Libro Grande de Destrezas Prácticas Para la Vida Gr. 9-12+


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Faculte a los estudiantes con la confianza de vivir independientemente. Nuestro estudio a fondo combina las tres lecciones de esta serie: Vida independiente, Administración del dinero, y Empleo y trabajo voluntario. Los estudiantes comenzarán buscando su propio lugar donde vivir y conociendo cómo desplazarse. A continuación, aprenderán a hacer un presupuesto y a prepararse para el futuro. Por último, se unirán a la fuerza laboral aprendiendo a escribir un hoja de vida y a adquirir valiosas destrezas de entrevista. Nuestro recurso está compuesto de pasajes de lectura, organizadores gráficos, actividades del mundo real, crucigrama, buscapalabras y prueba de comprensión, y continúa el estudio de las destrezas necesarias para la vida que todo el mundo debe aprender antes de aventurarse por su cuenta. Todo nuestro contenido es reproducible y se ajusta a los estándares estatales y está escrito en concordancia con la Taxonomía de Bloom.




The Bilingual Family


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An up-to-date, accessible guide for parents of bilingual children.




The Pocket Guide to Health Promotion


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The 'Pocket Guide to Health Promotion' is a short, punchy and practical guide aimed at students and practitioners. The book includes precise definitions and examples of key concepts and methods in health promotion practice and a chapter by chapter description of the management planning, strategy selection, implementation and evaluation of health promotion programmes. Written in an accessible and concise style, the book offers the reader a practical and flexible resource that is ideal for students and practitioners looking to plan and implement health promotion activities. A must buy for those new to health promotion or who want a pocket guide to this core health activity. "Clearly written and practical, this excellent guide will prove indispensible to practitioners of health promotion globally, and a very useful starting point for students. It will be worth buying a pocket to put it in!" David Ross, Professor of Epidemiology and International Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK "The Pocket Guide to Health Promotion is easy to navigate with complex concepts in health promotion explained in a user-friendly way. Whether you are practicing health promotion or studying the discipline, this will be a welcome addition to any book shelf." Dr James Woodall, Co-Director of the Centre for Health Promotion Research & Course Leader MSc Public Health, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK




The Inner World of the Immigrant Child


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This powerful book tells the story of one teacher's odyssey to understand the inner world of immigrant children, and to create a learning environment that is responsive to these students' feelings and their needs. Featuring the voices and artwork of many immigrant children, this text portrays the immigrant experience of uprooting, culture shock, and adjustment to a new world, and then describes cultural, academic, and psychological interventions that facilitate learning as immigrant students make the transition to a new language and culture. Particularly relevant for courses dealing with multicultural and bilingual education, foundations of education, and literacy curriculum and instruction, this text is essential reading for all teachers who will -- or currently do -- work in today's school environment.




The North American Mosaic


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The North American Mosaic has four overarching features. First, it is, to the extent feasible, based on comparable information on the status and trends of major indicators of the state of the environment in Canada,Mexico, and the United States. Second, the report confirms that these three countries together make up an incredibly complex, dynamic, and interconnected ecosystem in which humans play a dominant and decisive role. Third, the report raises important and sometimes disquieting questions concerning the sustainability of some current trends. Finally, the report is a reminder that our economic, social, and physical well-being are utterly dependent on the life-sustaining services provided by nature. This report emphasizes the importance of developing mutually compatible economic, social, and environmental goals and policies across the three-country region.




Destrezas Prácticas Para la Vida - Vida Independiente Gr. 9-12+


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Los estudiantes adquieren las destrezas necesarias para vivir independientemente. Entienden la diferencia entre alquilar y comprar una vivienda. Luego, se familiarizan con los gastos relacionados con vivir solo. A partir de ahí, conocen las rutas de autobús para determinar la forma más rápida de desplazarse. Estarán preparados en caso de incendio con su propio plan de ruta de escape. Descubren cómo ahorrar energía y ahorrar dinero. Por último, descubren con quién comunicarse en caso de lesión. Nuestro recurso está compuesto de pasajes de lectura, organizadores gráficos, actividades del mundo real, crucigrama, buscapalabras y prueba de comprensión, y combina conceptos de gran interés con vocabulario sencillo para garantizar que todos los estudiantes comprendan las destrezas esenciales necesarias para la vida. Todo nuestro contenido es reproducible y se ajusta a los estándares estatales y está escrito en concordancia con la Taxonomía de Bloom.




THEORY IN SELF-DETERMINATION


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This text provides a comprehensive overview of three theoretical perspectives proposed during the past decade addressing the self-determination construct as it applies to the field of special education. The three models were selected primarily because they have focused on defining and categorizing self-determination for all students with disabilities, including students with mental retardation and other cognitive disabilities. These models are intended to provide students and practitioners a solid grounding in self-determination theory. All models have been evaluated among students with cognitive disabilities but are applicable to all students with or without disabilities. The authors research each model and have applied their own theoretical framework to special education, ensuring that interventions to promote skills like problem solving, goal setting, decision making, and self-advocacy are in place for all students. By reading this text, the reader will gain a solid, theoretically based foundation in understanding the self-determination construct which ultimately supports the development of instructional interventions that enable students with disabilities to become self-determined. It will be useful as a text in upper undergraduate and graduate courses in special education, psychology, social work/welfare, general education, vocational rehabilitation and disability studies.




Literacy Education


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Children, Spaces and Identity


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How do children construct, negotiate and organize space? The study of social space in any human group is fraught with limitations, and to these we must add the further limits involved in the study of childhood. Here specialists from archaeology, history, literature, architecture, didactics, museology and anthropology build a body of theoretical and methodological approaches about how space is articulated and organized around children and how this disposition affects the creation and maintenance of social identities. Children are considered as the main actors in historic dynamics of social change, from prehistory to the present day. Notions on space, childhood and the construction of both the individual and the group identity of children are considered as a prelude to papers that focus on analyzing and identifying the spaces which contribute to the construction of children’s identity during their lives: the places they live, learn, socialize and play. A final section deals with these same aspects, but focuses on funerary contexts, in which children may lose their capacity to influence events, as it is adults who establish burial strategies and practices. In each case authors ask questions such as: how do adults construct spaces for children? How do children manage their own spaces? How do people (adults and children) build (invisible and/or physical) boundaries and spaces?




Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility Through Physical Activity


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This edition presents practical, field-tested ideas for teaching personal and social responsibility (TPSR) through physical activity in schools and other settings. Includes guidance in teaching affective and social moral goals, an in-depth look into teaching character development and values, and a method for helping students develop personal and social responsibility.