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"An authoritative, research-based, thoroughly up-to-date and readable review of the best available techniques for science instruction."
Robert J. Sternberg, IBM Professor of Psychology and Education
Director, Center for the Psychology of Abilities, Competencies and Expertise (PACE Center)
Yale University
New Haven, CT

"Teachers are starved for this kind of presentation of information. The format of the book is very appealing, with a unique blend of research, practical applications and the voices of experience addressing "pitfalls." Its specific tips are targeted, focused and clearly presented."
Karen Charles, Math and Science Program Specialist
Eisenhower Consortium at SERVE
Greensboro, NC

"This book makes effective science teaching strategies readily available, truly at your fingertips. I really appreciated the organization, especially the ‘what the research says’ component."
Leslie C. Gushwa, Science Department Chair
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San Dieguito Academy
Encinitas, CA

"Principals and lead teachers at all levels will find this valuable information useful as they work with their colleagues in professional development."
Raymond J. Dagenais, Ed.D.
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Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
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"It is refreshing to have valuable research synthesized into user-friendly tips. It should be mandatory for all science teachers, new and veteran."
Dr. Margaret Just, Research Scientist
University of California, San Diego

"This book is perfect for busy educators—its succinct sections make it a particularly useable reference tool."
Jeanelle Bland, Assistant Professor, Science Education
Eastern Connecticut State University
Willimantic, CT

Science for real classrooms! Apply the latest research with these easy how-to’s!

Educational research is an unparalleled source for valuable insights into successful science instruction if, and only if, the cryptic results can be translated into classroom applications. In this clear-cut guide, Hartman and Glasgow decipher the latest research and provide a blueprint for implementing best practices that foster effective science learning and professional development.

All facets of a scientific instructional program are explored, including emotional and social aspects of science learning, the use of technology and assessments in the classroom, the development of students’ critical thinking and learning skills, and informal science learning.

By creating an accessible bridge between theoretical research and real classroom practices, this invaluable reference tool empowers science teachers with critical information that can vastly improve overall performance. Key highlights include:

Straightforward translation of educational research into useful findings that can be easily integrated into the classroom
More than 90 practical tactics that are adapted from educational, psychological, and sociological studies and critiques
User-friendly format featuring four concise and informative discussion points with each strategy provided—"What the Research Says," "Classroom Applications," "Precautions and Pitfalls," and "The References"

About the Authors:

Hope J. Hartman is Professor of Education and Coordinator of Social and Psychological Foundations at the City College of the City University of New York.

Neal Glasgow has extensive experience as a secondary school teacher of science and art; a director and technician of a university biotechnology teaching laboratory; an educational consultant; an author; and a frequent educational speaker.

Tips for the Mathematics Teacher: Research-Based Strategies to Help Students Learn

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Variation of "What Successful Math Teachers Do"

Tips for the Mathematics Teacher: Research-Based Strategies to Help Students Learn
Alfred S. Posamentier , Hope J. Hartman , and Constanze Kaiser
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ASIN: 0803965893

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Here is an organized, easy-to-use reference that provides the latest research results and practical tips for K-12 math teachers. Each of the chapters presents a collection of tips on different aspects of mathematics teaching in a user-friendly manner. For each tip, the authors give you: * The teaching tip * A discussion of the research project that led to the tip * Practical applications for using the tip * Ways to avoid common difficulties associated with each tip * Resources for details on process and findings Foster questioning and independent thinking - challenge students with stimulating problems. Get higher levels of achievement. You'll find ideas for improving students' poor mathematics self-concepts, and for building students' confidence in their skills and abilities.

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Variation of "What Successful Math Teachers Do".......2007-07-08

This book is essentially the same as "What Successful Math Teachers Do, Grades 6-12". Unfortunately, I did not know that before I purchased both online. The difference between the two books appears to be that the "Successful Math Teacher" also contains the NCTM standards that each strategy is supporting. With that said, the book is very interesting and practical. Each strategy is supported by research and practical applications. I was happy to see that I was already using many of these strategies and I found a few new ones I plan to integrate into my teaching in the fall!

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Successful Project Management offers new, innovative advice and techniques for those challenged by project management assignments. With an emphasis on the practical, using real-world examples, this book provides every project manager with the expert knowledge and skills needed to complete projects on time, within budget, and to complete satisfaction.It covers everything one needs to know about working successfully in a project environment, including how to organize and manage effective project teams. Communication is emphasized, stressing documentation and communication of project developments within and outside of the team. Furthermore, in-depth coverage of planning, scheduling, and cost estimating is included.

