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Walden Authors From teaching strategies to the psychology of abandonment, Walden students and faculty members are sharing their expertise in new books.
Teaching Strategies: A Guide to Effective Instruction, is known for its practical, applied help with commonly used classroom teaching strategies and tactics. Perfect for anyone studying education or involved in a site-based teacher education program, the book focuses on topics such as lesson-planning, questioning, and small-group and cooperative-learning strategies. The book is known for its solid coverage of teaching strategies and applications, and the new edition continues on in this tradition, with even more teaching applications and an engaging feature that highlights real-life voices from the field.
Weaving a Way Home: A Personal Journey Exploring Place and Story
In the tradition of writers Lewis Hyde, Barry Lopez, Peter Matthiessen, Joseph Meeker, Steven Mithen, Paul Shepard, Gary Snyder, and Terry Tempest Williams, Van Gelder uses both creative nonfiction, narrative and evolutionary biological theory to explore complex terrain. Following Van Gelder's own travels, the book moves from the caves of the Dordogne lit only by the small beam of a flashlight, to an acacia thicket in Mozambique, to a black fly–infested bay inappropriately named Baie des Ha Ha in the inlands of Quebec, to the green line wrapped in barbed wire separating northern and southern Cyprus, to Abu Simbel's empty stone eyes in the Egyptian desert, and finally to the high road above Pelorus Sound on the rocky coasts of New Zealand. The author takes the reader to each place to create a storied landscape and explore new intellectual terrain. Van Gelder shows us that our collections of experiences, unique to us, can only be shared through the articulation of narrative. Weaving a Way Home will appeal to those deeply interested in knowing how we forge relationships with places and how that shapes who we are.
This book is for everyone who has a child, grandchild or stepchild, and for anyone who is planning to have a child in the future. For anyone who has become frustrated with the operation of the public school system, this book provides options. The way that your community operates the school system is up to you, the taxpayer. The public school system’s attendance policy was built around the needs of an agricultural society. We no longer need children home during the planting season through the harvest. Our families have been broken; marriages have ended from the stress of trying to juggle several children. All of us have become desperate for change. I offer these solutions from my family to yours, from one mom to another, one parent to another. We can fix the broken families, schools and communities of this nation.
This book offers practical psychology on how abandonment issues affect our ability to bond, trust and care for others or ourselves. It assists in the identification and healing of unresolved abandonment issues. It teaches you how to love yourself, then others. The effectiveness of these processes are enhanced in therapy with the use of its personal growth journal What I Must Give Myself ... First!
This is the first of two personal growth journals to be used with Thank You for Loving Me! The Psychology of Abandonment, Healing and Loving by John Ray Rice, A.C.S.W.
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Teaching Strategies: A Guide to Effective Instruction, 9th Edition
Weaving a Way Home is an inquiry into the complex relationship between people, place and story. In our memories and connections to a place, we are given one of the few opportunities to have deep relationships with place—relationships that cannot be described in words. Place can embody powerful emotions for us, and Leslie Van Gelder argues that we ourselves are places—geographical points possessing unique perspectives—that can feel displaced, replaced or immovable. While the places of the external world can be accessed through maps and a good GPS system, our emotional landscapes are best reached through the sharing of stories. 
Who’s Minding Our Future?
Thank You for Loving Me! The Psychology of Abandonment, Healing and Loving
What I Must Give Myself ... First! Someone Else Cannot Give Me What I Am Not Able or Willing to Give Myself