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The summer after university, Emma Woodhouse returns home to the village of Highbury to prepare for the launch of her interior design business. As she cultivates grand plans for the future, she re-enters the household of her hypochondriac father, who has been living alone on a steady diet of vegetables and vitamin supplements. Soon Emma befriends Harriet Smith, the naïve but charming young teacher's assistant at an English-language school run by the...
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Learning to read and write can be fun! By identifying individual needs and implementing effective teaching methods, students can be motivated to learn through creative programs and word games that students enjoy. This program demonstrates shared reading, guided reading, and uses "Learning Centres" to: Make the learning focus clear through rephrasing, reinforcement and summarising Encourage students to predict, reflect, discuss and support each other....
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Four young primary school students are encountering problems in the schoolyard. Peer mediators are assigned to help sort out their issues - without teacher involvement - by listening, understanding and empowering them to agree on a solution. Peer mediation is an effective initiative to enable intervention with minor issues and prevent them from becoming major problems and learning distractions. Older students, equipped with training and a mediator's...
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Effective schools develop strategies to ensure learning is the key focus and the school is a friendly place. They use open communication and focus groups to engage students, staff and parents in the planning process, to review and develop ideas for improvement. Effective schools have practical strategies for managing bullying and difficult students. Peer mediation is an innovative way to develop student leaders, and to help students manage conflict,...
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Maths is a numbers game - at least it can be! This program shows how to encourage students to learn and develop their numeracy skills through fun and challenging activities. Activities are designed with a clear purpose, helping students to explore and think for themselves, share strategies, and gain understanding. Time to practise and discuss enables students to learn from each other and share their experiences. As students explore the activities,...
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Syah Walker wants to prove herself as a peer counselor at Emdaria North Middle School, but seventh-grader Nali (recently cut from the magnoball team) may well prove too much to handle--Nali's mindscape is filled with dark feelings of betrayal and grief, manifesting as monstrous mental constructs that pursue and threaten both girls.
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Eighth-grader Syah Walker is in an escalating war of cruel pranks with her older stepsister, Keelah, who is jealous of all the attention Syah is getting because of her skills as a peer counselor at Emdaria North Middle School, and the only solution seems to be to require the two girls to enter a MindLink session with each other--but once inside her sister's mind Syah finds a fairytale mindscape where Keelah has become a dragon inside a castle fortress,...
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Syah Walker is a peer counselor at Emdaria North Middle School and she believes that Aman, a new boy at school, needs her help--and when an emergency MindLink session allows her to Drift into his mind she finds he is suffering from severe anxiety and fear of failure, and his mental constructs are a complex of secret societies, conspiracies, and threatening monsters that she must overcome if she is to help him.
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