Unleash powerful teaching and the science of learning in your classroom Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning empowers educators to harness rigorous research on how students learn and unleash it in their classrooms. In this book, cognitive scientist Pooja K. Agarwal, Ph.D., and veteran K–12 teacher Patrice M. Bain, Ed.S., decipher cognitive science research and illustrate ways to successfully apply the science of learning in classrooms settings. This practical resource is filled with evidence-based strategies that are easily implemented in less than a minute—without additional prepping, grading, or funding! Research demonstrates that these powerful strategies raise student achievement by a letter grade or more; boost learning for diverse students, grade levels, and subject areas; and enhance students’ higher order learning and transfer of knowledge beyond the classroom. Drawing on a fifteen-year scientist-teacher collaboration, more than 100 years of research on learning, and rich experiences from educators in K–12 and higher education, the authors present highly accessible step-by-step guidance on how to transform teaching with four essential strategies: Retrieval practice, spacing, interleaving, and feedback-driven metacognition. With Powerful Teaching, you will: Develop a deep understanding of powerful teaching strategies based on the science of learning Gain insight from real-world examples of how evidence-based strategies are being implemented in a variety of academic settings Think critically about your current teaching practices from a research-based perspective Develop tools to share the science of learning with students and parents, ensuring success inside and outside the classroom Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning is an indispensable resource for educators who want to take their instruction to the next level. Equipped with scientific knowledge and evidence-based tools, turn your teaching into powerful teaching and unleash student learning in your classroom.
This book examines the concept of social psychology in today’s context. It analyses the theoretical concepts of social psychology and their applicationto other fields. It further explores the discipline in a cultural, historical, and philosophical context with special emphasis on religion. The volume goes beyond individual focus and directs its attention to society as the centre of influence. It advocates for a symbiotic relationship between the concepts of social psychology and their implementation in a society transitioning from being value-oriented to commerce-oriented. The book also suggests ways in which social psychology can assist in dealing with issues plaguing today’s world. This book will be useful to students of psychology, applied psychology, sociology, social work, public health, gender, and women studies. It will also be indispensable to professionals working in the field of paediatrics, forensic medicine, psychiatry, and law enforcement authorities like police and judiciary.
National Bestseller featured by Good Morning America, NPR's Code Switch, The New York Times, and The Guardian "Realistic and trustworthy" -- InStyle "This isn’t just another self-help book. It gives us a clear-eyed look at the way social systems drain our energy, and a concrete set of principles to rely on as we declare independence from these systems." —Martha Beck, New York Times bestselling author of The Way of Integrity "This book is for anyone who’s ever removed a 'relaxing' sheet mask only to realize it hasn’t transformed you so much as your trash can.” —Jessica DeFino, The Unpublishable From women’s mental health specialist and New York Times contributor Pooja Lakshmin, MD, comes a long-overdue reckoning with the contradictions of the wellness industry and a paradigm-shifting program for practicing real self-care that will empower, uplift, and maybe even start a revolution. You may have noticed that it’s nearly impossible to go even a couple days without coming across the term self-care. A word that encompasses any number of lifestyle choices and products—from juice cleanses to yoga workshops to luxury bamboo sheets—self-care has exploded in our collective consciousness as a panacea for practically all of women’s problems. Board-certified psychiatrist Dr. Pooja Lakshmin finds this cultural embrace of self-care incomplete at best and manipulative at worst. Fixing your troubles isn’t simple as buying a new day planner or signing up for a meditation class. These faux self-care practices keep us looking outward—comparing ourselves with others or striving for a certain type of perfection. Even worse, they exonerate an oppressive social system that has betrayed women and minorities. Real self-care, in contrast, is an internal, self-reflective process that involves making difficult decisions in line with our values, and when we practice it, we shift our relationships, our workplaces, and even our broken systems. In Real Self-Care, Lakshmin helps readers understand what a real practice of caring for yourself could—and does—look like. Using case studies from her practice, clinical research, and the down-to-earth style that she's become known for, Lakshmin provides a step-by-step program for real and sustainable change and solace. Packed with actionable strategies to deal with common problems, Real Self-Care is a complete roadmap for women to set boundaries and move past guilt, treat themselves with compassion, get closer to themselves, and assert their power. The result—having ownership over one’s own life— is nothing less than a personal and social revolution.
