This fascinating book explores the true essence of teaching, serving as a compass for both new and experienced primary educators. It explores the fundamental purpose and profound joy that comes with being a teacher, offering a perfect blend of research-based insights and practical wisdom, and the opportunity to reflect on your own values and your approaches to teaching.Drawing on the authors’ own experiences, each chapter weaves together evidence-based approaches with reflective pr...

Dramatisations of Louisa May Alcott’s evergreen classic and its sequel, plus her Gothic tour de force about an orphan girl and her controlling guardianBorn in 1832 in Pennsylvania, Louisa May Alcott was best known for Little Women, her phenomenal bestseller loosely based on her childhood experiences with her own sisters. Adapted numerous times for stage and screen, it is dramatised here alongside her follow-up novel Good Wives and the thrilling se...

All six episodes of the sharp-edged sitcom set around an unconventional babysitting club, first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 as The Circle.Wheeler-dealer snooker club owner Geoff Bryant and his wife Jenny have recently moved onto a new estate in Whittleshulme, Cheshire. Described in the brochure as an 'exclusive village development', it's squarely aimed at yuppies, the nouveau-riche and high-fliers. The trouble is, there are no local teenagers to babysit, leav...

All 12 episodes featuring the comic goings-on of the Stockport-based Conroy familyGet ready to be dragged kicking and screaming into the world of family life, Stockport-style, as 15-year-old Jason introduces us to the Conroy clan. There's dad Eddie, cabby and wannabe champion organist; mum Maureen, who's easygoing but wasn't born yesterday; older brother Michael, lead singer of The Sweater Girls; and sisters Colette (married to uptight bank clerk Dave) and Karen (n...

How do you cope when you face leadership challenges? Are you really the best leader you can be in your role or organization? Where are the places that you could improve your performance?Being a great leader comes naturally to just a few. For others, it takes hard work, practice and a lot of failures before they can truly be regarded as what could be termed a great leader. This inspiring collection of 11 stories is part of the hugely successful A Journey of Riches series that provid...

This book reviews the latest techniques in exploratory data mining (EDM) for the analysis of data in the social and behavioral sciences to help researchers assess the predictive value of different combinations of variables in large data sets. Methodological findings and conceptual models that explain reliable EDM techniques for predicting and understanding various risk mechanisms are integrated throughout. Numerous examples illustrate the use of these techniques in practice. Contributors p...

Contemporary Psychometrics features cutting edge chapters organized in four sections: test theory, factor analysis, structural equation modeling, and multivariate analysis.The section on test theory includes topics such as multidimensional item response theory (IRT), the relationship between IRT and factor analysis, estimation and testing of these models, and basic measurement issues that are often neglected.The factor analysis section reviews the history and devel...

Written in an approachable style, and illustrated with many international examples, this is a major contemporary guide to the role of organization and management in business. Originally designed for the executive graduate audience, the relevance of the book as a preparation for management in many different contexts has ensured that it is also demanded on some undergraduate courses. This in turn has created a demand for some additional basic introductory material in the book, which is the c...

Research on human cognitive abilities has a long history in psychology and education, and has been widely applied to practical problems in schools, clinics, and employment settings. This book explores the historical background and current views of how human intelligence manifests itself in real-world contexts.

Bienvenido al mundo intenso y evocador de "Divinas palabras: Tragicomedia de aldea" de Ramón del Valle-Inclán, donde la pasión y la tragedia se entrelazan en un retrato vívido de la España rural del siglo XIX.Adéntrate en la vida de los personajes inolvidables creados por Valle-Inclán, quienes luchan contra las fuerzas implacables del destino y la moralidad en un entorno marcado por la pobreza y la desesperación.Esta obra maestra literaria explora temas u...

Alumnos superdotados y talentosos. Identificación, evaluación e intervención. Una perspectiva para docentes 2ª ed. abre las puertas al educador a la diversidad del alumnado con aptitudes sobresalientes o talentos específicos en sus salones de clases y proporciona recursos para identificar, evaluar e implementar intervenciones educativas en la escuela y fuera de ésta. También subraya la importancia de la colaboración familia-escuela y sociedad en general. Esta obra en su segunda edición log...