Laughter stimulates creativity, reduces stress, and motivates students to perform. These are only some of the benefits that make humor a great tool for the classroom. With practical strategies, simple methods, examples, and classroom-tested activities, this book shows you how to use appropriate humor with students to make learning easier and more fun. Chapters cover how to introduce humor into your teaching repertoire, the benefits and caveats, and how to develop your own unique comic style. With laughter, you will become a more effective educator and make teaching and learning more fun! All Levels.
Metalearning is the study of principled methods that exploit metaknowledge to obtain efficient models and solutions by adapting machine learning and data mining processes. While the variety of machine learning and data mining techniques now available can, in principle, provide good model solutions, a methodology is still needed to guide the search for the most appropriate model in an efficient way. Metalearning provides one such methodology that allows systems to become more effective through experience.
Cd-Rom only: Interactive CD-ROM packaged with the book reinforces learning with additional exercises, a new image glossary, and an audio glossary. More case studies and medical reports in the text and many more on CD-ROM provide a context for learning medical terms. Medical Detective activity on the CD-ROM encourages readers to identify and correctly use medical terms within context of health care. Additional new and updated pathology photographs illustrate common diseases and disorders. The Spanish glossary contains new illustrations of the human body, including a full-body view and views of the skeletal, nervous reproductive, and endocrine systems - with labels in English and Spanish. Medical Scramble exercises reinforce terms and make learning fun. Picture Show exercises present an illustration and give the student the opportunity to apply knowledge to medical situations.
Exploring Theatre focuses on the development of the total student, which includes developing personal resources, self-confidence, the ability to work well with others, and a life-long appreciation of theatre; learning to bolster self-concepts, build an ensemble, observe people and places more closely, and become more aware of the senses; learning basic acting skills such as improvisation, characterization, role preparation; exploring a range of career or avocational opportunities in theatre and theatre education.
This text is an ideal introductory theatre text for both middle and high school.
This book by Dr. Carlo Magno and Mr. Jerome Ouano for higher education can be used by preservice teachers, educational psychology majors, teachers, and practitioners in assessment. It features 9 chapters about assessment in the classroom context, stating objectives, constructing and analyzing tests, student grading, and the history of assessment
