Visible Learning: Feedback brings together two internationally known educators and merges Hattie's world-famous research expertise with Clarke's vast experience of classroom practice and application, making this book an essential resource for teachers in any setting, phase or country. With numerous case-studies, examples and engaging anecdotes woven throughout, the authors also shed light on what creates an effective feedback culture and provide the teaching and learning structures which give the best possible framework for feedback. It is this paradox which Visible Learning: Feedback aims to unravel and resolve.Ĭombining research excellence, theory and vast teaching expertise, this book covers the principles and practicalities of feedback, including: the variability of feedback, the importance of surface, deep and transfer contexts,student to teacher feedback,peer to peer feedback, the power of within lesson feedback and manageable post-lesson feedback. Yet, there remains a paradox: why is feedback so powerful and why is it so variable? In this new book, the authorsexplore the theory and practice of feedback, targeting those inter-ested in effective teaching, the process of learning and educationand how to improve it. Feedback is arguably the most critical and powerful aspect of teaching and learning. Visible Learning: Feedbackby Hattie and Clarke is a new additionto a vital area of learning research.
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This irritated me and I was so glad that McGarry had Violet voice these concerns throughout the book. While the club claims to want to help Violet, they shut her out of every decision and force her to take things into her own hands. As I mentioned earlier, the rules, especially those surrounding the women, of the Terror were beginning to rub me the wrong way. Going on the premise that this is the final book in the series, I think McGarry did a really good job wrapping everything up and addressing many of the issues I had. His father was part of the Terror but he died when Chevy was a baby, leaving him with so many questions and feeling stuck between the world of the Terror and that of normalcy. Chevy is about as close as you can get to being Terror, his grandfather Cyrus is the president and his uncle Eli is a core member. She has little faith in the Terror's ability to protect her family and has tried to cut them out of her life, going so far as to dump her Terror boyfriend, Chevy. Violet is the daughter of a Terror member who died a few years ago. This story, which I can only assume is the last in the series (mainly because there is a major conflict resolution that would make book four hard, but also because Goodreads doesn't have a fourth book listed), follows Violet and Chevy. With the newly available From Hell: Master Edition hardcover graphic novel, readers can experience the award-winning bestseller From Hell in an astonishing new light, carefully renovated and newly coloured by Eddie Campbell himself. Welcome to Whitechapel… as you’ve never seen it before.
Now he needs to switch up his game plan if he wants to win Lucie’s heart…before she gives it to somebody else. So when her childhood crush offers her lessons in seduction in exchange for getting him ready for the biggest night of his career, Lucie jumps at the chance.īut when his feelings begin to change, Reid finds himself in the fight of his life, and it’s not even in the octagon. Bookish girls don’t usually land the hot guys, and she’s gone unnoticed by a certain doctor for way too long. Lucie Miller needs some professional help of her own. But Lucie is no longer a scrawny little girl, and she’s more than capable of handling a bad boy with a bad attitude. Fortunately, his trainer knows the perfect physical therapist to get Reid healed and back into fighting shape-the little sister of Reid’s best friend. Only months before reclaiming his championship title, mixed martial artist Reid Andrews suffers a serious injury. He’ll teach her the art of seduction…for a price. A heartfelt “Thank you, Mother!” to each and every one of you. They all deserve our thanks and congratulations for facing the greatest of challenges and responsibilities – giving us life and nourishing that life with all their feminine gifts and capacity. In this month of May we remember each and every mother – the biological ones, the spiritual ones, the adopted ones. The woman who has birthed us, educated us, kissed our bruises, and believed in us no matter how many times we fail – she deserves the highest of honors and the most treasured title, Mother. It’s a powerful sentence taken from an apostolic letter, Mulieris Dignitatem (On the Dignity and Vocation of Women), written by the beloved Pope Saint John Paul II in 1988: “…the Church desires to give thanks to the Most Holy Trinity for the “mystery of woman” and for every woman – for that which constitutes the eternal measure of her feminine dignity, for the ‘great works of God’, which throughout human history have been accomplished in and through her.” ( Mulieris Dignitatem # 31) Throughout human history (and I don’t think anyone will challenge me), there has been no greater nor more beloved figure than the Mother. Gazing upward visitors ask me to translate the Latin phrase that runs around the edge of the cupola in the Women’s Atrium in Duc in Altum. To reject small, self-centered modes of thinking. Sagan, we also call on our community to join us in reflecting on our small stage in the vast cosmic arena.