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The Mother of God
by Timothy KellerNew York Times bestselling author and pastor Timothy Keller concludes his Encounters with Jesus eBook series with The Mother of God, an exploration of the Annunciation and how Mary's reaction to her blessing can help us grow in our understanding of Christianity. Jesus' mother, Mary, was the first person to learn that he was the Son of God. By examining her response to the angelic announcement, Timothy Keller, pastor of New York's Redeemer Presbyterian Church and New York Times bestselling author of The Reason for God, sheds light on the uniqueness of this central fact of Christianity. He illustrates how deep her doubts were, how helpful her response was to those facing similar doubts, and how Mary in that moment shows us to grow in the grace and knowledge of Jesus Christ.
The Mothers and Daughters of the Bible Speak Workbook: Lessons on Faith from Nine Biblical Families
by Shannon BreamEXPLORE THE INTIMATE CONNECTION BETWEEN FAITH AND FAMILYGod uses mothers and daughters in critical roles throughout the Old and New Testaments. They are often used to change the course of history, but more importantly, these female relationships and roles reveal a deeper depth of God&’s love for and faithfulness to each of us.This workbook is based on the #1 New York Times bestseller, The Mothers and Daughters of the Bible Speak. In these nine lessons, you will consider the parallels between the relationships, experiences, and challenges of women in the Bible as mothers and daughters and your own. You&’ll reflect on how God focused on their faith and trust—and how He is doing the same with you.Each lesson includes four components:REFLECT invites you to read key moments of each woman&’s life in the Bible and connect with her story.CONNECT asks you to consider how God in the Old Testament or Jesus in the New Testament responds to each woman and what this discloses about His character and how He responds to you.REVEAL provides an opportunity to identify how God works through the woman&’s relationship, responses to God, and acts of faith, as well as your similar relationships, responses, and acts of faith.PRAY asks you to prayerfully consider how the woman&’s story and how her relationship ties into the work God is doing in your life right now.BONUS SECTIONS: MIRACLES where you&’ll be asked to consider the phenomenal eye witness accounts experienced by mothers and daughters and how those incredible events continue to impact your life today.Lessons include:Jochebed and MiriamRuth and NaomiElizabeth and MaryRebekahBathshebaMary, Mother of JesusDinahEstherMichal
The Motivated College Graduate: A Job Search Book for Recent College Graduates (Motivated Series #6)
by Brian E. HowardBook Six in Motivated Series by Brian E. Howard.There are over 120 pieces of sage advice quoted throughout the book on how to effectively conduct a job search, write a powerful resume and LinkedIn profile,cover letters, and other communications.The Motivated College Graduate is the most comprehensive job search book written for the recent college graduate. It discusses real life job search issues facing today's college graduate. The book provides unprecedented insight and advice from some of the most credentialed and experienced career coaches and resume writers in the industry. These coaches and resume writers have specialized practices and work with recent college graduates. You will learn how to conduct an effective job search, stand out among your competition, get interviews, and job offers!Go inside the minds of these coaches and resume writers. Learn how they've coached other college graduates to land fulfilling career-level positions. Understand how the resume writers think about keywords, titling, branding, accomplishments, color, design, and a plethora of other resume writing considerations as they create winning resumes.Based on his extensive experience in the job search industry and by tapping into the collective knowledge of career coaches and resume writers who work specifically with college graduates, Brian Howard has written a comprehensive job search book that surpasses all other job search books written for the recent college graduate.
