1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910809000203321

Autore

Materna Laurie

Titolo

Jump start the adult learner : how to engage and motivate adults using brain-compatible strategies / / Laurie Materna ; indexer, Sheila Bodell ; cover designer, Lisa Miller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Thousand Oaks, California : , : Corwin Press, , 2007

©2007

ISBN

1-4522-9803-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Disciplina

374

Soggetti

Adult education

Learning - Physiological aspects

Brain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Figures""; ""List of Tables""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""About the Author""; ""Part I - Brain 101""; ""Chapter 1 - How the Brain Learns""; ""The Lower Brain""; ""The Middle Brain""; ""The Upper Brain""; ""Whole-Brain Learning""; ""Upper-Brain Processing""; ""Brain Circuitry and Transmission of Thought""; ""Chapter 2 - Promotion of Learning""; ""Promotion of Memory and Information Processing in Adult Learners""; ""The Adult Brain""; ""Part II - The Resourceful Learning State""; ""Chapter 3 - Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligences""

""Preferred Learning Styles""""Promoting Combination Learning""; ""Kolb�s Cycle of Learning Theory""; ""Personality Preferences and Learning Style""; ""Personal Application of Learning Styles Theory to Adult Education""; ""Theories of Intelligence""; ""Personal Application of Intelligence Theory to Adult Education""; ""Chapter 4 - Preparing the Brain to Learn""; ""Promoting the Resourceful Learning State""; ""Breathing Exercises""; ""Powerful Peripherals""; ""The Use of Aromas to Promote Learning""; ""The Impact of Nutrition Upon Learning""; ""The Role of Music in Learning""

""Creative Visualizations and Mind Calms""""Balancing the Brain Through Movement Activities""; ""Recipe for Success in Promoting a



Resourceful Learning State""; ""Part III - Active Learning Strategies""; ""Chapter 5 - Key Metacognitive Learning Strategies""; ""Metacognition and the Adult Brain""; ""Knowledge Acquisition Strategies""; ""Types of Graphic Organizers""; ""Study Strategies to Promote Comprehension""; ""Promoting Active Learning""; ""Chapter 6 - Blending Taxonomies to Bring the Learning Process Full Cycle""; ""Taxonomies in Education""; ""The Materna Method""

""Application of Brain-Compatible Principles in the Adult Classroom""""Free Your Creative Spirit!""; ""Resource A: Brain Warm-Ups""; ""Resource B: Active Learning Strategies for Knowledge, Remembering, and Retrieval""; ""Resource C: Active Learning Strategies for Comprehension and Understanding""; ""Resource D: Active Learning Strategies for Application and Deeper Comprehension""; ""Resource E: Active Learning Strategies for Analysis""; ""References""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

<i>""Overall this text is a very interesting read with significant applicability to both advisors and faculty. The creative advisor will have no problem synthesizing Materna's ideas and theories of brain-compatible learning strategies into daily interactions with students and faculty."" -</i><b>Jennifer Varney, <i>Hesser College<br /></i></b><br />Use these interactive strategies to help adults become more self-directed in their learning, improve their ability to comprehend and apply complex information, and unleash their creative potential.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910648577403321

Autore

Circo Carl J. <1949->

Titolo

Contract law in the construction industry context / / Carl J. Circo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2020

ISBN

9781000707700

1000707709

9780429326912

0429326912

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (185 pages)

Collana

Spon research

Disciplina

343.73078624

Soggetti

Construction contracts - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

The Practice and Study of Construction Law -- The Construction Industry and Core Principles of Contract Law -- Adaptations, Refinements, and Constraints in the Industry Cases -- The U.S. Supreme Court Cases -- Federal Construction Contract Law Today -- Contract Theory and the Construction Industry Cases -- A Backward Glance and a Forward Glimpse

Sommario/riassunto

"This book chronicles how contract cases from the construction industry have influenced, solidified, refined and particularized U.S. contract law. The book's central claim is that the construction industry experience has helped to contextualize U.S. contract law and, therefore, has encouraged the common law to be more receptive to flexible legal standards and practices and less constrained by the relatively rigid rules that often characterize contract law. Other scholarly books analyze the themes, values, standards, and principles of contemporary contract law, but none capture how construction industry relationships and practices have influenced the common law of contracts. After providing an overview of construction law as a specialty of the practicing bar and as a field for scholarly inquiry, this book examines the construction industry cases that have most directly influenced contract law. It reviews how industry dispute patterns have caused courts to refine contract law principles or to adapt and modify other



principles. Separate chapters explain the special roles that cases in the U.S. Supreme Court and in the lower federal courts have played in defining and distinguishing contract law in the construction industry. The final chapters assess implications the construction industry cases hold for contract theory writ large and for the future of contract law. This book is essential reading for legal scholars, construction law and contract law specialists, and those interested in how the construction industry has helped shape the U.S. legal system"--

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910974621903321

Autore

Bratcher Suzanne

Titolo

Evaluating children's writing : a handbook of grading choices for classroom teachers / / Suzanne Bratcher with Linda Ryan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Mahwah, N.J., : L. Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, c2004

ISBN

1-135-62736-3

1-282-32229-X

9786612322297

1-4106-0906-5

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

RyanLinda <1952->

Disciplina

372.62/3

Soggetti

English language - Composition and exercises - Ability testing

Children - Writing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-199) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. The objectives of evaluation -- pt. 2. Evaluation options -- pt. 3. Using grading as a teaching tool.

Sommario/riassunto

Evaluating Children's Writing: A Handbook of Grading Choices for Classroom Teachers, Second Edition introduces and explains a wide range of specific evaluation strategies used by classroom teachers to arrive at grades and gives explicit instructions for implementing them. Samples of student writing accompany the instructions to illustrate the techniques, and an appendix of additional student writing is provided to allow readers to practice particular evaluation strategies.More than



just a catalog of grading options, however, this is a handbook with a point of view. Its purpose i