Educators Books

I had the priviledge of taking two U.S. History courses from Dr. Taylor at Augusta College. He was a wonderful professor and a very interesting person. When I began reading this book, I could not put it down !!!

Norman Cohen provides in Mentoring Adult Learners an excellent resource for mentors and coordinators of mentoring programs for adults. He organizes the book around six "behavioral functions" of mentoring -- a helpful focus in my view for those who would like to see their mentoring efforts have significant influence on those being mentored. Cohen effectively synthesizes the research on mentoring from the fields of education and business with awareness of adults as learners and principles of interpersonal communiction. Numerous examples and practical suggestions put flesh and blood on the solid research upon which the book rests. Cohen writes with a fluid, easy-to-understand style.

One-fourth of the book contains four appendices, two of which provide alternative forms of Cohen's Principles for Adult Mentoring Scale -- one for education and the other for business and government settings. The scale is for mentor self-assessment, and Cohen encourages use of the instrument for research on mentoring.

Other aids for the reader include a strong reference list and a helpful name and subject index. Discovery of several distracting (and at times misleading) editorial/typographical errors was disappointing, yet not enough to diminish my appreciation for this superb book.

Cohen, Norman J. (1995). Mentoring Adult Learners. Malabar, FL: Krieger Publishing Company. 208 pp. (ISBN 0-89464-850-0).

This is such an excellent book, especially for those who enjoy learning more about history. So many people know the story of her childhood, and how she overcame being deaf and blind, but that's not her real achievement. She did so many important things after that time, but no one really knows anything about that, it seems. I think this should be a book every high school and college history student should have to read. I'd recommend it to anyone!

The book that I ordered arrived in a timely manner and in excellent condition.

YN

Primary phonics are among the most dull-looking books on the market, yet they thoroughly teach chidren how to read quickly and effectively. Not only did they work with my three children, I recommended them to other people (8 children total). For four year olds, ALL of them advanced from sets 1 to 5 in 4 months!. All of the children entered kindergarten reading at a second grade level! The books are amazingly effective!

Well, at least it probably helped raise the score! This is a great intensive workout to improve reading comprehension. There are 25 short selections, each with a stated theme, all with educational value in and of themselves. The questions pull out what was important in each selection, not petty details to go hunting for. I highly recommend this to high school students shortly before they take their ACT or SAT.

This book provided me with wonderful inspiration and affirmation. Through the lives of the saints, I was able to receive a picture of how great educators lived their lives. Their daily example also gives affirmation that my strengths and weaknesses are shared by some of the greatest teachers that have ever lived!

I read this book cover to cover and couldn't put it down. Mrs. Cavett's lived a very full life; One full of adventure and endless stories. It's almost impossible to believe that one person could experience so much, but Dorcas has and it's all in this book. From becoming the first female Marine, to trailblazing new areas for instructional television, Dorcas keeps you captivated with her gift of storytelling as only a true "Cavett" could. Step aside Dick . . . your step-mother has a story to tell. Covering two World Wars, Prohibition, the Great Depression and life in the 60's, "My First 81 Years" will keep you captivated. I highly recommend this book to anyone who appreciates true human nature.

My Many Selves: The Quest for a Plausible Harmony is the autobiography of author Wayne C. Booth, modern literary critic and English scholar, and author of numerous required reading college classroom texts including "The Rhetoric of Fiction", "Essays and Ironies for a Credulous Age", "Critical Understanding" and many more. My Many Selves lives up to its title in its in-depth examination of Booth's numerous personal aspects; in writing his autobiography, he sought to bring harmony to the distinctive and at times oppositional parts of his own identity, as well as resolve conflicts in his own thoughts and beliefs. His life story begins with his youth in rural Utah, a background he values highly; throughout his life he identified himself as Mormon, even though he renounced many Latter-day Saint doctrines. His lifelong concerns with ethics and rhetoric were shaped from years of observation and study. Chapters narrating phases of his life include "Ambition vs. Teaching for the Love of It", "A Wandering Generalist Longs to Be a True Scholar", "The Man of Peace Tries to Tame the Slugger", and much more. Wayne C. Booth passed away in 2005, only a number of months after completing My Many Selves; his life's wisdom from multiple perspectives is preserved between the covers. Highly recommended.

Anyone who feels that literacy has changed their life should read this book. The author tells of her heart-wrenching, lonely existence as an abused child who was shuttled from one foster home to another until she was adopted by a woman who opened her eyes to the world of reading. The author was able to overcome her less than auspicious beginning to become a professor of English at IUPUI. This story could have been told with much melodrama, but the author tells it in an extremely honest manner and lets the drama of the story come through naturally. She does not beg for sympathy for the circumstances of her childhood. She simply tells the readers how literacy brought her out of a miserable existence and makes a connection with her readers that will, at least for this reader, last forever.