Īt FBB, this reflection further fuels us to strive for a hopeful, vibrant vision of society. He believed that to understand the cosmos is to understand our place in it, our interconnectedness with nature and one another, and to ask: “Are we willing to tolerate ignorance and complacency in matters that affect the entire human family?” A world in which poverty, hunger, and environmental destruction are relics of the past, and everyone can meet their basic needs.Īs an astronomer, Sagan pondered the uniqueness and fragility of life on our “pale blue dot,” motivating him to call for a similarly humanistic vision. We’ve been asking you lately to imagine what a truly humanist world would look like. Astronomer Carl Sagan, who would have turned 86 today, once wrote: “Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. Kinsella has a light touch and puckish humor.” - Kirkus Reviews “A have-your-cake-and-eat-it romp, done with brio and not a syllable of moralizing. “If a crème brûlée could be transmogrified into a book, it would be Confessions of a Shopaholic.” - The Star-Ledger You won’t have to shop around to find a more winning protagonist.” - People “Kinsella’s Bloomwood is plucky and funny. Praise for Sophie Kinsella and Confessions of a Shopaholic just a little something.įinally a story arises that Becky actually cares about, and her front-page article catalyzes a chain of events that will transform her life-and the lives of those around her-forever. Her only consolation is to buy herself something. And lately Becky’s been chased by dismal letters from the bank-letters with large red sums she can’t bear to read. Her job writing at Successful Saving magazine not only bores her to tears, it doesn’t pay much at all. The only trouble is, she can’t actually afford it-not any of it. “Sophie Kinsella keeps her finger on the cultural pulse, while leaving me giddy with laughter.”-Jojo Moyes, author of The Giver of Stars and The Last Letter from Your Loverīecky Bloomwood has a fabulous flat in London’s trendiest neighborhood, a troupe of glamorous socialite friends, and a closet brimming with the season’s must-haves. hijinks worthy of classic I Love Lucy episodes. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Party Crasher and Love Your Life comes “a hilarious tale. The narrator does a great job at portraying all of the different voices which helped me keep the characters from getting mixed up, a fate some audiobooks fall victim to. Without question, it’s a great story there are many different characters to follow, each very interesting, as well as plenty of foreshadowing which constantly leaves you wanting to know how everything is interconnected. Despite being written in 1996, the book’s concepts and seemingly psycho-analytical portrayal of people and the world seemed to hold true to this very day. It is, in my opinion, a satirical comedy that pokes fun at many current trends while bringing light and perspective to many every-day issues. With this book clocking in at 55 hours, endurance was the name of the game and boy do I need to work on my longevity.Īt first, I really enjoyed the story. The audiobook I listened to this month was Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. I honestly didn’t even realize the author was Robert Kirkman, the author of the extremely popular graphic novel series/television series, The Walking Dead until the cashier pointed it out. my favourite graphic novel publisher) and description were intriguing enough for me to pick it up blindly. I had never heard of it, but the front cover, artwork, publisher (Image comics a.k.a. They had a bit of a sale going on so I decided to check out what they had and that’s when I came across Outcast. I was enjoying a day in the city with my Mom and as we were browsing through different book and entertainment stores, I came across the graphic novel section in an HMV. Isn’t it fantastic when you discover something new on your own, only to realize that there is already all kinds of hype surrounding it, only somehow you seemed to have missed it? That was the case for myself and the graphic novel Outcast. Genre: Graphic Novel, Sequential Art, HorrorĪuthor Website | Illustrator Website | Colourist Website Author: Robert Kirkman Illustrator: Paul Azaceta Colourist: Elizabeth Breitweiser Instead, she is in search of answers after her sister's death. Phe is a new student at Devenish prep, though not because of punishment or some delinquent status. With a striking cast of characters and detailed, fluid writing, Hopcus has pitched a book that will appeal to both the romantics and the supernatural addicts. Mysterious and twisty, Shadow Hills blends romance, science, the supernatural and prep schools in an intriguing, well plotted way. The longer she stays there, the more she suspects that her sister's untimely death and her own destiny are intricately linked to those who reside in Shadow Hills. Phe is determined to get to the bottom of it. Even Zach - the gorgeous stranger Phe meets and immediately begins to lust after - seems as if he is hiding something serious. Not only does Shadow Hills' history boast an unexplained epidemic that decimated hundreds of its citizens in the 1700s, but its modern townies also seem eerily psychic, with the bizarre ability to bend metal. Once there, Phe quickly realizes that something is deeply amiss in her new town. Hoping to make sense of her sister's sudden demise and the cryptic dreams following it, Phe abandons her bubbly LA life to attend an uptight East Coast preparatory school in Shadow Hills, MA - a school which her sister mysteriously mentioned in her last diary entry before she died. After her sister Athena's tragic death, it's obvious that grief-stricken Persephone "Phe" Archer no longer belongs in Los Angeles. |