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Town Mouse and Country Mouse: Independent Reading Turquoise 7 (Reading Champion #617)
by Penny DolanWhen Town Mouse visits his cousin in the countryside, he far prefers his comfortable life in town ...This story is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with Dr Sue Bodman and Glen Franklin of UCL Institute of Education (IOE)Reading Champion offers independent reading books for children to practise and reinforce their developing reading skills.Fantastic stories are accompanied by engaging artwork and a reading activity. Each book has been carefully graded so that it can be matched to a child's reading ability, encouraging reading for pleasure.
Toxic Education: How Schools Are Damaging Young People’s Health and Wellbeing and How We Can Fix Them
by Chris BonellYoung people’s mental health is in crisis, with many – especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds – struggling academically and with the later transition to employment. Feeling excluded, many young people turn to harmful behaviours, such as vaping and alcohol use, for escape and a sense of belonging. Schools are increasingly expected to address these issues but often lack the time and expertise to do so effectively. Based on the author’s research, including the successful ‘Learning Together’ trial – an innovative programme that improved mental health, reduced bullying and raised academic achievement – this book provides a blueprint for a fundamental shift in how schools support young people. Essential reading for teachers, public health workers and policy makers tackling the health and educational inequalities affecting young people today.
Toxic Schools: High-Poverty Education in New York and Amsterdam
by Bowen PaulleViolent urban schools loom large in our culture: for decades they have served as the centerpieces of political campaigns and as window dressing for brutal television shows and movies. Yet unequal access to quality schools remains the single greatest failing of our society--and one of the most hotly debated issues of our time. Of all the usual words used to describe non-selective city schools--segregated, unequal, violent--none comes close to characterizing their systemic dysfunction in high-poverty neighborhoods. The most accurate word is toxic. When Bowen Paulle speaks of toxicity, he speaks of educational worlds dominated by intimidation and anxiety, by ambivalence, degradation, and shame. Based on six years of teaching and research in the South Bronx and in Southeast Amsterdam, Toxic Schools is the first fully participatory ethnographic study of its kind and a searing examination of daily life in two radically different settings. What these schools have in common, however, are not the predictable ideas about race and educational achievement but the tragically similar habituated stress responses of students forced to endure the experience of constant vulnerability. From both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, Paulle paints an intimate portrait of how students and teachers actually cope, in real time, with the chronic stress, peer group dynamics, and subtle power politics of urban educational spaces in the perpetual shadow of aggression.
Toxic Schools: How to avoid them & how to leave them
by Ross Morrison McGill Helen WoodleyHelen Woodley's critical important action research in a growing field of education is an investigation into the effect of working on a toxic schools on teacher mental health and wellbeing. Four teachers share their experiences of working in toxic schools across a variety of settings. And strategies for coping in such schools are shared including a wider look at how school culture can be developed to better support staff.
Toxic Schools: How to avoid them & how to leave them
by Ross Morrison McGill Helen WoodleyHelen Woodley's critical important action research in a growing field of education is an investigation into the effect of working on a toxic schools on teacher mental health and wellbeing. Four teachers share their experiences of working in toxic schools across a variety of settings. And strategies for coping in such schools are shared including a wider look at how school culture can be developed to better support staff.
Toxisch
by Rainer Biesinger Max KluteDurch den Konsum von Rauschdrogen ballern sich tagtäglich Millionen von Menschen aus ihrer subjektiv gefühlten Realität heraus. Angefangen bei Alkohol und Nikotin haben wir es heute mit einem verantwortungslosen, unkultivierten und gefährlichen Konsumverhalten zu tun. Dieses Buch stellt die durchaus erlaubte und provokative Frage, ob die derzeitige Drogenpolitik noch „up to date“ ist, bzw. wo sie durch ihre restriktive Herangehensweise nicht völlig versagt hat!? Wo liegen die Ursachen dieses Konsumverhaltens und wie ist es um einen liberalisierten und aufgeklärten Umgang mit gewissen Substanzen bestimmt? Mit diesem mutigen und investigativen Werk nehmen die beiden Autoren eine authentische Perspektive zum Thema Rauschdrogen in Deutschland ein. Und sie wissen, wovon sie reden! Ein Buch für User, Neugierige, Eltern, Pädagogen, Therapeuten, Ärzte, Sozialarbeiter, Interessierte der Drogenverbotsdebatte und alle, denen etwas daran liegt, dass die Gesellschaft in Sachen Suchtprävention und Selbstbestimmungsrecht von Konsumenten endlich wach wird und handelt.Inklusive Videointerviews mit den Autoren und Geleitworte von Kriminalbiologe Dr. Mark Benecke, Jugendrichter Andreas Müller und dem Grimme-Preisträger $ick.
