50 Activities for Self-Directed Teams

The importance of emotional intelligence as a critical factor in personal and business success is now well established. Emotional Intelligence in Action, Second Edition shows how to tap the power of EI to build effective emotional skills and create real change for leaders and teams.
This book breaks new ground in providing a cross-reference matrix that maps sixty-five exercises to four leading emotional intelligence models – the EQ-I 2.0 or EQ360, TESI and TESI Short, the MSCEIT, and EISA – making it easy to use with all the models.

Unlike other books in this area, this resource not only shows readers what they can do, but shows them how to do it. An organizing, visual communication, team-building, commitment-gaining, and project planning tool, the work breakdown structure (WBS) helps project managers communicate with their teams, clients, and management. This book provides an eight step process that facilitates the development of the WBS. The process defines the project through its deliverables and validates the initial target date by critical path analysis. The result is a clear visualization of the project’s objectives, deliverables, activities, and schedule.

A collection of over 80 lively and motivating grammar activities for immediate use in the classroom, covering all the main grammar points of an elementary English language syllabus. The title may be useful for consolidating and recycling grammar. Activities include crosswords, logic problems, personality tests, quizzes, wordsearches, games and cultural games, and are also a mixture of group activities, pair work and individual tasks. The activities are suitable for all teaching situations - including mixed ability classes - or can be used for self-study and homework tasks.

A collection of over 80 lively and motivating grammar activities for immediate use in the classroom, covering all the main grammar points of an elementary English language syllabus. The title may be useful for consolidating and recycling grammar. Activities include crosswords, logic problems, personality tests, quizzes, wordsearches, games and cultural games, and are also a mixture of group activities, pair work and individual tasks. The activities are suitable for all teaching situations - including mixed ability classes - or can be used for self-study and homework tasks.

This is the second edition of Marvin N. Tolman’s bestselling book Hands-On Physical Science Activities for Grades K-6. Like all the books in The Science Problem-Solving Curriculum Library series, this revised edition offers compelling activities that help teach students thinking and reasoning skills along with basic science concepts and facts. The book’s activities follow the discovery/inquiry approach and encourage students to analyze, synthesize, and infer based on their own hands-on experiences. This new edition includes an expanded Teacher Information section, inquiry-based models and complex cooperative learning projects using materials found around the home. Many of the activities easily become great science fair ideas as well as activities that correlate with the national standards.

DJVUThis book follows the successful Mathematical Activities by the same author and has been written to provide teachers with further ideas to enrich their teaching of mathematics. It contains 127 investigations, puzzles, games and practical activities together with a commentary which provides solutions and additional ideas. These activities are suitable for use with children from age nine upwards to stimulate their interest and encourage mathematical thinking. ...

Engaging online language learning activities using the Moodle platform
A recipe book for creating language activities using Moodle 1.9
Get the most out of Moodle 1.9's features to create enjoyable, useful language learning activities
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Specification by Example: How Successful Teams Deliver the Right Software /by Gojko Adzic. Specification by Example is a must read for anyone serious about delivering software that matters.
In it, author Gojko Adzic shares the secrets of how teams all over the world specify, develop, test, and deliver the right software, without defects, in very short iterative delivery cycles. Based on dozens of interviews with successful teams worldwide, this brilliantly rich and informative book will change the way software developers work.

This comprehensive resource book contains an easy-to-use set of short activities essential for anyone teaching Business English. Reflecting real-life business activities such as emails, noisy telephone conversations, making excuses, negotiating, handling customer complaints and cultural awareness, Five-Minute Activities for Business English helps teachers mirror the pacey feel of the work environment.[hide][/hide]

This new book embodies the philosophy of learning through play. It aims to equip those faced with teaching foreign languages in the primary sector with a large collection of classroom activities which encourage pupils to use the foreign language in a fun and physical way, while focusing on speaking skills. Readers are given background into how to use the activities effectively, how to combine activities in one lesson and how to adapt activities to suit different age groups to ensure they get the most out of their lessons.

Each book contains the topics found in the syllabus of typical Primary School English course books. There are lots of fun, practical activities involving listening, doing and creating. Progression is carefully developed, introducing students to the written language gradually; the first book contains mostly listenings and practical activities, and each successive level contains vocabulary and language activities matched to the exercise types and skills of students of that level.