Skill-Building Journal

Skill-Building Journal
Author: Derry Gosselin Koralek
Publisher: Teaching Strategies
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2005-01-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781879537507

The Skill Building Journal: Caring for Infants & Toddlers is the most comprehensive training program available to help teachers develop the skills and knowledge necessary to obtain a CDA credential. In this first new edition since 1991, the content from all 13 modules is now in the main text, while all of the self-assessments and learning activity forms are in the accompanying Skill-Building Journal. Based on the training program Teaching Strategies developed for the United States military, The Skill Building Journal: Caring for Infants & Toddlers is organized into modules that can be used for individualized staff development, a college course, or ongoing workshops. The Skill-Building Journal includes learning activities that help build skills and knowledge as staff work with children every day. The personal, friendly tone and user-friendly format make Caring for Infants & Toddlers practical and easy to use.

Entrepreneurship Skill Building

Entrepreneurship Skill Building
Author: Thomas S. Lyons
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2021-07-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3030779203

This book explores the sea change in thinking about how to educate students of entrepreneurship, uses extant theory to develop a conceptual model of entrepreneurship skill development, describes an assessment tool for operationalizing this model, discusses how this tool can be utilized to develop entrepreneurship skills, and offers examples from the application of our approach in educational settings. It concludes with implications of this methodology for furthering both entrepreneurship education and the research that shapes it. The authors present an entrepreneurship skills assessment tool, which uses a theory of measurement that breaks from psychometrics (predictive approaches) and honors the volatility and uncertainty that characterizes entrepreneurship. This assessment tool can be used to integrate curriculum and co-curricular activities to ensure skill development. Focusing on a methodology for the measurement and development of entrepreneurship skills, this book will serve as a valuable resource to researchers and students alike.

The Pfeiffer Book of Successful Communication Skill-Building Tools

The Pfeiffer Book of Successful Communication Skill-Building Tools
Author: Jack Gordon
Publisher: Pfeiffer
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007-10-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780470181805

The Pfeiffer Book of Successful Interpersonal Communication Tools is organized into three sections: Presentations and Discussions (articles); Experiential Learning Activities; and Inventories, Questionnaires, and Surveys. These selections represent the all-time best the Pfeiffer Annuals and Handbooks have to offer on the topic. The Pfeiffer Book of Successful Interpersonal Communication Tools · Provides articles that offer quick, solid, and insightful grounding in a classic theme of communication-skills training · Contains complete, ready-made training exercises designed to meet a variety of needs for different audiences · Offers inventories that include questionnaires and instruments that help trainees understand their own communication habits, measure the health of actual relationships, and shed light on communication practices within the organization

Research Methods For Business

Research Methods For Business
Author: Roger Bougie
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2019-08-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1119561221

Research Methods For Business, 8th Edition explains the principles and practices of using a systematic, organized method for solving problematic issues in business organizations. Designed to help students view research from the perspective of management, this popular textbook guides students through the entire business research process. Organized into six main themes—Introduction, Defining the Management and the Research Problem, Theory, Collecting Information, Drawing Conclusions, and Writing and Presenting the Research Report—the text enables students to develop the skills and knowledge required to successfully create, conduct, and analyze a research project. Now in its eighth edition, this popular textbook has been thoroughly updated to incorporate substantial new and expanded content, and reflect current research methods and practices. The text uses a unique blended learning approach, allowing instructors the flexibility to custom-tailor their courses to fit their specific needs. This innovative approach combines the face-to-face classroom methods of the instructor with internet-based activities that enable students to study what they want, when they want, at their own pace.

Putting Skill to Work

Putting Skill to Work
Author: Nichola Lowe
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2021-03-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0262361981

An argument for reimagining skill in a way that can extend economic opportunity to workers at the bottom of the labor market. America has a jobs problem--not enough well-paying jobs to go around and not enough clear pathways leading to them. Skill development is critical for addressing this employment crisis, but there are many unresolved questions about who has skill, how it is attained, and whose responsibility it is to build skills over time. In this book, Nichola Lowe tells the stories of pioneering workforce intermediaries--nonprofits, unions, community colleges--that harness this ambiguity around skill to extend economic opportunity to workers at the bottom of the labor market.

Woodworking 101

Woodworking 101
Author: Aimé Ontario Fraser
Publisher: Taunton Press
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2012
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1600853684

"A comprehensive, highly visual self-teaching guide that will help any beginner become a confident woodworker in no time"--

Organizational Behavior

Organizational Behavior
Author: Christopher P. Neck
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 946
Release: 2019-01-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1544317522

Why does organizational behavior matter—isn’t it just common sense? Organizational Behavior: A Skill-Building Approach helps students answer this question by providing insight into OB concepts and processes through an interactive skill-building approach. Translating the latest research into practical applications, authors Christopher P. Neck, Jeffery D. Houghton, and Emma L. Murray unpack how managers can develop essential skills to unleash the potential of their employees. The text examines how individual characteristics, group dynamics, and organizational factors affect performance, motivation, and job satisfaction, providing students with a holistic understanding of OB. Packed with critical thinking opportunities, experiential exercises, and self-assessments, the new Second Edition provides students with a fun, hands-on introduction to the fascinating world of OB. This title is accompanied by a complete teaching and learning package.

Farm Anatomy

Farm Anatomy
Author: Julia Rothman
Publisher: Storey Publishing
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2011-10-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1603429816

Learn the difference between a farrow and a barrow, and what distinguishes a weanling from a yearling. Country and city mice alike will delight in Julia Rothman’s charming illustrated guide to the curious parts and pieces of rural living. Dissecting everything from the shapes of squash varieties to how a barn is constructed and what makes up a beehive to crop rotation patterns, Rothman gives a richly entertaining tour of the quirky details of country life.

Student-Created Media

Student-Created Media
Author: Scott Spicer
Publisher: ALA Editions
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2022-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9780838948873

This book will guide librarians, learning technologists, and their faculty partners in designing assignments for authentic learning and supporting students in multimedia production.

21st Century Skills Development Through Inquiry-Based Learning

21st Century Skills Development Through Inquiry-Based Learning
Author: Samuel Kai Wah Chu
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2018-04-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9789811096266

This book presents innovative instructional interventions designed to support inquiry project-based learning as an approach to equip students with 21st century skills. Instructional techniques include collaborative team-based teaching, social constructivist game design and game play, and productive uses of social media such as wikis and other online communication affordances. The book will be of interest to researchers seeking a summary of recent empirical studies in the inquiry project-based learning domain that employ new technologies as constructive media for student synthesis and creation. The book also bridges the gap between empirical works and a range of national- and international-level educational standards frameworks such as the P21, the OECD framework, AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner, and the Common Core State Standards in the US. Of particular interest to education practitioners, the book offers detailed descriptions of inquiry project-based learning interventions that can be directly reproduced in today's schools. Further, the book provides research-driven guidelines for the evaluation of student inquiry project-based learning. Lastly, it offers education policymakers insight into establishing anchors and spaces for applying inquiry project-based learning opportunities for youth today in the context of existing and current education reform efforts. The aim of this book is to support education leaders', practitioners' and researchers' efforts in advancing inspiring and motivating student learning through transformative social constructivist inquiry-based knowledge-building with information technologies. We propose that preparing students with inquiry mindsets and dispositions can promote greater agency, critical thinking and resourcefulness, qualities needed for addressing the complex societal challenges they may face.