The Motivated School
by Alan Mclean`The book is a pleasure to read and whether the model is adopted in whole or in part, as a lens through which to examine and understand what is going on in a learning community it has much to offer' - Improving Schools `As a head of department in a comprehensive school in an education action zone, this book has made me think about not only the way I relate to the students I work with but also about relationships with the teachers in my department. I therefore warmly recommend to teachers and especially to headteachers and others in positions of leadership in both primary and secondary phases' - Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties `The Motivated School is an important book. It addresses a number of key issues which are central to Scottish educational policy, including Better Behaviour: Better Learning, Inclusion and Raising Attainment. It is also a controversial book, challenging as it does "woolly thinking" on issues such as self-esteem, rewards and motivation to learn' - Scottish Education Review `This book is well written and demonstrates the author's commitment and dedication to an individual's psychological well-being and positive, effective learning environments' - The Psychology of Education Review `The best education books frequently challenge our assumptions. Alan McLean's The Motivated School demonstrates with a kind of forensic exactness, the way we over-emphasize the importance of student's self-esteem. We can't make students motivated: we can only create the right conditions. There is much to admire in this book. It isn't difficult to read, and the format is generous and accessible. I suspect all school leaders will learn something from it' - Geoff Barton, Times Educational Supplement, Friday Magazine Some students do not achieve their full potential, while others of similar ability achieve more than predicted. This book shows how important students' motivational mindsets can be in influencing the way they learn. The author brings together evidence from recent research, shows how successful learning contexts can be created, and provides real-life suggestions for teachers working with disengaged learners. Increasing pressure to meet targets has sent schools down the path of trying to motivate students `from the outside'. By recognizing that genuine motivation comes `from the inside' and that self-motivation needs to be nurtured, this book provides a practical guide to both teacher and student motivation. This book will be of interest to anyone seeking to develop their skills in motivating young people to learn. It will be of particular interest to teachers, educators and management at all levels.
The Motivation Breakthrough: 6 Secrets to Turning On the Tuned-out Child
by Richard LavoieAny child can be motivated to learn. "If he only would apply himself..." "She can do it if she puts her mind to it." "He just doesn't seem to care." "She's just not trying." Motivation is the key to learning. But very few parents and teachers have an effective arsenal of techniques at their disposal. Enter educator and acclaimed author Rick Lavoie, who arms all those who deal with children with proven, effective tools and strategies they can use to encourage any child to learn and achieve success. Lavoie's practical, innovative approach begins with a quiz that helps a parent or teacher identify -- using six different possible models -- a child's motivational style. Is she motivated by power? Does he need prestige? Does praise mean a lot to this child? Does contact with other people inspire this child? Does he like to do projects? Does she enjoy receiving prizes? He then explores each motivational style in depth, presenting proven techniques, strategies, and scripts that can be used in the classroom and at home to break through a child's apathy and discouragement and inspire him to succeed and achieve. Along the way, Lavoie explodes some common myths about motivation: for instance, he demonstrates that rewards, punishment, and competition are not effective motivational tools. He gives specific advice throughout for parents and teachers of children with learning disabilities and provides detailed instructions for how to create a motivated classroom. He outlines the parent's role, the teacher's role, and suggests ways in which they can work together to encourage children to reach their potential. The book's final chapter, "What Does Madison Avenue Know...That Maple Street Elementary School Doesn't," reveals what parents and teachers can learn from some of the most powerful motivators in our children's world: advertisers. With empathy and understanding, backed by decades of experience in the classroom, Rick Lavoie gives parents and teachers the key to unlock any child's enthusiasm and responsiveness. The Motivation Breakthrough will revolutionize the way parents, teachers, and professionals reach out to and motivate all children.
The Motivation and Research Experiences of International Doctoral Students in China: Navigating the PhD Journey (Routledge Studies in Global Student Mobility)
by Kun Dai Kenichi Doi Oluwasegun Adesola OladipoThis book explores the world of international doctoral students in the Chinese higher education system. It delves into their motivations, research experiences, and how they navigate the transitions across borders between their research, personal, and social worlds while pursuing their research in China.The stories, presented in both patterned categories and individual reflexive narratives, illustrate how these students navigate themselves as doctoral researchers in the Chinese context. The stories highlight the opportunities and challenges these international students encounter in their doctoral research in China. While some students progressively become competent, confident, and positive researchers as they smoothly adjust, others struggle with difficult transitions and face challenges in their relationships with Chinese supervisors, peers, and the academic field. Through analyzing international doctoral students' lived experiences and the relevant policies, the authors offer insight into China's position and characteristics in the context of global doctoral education. This book will be of special interest to academics, researchers, student counsellors, university administrators, and policymakers, both in the east and the west. It should also be of interest to international students who are currently pursuing or planning to commence doctoral studies in China.
