Classroom teachers are faced with an immediate dilemma: how to engage their students in the content of teaching and inspire them to study, when so many lack the skills to read and easily understand the content. It has also become clear that assigning readings, lecturing, and then asking questions is an ineffective way to teach them. This book proposes how to involve low readers more effectively in textbook learning. It presents instructional techniques to improve students’ willingness to work in mainstream textbooks–particularly those students with low reading skills. These techniques optimize learning of new content by focusing on three phases: Teachers *prepare* the student for new learning (Before Reading), *help* them (During Reading), and then help them *integrate* the new learning into what they already know (After Reading). The net effect of providing these active “handles” for learning from text is to maintain the confidence and motivation of the low-reading
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Textbooks and the Students Who Can’t Read Them: A Guide for the Teaching of Content
June 2nd, 2010A Pharmacology for Health Professionals: Textbook, Study Guide, and Smarthinking Online Tutoring Service: Diagnosis and Therapy
May 17th, 2010This text is designed for a one-semester course for health professions students who will not administer drugs but need a foundation in pharmacology. Organized by body system, the text explains the basics of clinical pharmacology and the actions, indications, contraindications, adverse effects, and interactions of drug classes. Full-color illustrations highlight and explain important concepts and techniques. Information on specific drugs is presented in bulleted lists, boxes, and tables. Chapters include key terms, key points, Website activities, case studies, review questions, and critical thinking exercises based on real-life patient care situations. A bonus CD-ROM contains additional learning activities. An Instructor’s Manual with CD-ROM includes a test generator and PowerPoint slides.
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The Economics Anti-Textbook: A Critical Thinker’s Guide to Microeconomics
May 14th, 2010Review
“What humankind needs second most (first is a cure for global warming), is a means of defusing the lethal ideological superstitions implanted in the educated masses by Samuelson/Mankiw type economics textbooks. Hill and Myatt’s ‘anti-textbook’ goes a long way toward providing it. ” –Edward Fullbrook”I highly recommend Hill and Myatt’s “anti-textbook. ” It is not so much an outright rejection of traditional treatments of introductory microeconomics as it is an exercise in laying bare the premises on which they are based and then suggesting alternative assumptions and methodologies. This approach leaves the student with a much deeper understanding of economic theory and it shows our discipline for what it truly is: an ongoing conversation among competing paradigms. I urge instructors to amend their courses so that time can be made for this important critique. ” — John. T. Harvey, Professor of Economics, author of Currencies, Capital Flows, and Crises: A Post Key
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Practicum and Internship: Textbook and Resource Guide for Counseling and Psychotherapy
March 27th, 2010Review
“Instructive and very practical for assisting practicum students, interns, and supervisors alike, this text is probably the most comprehensive resource available for navigating the practicum and internship experience. The authors have done a superb job in including many significant pieces of research and conclusions from key professionals in the helping fields. With breadth as well as depth, especially in critical areas such as record keeping, ethics, and law, the text provides a wealth of current, helpful information for assisting successful development of upcoming professionals. ” Andrew L. Carey, Ph. D. , NCC is past president of the Pennsylvania Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (PACES) and past co-editor of the Journal of the Pennsylvania Counseling Association (JPCA). “This book is important to counselor educators and others who seek an empirical model for the overall clinical experience of counseling students. Boylan and Scott apply relev
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Tap Out Textbook: The Ultimate Guide to Sumissions for Grappling
March 15th, 2010Review
!Just looking at contents alone it is clear there is a lot to learn from this book. The techniques covered will be useful whether you are a submission grappler, judo or jujitsu athlete or an MMA fighter with techniques offered for both gi and no gi situations. Tap Out Textbook is a must for anyone looking for a book to learn grappling techniques. ” — Martial Arts Unltd co. ukGroundfighting and submission techniques are considered by many to be the backbone of mixed martial arts. Being skillful as a groundfighter is vital to winning in this sport. I have yet to meet anyone in my work as an MMA television commentator who understands how to teach groundfighting better than Steve Scott. –Sean Wheelock, M-1 Commentator and Analyst
If you make your opponent tap out, he ll never forgive you and never forget you! Tap Out Textbook: The Ultimate Guide to Submissions for Grappling is packed with hundreds of armlocks, chokes and leglocks that you can
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Study Guide to Accompany Brunner and Suddarth’s Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing
March 14th, 2010The perfect companion to Brunner and Suddarth’s Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing, this exemplary study tool helps you better understand the concepts, techniques, and disease processes detailed in the textbook.
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Study Guide to Accompany Brunner and Suddarth’s Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing
March 9th, 2010The perfect companion to Brunner and Suddarth’s Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing, this exemplary study tool helps you better understand the concepts, techniques, and disease processes detailed in the textbook.
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Internal Medicine Clerkship Guide
February 15th, 2010Book Description
All the help you need to survive your internal medicine clerkship.
Here’s all the help you need to survive your internal medicine clerkship! This handy guide offers you practical, must-have guidance on the causes, clinical evaluation, and treatment of common medical conditions-knowledge that every student can and should master. Section 1 outlines the practical skills and procedures you must know on rotation; Sections 2 and 3 describe health conditions organized by presentation (symptom, sign, abnormal lab value) and by specific diagnosis, allowing you to approach a given health problem from either direction. Organizes material according to the types of questions that you will typically ask during the clerkship. Uses Learning Objectives and Key Points boxes to make complex data easier to remember. Provides Cases to illustrate the types of clinical scenarios you may experience. Includes a multiple-choice exam at the end of the book to h
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Battlefield and Disaster Nursing Pocket Guide
February 15th, 2010Written by military nurses, the Battlefield and Disaster Nursing Pocket Guide is the premier quick reference guide for battlefield nurses on the front lines. This pocket guide contains critical assessment and treatment information, as well as translation guides to ensure accurate communication in the field. The care of patients with injuries received on the battlefield or in a disaster is specialized. Traumatic injuries may be more complex or unlike injuries seen in the hospital setting. In addition, the battlefield or disaster scene adds an additional level of complexity to medical care. Designed to fit in the pocket of a uniform, this unique pocket guide provides state-of-the-art, evidence-based recommendations for providing nursing care under exceptional conditions.
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