The Rowman & Littlefield Guide to Learning Center Administration: Leading Peer Tutoring Programs in Higher Education
Author: Daniel R. Sanford & Michelle Steiner A comprehensive guide for both new and experienced learning center professionals about how to deliver effective services, articulate the value of their programs, and provide peer tutors with conditions for success. View Book
The Mismeasurement of Man
Author: Stephen Jay Gould When first published, The Mismeasure of Man was immediately hailed as a masterwork, the ringing answer to those who would classify people, rank them according to their supposed genetic gifts and limits. In this edition Dr. Gould has written a new introduction, tracing the subsequent history of the controversy on innateness […]
Teach Yourself How to Learn: Strategies You Can Use to Ace Any Course at Any Level
Author: Saundra McGuire The author uses the concept of metacognition to introduce to readers the importance of understanding themselves as learners. View Book
Teach Students How to Learn: Strategies You Can Incorporate Into Any Course to Improve Student Metacognition, Study Skills, and Motivation
What is preventing your students from performing according to expectations? Saundra McGuire offers a simple but profound answer: If you teach students how to learn and give them simple, straightforward strategies to use, they can significantly increase their learning and performance.
Solving the Procrastination Puzzle: A Concise Guide to Strategies for Change
Based on current psychological research and supplemented with clear strategies for change, this concise guide will help readers finally break free from self-destructive ideas and habits, and move into freedom and accomplishment.
Set Boundaries, Find Peace
Author: Glover Tawwab, N. This book provides an excellent introduction to boundaries. It offers information on how to set and assertively communicate boundaries, suggestions for those who need support in accepting others’ boundaries, and a helpful chapter on boundaries at work. View Book
Sentipensante (Sensing/Thinking) Pedagogy: Educating for Wholeness, Social Justice and Liberation
She offers a transformative vision of education that emphasizes the harmonic, complementary relationship between the sentir of intuition and the inner life and the pensar of intellectualism
Resilience: The Science of Mastering Life’s Greatest Challenges
Author: Steven Southwick This book discusses new research into the psychological, biological, and social impact of trauma, and how it can help us manage our own stressors and tragedies. Read Article
Resilience: Powerful Practices for Bouncing Back from Disappointment, Difficulty, and Even Disaster
Resilience is the learned capacity to cope with any level of adversity, from a series of small annoyances to the struggles and sorrows that break our hearts to the utter disasters that change our lives forever. More than 130 evidenced-based tools to help you cope with anything, anything at all.
Research Based Strategies to Ignite Student Learning: Insights from a Neurologist and Classroom Teacher
Thanks to unprecedented advances in brain science, we know more about the brain today than ever before. But what does that science tell us about how we learn? How can we capture the power of neuroscience research so that it benefits our students? Judy Willis and Malana Willis answer these questions with clarity and insight.
Managing transitions: Making the most of change
Change is a constant in our world and making the most of change is a challenge. This guides leaders in formulating and enacting change processes by providing theory, examples, checklists and checkpoints for successful leadership. This is both a process and a training manual for leaders who need to manage change.
Learning to learn online
Learning to Learn Online helps students prepare for online learning success by introducing them to the online learning environment and their roles as a learners within it.