The Motivation to Actively Care: How You Can Make it Happen
by E. Scott Geller Bob VeazieThis refreshing teaching/learning narrative, based on actual life events and research-supported principles, begins with the lead character (Joanne Cruse) losing her job as the Safety Director for a large manufacturing company. Subsequently, her former psychology professor, Dr. Pitz ("Doc"), invites her to try out for a position as leadership consultant with his firm, Make-A-Difference, Inc. (MAD) that helps companies cultivate a self-motivated and personally-engaged workforce. Throughout her probationary period, Joanne travels with the top consultant at MAD (Mickey Vasquez) to visit a number of organizations struggling with various occupational issues related to the human dynamics of self-motivation (i.e., working to accomplish an organization's milestone from a self-directed or self-accountability mindset). The interpersonal and group interactions Joanne experiences at diverse organizations, accompanied by Mickey’s professional coaching, reveal twenty practical and profound leadership lessons to nurture an actively caring for people work culture in which employees put forth their best efforts on behalf of their company's mission.
The Motley Fool's Guide to Paying for School
by Robert BrokampFeel like you have to go to school to learn how to pay for school? The Motley Fool's Guide to Paying for School is a concise -- but thorough -- introduction to your options and opportunities. Whether you are looking at private elementary or secondary school, an undergraduate degree, or graduate school, the cost of education can be heavier than a sixth-grader's backpack. Learn how to get your fair share of the $95 billion available for financial aid. Find out how -- and where -- to sock away tuition funds. Get the tools to develop your own education action plan that can take you (or your terrifically talented offspring) from private pre-schools through Ph.D. programs. It's more fun than a field trip, and you don't need algebra.
The Motor Impaired Child (Practical Integration In Education Ser.)
by Mrs Myra Tingle Myra TingleThe Motor Impaired Child provides a wealth of information and practical guidance for teachers on both the social and educational implications of impairment. Issues covered include working with parents, physical disability in childhood, and the problems posed by limited mobility. Practical advice is given on the integration of impaired children in the classroom, and the final sections focus on how a motor impaired child may be helped through adolescence towards independent adulthood.
The Mount Rushmore Calamity (Flat Stanley's Worldwide Adventures #1)
by Jeff Brown Macky Pamintuan<P>Saddle up with Flat Stanley <P>Ever since Stanley was flattened by a bulletin board, every trip is an adventure! <P>The whole Lambchop family is off to see Mount Rushmore. But when Flat Stanley and his brother, Arthur, team up with a scrappy cowgirl named Calamity Jasper, their vacation turns into the Wild West experience of a lifetime. <P>Pretty soon, they find themselves in a real tight spot--even for a flat boy like Stanley!
The Mouse, The Mole, and the Magnificient, Moss-Covered House
by Stirling C. Donna WashingtonWritten by Stirling C. and illustrated by Donna Washington, this beautifully illustrated backwards-and-forwards book tells the charming story of how Milly the Mouse and Morton the Mole each live their lives in separate homes within the same magnificent, moss-covered hill. Children can read Milly’s story going forward, and Morton’s story going backward, until the two new friends meet in the middle.
The Movement Environment Rating Scale (MOVERS): Supporting Physical Development and Movement Play in Early Childhood
by Iram Siraj Carol ArcherThis revised new edition of The Movement Environment Rating Scale (MOVERS) offers a brand-new method of measuring the quality of environment and pedagogy in which young children are encouraged to move and be physically active.As physical development is a key component of an educational curriculum, MOVERS offers practitioners the opportunity to accurately assess the quality of a child’s physical experiences, and the environmental and pedagogical quality of these experiences. The MOVERS is placed firmly in the family of CLIQRS – Curriculum, Leadership and Interaction Quality Rating Scales, which includes the Early Childhood Quality Rating Scale – Emergent Curriculum (ECQRS-EC), the Sustained Shared Thinking and Emotional Well-being Scale (SSTEW) and the Pedagogical Leadership in the Early Years (PLEY) scale, all of which have a similar format to previously mentioned scales, making it easy for educators already familiar with these well-established scales to adopt them and adapt them to their own unique settings. MOVERS has four sub-scales:- curriculum, environment and resources for physical development- pedagogy for physical development- supporting physical activity and critical thinking- parents/carers and staff.This book will be an invaluable tool for research, self-evaluation and improvement, audit and regulation. With additional notes derived using the feedback from extensive use of this resource by practitioners in hundreds of settings and early years specialists around the world, it has also been rigorously updated according to latest research, practice and policy.
