Learn to Fit for any Body

Posted on January 6, 2020 by Holly Dameron

The ultimate reference for fitting test garments and transferring accurate adjustments to patterns. No matter what size or shape you are, wearing garments that fit perfectly makes you look and feel better. Rather than making commonly accepted changes to a commercial pattern, the method presented in this guide focuses on the way a test garment fits the body. The fabric is manipulated to improve the fit, and then those specific changes are made to the pattern. This method is not a quick one, but the result—patterns that fit perfectly—is well worth the time and effort.

You’ll learn:

- - the importance of a fitting axis and how to use it during a fitting
  - how to recognize fitting issues, such as draglines and folds
  - how to manipulate fabric to solve common and unusual fitting problems
  - how to transfer the fitting changes to your pattern easily
  - basic patternmaking skills to ensure accurate alterations

Improve Student Behavior and Achievement

Posted on January 6, 2020 by Holly Dameron

In Designing Effective Classroom Management, Jason E. Harlacher gives teachers and school administrators a research-based look at instructional strategies that can improve student behaviour and achievement in the classroom. Harlacher presents a step-by-step, practical guide to proactive classroom management, specifying five components to help enhance student achievement and decrease classroom problems. Each chapter details a different necessary component of the proactive approach to classroom management.

Part of The Classroom Strategies Series, this clear, highly practical guide follows the series format, first summarizing key research and then translating it into recommendations for classroom practices.

First Textbook on OT Doctorate Capstone

Posted on January 6, 2020 by Holly Dameron

The purpose of The Entry Level Occupational Therapy Doctorate Capstone is to provide a step-by-step guide for the development, planning, implementation, and dissemination of the entry-level occupational therapy doctoral capstone experience and project.

The first entry-level occupational therapy doctorate program was established in 1999, but even now there is a scarcity of occupational therapy resources to guide faculty, prepare students, and socialize mentors to the capstone experience and project. Each chapter provides sample resources and useful documents appropriate for use with occupational therapy doctoral students, faculty, capstone coordinators, and site mentors.

Ethical Dilemmas in the Modern Era

Posted on January 6, 2020 by Holly Dameron

In the modern era, each new innovation poses its own special ethical dilemma. How can human society adapt to these new forms of expression, commerce, government, citizenship, and learning while holding onto its ethical and moral principles?

The Changing Scope of Technoethics in Contemporary Society is a critical scholarly resource that examines the existing intellectual platform within the field of technoethics. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as ethical perspectives on internet safety, technoscience, and ethical hacking communication, this book is geared towards academicians, researchers, and students seeking current research on domains of technoethics.

The Social-Emotional Learning Approach Children Deserve

Posted on January 6, 2020 by Holly Dameron

“I’ll show you detailed strategies that prevent and minimize difficulties with students, so you can focus on constructive action that will have a lasting, positive impact.” Gianna Cassetta

Positive, supportive relationships with children help them develop socially and emotionally and helps you to effectively manage your classroom, Gianna Cassetta states. Her approach creates a positive environment that can actually be planned, taught, and supported from the first day of school—or anytime.

Classroom Management Matters shifts you away from draining rewards-and-consequences systems. Instead of tips and techniques for controlling the uncontrollable, Gianna presents a plan for explicitly teaching children how to be effective learners and accountable members of the classroom.

With reflection questions, classroom examples, and summaries of supporting studies from researcher Brook Sawyer, Classroom Management Matters helps you be a learning leader in the classroom instead of an authority.

Now in its 7th Edition

Posted on January 6, 2020 by Holly Dameron

This reputable textbook is an ideal introduction to the study of human movement and an excellent reference encouraging and directing further study. For the first time, there is a chapter dedicated to measuring and understanding physical activity, recognizing the importance of this area to many health and sports professionals. More time is spent explaining the basic principles of biomechanics and the way they can be used to improve practice, including tissue mechanics and movement analysis techniques.

An Introduction to Human Movement and Biomechanics is the perfect guide for students and professionals all around the world to consolidate learning and apply to real clinical/sports situation. Information is given in a clear and accessible way, with case studies, illustrations, text boxes and practical examples.

Learning and Growth of Students Themselves

Posted on January 6, 2020 by Holly Dameron

Teacher research is an extension of good teaching, observing students closely, analyzing their needs, and adjusting the curriculum to fit the needs of all. In this completely updated second edition of their definitive work, Ruth Shagoury and Brenda Miller Power present a framework for teacher research along with an extensive collection of narratives from teachers engaged in the process of designing and carrying out research projects to inform their instruction.

This edition includes a greater variety of short contributions from a wide range of teacher-researchers—novices and veterans from all backgrounds and parts of the country—who speak to the growing diversity in today’s classrooms. Threaded throughout the chapters and narratives is a discussion of the emergence of digital tools and their effect on both teaching and the research process, along with an expanded number of reacher designs.

Living the Questions: A Guide for Teacher-Researchers will take you step-by-step through the process of designing, implementing, and publishing your research. Along the way, it will introduce you to dozens of kindred spirits who are finding a new passion for teaching by “living the questions” every day in their classrooms. You will be reminded of why you became a teacher yourself.

A Theatre Guide from First Meeting to Final Performance

Posted on January 6, 2020 by Holly Dameron

The Stage Manager’s Toolkit provides a comprehensive account of the role of the stage manager for live theatre with a focus on both written and verbal communication best practices. The book outlines the duties of the stage manager and assistant stage manager throughout a production, discussing not only what to do but why. The book identifies communication objectives for each phase of production, paperwork to be created, and the necessary questions to be answered in order to ensure success.

New features to this edition include:

- - updated paperwork samples;
  - expanded discussion of verbal and nonverbal communication practices;
  - additional information on digital communication tools
  - further detail on the role of the ASM;
  - a new chapter on stage management training.

Developing Mathematical Practices Grades 3-10

Posted on January 6, 2020 by Holly Dameron

Making Number Talks Matter is about the myriad decisions facing teachers as they make this fifteen-minute daily routine a vibrant and vital part of their mathematics instruction. Throughout the book, Cathy Humphreys and Ruth Parker offer practical ideas for using Number Talks to help students learn to reason numerically and build a solid foundation for the study of mathematics. This book will be an invaluable resource if you are already using Number Talks or not; whether you are an elementary, middle school, high school, or college teacher; or even if you are a parent wanting to support your child with mathematics.

Using insight gained from many years of doing Number Talks with students of all ages, Cathy and Ruth address questions to ask during Number Talks, teacher moves that turn the thinking over to students, the mathematics behind the various strategies, and ways to overcome bumps in the road. If you’ve been looking for ways to transform your mathematics classroom—to bring sense-making and divergent thinking to the foreground, to bring the Standards for Mathematical Practice to life, and to bring joy back into your instruction—this book if for you.

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Learn to Fit for any Body

Improve Student Behavior and Achievement

First Textbook on OT Doctorate Capstone

Ethical Dilemmas in the Modern Era

The Social-Emotional Learning Approach Children Deserve

Now in its 7th Edition

Learning and Growth of Students Themselves

A Theatre Guide from First Meeting to Final Performance

Developing Mathematical Practices Grades 3-10