Teaching would be easy if there were clear recipes you could follow every time. The Ingredients for Great Teaching explains why this is impossible and why a one-size-fits-all approach doesn't work. Instead of recipes, this book examines the basic ingredients of teaching and learning so you can use them wisely in your own classroom in order to become a better and more effective teacher.

Taking an approach that is both evidence-based and practical, author Pedro de Bruyckere explores ten crucial...

With an introduction by Xiaolu GuoA classic memoir set during the Chinese revolution of the 1940s and inspired by folklore, providing a unique insight into the life of an immigrant in America. When we Chinese girls listened to the adults talking-story, we learned that we failed if we grew up to be but wives or slaves. We could be heroines, swordswomen.

Throughout her childhood, Maxine Hong Kingston listened to her mother's mesmerizing tales of a China where girls are worthless, tradition is e...

Breaking down the OEE methodology from a historical perspective, this book explores the overall effectiveness of machines and unveils novel design improvement methods, including hazard analysis, rate of change of failure analysis, failure rate finite element analysis, and theory of inventive problem solving. Explains what OEE is and how it can be used to address capacity issues and achieve overall effectiveness of machines Examines the issues of OEE and breaks down the methodology from a hist...

Fifty remarkable short stories from a range of contemporary fiction authors including Junot Diaz, Amy Tan, Jamaica Kincaid, Jhumpa Lahiri, and more, selected from a survey of more than five hundred English professors, short story writers, and novelists.

Contributors include Russell Banks, Donald Barthelme, Rick Bass, Richard Bausch, Charles Baxter, Amy Bloom, T.C. Boyle, Kevin Brockmeier, Robert Olen Butler, Sandra Cisneros, Peter Ho Davies, Janet Desaulniers, Junot Diaz, Anthony Doerr, Stuar...

Finally, a book that offers a practical yet well-researched guide for practitioners seeking to hone the way they show up in citizen space.

At a time when public trust in institutions is at its lowest, expectations of those institutions to make people well, knowledgeable, and secure are rapidly increasing. These expectations are unrealistic, causing disenchantment and disengagement among citizens and increasing levels of burnout among many professionals. Rekindling Democracy is not just a prac...

Zielniveau B2/2

Sicher! aktuell ist die Aktualisierung und Überarbeitung des bestehenden Lehrwerks Sicher! hinsichtlich der geänderten Prüfungsanforderungen des neuen Goethe-Zertifikats B2 (ab Januar 2019) sowie der Prüfungen Telc B2, Telc B1-B2 Beruf und ÖSD ZB2. Zahlreiche neue Aufgaben decken die geänderten Prüfungsformate dieser vier Prüfungen ab. Im Anhang findet sich eine detaillierte Übersicht aller im Buch geübten Prüfungsformate.

Kursbuchteil:

- transparenter Aufbau

- tra...

Nueva edición actualizada. Es un material de nivel A2-B1 dirigido a jóvenes y adultos que comienzan a aprender español y quieren conocer los aspectos culturales más significativos de los países donde el español está presente. Se trata de la geografía, la historia, el día a día, la cultura y las fiestas de cada país. También se les proporciona la información más relevante para ir de viaje a cada uno de estos países.

La colección de cuadernos de Lengua castellana y Literatura: Ejercicios ofrece una amplia batería de actividades para asimilar los contenidos establecidos para esta área en la ESO.

Desde un enfoque práctico, estos cuadernos se ocupan del estudio de la morfología y la sintaxis, las categorías gramaticales, las estructuras sintácticas elementales y compuestas, la oración simple y la relación de textos.

This succinct compilation of essential reference data for the interpretation of NMR, IR, UV/Vis, and mass spectra also provides a hands-on guide for interpreting experimental spectral data and elucidating the structure of the respective compounds behind them. This fourth edition of the highly successful and concise textbook contains about 20% new data.

- Management accounting in relatie tot aanpalende vakken en vakgebieden;

- leert kwalitatief kijken naar kwantitatieve gegevens;

- herziene hoofdstukken over besluitvorming en budgettering.

Management accounting: berekenen, beslissen, beheersen behandelt het berekenen van kostprijzen, het maken van beslissingscalculaties en het beheersen van bedrijfsprocessen. Deze opzet sluit aan bij de driedeling die binnen management accounting gebruikelijk is.

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