The Movement and Technology Balance: Classroom Strategies for Student Success
by Traci Lengel Jenna L. EvansEducate students in mind and body—and optimize their success. There is no issue today that gets more attention and incites more debate than children’s use of technology. Technology offers exciting new opportunities and challenges to you and your students. Meanwhile, movement is essential to learning—it increases mental energy and helps brain cells develop. But screen time often comes at the expense of physical activity. How do you choose? You don’t! This blended instructional approach combines kinesthetic teaching methodologies with technological resources to meet content standards, increase achievement and test scores, and enrich the learning process. Here you’ll find A neuroscientific overview of the powerful brain-body connection Step-by-step instructions for balancing movement and the use of technology in the classroom Practical tools, templates, and vignettes to ensure successful implementation Classroom management tactics and useful remedies for common problems Educating the whole child means promoting social, physical, mental, emotional, and cognitive growth. By joining two powerful teaching tools, you’ll prepare students for a bright future—in school and in life—while growing your instructional expertise as well.
The Movement and Technology Balance: Classroom Strategies for Student Success
by Traci Lengel Jenna L. EvansEducate students in mind and body—and optimize their success. There is no issue today that gets more attention and incites more debate than children’s use of technology. Technology offers exciting new opportunities and challenges to you and your students. Meanwhile, movement is essential to learning—it increases mental energy and helps brain cells develop. But screen time often comes at the expense of physical activity. How do you choose? You don’t! This blended instructional approach combines kinesthetic teaching methodologies with technological resources to meet content standards, increase achievement and test scores, and enrich the learning process. Here you’ll find A neuroscientific overview of the powerful brain-body connection Step-by-step instructions for balancing movement and the use of technology in the classroom Practical tools, templates, and vignettes to ensure successful implementation Classroom management tactics and useful remedies for common problems Educating the whole child means promoting social, physical, mental, emotional, and cognitive growth. By joining two powerful teaching tools, you’ll prepare students for a bright future—in school and in life—while growing your instructional expertise as well.
The Movement and the Sixties
by Terry AndersonA searching history of the social activism that defined a generation of young Americans and that called into question the very nature of "America."
The Moviemaking with Your Camera Field Guide: The Essential Guide To Shooting Video With Hdslrs And Digital Cameras (Field Guide Ser.)
by Olivia SperanzaUnknowingly, photographers are already trained in many of the key skills behind great cinematography not least the arts of lighting and composition. Now, with the advent of high-definition video recording capabilities, the cameras have finally caught up. The Moviemaking With Your Camera Field Guide is a pocket-size guide that shows photographers how they can build on what they already know to create truly spectacular movies with their HDSLR camera. It introduces everything from the language of film and basic equipment, to the art of post-production and publishing new work. Includes creating filmmaking project ideas. "
The Moviemaking with Your Camera Field Guide: The Essential Guide to Shooting Video with HDSLRs and Digital Cameras (Field Guide Ser.)
by Olivia SperanzaAny photographer with a modern digital camera can be a moviemaker, and this book shows you all the skills you'll need to shoot everything, from a video-blog to a feature film. Build on your photographic skills - this knowledge predisposes you to create great cinematography - and understand the technical and practical necessities of high-definition video.The Moviemaking With Your Camera Field Guide shows you how you can build on what you already know to create truly spectacular movies with your DSLR in whatever genre you choose. It introduces everything from the language of film and basic equipment you will need, to the art of post-production and publishing your new work.Exclusive video content to accompany this book is available online.