Toy Box Leadership: Leadership Lessons from the Toys You Loved as a Child
by Ron Hunter Jr. Michael E. WaddellReach back into your childhood and recapture the leadership principles you learned from your favorite toys. Authors Ron Hunter and Michael E. Waddell take a nostalgic look back into their childhood toy boxes to revisit the valuable leadership and life lessons we all unintentionally learned during playtime. While these lessons started in fun, as adults, we&’ve complicated the principles of leadership - cluttering them with popular trends and theories.Toy Box Leadership clears away the clutter and takes listeners back to the simple and essential roots of the most effective and unchanging leadership best practices. In this book, you will learn:what Lego bricks can teach you about building your business through connection;how Slinky Dog demonstrates the value of patience when you're growing your organization;what every kid learned from the Little Green Army Men that can be used in business strategy;and many more playful and insightful lessons.Whether you still feel young at heart or your childhood seems to be a distant memory, Toy Box Leadership will bring you back to the place where all important life lessons began to reinvigorate your ability to influence and lead others in the playground of life.
Toy Design: From Concept to Realization. A Guide for the Designer
by Irene GuerrieriThis book teaches readers the essential knowledge they need to design toys. It is a stimulating guide for those eager to learn the tools of the trade and offers an enlightening account, full of original ideas, for anyone passionate about the wonderful world of children and education. Designing toys is, above all, about learning to listen and appreciate the beauty within us and around us - with the naivety, freshness, and curiosity of children. It is about knowing how to choose the right shapes and colors to communicate that beauty effectively. This book is a liberating introduction that unlocks creativity, allowing readers to bring their ideas to life. Cover image: Fork-ship, Traffic line, Fratelli Guzzini (2017), design Irene Guerrieri.
Toy Fights: A Boyhood
by Don Paterson“It’s wonderful, aggressively wise, and always—especially at its most serious—devastatingly funny.” —Geoff Dyer For readers of Douglas Stuart and Nick Hornby comes an uproarious, tenderhearted memoir of growing up in working-class Dundee in the 1970s and 1980s. Don Paterson is one of our most acclaimed contemporary poets, possessed of “an infinite sensitivity to the world” (Zadie Smith). But his current standing gives few hints of his hilariously misspent youth. An indifferent student prone to obsessions (with girls at school and . . . origami), Paterson nevertheless made clear early on his immense gift for observation. In Toy Fights, he vividly re-creates the customs of the Scottish working class, from the titular childhood game (“basically twenty minutes of extreme violence without pretext”) to the virtues of the sugary sweet known as tablet. When American pop culture arrived, Paterson fell hard for the so-called outlaw sound; by his teens, he was traveling with his father, a Stetson-wearing “country” musician, and becoming guitar-mad himself. A memoir of family, music, and highly inventive profanity, Toy Fights is an unforgettable account of the years we all spend in rehearsal for real life.
Toy Story 2: A Wild Ride
by DISNEY BOOK GROUPWoody has been stolen by a toy collector who plans on selling him and other Roundup dolls to a museum in Japan! Now it's time for Buzz and the toys to rescue Woody and his new friends. Can they rescue them before it's too late, or are the toys destined to spend life on the shelves in a Japanese museum? Don't miss this action-packed adventure to find out!
Toy Story 2: Woody's Big Adventure
by DISNEY BOOK GROUPAndy is excited to take his favorite toys—Woody the cowboy and Buzz Lightyear the space ranger—to camp with him this year. But when Woody's should tears, Andy's mom places Woody on a high shelf. To make matters worse, Andy's mom is having a yard sale, and Woody accidentally ends up outside where he is stolen by a toy collector! Now, it's a race against time as the toys try to rescue their friend before the toy collector sells him to a museum in Japan!