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Transformational Leadership: Creating Organizations of Meaning
Stephen Hacker , and Tammy Roberts
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Improving Organizational Effectiveness through Transformational Leadership

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Organizations are being called upon to evolve to "Organizations of Meaning", where purpose informs all facets of the organization, people and teams operate with a strong sense of intent and common will, and breakthrough results are achieved. Organizations of Meaning are highly talented in their ability to bring purpose to daily work. Leaders and managers grow the culture such that people are clear about their own life direction and its fit with the organization. Relationships are mature and people operate with a casual mind-set, taking responsibility and accountability for the success of the organization. Results are achieved not through manipulative or coercive management techniques but as a natural, authentic expression of the commitment, clarity and conviction of the total organization.

A new kind of leadership is required to create and lead an Organization of Meaning. Delivering on the promises of breakthrough change initiatives requires more than management techniques. The calling is for leadership that honors and appreciates the uniqueness of each individual in the organization, aligning distinctive spirits toward a collective thrust, while at the same time bringing commitment, tenacity and focus to key result areas. With effective transformational leadership bringing forth the new order, amazing results are possible. Not simply theory, but demonstrated in a growing number of organizations around the world.

Transformational Leadership: Creating Organizations of Meaning was written specifically to guide leaders, managers and change agents through an organizational transformation delivering breakthrough results. Authors Stephen Hacker and Tammy Roberts draw on their immense experiences with organizational transformation to write a book that will help guide leaders through these important but trying times.

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"If you were part of a study team trying to figure out what to do in a complicated (i.e., multi-party, multi-issue, technically complex) situation, you would want to rush out and get a copy of Embedded Case Study Methods by Roland Scholz and Olaf Tietje. Using their own Zurich North case study to explain the proper use of case study methods, they demonstrate how eleven different techniques -- including integrated risk assessment, multi-attribute utility theory, scenario analysis, future workshops, and a kind of mediation called Area Development Negotiation -- ought to be used to develop collaborative solutions. Along the way, they destroy conventional distinctions between quantitative and qualitative methods and offer (finally!) an integrated approach that applies equally well to problem framing, option generation, and the management of stakeholder encounters. Most of the relevant literature (from more than a dozen disciplines) is reviewed in detail. What more could a study team member want?"

—LAWRENCE SUSSKIND, Ford Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and co-author of the award-winning Consensus Building Handbook (Sage, 1999)."Scholz and Olaf have developed an important methodology to integrate complex cases. Their approach combines the best of quantitative and qualitative methodologies to create new insights that would not be available to researchers using more conventional approaches."

—MAX H. BAZERMAN, Jesse Isador Straus Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

Bridging the gap between quantitative and qualitative approaches, this book presents methods for interrelating and integrating the variables, findings, and evaluations from the facets of the case (i.e., different perspectives of inquiry such as participant observation, open-ended interviews, etc.) or subunits of case inquiry. Using case examples from five different disciplines (neuropsychology, education, law, business, and environmental sciences), the authors show the reader how to use the embedded case design to enhance synthesis and knowledge integration. The authors share their broad knowledge of the philosophy of science to explain the rationale behind each step of embedded case designs, and recap each explanation with concept recaps called "lessons to be learned." In addition, they include a variety of boxes that offer statistical models for doing the analysis. This book offers readers a sophisticated approach to integrating mixed methods in case studies.

Scholz, Ronald W., and Olaf Tietje. Embedded Case Study Methods: Integrating Quantitative and Qualitative Knowledge.(Book Review): An article from: Canadian Journal of Urban Research

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Scholz, Ronald W., and Olaf Tietje. Embedded Case Study Methods: Integrating Quantitative and Qualitative Knowledge.(Book Review): An article from: Canadian Journal of Urban Research
Shivanand Balram
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Title: Scholz, Ronald W., and Olaf Tietje. Embedded Case Study Methods: Integrating Quantitative and Qualitative Knowledge.(Book Review)
Author: Shivanand Balram
Publication: Canadian Journal of Urban Research (Refereed)
Date: December 22, 2003
Publisher: Institute of Urban Studies
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A real-world mystery story

A must-read

Changed my understanding of third world poverty

Insighful and sad account

Andybody Who Cares Should Read This

The Economist's Tale: A Consultant Encounters Hunger and the World Bank
Peter Griffiths
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What really happens when the World Bank imposes its policies on a country? This is an insider's view of one aid-made crisis. Peter Griffiths was at the interface between government and the Bank. In this day-by-day account of a mission he undertook in Sierra Leone in 1986, he tells the story of how the World Bank, obsessed with the free market, imposed a secret agreement on the government, banning all government food imports or subsidies. This is a rare and important portrait of the aid world which insiders will recognize, but of which the general public seldom gets a glimpse.