This book covers all small details about Underwater Sensor Networks (UWSN). Researchers can use this book as a prerequisite before starting any research on underwater networks or underwater applications. This book covers the introduction, challenges, different architectural models for UWSN, various attacks on UWSN, underwater applications, and networking layers. The target audience includes professors and students in engineering, and researchers and engineers working on marine applications. In academic level, the book is helpful for students having Networking and Information Security as elective subject and doing projects in Wireless Networks. It is also helpful for spostgraduates and Ph.D. researchers to learn basics of Underwater Sensor Networks.
Want to lose seven kilos in a month? Would you like to get that bikini bod in four weeks flat? Or do you want a ten-day solution to a sexier you? If you believe that weight loss is a race against time and a screeching, gasping sprint to the finish line, it is better you don't read this book. There is no such thing as a 'quick fix' for weight loss. The key to a hotter you is to take it easy, really listen to your body, and make measured and sustainable nutritional and lifestyle changes. The starting point of any weight-loss programme doesn't begin with what's on your plate, it begins with what's in your mind. Nutritionist to the stars Pooja Makhija gives you a combined mind-body holistic solution, a convenient, easy-to-use reference. So you can be in the best shape of your life. Every day from now on.
Pocket Emergency Medicine contains the essential information that residents and medical students in the emergency department need to have at their fingertips. Major sections cover symptoms and diseases of each organ system as well as infectious diseases, environmental exposures, hematology and oncology, pediatric emergencies, the psychiatric patient, toxicology, airway management, and trauma. Information is presented in concise, rapid-access format, with easy-to-scan bulleted lists and tables. Chapters follow a standard structure—differential diagnosis, history, classic findings, critical studies, ED interventions, pearls, and references. The six-ring binder can accommodate the student's or resident's own notes. New topics covered in this edition include bioterrorism, distraction injuries, and indications for bedside emergency ultrasound. A special considerations section has been added to each chapter. Other new features include an acronym table, an introductory differential diagnosis table boxed for quick access, and an updated appendix with ACLS/PALS protocols, ICU medications, antibiotics, and formulas.
This text discusses simulation process for circuits including clamper, voltage and current divider, transformer modeling, transistor as an amplifier, transistor as a switch, MOSFET modeling, RC and LC filters, step and impulse response to RL and RC circuits, amplitude modulator in a step-by-step manner for more clarity and understanding to the readers. It covers electronic circuits like rectifiers, RC filters, transistor as an amplifier, operational amplifiers, pulse response to a series RC circuit, time domain simulation with a triangular input signal, and modulation in detail. The text presents issues that occur in practical implementation of various electronic circuits and assist the readers in finding solutions to those issues using the software. Aimed at undergraduate, graduate students, and academic researchers in the areas including electrical and electronics and communications engineering, this book: Discusses simulation of analog circuits and their behavior for different parameters. Covers AC/DC circuit modeling using regular and parametric sweep methods. The theory will be augmented with practical electrical circuit examples that will help readers to better understand the topic. Discusses circuits like rectifiers, RC filters, transistor as an amplifier, and operational amplifiers in detail.
Social network usage has increased exponentially in recent years. Platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn and Instagram, not only facilitate sharing of personal data but also connect people professionally. However, development of these platforms with more enhanced features like HTML5, CSS, XHTML and Java Script expose these sites to various vulnerabilities that may be the root cause of various threats. Therefore, social networking sites have become an attack surface for various cyber-attacks such as XSS attack and SQL Injection. Numerous defensive techniques have been proposed, yet with technology up-gradation current scenarios demand for more efficient and robust solutions. Cross-Site Scripting Attacks: Classification, Attack, and Countermeasures is a comprehensive source which provides an overview of web-based vulnerabilities and explores XSS attack in detail. This book provides a detailed overview of the XSS attack; its classification, recent incidences on various web applications, and impacts of the XSS attack on the target victim. This book addresses the main contributions of various researchers in XSS domain. It provides in-depth analysis of these methods along with their comparative study. The main focus is a novel framework which is based on Clustering and Context based sanitization approach to protect against XSS attack on social network. The implementation details conclude that it is an effective technique to thwart XSS attack. The open challenges and future research direction discussed in this book will help further to the academic researchers and industry specific persons in the domain of security.