Toy Story Storybook Collection
by DISNEY BOOK GROUPWhen Andy leaves for school one morning, the coast is clear for Woody the cowboy and his toy friends to figure out what's inside a box Andy brought home the night before! Together, they discover that it's a brand new rocket launcher. Right away, the toys assemble it and play a game to see who can launch it the farthest. Slinky Dog and Hamm the piggy bank tie for first place, so it's time for a tiebreaker! But when the rocket fails to launch, how will the toys decide the winner?
Toy Story Storybook Collection
by DISNEY BOOK GROUPOne stormy night, Andy is away at a slumber party. As a streak of lightning lights up the sky, Woody the cowboy and his toy friends decide that it's the perfect night to tell scary stories! The toys take turns telling their spookiest tales and finally fall asleep. But Rex the dinosaur, too scared to sleep, hears scary noises coming from under Andy's bed, so he wakes up Woody to investigate! What could possibly be lurking under Andy's bed?
Toy Story Storybook Collection
by DISNEY BOOK GROUPWhenever Andy leaves for school, Woody and the toys know it's safe to move around! But as Woody greets his toy friends one morning, something is wrong. His piggy bank friend Hamm is missing! Right away, Woody and the gang search for their missing friend. Will the toys be able to find Hamm, or is he lost forever?
Toy Story: A New Toy
by DISNEY BOOK GROUPWoody the cowboy is Andy's favorite toy. They have all kinds of exciting adventures together and are the best of friends. But when Andy gets a flashy new toy for his birthday, space ranger Buzz Lightyear, Woody is worried that Andy won't play with him anymore. To make matters worse, all of the other toys are impressed with Buzz, too! But when Woody and Buzz are accidentally left behind at Pizza Planet, can Woody overcome his jealousy and work with Buzz to reunite with Andy?
Toy Story: A Roaring Field Trip
by DISNEY BOOK GROUPAndy's class is going on a field trip to the science museum, so his mom gives him spending money for the gift shop. When Woody the cowboy, Buzz Lightyear the space ranger, and Rex the dinosaur hear this, they panic! What if Andy picks a toy that he likes more than his old toys? Woody, Buzz, and Rex have a plan: they will stow away in Andy's backpack and make sure Andy chooses a good toy from the gift shop. But when the toys are separated from Andy at the museum, will they still be able to stop him from buying the wrong toy?
Toy Story: Moving Day
by DISNEY BOOK GROUPIt's moving day for Andy's family, but there's one problem: Andy's favorite toys—Woody the cowboy and Buzz Lightyear the space ranger—are missing! The toys are trapped at Sid's house, Andy's next-door neighbor. And Sid has a reputation for not being very nice to his toys. So when Sid tapes a rocket to Buzz Lightyear, Woody and Sid's mutant toys have to join together and act fast to save their friend. Can the toys save Buzz before Andy's family moves away, or will Woody and Buzz be trapped at Sid's house forever?
Toy to Toy (Step into Reading)
by Tennant RedbankThe creators of the Toy Story films reopen the toy box and bring moviegoers back to the delightful world of our favorite gang of toy characters in Toy Story 3. Woody, Buzz Lightyear, and the rest of Andy&’s toys are as fun and adventurous as always, but none of them can deny that things in Andy&’s room have changed. Andy is seventeen now and just three days away from heading off to college. Find out what happens to the beloved toys when they&’re compelled to leave Andy&’s room behind and embark on an all-new comedic adventure in Toy Story 3. This step 1 leveled reader features all the beloved characters from the new Disney/Pixar film.
Toying with Childhood: Tracing the Child-Toy Bond from Britain and America to India
by Usha MudigantiThis book studies the dialectic relationship between the image of the child and the toy in literary depictions of childhood in 19th- and 20th- century Anglo-American fiction. Drawing from the psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud, D.W. Winnicott, and Sudhir Kakar, it analyses themes such as the heterogeneity of childhood and the construction of the ideals of childhood. It explores the linkages between the ideals of childhood in Britain and its travel to America and further dissemination in British India. It discusses the established tropes of childhood such as innocence, a formative period, the centrality of play, and the presence of a toy to argue that the mores of childhood are culturally constructed and lead to the reification of a child into an image of perfection. The author problematises the notion of essential innocence and discusses the repercussions of such stereotypes about childhood. The work also highlights parallels between the ideals of childhood established in 19th-century Britain and the portrayals of postcolonial Indian childhoods in 20th-century Indian English literature. Toying with Childhood will be useful for students and researchers of education, childhood studies, psychology, sociology, literature, gender studies, and development studies. It will also appeal to general readers interested in cultural perceptions of childhood, literary depictions of children, and the works of Sigmund Freud.
