Great teaching is the key to student retention. But... How do you keep students engaged? How do you retain students who don't seem to care about their grades? How do you teach them to think through problems for themselves? How do you grade fairly without it taking up all your time? For many college faculty the realities of teaching current students can come as quite a shock. For new faculty who lack experience, Win Them Over Faster offers super-practical advice that has been classroom tested. This book will help you build the 14 essential skills successful faculty use to engage and retain students. Technical and community college faculty with no teaching experience consistently find the tips in this book easy to master and apply.

Win Them Over Faster: Dynamic Techniques for College Adjuncts and New Faculty

Education & Teaching

Linehan, Patricia

Higher & Continuing Education

Mixed Pack Press

"Farming is BORING," Jovek constantly complains. But then Mount Zie erupts. Wind flattens the forests. Ash clogs the air. Molten lava and something else far more dangerous pours from the ruptured volcano. Everything changes. What could be so terrible that the wild animals have all fled? Why are the birds walking, afraid to fly? Jovek's Grandfather is adamant someone has to stop the farmers who raced off to kill the mysterious beast from Zie. Excited and terrified at the same time, Jovek mounts his horse, says goodbye to his twin sister, Youli, and rides off to find the men. This isn't exactly the heroic journey he'd imagined, however. First, he's riding an old plow horse, slow and broad as a table. Second, he has no real weapons. Third, an ancient underworld creature is going with him as a guide: the Urchii. The strange creature has too many teeth to count. Sharp teeth. And it is always hungry. The Urchii claims to know how to kill the beast from the volcano, but can Jovek trust it? The quest seemed simple: deliver the Urchii to the band of farmers and head straight back home. But Jovek soon finds out no decision is simple when you are responsible for life and death choices involving the people and world you love.

The Patchen

Bowker

This engaging, illustrated guide to the modernist movement in American literature provides a wealth of information on American modernism, the Lost Generation, modernism in the American novel, the Harlem Renaissance, modernism in poetry and drama, and the literary culture of the Moderns. This updated volume is in full color for the first time and features numerous resources, such as a new section covering the Great Depression, informative sidebars, a chronology, cross-references, and further reading suggestions, among others. Topics include: Surrealism, expressionism, and Freudian symbolism The Harlem Renaissance Modernism in the American novel, poetry, and theater The Lost Generation The Great Depression And more.

American Modernism, 1910-1945 (Backgrounds to American Literature)

Teen & Young Adult

Lathbury, Roger

Education & Reference

Chelsea House Pub

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