This program is designed to increase a manager’ s skills as a coach and as a counselor. It gives equal weight to affective, behavioral, and cognitive aspects of the topics of coaching and counseling. Participants are asked to examine their own feelings about coaching and counseling, to practice key skills, and to acquire a basic understanding of when and why those skills are necessary. Includes guided exercises and activities. Objectives: To understand the value of coaching and counseling in a manager’ s work To learn how to determine when to coach and when to counsel To examine how their personalities affect the coaching/counseling roles To develop basic competence in applying coaching and counseling skills Group Size: Any size Time Required: 1 day
(String). A stunning virtuoso work, composed for and premiered by Lynn Harrell. Now available in the composer's reduction for cello and piano. This piece was the winner of the 1993 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition. Duration ca. 27 minutes.
The power of civic educ. (CE) to elicit positive student outcomes has been documented. However, the field is only now beginning to understand the causal processes that bring about these positive changes in young people. ¿The Civic Mission of Schools¿ lays out 6 ¿promising approaches¿ to CE which emphasize the need for instruction that is relevant to young people, provides opportunities for practice, and moves beyond rote learning praxis. These approaches to CE yield positive, lasting outcomes in students. The goal of this project is to examine the association between activities regularly used in CE courses (e.g., staging a mock election) and their impact on key student outcomes. This will provide evidence supporting best practices in CE. Illus.
The practices which we assess are common practices and activities that are
regularly found in standard civic education curricula and classrooms.
PARTICIPANTS In total 80 teachers and 1,670 students completed surveys at the
beginning and ...