This book is a compilation of quotes by Pooja Shende. There are 365 quotes in this bookone quote for each day to motivate, inspire, strengthen, and help you in being more optimistic toward life, be it about success, leadership, happiness, love, relationship, forgiveness, joy, and so on. This beautiful book is certain to become a lifelong companion on your journey toward changing into what you wish to be and help you in leading a harmonious life ahead.
Holding your hands - Never leave you behind' is all about promises, love, care and compassion. Time waits for no one, and nor do relationships. We always keep moving forward, forgetting to live in the moment and sometimes losing loved ones in the process. This book is all about our promise to keep in touch with the feelings of our hearts and those people for whom our hearts beat. It is a promise to ourselves, to never let go of those people who care the most for us, those that we love most. Thirty amazing authors have penned down their feelings to make it a beautiful read. The overwhelming wave of feelings will drown you deep in your emotions. Highly addictive, you may not be able to put down this masterpiece until the last page.
New technologies?digitalization, artificial intelligence, and machine learning?are changing the way work gets done at an unprecedented rate. Helping people adapt to a fast-changing world of work and ameliorating its deleterious impacts will be the defining challenge of our time. What are the gender implications of this changing nature of work? How vulnerable are women’s jobs to risk of displacement by technology? What policies are needed to ensure that technological change supports a closing, and not a widening, of gender gaps? This SDN finds that women, on average, perform more routine tasks than men across all sectors and occupations?tasks that are most prone to automation. Given the current state of technology, we estimate that 26 million female jobs in 30 countries (28 OECD member countries, Cyprus, and Singapore) are at a high risk of being displaced by technology (i.e., facing higher than 70 percent likelihood of being automated) within the next two decades. Female workers face a higher risk of automation compared to male workers (11 percent of the female workforce, relative to 9 percent of the male workforce), albeit with significant heterogeneity across sectors and countries. Less well-educated and older female workers (aged 40 and above), as well as those in low-skill clerical, service, and sales positions are disproportionately exposed to automation. Extrapolating our results, we find that around 180 million female jobs are at high risk of being displaced globally. Policies are needed to endow women with required skills; close gender gaps in leadership positions; bridge digital gender divide (as ongoing digital transformation could confer greater flexibility in work, benefiting women); ease transitions for older and low-skilled female workers.
This handbook is a compilation of major clinical trials in all subspecialties in the field of ophthalmology. Each trial is presented in a uniform manner, detailing the background and purpose of the study, design, number of subjects with inclusion and exclusion criteria, outcomes, then results and conclusions. Topics include glaucoma, cornea, diabetic retinopathy, age-related macular degeneration, retinal detachment, neuro-ophthalmology, ocular melanoma, and many more. Trials are arranged chronologically or in order of significance, with extensive referencing for further reading. ‘At a glance’ tables summarising each trial are also included. The previous edition of this comprehensive text (9789350907740) published in 2013.
Designer Cropping Systems for Polluted Land explores the processes and techniques of making polluted land safe for planting edible and non-edible crops. The book provides readers and practitioners with a comprehensive understanding of contaminated land use through designer cropping systems. It seeks to present promising and affordable practices for transforming polluted lands while also providing an excellent basis from which scientific knowledge can grow and widen in the fields of phytoremediation-based biofortification. Provides basic understanding on how to produce edible crops on polluted lands with biofortification Explores cropping systems for the extraction of metals for industrial use Discovers the role of designer cropping systems in phytoremediation programs
Are you looking to be in tune with yourself and understand why you are the way you are and respond the way that you do? Are you looking to release thoughts and patterns which don’t serve you anymore? We are all a combination of divine and human qualities. We all struggle with our flaws and triggers. Becoming conscious of them allows us to reclaim our power and rewrite a new path forward for ourselves. This is the first step to Becoming Whole. Written in a simple yet profound manner, each chapter in this book focuses on one aspect of your inner being that needs to be brought into wholeness. As you read this book, you will: * Respond to your triggers with a lot more self- awareness and begin to ask yourself, “What is this situation asking me to change about myself?” * Release your disappointments and victim stories, bringing much-needed growth and peace in your life. * Develop a strong sense of self-worth, by letting go of the need to seek validation from others. Are you ready to become whole? ABOUT THE AUTHOR : Pooja Khanna is a Wellness Entrepreneur, Public Speaker, Author and a Spiritual Wellness & Life Coach. She founded a platform connecting people to hundreds of holistic wellness practitioners and healers in New York. Formerly a Corporate Executive with an illustrious career spanning 13 years in top Fortune 100 companies, Pooja is an avid believer in bringing change in your life through deep inner work. She is a lover of meditation, nature walks, art therapy and travel.