The Moving Image: A User's Manual
by Peter B. KaufmanThe definitive guidebook for using video in modern communication.Video (television, film, the moving image generally) is today&’s most popular information medium. Two-thirds of the world&’s internet traffic is video. Americans get their news and information more often from screens and speakers than through any other means. The Moving Image is the first authoritative account of how we have arrived here, together with the first definitive manual to help writers, educators, and publishers use video more effectively. Drawing on decades as an educator, publisher, and producer, MIT&’s Peter Kaufman presents new tools, best practices, and community resources for integrating film and sound into media that matters.Kaufman describes video&’s vital role in politics, law, education, and entertainment today, only 130 years since the birth of film. He explains how best to produce video, distribute it, clear rights to it, cite it, and, ultimately, archive and preserve it. With detailed guidance on producing and deploying video and sound for publication, finding and using archival video and sound, securing rights and permissions, developing distribution strategies, and addressing questions about citation, preservation, and storage—across the broadest spectrum of platforms, publications, disciplines, and formats—The Moving Image equips readers for the medium&’s continued ascendance in education, publishing, and knowledge dissemination in the decades to come. And, modeled in part on Strunk and White&’s classic, The Elements of Style, it&’s also a highly enjoyable read.
The Multi-Disciplinary Instructional Designer: Integrating Specialized Skills into Design Toolkits
by Chris Gamrat Megan KohlerThe Multi-Disciplinary Instructional Designer explores how the instructional design and development process can be energized and deepened through principles gleaned from other fields of academic study. Despite their shared academic preparation and theoretical foundations, many instructional designers come to the profession also bearing formative knowledge from a diverse range of other subject areas, career tracks, creative practices, or intellectual pursuits. Their training, however, typically does not prepare them to leverage these specializations into the creation of more effective educational experiences and materials. This first-of-its-kind book guides instructional designers to apply key concepts, strategies, and lessons learned from a variety of disciplines – spanning the social sciences, arts and humanities, and STEM – to their practice. Chapters replete with example scenarios, reflection activities, and field-tested strategies provide an expansive yet actionable reframing of the profession’s potential. By seeking inspiration across disciplines and from the world at large, instructional designers will emerge with robust and revitalized toolkits, ready to enrich their approach to teaching and learning.
The Multi-Disciplinary Instructional Designer: Integrating Specialized Skills into Design Toolkits
by Chris Gamrat Megan KohlerThe Multi-Disciplinary Instructional Designer explores how the instructional design and development process can be energized and deepened through principles gleaned from other fields of academic study. Despite their shared academic preparation and theoretical foundations, many instructional designers come to the profession also bearing formative knowledge from a diverse range of other subject areas, career tracks, creative practices, or intellectual pursuits. Their training, however, typically does not prepare them to leverage these specializations into the creation of more effective educational experiences and materials. This first-of-its-kind book guides instructional designers to apply key concepts, strategies, and lessons learned from a variety of disciplines – spanning the social sciences, arts and humanities, and STEM – to their practice. Chapters replete with example scenarios, reflection activities, and field-tested strategies provide an expansive yet actionable reframing of the profession’s potential. By seeking inspiration across disciplines and from the world at large, instructional designers will emerge with robust and revitalized toolkits, ready to enrich their approach to teaching and learning.
The Multi-Talented Mr.Erskine
by Katherine Elise ChaddockThis first biography of John Erskine views him in the larger contexts of the mass culture and expanded commercialism that helped propel his fame. It also relates a life narrative that demonstrates perils of academic celebrity along a conceptual path from public intellectual to pop icon.
