Student Student Life category: 717 books
by Marvin A. Henry, Ann Weber
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Little time? Big responsibility! If you are a cooperating teachers hosting a student teacher (or a curious college supervisor or clinical field director), this book is the quick reference tool that you need. We like to say, “It’s the little instruction book that should have come with your student...
A Competency-Based Approach for Student Leadership Development
New Directions for Student Leadership, Number 156
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
Looking to foster student leadership competency development? With this volume, you'll gain the latest research, resources, and tools to do just that.
There are many factors to consider when providing educational experiences that foster student leadership competency development. But, the process...
by Guy Chmieleski
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
Noise. Hurry. Crowds. heartens the Christian student to swim upstream against the culturally normative distracted life into the beauty and bounty of the with-God life. Through practical insights, students will be strengthened for the small wins that establish the practices of silence,...
by J. Patrick Biddix
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
A COMPREHENSIVE RESOURCE FOR UNDERSTANDING AND APPLYING RESEARCH METHODS
Research Methods and Applications for Student Affairs offers students and professionals in the field an authoritative and accessible guide to help navigate research in student affairs. This comprehensive resource on research...
Student Success in College
Creating Conditions That Matter
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2011
Student Success in College describes policies, programs, and practices that a diverse set of institutions have used to enhance student achievement. This book clearly shows the benefits of student learning and educational effectiveness that can be realized when these conditions are present. Based on...
Generation on a Tightrope
A Portrait of Today's College Student
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Praise for Generation on a Tightrope
"Over the last four decades, Arthur Levine has become the premier analyst of continuities and changes in the American college student population. In this impressive and comprehensive volume, Levine and coauthor Diane R. Dean provide an authoritative...
The Happy Student
5 Steps to Academic Fulfillment and Success
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
The Happy Student is written by a student for students. Daniel Wong doesn’t have a PhD in education or psychology, but his transformation from unhappy overachiever to happy straight-A student has given him unique insight into what motivates students intrinsically. By sharing with readers his personal...
Insider's Guide To Your First Year Of Law School
A Student-to-Student Handbook from a Law School Survivor
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2007
They say that there are more students in law school than there are practicing lawyers. If they’re right, then you need every possible advantage. In this insider’s guide, Georgia State University School of Law student Justin Spizman helps you get the head start you need. Whether you are considering...
Interactive Student Centered Learning
A Cooperative Approach to Learning
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Interactive Student Centered Learning: A Cooperative Approach to Learning concentrates on Student Centered Learning (SCL) which encompasses Active Learning (AL), Cooperative Learning (COL), Collaborative Learning (COLL), and occasionally Constructivism Learning (CONS) teaching methodologies. This...
Academic Advising Approaches
Strategies That Teach Students to Make the Most of College
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2013
Strong academic advising has been found to be a key contributor to student persistence (Center for Public Education, 2012), and many are expected to play an advising role, including academic, career, and faculty advisors; counselors; tutors; and student affairs staff. Yet there is little training...
Developing and Sustaining Successful First-Year Programs
A Guide for Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Praise for Developing and Sustaining Successful First-Year Programs
"An essential guide to the thorny task of not only developing successful first-year programs, the critical building blocks for student college completion, but also sustaining them over time. It should be at the top of...
Putting Students First
How Colleges Develop Students Purposefully
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
In Putting Students First, the authors argue that colleges can and should invest in holistic student development by recognizing and building on the students’ search for purpose in life, intellectually, spiritually, and morally. Based on a study conducted at ten religiously-affiliated schools, the...
by Joanne M. Weselby
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
If you’re a mature student headed for University, or you’re thinking about going back to school but haven’t made up your mind yet, then this book is meant for you!
Enclosed within the following chapters are a few hints, tips and anecdotes intended to help you to make the most of both...
The College and University Counseling Manual
Integrating Essential Services Across the Campus
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2016
Campus counseling services today must face the challenges of greater diversity and complexity on campus while making do with fewer resources. In order to be maximally effective, they must be willing to engage with other services within and beyond the campus itself. This comprehensive manual for campus...