Stardust explores what it’s like to be young and putting everyone else first. Turning 18 and experiencing everything all at once is scary, to say the least. ‘Stardust’ knows and understands how youth is the most difficult and magnificent time of your life. Through this book, Pooja hopes you find your safe space and maybe yourself. She believes if her work can help and heal even one person, her purpose would be fulfilled. She looks forward to all of her readers sharing their story as well.
June 2013. The deadliest flood wipes out Uttarakhand. Along with innumerable pilgrims travelling to Kedarnath. Among the 100,000 trapped and 5,700 presumed dead were 2 people who meant everything to Pooja: her parents. But no news of or from them for weeks could only mean that they were gone. Forever. So, how do you say goodbye without closure? You sink. Deep into the abyss of grief. And as commonly said, ‘When it rains, it pours.’ Barely swimming through the storm of loss, Pooja tries every route to recovery—therapy, alcohol, drugs. The aftermath is a no-holds-barred account of a daughter who herself becomes a wreck after the natural disaster. The Last Pilgrims is a true story of love, loss, and finally, acceptance.
There was a story Jahir used to tell me. About how the first humans were born with wings. Can you imagine what that would be like? To fly anywhere in the world without worrying about having the right papers? Mico has left his family, his home, his future. Setting out in search of a better life, he instead finds himself navigating one of the world's most inhospitable environments - the Jungle. For Mico, just one of many 'unaccompanied children', the Calais refugee camp has a wildness, a brutality all of its own. A melting pot of characters, cultures, and stories, the Jungle often seems like its own strange world. But despite his ambitions to escape, Mico is unable to buy his way out from the 'Ghost Men' - the dangerous men with magic who can cross borders unnoticed. Alone, desperate, and running out of options, the idea of jumping onto a speeding train to the UK begins to feel worryingly appealing. But when Leila arrives at the camp one day, everything starts to change. Outspoken, gutsy, and fearless, she shows Mico that hope and friendship can grow in the most unusual places, and maybe, just maybe, they'll show you the way out as well. Fans of Khaled Hosseini, Benjamin Zephaniah's Refugee Boy and Gillian Cross' After Tomorrow will love this important and touching debut novel which touches on community, friendship, hope and the very real dangers of everyday life in the Calais refugee camp, known as The Jungle. 'Pooja is super talented and I'm a big fan!' - Marcus Rashford MBE on Pooja Puri's A Dinosaur Ate My Sister 'Pooja Puri is a tremendous talent - absolutely one to watch.' - Rashmi Sirdeshpande on Pooja Puri's A Dinosaur Ate My Sister
You've tried every diet, spent thousands of rupees on gym memberships, but nothing's worked. Are you about to give up? Celebrity nutritionist Pooja Makhija, author of the bestselling Eat Delete, helps you answer 21 questions about your health and figure out the right approach to losing weight. Read this before you decide to give up on you.
Formative assessment and differentiated instruction made manageable We all recognize the countless benefits of differentiated instruction. The challenge is in its implementation. This start-to-finish guide will show you how through formative assessment and seven classroom-tested practices for maximizing student learning. Packed with vignettes, sample worksheets, and charts, this toolkit demonstrates how to: Establish new classroom norms Involve students in the use of assessment data and feedback to inform their next steps Clarify end-of-unit criteria to help map learning progression Apply assessment data to grouping students for tiered activities Differentiate assignments based on student readiness, characteristics, and interest
Endangered life is often used to justify humanitarian media intervention, but what if suffering humanity is both the fuel and outcome of such media representations? Pooja Rangan argues that this vicious circle is the result of immediation, a prevailing documentary ethos that seeks to render human suffering urgent and immediate at all costs. Rangan interrogates this ethos in films seeking to “give a voice to the voiceless,” an established method of validating the humanity of marginalized subjects, including children, refugees, autistics, and animals. She focuses on multiple examples of documentary subjects being invited to demonstrate their humanity: photography workshops for the children of sex workers in Calcutta; live eyewitness reporting by Hurricane Katrina survivors; attempts to facilitate speech in nonverbal autistics; and painting lessons for elephants. These subjects are obliged to represent themselves using immediations—tropes that reinforce their status as the “other” and reproduce definitions of the human that exclude non-normative modes of thinking, being, and doing. To counter these effects, Rangan calls for an approach to media that aims not to humanize but to realize the full, radical potential of giving the camera to the other.
