Do you wish that teaching the children in your classroom would be easier, organized and more enjoyable?
If your answer is yes, then read on. Help is on the way for you!

It's so easy to choose one or more of the strategies in this book and plug them into your existing classroom management plan.

LEARN SIMPLY & EASILY

* How to teach children to solve their own problems.
* How to quieten a noisy class.
* How to help students assess and modify their own behavior.
* How to motivate your students with the money game. It's fun!
* How to use praise to get cooperation.
* How to improve student / teacher relationships.
* How to control stress.
* How to report and document discipline problems as they occur.
* How to use the 10 step conferencing strategy to change behavior.
* How to protect the socially rejected child.
* How to use the behavior modification tracking sheet.
* How to be consistent so your discipline plan works.

There are many more great classroom and whole school strategies to make your teaching more enjoyable.

Reveals the phonic program by which preschoolers as young as two begin reading at the Sidney Ledson Institute for Intellectual Advancement (see www.sidneyledsoninstitute.com). This light-hearted, yet scientifically advanced, method permits parents, schoolteachers and even babysitters to quickly teach children of all ages to read.

Reveals the phonic program by which preschoolers as young as two begin reading at the Sidney Ledson Institute for Intellectual Advancement (see www.sidneyledsoninstitute.com). This light-hearted, yet scientifically advanced, method permits parents, schoolteachers and even babysitters to quickly teach children of all ages to read.

This book is a story of how two teachers gave twenty students recognition for being the cause of their learning, for making the choice to learn for themselves, for being independent, capable, responsible, and powerful. It is a day-by-day description of a revolutionary five-day orientation that happened each year at the Mobile Open Classroom (MOBOC) in Los Angeles from 1971 to 1983. It is a true story of a real school (not a technical lesson plan), which (1) demonstrates timeless MOBOC concepts in action, (2) educates the reader in respectful and motivating behaviors toward middle schoolers, and (3) creates both a longing for this kind of success with teens and a sense of urgency for educational reform. It is a book for parents, educators, and activists, and extraordinarily relevant to public education today.

The story opens with Chris, a student who has been kicked out of five schools, and it follows him as he is transformed by being given his personal power to learn. Like most students, those in this story believed that learning was demanded by somone else - a parent, a teacher, or some other external authority. They were not "learning for themselves," but rather for those others or for the grades. They had lost their identity as self-motivated learners, and school had become impersonal, a place where teachers didn't get to know them as individuals. MOBOC changed all that and this book tells us how.

At the end of each year MOBOC students were tested on the same battery of tests used by schools across Los Angeles, and they met or exceeded the highest scores of all other schools, dispelling the fear that such a radical departure from traditional schooling and teaching will result in irresponsible behavior and low grades. Thes kids started out feeling rejected by the system and finished as "winners". Letters from former students (included in the appendix) who are now adults attest to the life-changing experience of MOBOC. Woven throughout the story are the creative writings, social action projects, performances, and personal insights developed with great personal pride by the students.

Open to all, this small private school was able to reach students who were intellectually and culturally gifted as well as those academically and socially troubled. MOBOC found that both groups needed help. Closed by its teachers in 1983, MOBOC's story has never been tod - until now. In this book, Craig McEwen, MOBOC's head teacher and long time director, lays out the secrets of his pedagogic techniques. In an easy to read series of stories, he reveals how MOBOC got its students to take on responsibility for their own education while not falling into the "anything goes" pitfalls of free choice schools.

In 1980, Buckminster Fuller praised MOBOC as being "twenty years ahead of its time." This book will help prove that its time has come.

E-learning encompasses many things to many people. Elliot Massie, a leading e-learning guru, states that "Online learning is not about taking a course and putting it on desktop. It encompasses "Combination of learning services and technology to provide high value integrated learning anytime and anyplace".

Information technology plays the pivotal role of making resources more malleable and reusable, linking instructors and learners frequently and intensely, while adjusting to their requirements in novel ways, and compensating for limitations imposed by time and geography. Ultimately information technology solutions resulting from increased technology accessibility must foster a demand-oriented market for instruction.

GOLEª aims to create a virtual learning simulator that is capable of customizing the pedagogy to the learners learning style. To properly design learn by doing scenarios, the learning environment must balance the learning objectives with authenticity. The key is to build a realistic environment which is complex enough to promote expectation failure and robust enough to support the learner at that point. Two of the major learning objectives for a goal oriented learning environment are the application of facts and building specific skills.

The purpose of this research was to design, develop, implement and assess a Goal Oriented Learning Environment (GOLE) into the Civil and Environmental Engineering curriculum at Lehigh University. Also to design, develop, implement, and assess Internet-based instructional systems into the CEE curriculum. To achieve these objectives, a GOLE was implemented into two courses that were used as case studies in this research. These case studies describe the instructional design method utilized and the assessment involved to evaluate the courses. The instructional design method utilized nine steps: Discuss, Determine, Decide, Design, Develop, Implement, Assessment, Evaluation and Evolve. The designing of GOLE focused on: content, delivery platform, character development and story line.

In order to assess and evaluate the GOLE, a series of five evaluations were created in order perform the analysis: skill matrix, course, performance, website evaluations and the DISC profile. The data was then analyzed to determine what parts of the course were effective. Based on the assessment results, it is evident that the students fulfilled the learning objectives in achieving the skills needed to solve the problem. The implemented GOLE and the Internet support system were highly effective tools in a university environment.

Babysitting and All That saw its first light as a humorous account of the bane of young females in high school, namely, babysitting.

However, the demands of Olivia's academic career postponed it to more than ten years after she left school, and when the father-daughter team eventually got around to writing the book, after many years of study in various fields, it developed into a work of much wider scope.

The book embraces recent studies regarding the mental capacity of babies at birth, the profound effects the wonder of new life has on the very new parents, the selection of features and traits in primates and hominids such as dimorphism and grooming behaviour, and the role of various hormones in the procreation cycle. Indeed, through her studies in these fields Olivia unravelled the biological basis of love and romance.

Fresh and provocative views are offered of the procreation cycle and the role procreation has always played in shaping the vagaries of the malleable human psyche. Special attention is also given to the desperate but misguided attempts of do-gooders throughout known history to undo and disparage many of the more meaningful consequences of the work of Mother Nature on human development and human happiness.

The humorous writing style, in addition to the witty and clear expositions, marks the book as a groundbreaking work in the popular science genre.

Knee-jerk reactions to a book of this sort should be expected from those who regard themselves well versed in principles of pious doctrine - if not in the basics of sound reasoning - and who thus feel severely threatened by the concept of free expression of thought. However, to thinking people the book concludes with a message as well as a challenge.