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A real-world mystery story.......2007-02-12

The Economist's Tale is a slightly-fictionalized account of Griffiths' short-term consulting gig in Sierra Leone. The events in the story take place in 1986, so the information here isn't directly applicable to the present situation, but it will be of interest to (and accessible to) both economists and laymen all the same.

This is not a book about economic theory. Nor is it about the World Bank, per se. Rather, it's about the way people respond to incentives, and how the unintended consequences of their actions can combine to create a disaster.

The story reads almost like a mystery, told as it is through diary entries that reveal the puzzle as Griffiths himself pieced it together. It's a bit self-congratulatory and defensive, but in a way that I found easy to forgive as I got caught up in the adventure. I'd recommend it to anyone.

A must-read.......2005-12-29

The Economist's Tale is a clunkily-written but still gripping story of corruption, dogmatism and a barely-averted famine in Sierra Leone in 1986. The author, working on food policy for the World Bank and seconded to the Sierra Leonian government, discovers that:

- The country lives mainly on rice (the backup crop, cassava, has all been eaten over the last two years).
- Nobody knows whether or not enough rice is being grown to feed the country (there are two different scientific studies of production that differ by 80%). Some rice is imported, but anything from 20-100% of it is smuggled out of the country again, and nobody knows how much.
- The currency, the leone, was held at an overvalued rate to the dollar. Imported rice was half the price of home-grown rice and the monopoly exporter was so inefficient that cocoa and coffee growers saw about 20% of the price they might have seen on the open market. So no-one's growing anything.
- Now the leone's been floated at the World Bank's insistence, it's collapsed in value by a factor of 10. But production is too low for native producers to take advantage: imports will go up in price long before the exchange comes into the country to buy them.

Then he works out by interviews and legwork that, in fact, the country depends on the imported rice to avoid a famine. And then the government signs a deal with the World Bank, his employer, to get an emergency loan of $5 million, in return for which they will stop all rice subsidies and slash their rice imports by almost 90%. And the private importers who might import enough rice to make up the difference won't, because they can't afford to sell it below the market rate and, being all Lebanese, they'd rather not get involved than risk starting a race riot by being seen as price-gouging. As the only person who knows all the facts, he has to persuade the government to break its deal with the World Bank without starting a turf war, making the decision take so long that a famine happens anyway, or destroying his own future career.

It's an excellent book. The lessons:
- Economics is all about incentives. No matter how ideal a market solution might be in theory, if the incentives aren't lined up right the market won't work.
- A currency whose liquidity is so small that its value is changed by importing a single expensive car probably shouldn't be floating.
- Corruption is everywhere, and corruption kills. The state electricity company is unreliable, so everyone uses personal, much more inefficient generators, so there isn't enough oil.
- Dogmatism also kills. You can't un-distort a market overnight. There's a lovely moment when a British Conservative starts explaining to the Americans how privatisation isn't really that great an idea.

Recommended to anyone who's interested in development economics, africa, politics, food, globalization, the World Bank, racism, colonialism, and any of the other ways that people end up treating people the way they do. And it has a happy ending!

Changed my understanding of third world poverty.......2005-05-07

This is an absolutely riveting book. I heard of it through a brief mention at Brad DeLong's website, and ordered it because of the comments by the previous reviewers. I can only agree with their comments -- this book should be required reading for anyone interested in globalization, poverty, and the real world constraints that often prevent idealistic anti-poverty efforts from succeeding. I can't recommend it highly enough.

Insighful and sad account.......2005-01-28

A good book, known by few, written by an even less well known author, to which I am grateful. As (probably) most of the other readers, I learned about this book from a (very positive) book review published on the "Economist".

This book tells a first person account of how bad economics, corruption, or "simple" incompetence almost caused a famine of immane proportion in Sierra Leone, in the 80s, with the important "contribution" of the World Bank. The author (at the time a consultant for the World Bank) tells us how he managed to avert the crisis, a deed that many did not appreciate, and that caused him professional troubles later on.

It is a mistery how this book can be so little known. It is well written, and above all quite deep. Mr Griffith clearly shows to be a skilled and informed economist. I found particularly compelling the pages that discuss how economic "data" should be often taken with a grain of salt, or two. Especially in poor countries, "data" are sometimes nothing else that guesses (sometimes educated, sometimes not), and this may lead to enormous policy mistakes. Unfortunately, people's lives may put at stake by such mistakes. One point that Mr Griffith powerfully makes is that economic policy is not simply boring material to be debated by politicians and discussed in the ivory towers of academia, but it is something REAL that has sometimes the potential of deciding about the fate of millions of people. Unfortunately, policy is the hands of men, and this book amply shows once more how little trust we should have in men.

