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"Fun Ways to Learn Chinese is a serial program to teach you the Chinese language in an easy and fun way. Based on short cartoon jokes told by a professional actor, each lesson consists of a short humorous story through which you will learn three common words or phrases and two idiomatic sentences. All the texts are subtitled and dubbed in Chinese and English. Following this program step by step you will master the daily Chinese in very short time,...

Guide to teachers for recognizing their students' styles of acquiring and working with information: visual, auditory, and kinesthetic. Discusses observation techniques used by visual learners; the hearing and repetition procedures by auditory learners, and the hands-on approach of kinesthetic learners. Identifies ways educators can plan and implement strategies that will best meet the students' learning style.

This program introduces the main themes of the course. Teacher interviews and classroom footage illustrate why learning theory is at the core of good classroom instruction and demonstrate the broad spectrum of theoretical knowledge available for use in classroom practice.

As academic service-learning continues to grow rapidly, practitioners are discovering a pressing need for solid empirical research about learning outcomes. Where's the Learning in Service-Learning? helps define learning expectations, presents data about learning, and links program characteristics with learning outcomes. It is the first book to explore the experience of service-learning as a valid learning activity.

The film provides fascinating insights into the pressures facing non-Western people as they confront the global economy. Follow two women from Ladakh, or Little Tibet, on a reality tour of London to see what life in the West is really like. The women are exposed to aspects of modern urban life homelessness, old-age homes, massive garbage dumps that contrast sharply with the idealized media and advertising images impressed upon people's minds in the...

Conditions are needed for knowledge and skills learned in one context to be retrieved and applied to a novel situation, and how different teaching strategies can increase the possibilities for transfer. The program features a fourth-grade teacher and a seventh and eighth-grade teacher, with expert commentary from Lee S. Shulman, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

Teachers can enhance their students' motivation by encouraging them to be thoughtfully and critically engaged in the learning process, by supporting their drive for mastery and understanding, and by helping them become self-confident. This program takes a second look at classrooms seen previously to show how motivational techniques work in concert with other learning theories. Stanford University School of Education Dean Deborah Stipek adds her insight...

Eager for knowledge, a child is by nature curious about everything. Why, then, is school such an unpleasant place for some children? In this program, teachers, researchers, a psychoanalyst, a neurologist, a neurobiologist, a psychomotor specialist, and others examine the process of learning and the classroom as a learning center. Mastery of reading and writing-the key to unlocking all forms of communication and the entry point to many other exciting...