Academic Development

Creating Positive Personal Images for Professional Success is a book filled with guidelines for success in both private and public life. It is directed to young adults just entering the work world as well as to people who want to move up in their chosen...

Success in College provides essential information and advice that students need to better learn more and receive higher grades. It offers strategies for test- and note-taking, studying, writing papers, and making class schedules. Peter F. Burns also...

Teaching history should not be reciting an endless list of dead men, entombed between the covers of a textbook. Instead, Breaking Away from the Textbook offers a fascinating journey through world history. Not a comprehensive, theory-heavy guide, this...

"What a gift to education! By practicing the ideas in this book, school counselors everywhere can help create new descriptions and stories that will transform the academic lives and behaviors of their students."-Linda Metcalf, AuthorCounseling Toward...

Here is a doorway through which readers will sneak a peak at the academy-its exterior and interior spaces. There is much within the academic environment that can invite entry or obstruct movement. With this text, doors have been opened for novice...

Creating Positive Images: A Guide for Young People is important for young adults who want to be successful in personal and professional life. Patsy Johnson Hallman explains how the value of being able to project a positive self-image is three-fold...

Adaptation to the United States Academic Culture for International Students provides readers with engaging articles that illuminate key differences between the culture of America and that of foreign nations, especially with regard to the higher education...

The static state of public education continues to plague educational leaders and educators. The acceptance of the status quo of public education is recognized by all of us, and it is time to look at radical change. The college drop-out rate continues to...

Differentiated Academic Advising Strategies for Students Beyond the Margins features the voices of current scholars and practitioners who articulate culturally responsive academic advising strategies that expand traditional academic advising practices...

The static state of public education continues to plague educational leaders and educators. The acceptance of the status quo of public education is recognized by all of us, and it is time to look at radical change. The college drop-out rate continues to...

Differentiated Academic Advising Strategies for Students Beyond the Margins features the voices of current scholars and practitioners who articulate culturally responsive academic advising strategies that expand traditional academic advising practices...

This book focuses on using faculty mentoring to empower doctoral students to successfully complete their doctoral studies. The book is a collection of mentoring chapters showcasing professors and dissertation advisors from the most prestigious...

This book examines the school as an operational organization through the lens of systems thinking. In this way it serves as an invitation to look again at schools and how they operate as learning systems. It begins by showing exactly why our inherited,...

Teachers begin the professional journey with a treasure chest full of experiences, hopes, and expectations gathered from early childhood. Yet the everyday stresses and challenges of 21st century classrooms often leave teachers with neither time nor...

Mentoring is vital to success in both achieving a doctorate and in establishing a productive, satisfying career. Yet, the current apprenticeship model of doctoral education leaves many students feeling mystified, isolated, and overwhelmed. This book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780972039871Author Mia Y MerrittFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint M&M Motivating Inc.Publisher M&M Motivating Inc.Weight(grams) 417gDimensions(mm) 297mm...

ON COURSE: STRATEGIES FOR CREATING SUCCESS IN COLLEGE AND IN LIFE empowers you with the tools you need to take charge of your academic and lifelong success. Now in its 8th edition, ON COURSE presents the choices that successful students make. A...

Are you among the 22 million students now enrolled in college? Or a high school student thinking of joining them shortly? Or perhaps a parent of a college-bound junior or senior? Then this book is just for you. Written by college professors and...

Even high-performing students sometimes need assistance to transform their high school achievement into a higher education outcome that matches their potential, especially when those students come from vulnerable backgrounds. Without intervention, many...

Raise the academic bar for your students and watch their confidence and student success skills increase. STUDENT SUCCESS IN COLLEGE: DOING WHAT WORKS! offers an accessible and relevant way for students to move beyond opinions and advice about how to...

This manual provides a framework to strategically think about and practice collaboration with others within and outside various disciplines. Aware of the different approaches in accordance with discipline, gender, and career goals, through case studies...

Do you have a great teaching idea but no way to pay for it? No problem! A successful grant proposal can be the answer. Get Money for Your Classroom guides you through each step of the grant-writing process, answering common questions and providing...

Note: This is the bound book only and does not include access to MyLab (TM) Counseling with Pearson eText. To order MyLab Counseling with Pearson eText packaged with the bound book, use ISBN 0134055667. The most readable, practical, comprehensive...

A best-selling text rich in case studies that reflects on the unique complexities of marriage, couples, and family counseling. Now updated to reflect the new Ethical Code - An examination of the 2012 Code of Ethics of the American Association for...

Integrative Assessment for Counselors presents valuable assessment information and guidance which emerging helping professionals, students, and those preparing for licensure can apply to various mental health, school, community, and organizational...

How can an understanding of adolescent development inform strategies and practices for supporting first-generation college goers? In Ready, Willing, and Able, Mandy Savitz-Romer and Suzanne Bouffard focus on the developmental tasks and competencies that...

Meaningful learning aids and real-life scenarios help students learn to become reflective practitioners.Counseling Today: Foundations of Professional Identity does more than overview professional practice competencies-it actively engages students using...

GUIDING YOUNG CHILDREN, Ninth Edition, is written for early childhood educators and others responsible for working with and guiding young children in daily activities. The ninth edition of this popular book takes a developmental approach--stressing the...

For courses in Learning Frameworks (such as Applied Cognitive and Behavioral Psychology), Effective Learning, Learning to Learn, and Student Success.Academic Transformation uses the latest neurobiological research to help students master both cognitive...

The Academic Job Search Handbook is the comprehensive guide to finding a faculty position in any discipline. Building on the groundbreaking success and unique offerings of earlier volumes, the fifth edition presents insightful new content on aspects of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739609740Author Anne-Wil HarzingFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Tarma Software Research LtdPublisher Tarma Software Research LtdWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989176316Author Julianne MurphyFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Julianne MurphyPublisher Julianne MurphyWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

This timely new book is based on the precepts of the Quality Assurance Agency's recent Code of Practice for the management of Postgraduate Research Programmes. It presents practical information on the QAA Code of Practice, to serve both as a ready...

Revised full-color edition of a popular how-to guide offers practical, humorous help for kids who want to manage their tasks, time, and stuff. In the quest for school success not to mention a happy home life kids have a lot to juggle: schoolwork,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647801359Author John R TorranceFormat HardbackPage Count 104Imprint High Performance MediaPublisher High Performance MediaWeight(grams)...

There are an increasing number of children in our schools who are classed as 'educationally difficult', often due to so-called behavioural disorders. Henning Koehler argues that societal labelling of this kind is both unfair and unhelpful for children...

#1 Best Seller in College Guides College Bound?The College Bound Organizer is your step-by-step comprehensive guide to organize every step of the college application process from college search through college admission. College admissions is tougher...

'What a gift to education! By practicing the ideas in this book, school counsellors everywhere can help create new descriptions and stories that will transform the academic lives and behaviours of their students' - Linda Metcalf, Author of Counseling...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739453831Author Anne-Wil HarzingFormat PaperbackPage Count 375Imprint Tarma Software Research LtdPublisher Tarma Software Research Ltd

For students who need to develop the study skills required to successfully complete their college education--whether they attend a two- or four-year college or they are adult learners--ESSENTIAL STUDY SKILLS, 8th Edition, is their guide to success...