Focused Portfolios Tm

Offers an innovative method to accurately document children's growth and development by observing them in the midst of their everyday activities. Used for years in programs across the country, this easy-to-use system helps teachers assess children's progress in four areas (Favorites, Friends, Family, and Developmental Milestones). Eight chapters include a complete introduction to the Focused Portfolios method, many step-by-step examples, and all the necessary forms for portfolio collection.

Designed to give IT professionals a thorough understanding of their business colleagues and customers, this text sets ambitious new goals for service delivery and demonstrates how to achieve them.

Immunization plays a key role in maintaining human health and each year, saves millions of lives from lethal pathogens and other fatal diseases in the most economical way, thanks to the advanced development of model vaccines. Subunit vaccines are regarded as a safer product than the whole microbe based-conventional vaccines and can be entrapped in various nanocarriers to form a vaccine adjuvant-delivery system (VADS) able to further boost their immunostimulatory activity. In this book, six groups of authors introduce immunization advances in VADSs designed for infection prophylaxis and cancer immunotherapy, problems and their resolution in both human and poultry immunization, and also, the mathematical model for assay of the basic immunization problem (BIP) understood from a finance point of view.

This book presents the techniques of multi-project management in a lively, approachable manner, covering budgets, cost control, planning problems and matrix management formulae.

The Investment Trusts Handbook 2024 is the seventh edition of the highly regarded annual handbook for anyone interested in investment trusts – often referred to as the City’s best-kept secret, or the connoisseur’s choice among investment funds. It is expertly edited by well-known author and professional investor Jonathan Davis, founder and editor of the Money Makers newsletter and podcast. The Investment Trusts Handbook 2024 is an editorially independent educational publication, available through bookshops and extensively online. Described in the media as “truly the definitive guide to the sector”, more than 45,000 copies of the Handbook have been sold or downloaded since launch. With fascinating articles by more than 20 different authors, including analysts, fund managers and investment writers, plus more than 80 pages of detailed data and analysis, including performance figures, trust comings and goings and fund manager histories, the latest edition of the handbook is an indispensable companion for anyone looking to invest in the investment trust sector. Contributors this year include: John Baron, Alan Brierley, James Carthew, Richard Curling, Alex Davies, Simon Edelsten, Simon Elliott, Nick Greenwood, Peter Hewitt, Matt Hose, Max King, Ewan Lovett-Turner, Colette Ord, Peter Spiller, Richard Stone, Stuart Watson and many more. Topics in this year’s 280-page edition include: the impact of rising interest rates, tackling discounts, industry consolidation, the hunt for bargains, the role of boards, alternatives, VCTs, fundraising news, and the editor’s notes and model portfolios. The Investment Trusts Handbook 2024 is supported by a number of organisations including abrdn, Asset Value Investors, Baillie Gifford, Columbia Threadneedle Investments, Fidelity International, Invesco, Ocean Dial Asset Management Ltd, Pantheon, Polar Capital, and Schroders.

This book relates to the experiences and initiatives of teacher education institutions in the Southern Africa region to empower teachers to cope with teaching and learning in the digital age. The book covers the impacts of digital technologies on the teaching and learning process. Online and blended learning, digital pedagogies, the design of curricula and learning experiences to address the learning needs and profile of learners are considered in this book. Furthermore, the way in which pre- and in-service teachers learn about alternative modes of assessment will also be considered. In this regard, innovative concepts such as renewable and situated assessments, multimodal assessments, digital storytelling and e-portfolios, amongst others, were explored.