This book is an instructional guide for designing and implementing mentoring programs that support clinically-based teacher education. Veteran teacher educators John E. Henning, Dianne M. Gut, and Pam C. Beam outline a developmental approach for supporting mentees as they grow in their careers from teacher candidates to early-career teachers and teacher leaders. Mentors will learn how professional development occurs and how to create the conditions to foster and accelerate it. In Part I, c...

As accountability in education has become an increasingly prominent topic, teacher preparation programs are being asked to provide credible evidence that their teacher candidates can impact student learning.Teacher Work Samples, first developed 30 years ago, have emerged as an effective method of quantifying the complex set of tasks that comprise effective teaching and documenting the effectiveness of preservice teachers' impact on student learning. Hilda Rosselli, Mark Girod, and ...

Action research is increasingly used as a means for teachers to improve their instruction, yet for many the idea of doing "research" can be somewhat intimidating. Using Action Research to Improve Instruction offers a comprehensive, easy-to-understand approach to action research in classroom settings. This engaging and accessible guide is grounded in sources of data readily available to teachers, such as classroom observations, student writing, surveys, interviews, and tests. Organ...

Building on the work and legacy of Darrell L. Guder, Converting Witness: The Future of Christian Mission in the New Millennium, explores key questions and new possibilities in missiology in light of the world Christian context. The conversation around missional theology and the missional church has examined the gap between theology and mission with the intent of fostering renewal within North American Christianity. But this can only fully occur in relation to the reality of world Christian...

Stories by Stieg Larsson, Henning Mankell, and over a dozen other masters of Nordic noir: "A wonderful collection" (Camilla Lӓckberg).Ever since Stieg Larsson shone a light on Swedish crime writing with his Girl With the Dragon Tattoo trilogy, readers around the world have devoured fiction by Scandinavian masters of suspense. A Darker Shade of Sweden includes an assortment of outstanding crime fiction—never before published in English and in some ...

Most of what are referred to as Korean martial art styles are actually derived from Japanese/Okinawan karate systems or find their roots in Chinese boxing. The Korean peninsula has existed as a fragile territory between China and Japan and thus shared many cultural elements from their neighbors. To what degree has the Japanese and Chinese arts influenced those practiced in Korea over the centuries? Can we distinguish any original Korean martial art style?Chapters in this anthology ...

Der Jahrhundertroman über die Galleria Umberto in Neapel, wo das Leben dem Krieg trotzt.Ein bahnbrechender Roman, der bei seinem Erscheinen 1947 ein gefeierter Bestseller war: Als Kaleidoskop unterschiedlichster Charaktere erzählt er von jungen Frauen und Prostituierten, Besatzern und Besiegten, Träumern und Syphiliskranken. Früher oder später führt der Fluss der Dinge sie alle in die Galleria Umberto. Es geht um nicht weniger als um die Kunst und die Lieb...

Poverty reduction challenges in the twenty-first century are not the same as those from the previous century. The shift is due in no small part to climate change and climate-related weather disasters, such as extreme flood and drought. The magnitude and frequency of such events are only expected to increase in the coming decades, affecting more and more impoverished people across the globe.Poverty Reduction in a Changing Climate, edited by Hari Bansha Dulal, is a work which discuss...

By 1976, Elton John was the best-selling recording artist and the highest-grossing touring act in the world. With seven #1 albums in a row and a reputation as a riveting piano-pounding performer, the former Reggie Dwight had gone with dazzling speed from the London suburbs to the pinnacles of rock stardom, his songs never leaving the charts, his sold-out shows packed with adoring fans. Then he released Blue Moves, and it all came crashing down.Was the commercially disappointing and ...

Writers from Alice Walker to Michael Ondaatje to Claire Messud share their thoughts on one of the most vital gatherings of writers and readers in the world.The Palestine Festival of Literature was established in 2008 by authors Ahdaf Soueif, Brigid Keenan, Victoria Brittain and Omar Robert Hamilton. Bringing writers to Palestine from all corners of the globe, it aimed to break the cultural siege imposed by the Israeli military occupation, to strengthen artistic lin...

Die Markomannen nehmen unter den germanischen Stämmen, die an der Grenze des Römischen Reiches siedelten, eine besondere Stellung ein. Ihre Existenz am nordöstlichen Rand des Imperiums wurde durch antike Schriftsteller genau beobachtet und dokumentiert. Daher sind die Markomannen als eigenständiges Ethnos vom 1. Jh. v. Chr. bis in das 5. Jh. n. Chr. kontinuierlich belegt. Ihr wechselhaftes Verhältnis zum Römischen Reich lässt sich gut nachvollziehen: von Feinden, über Verbündete und Abhäng...

'Nicholas Sparks weet hoe hij de juiste snaar moet raken.' Daily MailJohn Tyree weet niet wat hij met zijn leven en zijn toekomst wil en stopt met school om in het leger te gaan. Tijdens een weekendverlof ontmoet hij de idealistische studente Savannah Curtis en verliest hij zijn hart volkomen aan haar. Na verloop van tijd zijn ze zo zeker van hun liefde dat ze willen trouwen zodra Johns diensttijd erop zit.Maar dan slaat het noodlot toe, voor hen en voor vele Amerika...