Overall, this is quite a compelling reading, much more than the insipid "Globalization and its discontent" by Stiglitz, a world-class economist that has produced a little polemic book that could have been memorable, and instead has disappointed everyone, except uncritical anti-globalization protesters. If you are looking for a deeper account of the potential evil of economic policy and the World Bank, this book is highly recommended.

P.S. By the way, contrary to what some extremist may believe, the World Bank is not only made by evil individuals who only care about their career. The World Bank is a very complex institution, and I can assure you that committed, serious, and conscientious individuals abound in there. Whether they have a major role in how the World Bank actually works in Developing Countries is something I still have to find out...

Andybody Who Cares Should Read This.......2004-06-28

An excellent, excellent book in several ways. Anybody who cares - about society - conservative, moderate, or liberal should read this. All economists, political scientists, politicians, and students of these fields should read this book carefully. The Economist's Tale is a true morality play. It looks at the way economics plays out in real-life using the framework of food policy in Sierra Leone. The author is not against market forces - but as economic theory has recognized in the last few decades - markets work (or don't work) with many attendant frictions and imperfections. Unfortunately, in the tale told within this book, people die because of these frictions.

The Economist's Tale is also quite interesting and riveting as a read. It is also a quick read. One learns much about Sierra Leone among other non-economic subjects. It appears nobody else has rated this book yet - which tends to indicate that few people have read it - a sad state of affairs.

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This book reveals one of the best-kept secrets of successful restaurateurs —regularly talking with their customers and would-be customers outside the restaurant through newsletters.

You'll find 50 examples of newsletters now being sent regularly by owners/managers of a wide variety of restaurant types —chain, independent, family, ethnic, health-food, and many more. Best of all, the newsletters are reproduced in near-actual size so that you can read what your peers are telling their readers!

Plus! You will pick up hundreds of ideas for promotions, new business opportunities, menus, employee relations, incentives, sponsoring community projects, and food and wine education —ideas so productive that some restaurateurs use no other advertising.

Restaurant Newsletters That Pay Off is a comprehensive guide to every aspect of newsletter publishing. If you are already using a newsletter, you'll see ways to improve it. If you've never been involved with a newsletter, this book will reassure you and have you putting one out in no time. You'll find everything you need to know to create, write, design, and distribute a newsletter that will strengthen your relationships with customers, develop their loyalty, increase public awareness of your restaurant, and, most importantly, boost sales.

"Our newsletter has become so established and so welcomed by our guests that it's as much a part of our product as the food and service." —Danny Meyer Union Square Cafe, New York City

"It's by far the single most effective advertising I use. Whenever I print an issue, I have to add an extra person to handle the additional bookings." —Andy Ayers Riddles Penultimate, University City, Missouri

"Our newsletter has paid for itself many times over." —Marley Majcher Abiento, Pasadena, California

As a restaurateur, you work hard to make a lasting impression on your guests in the hope that fond memories of a fine dining experience will keep them coming back for more. But memories fade, and your competitors work just as hard to become your customers' restaurant of choice. How can you help ensure that your restaurant is first in the customer's mind for that romantic evening, important business lunch, or special event?

Restaurant Newsletters That Pay Off

In this invaluable handbook you'll learn how to:

Select editorial content that captures readers' attention
Develop a brisk, engaging writing style
Create an attractive design for your newsletter
Build a mailing list of the people most likely to respond to your message
Use and select among a variety of distribution options, including mail, fax, and the Internet
Measure your newsletter's impact on business

Walter Mathews, creator and, for 20 years, publisher of Restaurant Briefing, the American Express restaurant newsletter, helps you decide on the look, length, tone, and frequency of your publication; negotiate with printers; build a mailing list; and more. More important, he shows you how to use your newsletter to get customers involved.

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The Author's spelling is correct.......2003-07-11

Just wanted to mention that the author's spelling of "Restaurateur" is CORRECT, instead of the all too common but incorrect Restauranteur as suggested by the previous reviewer of this book.

Proof reading is key!.......2002-11-12

I have gotten a lot out of this book. It has solid suggestions and the advice given is useful. However, perhaps the author might want to proof his own work, especially the cover. The sub title on the book, and it is viewable on the 'see larger photo' of jacket on this page, is 'How smart Restaurateurs' are using newsletters to build business' I would rather be a restauRANTeur than a restauRATeur!

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