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Books : Professional & Technical : Education : Theory : Non-Formal Education
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Help students become independent learners.
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The prevalent on-demand services that are available in other walks of life must be adapted to the education and learning field if training departments are to be successful in the new millennium. As our affinity for technology and on-demand service and satisfaction grows, this culture will permeate itself in other parts of life. In particular, learners will demand equal capability for their personal and professional development. Training and development practitioners must take action now to provide learners with what they will soon want regularly - On-Demand Learning!This book provides managers, human resource specialists, and training personnel with a forewarning of the impending learning revolution along with ideas for developing new learning tools to meet the demand for self-service learning. It includes a comprehensive profile of the on-demand learner and a checklist for action for purveyors of learning. It identifies strategies to maximize the effectiveness of on-demand learning solutions and provides ways to match learners with solutions that work. It will also teach you how to develop on-demand learning solutions in a variety of media to facilitate learning in the digital age.
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A readable, scholarly overview of the modern day homeschooling movement. Includes vignettes from homeschooling families, war stories, research information, media reaction, footnotes, and statistics.
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Distance education and training provision has expanded dramatically over the past few years. This best-selling introduction to the field has helped many to understand the origins and background of distance education, and has been used by students and professionals as a guide to policy and practice. It has now been updated in the light of the developments in recent years in Eastern Europe and the enormous advances in the use of new technologies. A new case study of distance education in China is also included.
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This anthology explores Expeditionary Learning's roots in the educational philosophy of Kurt Hahn. The founder of Outward Bound, Hahn started two schools and numerous educational initiatives. Through storytelling, scholarship, and first-person accounts, this book describes Hahn's schools, his view on service, chalenge, adventure, and the belief that students have more in them than they realize. Readers will note that many of Expeditionary Learning's design principles have their origin in Hahn's schools.
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Much academic learning can take place in students' everyday environments. For example, a local shopping mall can be the site for learning a great deal about human behavior; exploring a cemetery can be like reading a book. To help teachers turn these themes and 10 others into meaningful interdisciplinary learning experiences, Dr. Knapp has developed organizing problems, background information, outcomes, over 200 ideas for activities (labeled with the academic subjects to be learned), reflection questions, and performance assessments. The activities are geared for students in grades four through nine, but could be adapted easily for lower or higher grade levels.
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The "Service Learning - Student's Guide & Journal for Elementary School" will help you to make Service-Learning a more meaningful and educational experience for your student's.
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One World, One Earth is a handbook for adults who want to work with children to explore peace, environmental and social justice issues. It features sensitive discussions about how to co-learn and co-lead with young people, and detailed suggestions for organising a group within existing institutions (schools, scout troops, churches), creating a cooperative learning environment, involving the wider community, and sustaining enthusiasm.
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Tutor Quest is a practical handbook for individuals looking for learning assistance, whether for themselves or their children. Not only does Dr. Gordon provide expert background information on tutoring, but he also includes a handy checklist to make evaluating the tutoring market easier and more effective.Included in the book are the National Better Business Bureau Trade Practice Standards and Professional Guidelines for Educational Tutoring. James E. Baumhart, President and CEO of the Better Business Bureau of Chicago and Northern Illinois, provides the foreword.
School administrators and teachers also will find this guide valuable when extra assistance is needed to help struggling learners.
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Is Humanity Good at Its Core? Is there real goodness in the world? Is altruism alive and well? A book on Human Service Alliance invites us to take a closer look at these and other questions. The book, "Better Than Money Can Buy: The NEW Volunteers," leaves little doubt and offers an antidote to the cynicism of our times. Human Service Alliance (HSA) volunteers have been described as "angels" and HSA has been called "the next best thing to heaven," yet it is the true story of a group of ordinary people who perform extraordinary, selfless deeds in daily service to others. Hundreds of volunteers at this unique Winston-Salem organization care for adults who are dying, children with developmental disabilities, and people who suffer from chronic pain. The organization and its efforts have been described as being similar to the work of Mother Teresa, with an American, nondenominational approach.Human Service Alliance is attracting world-wide attention and its success serves as inspiration and a model for others seeking to start an all-volunteer service organization. People travel from all over the world at their own expense to serve 50-60 hours a week, receiving room and board but no stipend. Why do they do it? Can only a few special people be a part of this? What is the motivation?
Stories and commentaries in the book reveal magical transformations which happen among the servers
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How the Book Evolved
I had the honor of taking a tour of Georgia’s first YCA facility, which started as a C-130 cargo plane ride packed with 100 other educators, clergy, legislators, attorneys, and child advocates. On ground student-cadets, with verbal skills that rival any public speaking professional, treated us to vivid presentations about their backgrounds and YC experience. Each teen was poised, well informed, self-motivated, and not afraid to make eye contact. They spoke of their past mistakes, current achievements and future goals, and were a far cry from the confused, aimless dropouts they once were.The applause following the presentations was deafening.
Quick Program Overview
Once cadets complete an initial 22-week course, after which they earn GED’s, high school diplomas, technical and/or college credits, they receive a full year of post-graduation counseling with a community mentor of their choice. Graduate careers range from computer and other high-skills jobs and certified self-employable licensures, to military positions, with many becoming degree-seeking college students. Besides the solid structure of the program, much credit is due to the caring, well-trained YC Directors, Cadre, teachers, and counselors that make this program an inch-per-inch, resounding success. DISABILITY? NO WAY NOW!
One example of the life-altering aspects of Youth ChalleNGe is the poignant story of a cadet who is deaf and whose parents placed her in foster care when they could no longer handle her needs. After passing through a dozen foster homes and schools in her 16 years, she is now graduating from YC with a high school diploma and college courses under her belt. She will have ear surgery in the near future (paid for by YC benefactors) moving her life onto a successful track. Her achievements are a direct result of her inner strength and the safe, secure, nurturing environment the YC program has provided.Tuition for this unique, voluntary program is free for all students, thanks to our tax dollars and private, local commitments. The cost? Far under the day cost to house a teen in a youth detention center. Sounds like a good use of that tax money to me.
Minors who have quit middle and high schools, as well as alternative and night schools, dig deep holes for themselves. With little education and no diploma, they have nowhere to go and few options. Youth ChalleNGe is a top high school dropout program in the country and has a tough, demanding, no-nonsense approach to rebuilding children’s lives. Their mission is clear: to integrate military personnel within our civilian communities and provide at-risk youth with solutions: the education and life skills they need to become healthy, fit, employable, productive members of society. Every cadet I’ve met -- several hundred in all -- is just that.
Too often, children’s programs allow many to fall through the cracks, left to fend for themselves when of legal age. YC’s highly academic, community service-oriented program is a safety net our education systems need. If you know an at-risk teen who could use a new direction or second chance, please call the National Guard Bureau, Youth Programs Division at 703.607.
The National Guard Youth Foundation, the non-profit organization comprised of wonderful volunteers who generate funding for the YC programs, accepts donations with joy and tax deduction capability.