phase II

Pa Mong, Phase II
Author: United States. Bureau of Reclamation
Publisher:
Total Pages: 310
Release: 1972
Genre: Mekong River Valley
ISBN:

HBR Guide to Project Management (HBR Guide Series)

HBR Guide to Project Management (HBR Guide Series)
Author: Harvard Business Review
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2013-01-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1422187314

MEET YOUR GOALS—ON TIME AND ON BUDGET. How do you rein in the scope of your project when you’ve got a group of demanding stakeholders breathing down your neck? And map out a schedule everyone can stick to? And motivate team members who have competing demands on their time and attention? Whether you’re managing your first project or just tired of improvising, this guide will give you the tools and confidence you need to define smart goals, meet them, and capture lessons learned so future projects go even more smoothly. The HBR Guide to Project Management will help you: Build a strong, focused team Break major objectives into manageable tasks Create a schedule that keeps all the moving parts under control Monitor progress toward your goals Manage stakeholders’ expectations Wrap up your project and gauge its success

The Geography of Small Firm Innovation

The Geography of Small Firm Innovation
Author: Grant Black
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2006-03-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0306487454

It has long been recognized that advances in science contribute to economic growth. While it is one thing to argue that such a relationship exists, it is quite another to establish the extent to which knowledge spills over within and between sectors of the economy. Such a research agenda faces numerous challenges. Not only must one seek measures of inputs, but a measure of output is needed as well to estimate the knowledge production function. The identification of such a measure was a compelling goal for Zvi Griliches, if not the holy grail: “The dream of getting hold of an output indicator of inventive activity is one of the strong motivating forces for economic research in this area.” (Griliches 1990, p. 1669). Jaffe (1989) made a significant contribution to estimating the knowledge production function when he established a relationship between patent activity and R&D activity at the state level. Feldman and coauthors (1994a, 1994b) added considerably to this line of research, focusing on innovation counts as the dependent variable instead of patent counts. This work was particularly important given that many innovations are never patented. Feldman’s work also differentiated by firm size and showed that knowledge spillovers from universities play a key role as sources of knowledge for small firms.