Toys and Play for the Handicapped Child
by Barbara RiddickFirst published in 1982. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Toys, Play and Discipline in Childhood (Routledge Library Editions: Early Years)
by Beatrix Tudor-HartOriginally published in 1955, Toys, Play and Discipline in Childhood is an expansion and development of the author’s earlier title Play and Toys in Early Years. It examines the areas of toys, play and discipline in a child’s life from babyhood, up to school-age children. The author had spent 25 years teaching children between the ages of 2 and 12 years and had come to realize how closely linked play and discipline are in the development of young children. At the time there were very few books that dealt with play, and parents needed advice and help in catering for their children’s needs. Written at a time where nursery education was still a relatively new concept, this book would have been an invaluable resource for both parents and nursery teachers. Today it can be read and enjoyed in its historical context.
Trace the Themes, eBook: A Topical Bible Study Guide Through Six Major Themes
by Spence SheltonStudy Six Major Bible Themes with Free Companion VideosDozens of major themes run throughout the Bible, each one pointing to Jesus in its own unique way. Discover the intriguing story contained within six of these themes as you watch them unfold from Genesis to Revelation.Trace the Themes is a free Bible study guide that includes thought-provoking discussion questions and links to companion videos that help set the stage for studying each of the six topics covered: The Word of God, The Presence of God, The People of God, Redemption, Holiness, Mission. Trace the Themes is perfect for small groups, family devotions, and individual study. <P><P>Spence Shelton is the Lead Pastor of Mercy Church in Charlotte, NC. Spence believes God has called Mercy Church to be a part of seeing a gospel awakening in Charlotte that gets carried to the ends of the earth. Spence has authored numerous small group studies including co-authoring The Meaning of Marriage small group study with Tim & Kathy Keller.Prior to planting Mercy Church in 2015, Spence served as a pastor at the Summit Church in Raleigh-Durham, NC.
Traces of the Ice Age: Landscape Forms in Central Europe
by Wolfgang FraedrichAt present, we have been living in an ice age for around 2.5 million years, a geological epoch in which there is ice on Earth and in which the curve of the global mean temperature is subject to significant fluctuations (current trend: temperature increase). At nearly 16 million square kilometers, about ten percent of the land surface is currently covered by glacial ice-and glacial ice plays a major role in shaping landscapes. This compact textbook sharpens the eye for such landscapes. It makes the forms and the shaping processes comprehensible, which the author illustrates with numerous regional examples, especially from Central Europe, such as the North German Plain and the Alpine foothills, but also from Iceland. What traces have the glaciers and their meltwaters left behind? What formation processes can be inferred? How can recent climate history, in particular that of the Ice Age, be reconstructed? It is exciting to look at current developments in glaciated areas and also to take a look at the (climate) future of the Earth. For example, the question arises as to what influence glaciers have on sea level and on future climate change. In this context, natural processes such as the ice age cycles, for which there are various ice age formation hypotheses, and anthropogenic influences in global warming must be weighed against each other.
Tracing Education Policy: Selections from the Oxford Review of Education (Education Heritage)
by David Phillips Geoffrey WalfordThis book brings together key articles that trace the development of British education policy since 1975 and provides a valuable route map to developments within education policy during this period. It includes twenty-six seminal articles from the Oxford Review of Education written by many of the leading authors in the field and covering issues and topics with a wide significance beyond Britain. In one, easy-to-access place, this authoritative reference book provides a collection of articles that have made an important impact on policy studies and cover a broad range of significant policy issues, including: equality in education school effectiveness special educational needs school choice fourteen to nineteen education the structure of the educational system. The book has been compiled by the current editors of the journal to show the development of the field, and their specially written introduction contextualises the selection and introduces students to the main issues and current thinking in the field.
Tracing Modernity: Manifestations of the Modern in Architecture and the City
by Mari Hvattum Christian HermansenFirst published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.