Bücher von Deborah

A practical guide to ensuring your child's success in school.What makes children succeed in school? For the past twenty years, the focus has been on building children's self-esteem to help them achieve more in the classoom. But positive reinforcement hasn't necessarily resulted in measureable academic improvement. Through extensive research, combined with ongoing classroom implementation of their ideas, Deborah Stipek, Dean of the School of Education at Stanford, and Kathy Seal have created a program that will encourage motivation and a love of learning in children from toddlerhood through elementary school. Stipek and Seal maintain that parents and teachers can build a solid foundation for learning by helping children to develop the key elements of success: competency, autonomy, curiosity, and critical relationships. The authors offer both practical advice on understanding different learning styles and down-to-earth tips about how to manage difficult issues -- competition, grades, praise, bribes, and rewards -- that inevitably arise for parents and teachers.Most important, Stipek and Seal help parents create an enriching environment for their children at home that will mesh with the school experience and become a positive, effective climate for learning.

Voted number 6 out of 18 Best Shorts Memoir Books by BookAuthority.org. Deborah Gray writes about growing up at the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in Southeastern Kentucky in the early sixties under the living guidance of her maternal grandmother. This memoir is a love story dedicated to the memories of a six-year-old child and the years that follow. There is laughter, joy, sadness, and sometimes inner contemplation, but never a dull moment. Deborah's Maw, Rose Wilson, will give you a vision into wisdom that we all seek, love and all crave. It is a book you won't be able to put down.