The Multicultural Dimension Of The National Curriculum
by Michael J. Reiss Anna S. KingGiven the National Curriculum Council's failure to issue any formal guidance on the subject, multicultural education is becoming increasingly marginalized and left to individual schools. This book provides guidance and advice to schools on issues of racial equality and cultural diversity. It helps teachers, managers and governors implement the requirements and expectations of new educational legislation since the 1988 Education Reform Act and its associated non-statutory advice and guidance.; Within a whole school curriculum framework, chapters provide analysis and practical guidance for each subject area of the National Curriculum. With responsibility for multicultural education resting largely on individual schools, this book sets out to aid schools of all kinds, primary, secondary, grant maintained and LEA, to ensure that issues of racial equality and cultural diversity are addressed throughout the whole curriculum.; It is aimed at teachers at all levels, Heads of Education Departments, Mentors, Governors, Advisers, INSET course tutors, students on PGCE, BEd.MEd. courses and those doing a BA in Education.
The Multigenerational Workplace: Communicate, Collaborate, and Create Community
by Valerie Von Frank Jennifer B. AbramsBridge the generation gap and achieve outstanding results! Age-related misunderstandings don’t arise just between teachers and students—in some schools, staff from four generations might work side by side. In this book, based on a popular workshop, educators can learn how to look past generational filters to improve communication and reap the benefits of collaboration. Focusing on the major contexts of recruitment, coaching, professional learning, and succession planning, the book offers: Tools, checklists, and recommendations for professional learning that meets multigenerational needs Professional development activities that cultivate understanding of generational differences and strengthen workplace culture Real-life stories and case studies
The Multilingual Edge of Education
by Piet Van Avermaet Stef Slembrouck Koen Van Gorp Sven Sierens Katrijn MarynsThis book highlights the need to develop new educational perspectives in which multilingualism is valorised and strategically used in settings and contexts of instruction and learning. Situated in the current educational debate about multilingualism and ethno-linguistic minorities, chapter authors examine the polarised response to heightened linguistic diversity and how the debate is very much premised on binary views of monolingualism and multi- or bilingualism. Contributors argue that the diverse linguistic backgrounds of immigrant and minority students should be considered an asset, instead of being regarded as a barrier to teaching and learning. From its title through to its conclusion, this book underlines the current perspective of multilingualism as possessing cutting edge potential for transforming diverse classrooms into more inhabitable, more equitable and more efficiently organised spaces for learning. This book will be of interest to scholars and researchers in educational linguistics, applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, anthropological linguistics, pedagogics, educational studies, and educational anthropology.
The Multilingual Self: An Inquiry Into Language Learning
by Natasha LvovichThis book relates the author's stories about how languages have integrated her being, and defined and formed her sense of self. The idea of writing autobiographical stories of her multilingual life came from her long-term commitment to foreign language teaching and from a recent, extremely rich and valuable experience teaching English to immigrants in the U.S. While reading and studying various aspects of second-language-related-theory -- linguistics, psychology, anthropology, and sociolinguistics literature -- the author realized how estranged language learners are from all the research, speculations, hypotheses, and achievements of scholarship. A Russian immigrant, the author tells stories to her ESL students to help them understand why and at what price successful language acquisition and acculturation is realistic. Not only can students learn from her stories which encourage discoveries about their own behaviors or problems, but they might want to respond and tell about their own struggles with a foreign language. By becoming writers and interpreters of her text and by making it their own, students can construct their own virtual texts. The stories told throughout are those of a language learner, who is also a linguist and language teacher. As such, they can bridge the gap between second language research and practical teaching and learning. Moreover, this book can help initiate language learners along with their teachers into scholarship. Second language teachers and graduate students preparing for a teaching career might see this book as an illustration and validation of the studied theory and an inner voice of their students at the same time. Multidisciplinary by nature, it can also be used in several college courses such as cultural anthropology, anthropo- and socio-linguistics, sociology, multicultural education, ethnography, bilingualism, and the study of immigrant experience. There are numerous applications of the book in the educational field at various levels of adult learning programs which might be determined by the objectives and by the instructor's vision of it in the curriculum. It is also intended as a message to the general public and to all thinking individuals in search of identity. It will popularize the idea of the importance of foreign language learning, language education, linguistic literacy, and metalinguistic awareness, of illuminating self-discovery through the treasure of multilingual experience, capable of giving birth to a new, sophisticated, spiritually complex and enriched multicultural identity.