Academic teachers face a range of competing pressures and tasks as part of their professional lives. In this context, we believe that there is room for teachers to consider approaches that provide simple ideas for enhancing competence, reducing stress, increasing enjoyment and for helping them to teach with pleasure and satisfaction.

 This book contains a collection of advice that we hope will provide practical, thoughtful and actionable ideas to support your teaching. The strategies and tactics that are presented together provide a positive, empowered approach to teaching at university and college.

A handbook of easy school-wide one-day events that provide reading celebrations for elementary and middle school age students. The ideas are designed to be used for National Library Week, Read Across America Day, Reading Is Fundamental, and other local reading celebrations and events. They are also applicable for just day-by-day reading promotions in libraries. The programs are presented in depth with ideas, bibliographies, original skits, etc. Events are applicable for use in public and school library settings.

Does your teaching style need a "make-over" or at the very least a "touch-up"? This is the book you have been waiting for. It explains the theory / rationale for changing to an interactive method of teaching It is filled with ideas you can read today, integrate into your existing plans, and implement in your classroom tomorrow It explains specific strategies such as: writing prompts, games, drawing, photographs, "unfolding cases", crsosswords, fishbone, focused questions, and more It includes innovative methods which will ignite your own creativity and put the "spark" back in your teaching It includes ideas you can use in clinical settings as well as in the classroom Developed by experienced nurse educators, each chapter show how to implement innovative, cooperative group teaching methods that make students active participants in learning rather than passive recipients of information. Based on a Comprehensive Group Learning Model, the experiential learning techniques described in the book are designed to encourage students to think, analyze, problem solve, communicate, and reflect on their own abilities.