![]() ![]() Gamified Learning PlatformsĪs an educator, you control what your students study - but not how they study it. These tools offer something different for every student so you can start your self-paced classroom on the right foot. ![]() That’s why we’ve compiled a list of the top 5 tools that can help you along. Your solution to successfully introducing this classroom model lies in the basic principle of self-paced learning itself: use strategies that creatively tailor it to the learning styles of each student. McDaniel emphasize that learning things "the hard way" only creates the illusion of mastery. In their book Make It Stick, business consultant Peter C. However, this doesn't mean that implementing the self-paced classroom is a complete challenge. If it's the first time your students are encountering the self-paced classroom, there will inevitably be a learning curve. Edutopia finds that this is especially true for self-paced learning. Yet the trickiest thing about trying something new is getting started. This means that the self-paced classroom can ultimately tap into every student's limitless potential to learn at their own pace instead of constraining their performance to our narrow definitions of success. ![]() In elementary, middle, and high school, courses are easily customized through different activities and pacing strategies. ![]()
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![]() ![]() I had to keep pausing so that my brain could catch up with my eyes as I read. Indeed, I found it such a mind blowing concept that reading it felt like being on some kind of fairground ride where you don’t quite know where you are or what perspective you’re viewing. I have absolutely no idea how I’m going to review The Last House on Needless Street because I’m not quite sure what it is I’ve just read! Part horror story, part thriller, part psychological exploration, this is a book that defies categorisation but that is utterly spellbinding. ![]() ![]() But it’s not what you think… My Review of The Last House on Needless Street In the dark forest at the end of Needless Street, something lies buried. You think you know what’s inside the last house on Needless Street. This is the story of Ted, who lives with his daughter Lauren and his cat Olivia in an ordinary house at the end of an ordinary street.Īll these things are true. Published by Sceptre imprint Viper on 18th March 2021, The Last House on Needless Street is available for pre-order here. My enormous thanks to the folk at Viper Books for sending me a surprise copy of The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward in return for an honest review. Netgalley Advocate Netgalley General Data Protection Regulations A Publication Day Extract from The Night She Met the Duke by Sarah Mallory.An Extract from The Nice Guy and the Devil by Tom Trott. ![]() ![]() I’d dabbled with a few management-type books, but it was in a session with my performance coach (Chris Sparks) in November 2020 that I heard about The Making of a Manager. How often should we be having meetings? What should we be talking about in meetings anyway? Aren’t meetings just a corporate-waste-of-time? What’s the role of each team member? Do they need roles at all? What ‘goals’ are we working towards as a company? Should we have goals at all? ![]() ![]() As a team, we were getting things done, and the business was growing in a reasonable fashion, but I knew there were lots of unknown unknowns that I could improve in. Throughout 2020, I knew that my ‘management skills’ needed work. Then around April 2020, Elizabeth came on, initially as my personal assistant, but she quickly took charge of a few other aspects of the business too. Angus came on board around January 2020, first as a freelance writer, then later as a full-time contractor working on video scripts, blog posts and course logistics. I hired my first full-time ’employee’ around November 2019 – this was Cristian, our original Head of Content. I learned so much about being a manager, and my management skills (and our team’s effectiveness and happiness) immediately improved after I started to do some of the things that Julie recommends. One of my most highlighted books of all time. ![]() This book is a must-read guide to being a good manager. ![]() ![]() ![]() Set in the stunning ruins of a 500-year old fort in southern India, the Ghost of Golconda blends medieval history and engineering, a dollop of fiction and a touch of potty humor into a real nail-biter. The Sen Kids are ready for the challenge. Why the thief leave behind all the priceless jewelry?.Why have the Golconda royals returned to haunt their ancient home?.Now, on the eve of the 500-year celebrations of the building of Golconda Fort, a priceless artefact has gone missing and reports are beginning of emerge of eerie music playing at the ancient citadel With the public spooked and the police at a loss, the celebrations are in danger of being cancelled. ![]() ![]() Over three hundred years ago, the last king of Golconda entrusted his faithful companion with a secret before charging out to meet his enemies in a valiant, and doomed, last stand. ![]() ![]() “On an island,” thinks the grandmother, “everything is complete.” In The Summer Book, Jansson creates her own complete world, full of the varied joys and sorrows of life. They discuss things that matter to young and old alike: life, death, the nature of God and of love. Together they amble over coastline and forest in easy companionship, build boats from bark, create a miniature Venice, write a fanciful study of local bugs. The grandmother is unsentimental and wise, if a little cranky Sophia is impetuous and volatile, but she tends to her grandmother with the care of a new parent. This brief novel tells the story of Sophia, a six-year-old girl awakening to existence, and Sophia’s grandmother, nearing the end of hers, as they spend the summer on a tiny unspoiled island in the Gulf of Finland. ![]() ![]() ![]() Synopsis: In The Summer Book Tove Jansson distills the essence of the summer-its sunlight and storms-into twenty-two crystalline vignettes. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Loathsome Garrison Keillor has an amusingĬolumn about how bad he finds Sister Carrie on rereading it. American Tragedy hasīeen called "the worst-written great novel in the world" and the otherwise It is an open secret that even critics who admire Dreiser, consider & clobbers her, but is tried and executed for the crime. To let a pregnant former girlfriend stand in the way of his chance for Of a young man who is working his way towards the American dream and refuses Meanwhile,Īn American Tragedy tells the story, based on a sensational true crime, Married man who stole to fund their escape to Chicago, kills himself afterīeing abandoned by Carrie and ending up in Bowery flophouses. Uses her feminine wiles to sleep her way from the factories and saloons That end, Sister Carrie tells the story of a pretty small town girl who Truths about the bleak aspects of modern industrial urban life. Lower classes in order to reveal what I gather were supposed to be shattering Of Naturalism-which consists of writing about sex and violence in the Theodore Dreiser is considered to be the leading American practitioner ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Some of the other titles in the series include Rocket Ship Galileo, Space Cadet, Starman Jones, and Have Spacesuit, Will Travel. Heinlein's fourth novel, and the third of his Juveniles Series for Scribner's. Originally published in 1949, Red Planet was Robert A. This means that the boy's families will be forced to remain near the south pole during the harsh winter months, when the temperatures easily fall to over one hundred below. When the boys rescue Willis from the headmaster's office, the creature recites a conversation he overheard about the Company putting an end to seasonal migrations by the colonists. When he finds Willis during a room inspection, he confiscates him as an illegal pet and threatens to sell him to the London Zoo. The new headmaster at the school makes life miserable for the boys. When Jim and his friend Frank go off to the Company boarding school, located in a town far away near the martian equator, they take Willis with them. Bouncers are rare, they possess moderate intelligence, and they have the ability to exactly reproduce any sound that they hear. He has a companion, a "Bouncer" he named Willis, which is a basketball shaped, furry, native creature. Jim Marlowe is a young colonist growing up in the South Colony on Mars. ![]() ![]() ![]() This isn't typically my genre, but I was looking for a lighter read and I'm always interested in reading queer stories. I came to this book after I saw it won the Lammy for Gay Romance. ![]() Read Camille’s review in its entirety here. Most of the events, however, are concentrated around what happens in the time between his mother dying and his being imprisoned and the resolution of that event. Because this is Joseph’s autobiography, we get to follow him from as young an age as the character can remember to his present day, which is 1778 or so, when he is about sixteen. This helps establish the system of employment-by-apprenticeship, medical aid consisting of bleeding the bad “humours,” the supposed evils of bathing, and the villification of the poor by sending people to workhouses. Through Joseph, readers enjoy first-hand accounts of how life is lived. I think this choice in narrative style allows for the realities of life in 1770s London to be made amply clear without resorting to long descriptive paragraphs. Joseph Chapman, My Molly Life is a story told from first-person perspective and, as we later find out, is something of an autobiography of (the fictional) Joseph Chapman. ![]() ![]() Lawrence Taitte, The Dallas Morning News ![]() ![]() It’s definitely a show worth seeing and seeing again.…the best theatrical Christmas surprise in town.” Jones, who as dean put Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music on the musical map in the 1970s, has crafted a compact score that constantly reworks the memorable melody symbolizing the love between the child and his grown-up, but still childlike, friend.… a fine work, solidly done. “ A Christmas Memory seems more like a valentine-fragile and constructed of antique lace-than a Christmas card…The opera’s storyline is uneventful compared with the blood-and-thunder plots of so many operas…but it breathes the nostalgic air of innocence lost forever.The opera was written as a labor of love by the composer, who was deeply moved when he first read the story and who knew he would one day set this story to music. ![]() This program is often rebroadcast for the holiday season. It was sensitively adapted for television by Eleanor Perry, and the resulting screenplay, directed by Frank Perry and starring Geraldine Page, was broadcast by ABC Television in December, 1966, winning the Peabody Award for the best program of the year as well as many other awards. Instrumentation: *2,*2,*2,*2/2,2,1,1/T,1P,Hp/StgsĪ Christmas Memory is one of Truman Capote’s most famous and beloved stories, a tender, delicate tale of great lyric beauty. ![]() ![]() ![]() Underneath the metaphor, however, is Kafka’s own conflict between the demands of modern society and the desires of an artist. On one level, Gregor Samsa is the result of a metamorphosis, but on another, he is a vital but tragic phase of the metamorphosis itself, and thus the catalyst in the emergence of a promising young butterfly: his sister Grete. The caterpillar is dead, having shed its skin layer by layer, its cells consuming themselves from within a necessary sacrifice to create something that can achieve freedom. ![]() The pretty butterfly emerges and takes to the skies, no longer a sluggish worm confined to the shrubs… but what of the caterpillar? It is not the same creature that now gracefully flits from flower to flower. However, there is an ugly side to this process, both literally and symbolically, one which plays an important role in Franz Kafka’s short story. What does the word ‘metamorphosis’ bring to mind? It is probably the transformation of caterpillar to butterfly that we most closely associate with this word for centuries it has been a symbol of positive change and personal growth. That is the horror of life – the terror of art.” – Franz Kafka (Janouch, 1969) “The dream reveals the reality, which conception lags behind. ![]() |