Ready Set Practice

Ready, Set, Practice A SUPERB STUDENT TEXT. . . AN INDISPENSABLE TOOL OF THE TRADE FOR YOUNG PROFESSIONALS The only single-source reference covering all essential areas of professional practice, Ready, Set, Practice is a comprehensive textbook for professional practice courses required by accredited landscape architecture degree programs. At the same time, it is also a superb guide to professional literacy and a career planner for young professionals. Based on the author’s considerable professional and academic experience, as well as his extensive survey of more than sixty landscape architecture degree programs in the U.S. and Canada, it covers all topics deemed indispensable to a course dedicated to preparing students for the real world, including: Preparing for the LARE Legal and contractual issues Marketing your professional services Technical specifications Project management Starting and managing your own firm Getting the competitive edge And much more

A fool-proof plan to launch your solo private practice with minimal financial investment or risk. We'll be in your back pocket the whole way through, cheering you on and advising you at each step. Our guide is intended for solo licensed clinicians, including (but not limited to) Mental Health Counselors, Social Workers, Occupational Therapists, Physical Therapists, Speech and Language Pathologists, Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners, Psychiatrists, Psychologists, and Dietitians.We are a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and a Licensed and Registered Occupational Therapist with almost 30 years of combined clinical experience, half of which has been spent running our solo practices. We have helped numerous clinicians start their own successful private practices, and are so excited to help you gain independence and achieve financial freedom.

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How can you prepare for and prevent your kids’ inevitable meltdowns? Ready, Set, Breathe will show you andyour child how to focus, calm down, and live in the present moment. Being a parent is stressful, and when your child has a meltdown, it can be difficult to keep cool—let alone help your child to calm down. Ready, Set, Breathe offers real solutions to help you both deal with stress using everyday mindfulness games, activities, rituals, and habits. Designed for children ages 2-10 years old, this book is fun, engaging, and effective. As any parent knows, children aren’t always receptive to what you say. Parental advice is often ignored or perceived as intrusive; and trying to get your kid to calm down and breathe can turn into an unpleasant power struggle in which you feel powerless and frustrated; and your child can feel nagged or bullied. The good news is that it doesn’t have to be this way. In this book, you’ll learn to teach mindfulness to your child in the most enjoyable and realistic way possible. You’ll also learn skills to help yourself stay calm when your child does act up—especially in public. This is a must-read for all parents!

What types of instructional experiences help K-8 students learn science with understanding? What do science educators, teachers, teacher leaders, science specialists, professional development staff, curriculum designers, and school administrators need to know to create and support such experiences? Ready, Set, Science! guides the way with an account of the groundbreaking and comprehensive synthesis of research into teaching and learning science in kindergarten through eighth grade. Based on the recently released National Research Council report Taking Science to School: Learning and Teaching Science in Grades K-8, this book summarizes a rich body of findings from the learning sciences and builds detailed cases of science educators at work to make the implications of research clear, accessible, and stimulating for a broad range of science educators. Ready, Set, Science! is filled with classroom case studies that bring to life the research findings and help readers to replicate success. Most of these stories are based on real classroom experiences that illustrate the complexities that teachers grapple with every day. They show how teachers work to select and design rigorous and engaging instructional tasks, manage classrooms, orchestrate productive discussions with culturally and linguistically diverse groups of students, and help students make their thinking visible using a variety of representational tools. This book will be an essential resource for science education practitioners and contains information that will be extremely useful to everyone �including parents �directly or indirectly involved in the teaching of science.

Usability Testing Essentials presents a practical, step-by-step approach to learning the entire process of planning and conducting a usability test. It explains how to analyze and apply the results and what to do when confronted with budgetary and time restrictions. This is the ideal book for anyone involved in usability or user-centered design—from students to seasoned professionals.Filled with new examples and case studies, Usability Testing Essentials, Second Edition is completely updated to reflect the latest approaches, tools and techniques needed to begin usability testing or to advance in this area. Provides a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to usability testing, a crucial part of every product’s development Discusses important usability issues such as international testing, persona creation, remote testing, and accessibility Presents new examples covering mobile devices and apps, websites, web applications, software, and more Includes strategies for using tools for moderated and unmoderated testing, expanded content on task analysis, and on analyzing and reporting results

A comprehensive approach to five major areas of fitness: flexibility, endurance, strength, power, and anaerobic conditioning, with information on increasing growth hormones naturally.

Give your child an advantage that lasts a lifetime Ready, Set, Read is a complete, proven, fun and affordable phonics-based program that anyone can use to teach a child to read. Developed by reading specialist Vera Clark - based on her 25 years of experience teaching children and adults to read English - Ready, Set, Read takes a child from learning the alphabet to reading fluently at a 6th grade level in just 100 simple lessons. Parents: You Can Teach Your Child to Read Ready, Set, Read makes it easy for you to unlock a world of opportunities for your child. Put your child on the path to success with this easy-to-use program that you and your child will both love. -Get everything you need in one book - Lessons and instructions are all in one volume, so there's just one thing to grab when you and your child are ready to enjoy the day's lesson. -Experience the joy of teaching your child to read - Ready, Set, Read is designed to accommodate your busy schedule. -Watch your child gain confidence - Your quality time together will produce dramatic results. Educators: Your Students Can Be Reading Fluently Ready, Set, Read enhances your ability to teach every student in your class to read. Research shows that systematic phonics instruction combined with reading is the most effective way to develop good reading skills. This easily adabtable program: -Compliments your existing standards-based curriculum -Requires minimal lesson preparation time -Includes a Student Success Chart so you can track the progress of each student Why choose Ready, Set, Read? -All-in-one phonics-based reading program -100 simple lessons-only 15 minutes per day -Starts at the beginning, from non-reader to total fluency -Students learn at their own pace Coming Soon in the Winter of 2010: Ready, Set, Read on DVD - Vera Clark teaches each lesson Children's Booklets- colorful, illustrated lessons make the learning process more enjoyable Leveled Storybook Readers - students practice reading with fun stories that use a controlled vocabulary based upon the lessons the student has completed. About the Author Author Vera Clark developed Ready, Set, Read based on her extensive experience teaching children and adults to read English. Having taught in both public and private schools, Vera currently teaches reading to Special Education students in Southern California. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Psychology, and a Master's in Education with an emphasis in Special Education. Ms. Clark loved home schooling her own children-and taught each of her four children to read when they were just toddlers. She is passionate about early reading, and is pleased that this book is helping parents and teachers introduce another generation of children to the joys of reading well.