Adolescent Education

Anxiety, depression, and their dangerous manifestations - substance abuse, eating disorders, self-injury, and suicide - are increasing student conditions at many competitive high schools. Paradoxically, most of these schools promote themselves as being committed to students' holistic development in academics, athletics, and the arts, and in their personal, social, and emotional growth. So why are so many students struggling?

¿Eres de los que ama COMPRAR locamente y pedir DINERO a sus padres? Entonces, este audio libro es para ti. Cuando tenemos poca edad, normalmente no nos brindan educación financiera y al crecer nos encontramos con un mundo que demanda estas habilidades. Usamos el DINERO desde pequeños, para comprar golosinas o el video juego que está de moda, pero en el fondo no entendemos bien de qué se trata. No te preocupes porque aquí encontrarás una guía para saber qué es el DINERO, cómo usarlo de forma inteligente y CÓMO MULTIPLICARLO.

This book is here to help offer you practical and inspirational advice about our constantly changing job market. It reveals the most exciting jobs for teenagers while also arming you with all the information you need for career success in more "traditional" areas, from accounting to teaching. This indispensable guide is ideal for teenagers, and career counselors will also find this a trustworthy companion for helping students with their future career planning.

Sentiremos la esperanza, el honor, el amor, la culpa, la infidelidad, la ira, la indignación, el placer, la amistad… Y todo, ¿para qué? Para disfrutar al máximo de los libros y, al tiempo, conocer mejor nuestras emociones, pues ese autoconocimiento nos conducirá al bienestar emocional. "Paulo Cosín nos ofrece un libro de una claridad encomiable en un tema que es fundamental. Su propuesta podría llamarse 'la lectura apasionada': intensa, vehemente, vital, de entrega a las tribulaciones y triunfos de los personajes para experimentarlo todo con ellos.

The Path of Good Teachers compiles Dharma Master Cheng Yen’s teachings to educators, such as how they should instruct their students in the current social climate, how to best align their attitudes and expectations with the task of education, and how to interact with students and parents. It also touches upon how students should interact with their teachers and how parents should have the proper mindset when teaching their children. This book is divided into ten chapters and emphasizes that educators must have a heart of joy and equanimity and spacious hearts that can accept new ideas and...

Janet Allen provides an inside look at some of the problems faced by teenagers in the classroom from the viewpoint of a teacher. This practical "how-to" audiobook will appeal to teachers, parents, and anyone else concerned about indifferent or hostile students. The author enters the teaching profession with plans for sharing her love of literature with her high school English class. The first day shatters her dreams. Instead of having a roomful of students eager to learn, she is faced with teenagers who not only never read Shakespeare, they never read anything.

For the majority of young adults today, the transition to independence is a time of excitement and possibility. But nearly five million young people experience entry into adulthood as abrupt abandonment, a time of disconnection from school, work, and family. For this growing population of Americans, which includes kids aging out of foster care and those entangled with the justice system, life screeches to a halt when adulthood arrives. Abandoned is the first-ever exploration of this tale of dead ends and broken dreams.

Socrate în blugi este un pariu cu adolescenţii de orice vârstă: oamenii curioşi, sensibili şi inteligenţi, pentru care succesul în viaţa personală şi în carieră nu a redus la tăcere întrebările sâcâitoare cu privire la sensul vieţii, nici nu a suprimat mirările copilului fascinat de cum se petrec lucrurile pe lume. Miza pariului, la fel ca în Apologia lui Socrate, e că filosofia rămâne cea mai bună pregătire pentru viaţa de adult.

Have you ever wondered how your early life shaped you? From beginning to say simple words like 'mama' and learning how to walk around unaided, to the first day of school and forming new friendships, everyone has been a child. The roots of our adult selves go right back to our first experiences. How we think, act and interact is influenced by our early years, yet most people don't know the key findings from the juiciest child development studies that can give us insight into our adult selves.