Jossey Bass imprint: 1362 books
Educating Physicians
A Call for Reform of Medical School and Residency
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2010
PRAISE FOR EDUCATING PHYSICIANS
"Educating Physicians provides a masterful analysis of undergraduate and graduate medical education in the United States today. It represents a major educational document, based firmly on educational psychology, learning theory, empirical studies, and careful...
Health Promotion Programs
From Theory to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Comprehensive coverage, real-world issues, and a focus on the practical aspects of health promotion
Health Promotion Programs combines theory and practice to deliver a comprehensive introduction to the planning, implementation, and evaluation of health promotion programs. Presenting an overview...
Adolescent Health
Understanding and Preventing Risk Behaviors
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2009
This book covers the developmental and health problems unique to the adolescent period of life. It focuses on special needs and public health programs for adolescents. It offers deep insight into smoking, violence, teen pregnancy, HIV/AIDS, and other problems, along with intervention and prevention...
Driven to Lead
Good, Bad, and Misguided Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
Praise for Driven to Lead
"A powerful scientific framework, grounded in evolutionary biology, that helps us think about leadership successes and failures throughout history and how we might address humanity's need for better leadership going forward."
—Nitin Nohria, Dean, Harvard...
The Excellent Online Instructor
Strategies for Professional Development
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
The Excellent Online Instructor is a guide for new and seasoned faculty who teach online, those responsible for training and developing online instructors, and administrators who must evaluate online faculty performance. This comprehensive resource describes the qualities of and explains how one can...
Teaching Naked
How Moving Technology Out of Your College Classroom Will Improve Student Learning
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
You've heard about "flipping your classroom"—now find out how to do it! Introducing a new way to think about higher education, learning, and technology that prioritizes the benefits of the human dimension. José Bowen recognizes that technology is profoundly changing education and that...
Cultural Agility
Building a Pipeline of Successful Global Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
HR professionals' guide to creating a culturally agile talent pipeline
Succeeding in today's global economy requires organizations to acquire, develop, and retain professionals who can operate effectively around the world, irrespective of country or culture. More than ever before, organizations...
Engaging Ideas
The Professor's Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
Learn to design interest-provoking writing and critical thinking activities and incorporate them into your courses in a way that encourages inquiry, exploration, discussion, and debate, with Engaging Ideas, a practical nuts-and-bolts guide for teachers from any discipline. Integrating critical thinking...
Student Writing in the Quantitative Disciplines
A Guide for College Faculty
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2012
Designing interesting problems and writing assignments is one of the chief tasks of all teachers, but it can be especially challenging to translate and apply learning theory, good teaching techniques, and writing assignments into STEM and other quantitative disciplines. Student Writing in the Quantitative...
The Reading Mind
A Cognitive Approach to Understanding How the Mind Reads
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
A Map to the Magic of Reading
Stop for a moment and wonder: what's happening in your brain right now—as you read this paragraph? How much do you know about the innumerable and amazing connections that your mind is making as you, in a flash, make sense of this request? Why does it matter?
The...
Raising Kids Who Read
What Parents and Teachers Can Do
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
How parents and educators can teach kids to love reading in the digital age
Everyone agrees that reading is important, but kids today tend to lose interest in reading before adolescence. In Raising Kids Who Read, bestselling author and psychology professor Daniel T. Willingham explains this...
by Jack Umstatter
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2010
Quick, daily classroom lessons for improving students' grammar and writing skills
This must-have resource features 180 practical, ready-to-use grammar and usage lessons and activities–one for each day of the school year. The activities included help students in grades 5-12 to acquire, improve,...
The Learning Self
Understanding the Potential for Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2012
PRAISE FOR THE LEARNING SELF
"In this age of self-help, the 'self' is a term thrown around with abandon. For educators, the notion of self-directed learning is a key concept. Yet the notion of self is deeply problematic, even contentious. The world has needed a book that deftly and accessibly...
Effective Inclusive Schools
Designing Successful Schoolwide Programs
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
How to raise the achievement of all kids, from gifted to those with severe disabilities
This book presents lessons learned from in-depth case studies of some of our most effective inclusive public schools. The authors conclusively demonstrate that schools can educate students with mild and...