IT’S NOT WHAT YOU KNOW, IT’S WHAT YOU DO CONSISTENTLY. Imagine if you were to suddenly discover that you only have six months left to live. Would you be content with the way you're currently living your life? If not, this book contains valuable insights and powerful techniques that can assist you in transforming your life. And if you answered yes, this book can help you enhance your life even further in a more fulfilling way. This book is a result of the author's extensive review and learning from various sources such as books, seminars, mentors, courses, scriptures, and personal experiences. The information has been compiled as a mini-manual, using the 80/20 principle to ensure that it provides you with the most critical and relevant information while saving you time.
This book presents a comprehensive collection of various in situ and ex-situ soil remediation regimes that employ natural or genetically modified microbes, plants, and animals for the biodegradation of toxic compounds or hazardous waste into simpler non-toxic products. These techniques are demonstrated to be functionally effective in connection with physical, chemical, and biological strategies. Soil and water contamination through heavy metals, hydrocarbons and radioactive wastes is of global concern, as these factors have cumulative effects on the environment and human health through food-chain contamination. The book discusses the utilization of algae, plants, plant-associated bacteria, fungi (endophytic or rhizospheric) and certain lower animals for the sustainable bioremediation of organic and inorganic pollutants. In addition, it explores a number of more recent techniques like biochar and biofilms for carbon sequestration, soil conditioning and remediation, and water remediation. It highlights a number of recent advances in nanobioremediation, an emerging technology based on biosynthetic nanoparticles. Lastly, it presents illustrative case studies and highlights the successful treatment of polluted soils by means of these strategies.
REALIZATION 2020 is the crux of different events that happened during 2020. It is going to help you go through all the important events that happened in 2020. Pooja Pruthi has shared her thoughts and Learnings during 2020. 2020 was one unforgettable year and we cannot deny the fact that it has shown the true colors of life. This book will help you learn basic lifestyle and how you can build your personality by taking care of few things. Let's go back and revive what all happened and realize what all we have to take care of in future.
The ultimate home baker’s cookbook, from Mumbai’s very own ‘macaron lady’ Meet Pooja Dhingra. Cupcake addict. Macaron lover. Baker. And founder and owner of Mumbai’s most famous French-style pâtisserie, Le15. Her passion for baking led Pooja to Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, and on her return she opened Le15 Pâtisserie, which was soon a runaway success. Today, as a professional baker, Pooja heads one of India’s finest pâtisseries. As a home baker, she makes hearty, uncomplicated desserts with kitchen staples that can be found at any corner shop. The Big Book of Treats is Pooja’s gift to Indian home bakers. Written with a professional’s exacting eye and a home chef ’s ability to improvise, it teaches you how to make everything from cookies and cupcakes to brownies and birthday cakes. Accessible, engaging and undeniably scrumptious, these recipes will bring all sorts of baked goodies—even macarons—into your own kitchen.
Most of the poems in this book are of inspirational accent. Sweet Smile is the first and the most favorite poem of author. In this poem, the author has tried to express the power of a sweet smile. A sweet smile which costs nothing, but is beyond price. It can do wonders It can create history It can make journey successful It can energise body and mind. In this book, there are many poems that are motivating in nature, like Be a Motivator, Lifes Principle, Warrior, and so on. An author has tried to motivate people through her poems. From her positivity and clarity of thought, she has tried to develop others vision toward positive life. A positive mind and attitude is the first step toward success. The rest of the steps will be achieved automatically. Never get disheartened from failures. May be it is steppingstone toward success. Once you fall down, Will not help you to reach the crown. But if you stand again, You can win the whole game. An author is trying to enrich minds and thoughts of people through her poems. Some poems are of different moods also like a few that are humorous in nature, which the author has written in a jolly mood, whereas some are romantic and about dreamers.
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