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Education can be enriching and transformative. It can also be downright excruciating—even demoralizing. When it comes to learning, why are some of us lovers and some of us haters? Welcome to the world of educational psychology, which uses science to explore what causes people to engage and learn, and what we can do to make learning opportunities more enjoyable and impactful. Spoiler alert: Teachers can only do so much. Students, too, must take control of their learning. Unfortunately, many of us never, ahem, learned the skills to do just that.

Whether your classroom consists of 3 students or 300, it’s important to be as effective a teacher as possible, both for your students and for your own professional and personal growth. The Art of Teaching: Best Practices from a Master Educator is designed to help you achieve new levels of success as a teacher. These 24 lectures will help you develop and enhance your teaching style; provide you with invaluable methods, tools, and advice for handling all manner of teaching scenarios; and open your eyes to how other teachers think about and approach this life-changing profession.

Mindful Teaching and Teaching Mindfulness emphasizes how the teacher's personal familiarity with mindfulness plants the seed for an education infused with attention, awareness, kindness, empathy, compassion, and gratitude. The book follows a teacher from morning to night on a typical school day, at home, during the commute, and before, during, and after class.

Kanchan Keshari is known for educating millions of learners that aspired to learn fluent English, through interactive methods. An initiative to further the English learning with simplicity and ease – this audiobook provides a panoramic learning of English that people intend to use everyday. The author has provided interpretation of more than five thousand Hindi sentences in English as well as a compact dictionary to ease the learning process. The audiobook is planned out in sections of 125 lessons with interactive 25 exercises, with the goal of effortless gradual learning.

Brought to you by Penguin. In today's technological society, with an unprecedented amount of information at our fingertips, learning plays a more central role than ever. In How We Learn, Stanislas Dehaene decodes its biological mechanisms, delving into the neuronal, synaptic, and molecular...

When parents send their children off to college, Mom and Dad hope they'll return more cultivated, knowledgeable, and astute - able to see issues from all points of view. But, according to Ben Shapiro, there's only one view allowed on most college campuses: a rabid brand of liberalism that must be swallowed hook, line, and sinker.

This is a Hindi summary of the book, “Ikigai”, co-written by authors Hector Garcia and Francesc Miralles. As you listen to this review, you can discover ancient Japanese secrets to leading a long and fulfilling life.

Ordering from the Universe, The Secret, The Law of Attraction, Cosmic Ordering - they all have one thing in common - positively focussing your thoughts and feelings. Positive thoughts attract positive things, negative thoughts attract negative experiences. However, things are not that simple. Just because you imagine your dream car, it won't appear in front of your house. What happens is that when you focus your thoughts and feelings on the things you really want, you start to change your belief systems...

Over the past ten years, mind-body medicine has been revolutionizing the way we think about our health. Millions of people are discovering that their thoughts, their feelings, and their physical well-being are intimately connected - and this is transforming the way we eat, exercise, work, and even relate to one another.

Taking listeners behind Apple's major research studies, Apple Classrooms of Tomorrow (ACOT) and ACOT2, this audiobook highlights the powerful effects of the Challenge-Based Learning (CBL) framework and also introduces some of the extraordinary parents, educators, and entrepreneurs from around the world who are already utilizing new science-backed methods and technologies to benefit all children, from those who struggle to honor students, to help them unlock their potential and empower them to reach beyond their perceived limitations.

This book builds on a simple premise: good teaching cannot be reduced to technique but is rooted in the identity and integrity of the teacher. Good teaching takes myriad forms but good teachers share one trait: they are authentically present in the classroom, in community with their students and their subject. They possess "a capacity for connectedness" and are able to weave a complex web of connections between themselves, their subjects, and their students, helping their students weave a world for themselves.

Donna Quesada had been teaching for about a dozen years when the first signs of burnout hit her. Rather than give into her frustration, she reached for Buddha’s teachings - the Zen wisdom that formed the basis of her own longtime spiritual practice. She survived the semester and gradually rediscovered the joy of teaching that had been progressively declining. In this wonderful book, she shares the lessons she learned - lessons that reveal time and again: No matter the situation, resolution begins in our own hearts and minds.

Grammar! For many of us, the word triggers memories of finger-wagging schoolteachers, and of wrestling with the ambiguous and complicated rules of using formal language. But what is grammar? In fact, it's the integral basis of how we speak and write. As such, a refined awareness of grammar opens a world of possibilities for both your pleasure in the English language and your skill in using it, in both speech and the written word.

Brought to you by Penguin. A searing critique of the crony-capitalist, talent-scraping culture of the Stanford elites, by a brilliant young journalist When seventeen-year old Theo Baker arrived at Stanford University one brisk September morning, its manicured lawns, palm trees and sparkling...

Where can your average teen go to get all the reliable and accurate answers they need? In Case You're Curious, a text-and-answer program conceived by Planned Parenthood, has been providing this educational service for teens for years. And now In Case You're Curious is a big book of answers to the most popular and most interesting questions young people have about birth control, development, sexually transmitted diseases, and so much more. 

This is a Hindi summary of the book, “Emotional Intelligence”, written by author Daniel Goleman. As you make your way through this summary, discover an impactful exploration of the often-overlooked aspects of human intelligence and how they impact your personal relationships and overall well-being.

This is a Marathi summary of the book, “Emotional Intelligence”, written by author Daniel Goleman. As you make your way through this summary, discover an impactful exploration of the often-overlooked aspects of human intelligence and how they impact your personal relationships and overall well-being.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of You, Your Child and School by Sir Ken Robinson and Lou Aronica, read by Sir Ken Robinson. Parents everywhere are deeply concerned about the education of their children, especially now, when education has become a minefield of politics and controversy...

Dude, Bro is a humorous guide to surviving college written by comedian Bread Foster. Dude, Bro will provide articles, episodes, and truth (under the guise of guidance) about college life, mixed with honest stories from a mildly psychotic student. After extensive discussions with fellow college students who were part of his college experience, the most frequently uttered phrase was, "How did we survive that?" and Bread wants to teach future bros how.

Freely translated Zen stands for "State of meditative contemplation". With formulas of the autosuggestion (derived from the principle of the Autogenic Training) this new sleeping aid from SyncSouls brings about a state of calm, serenity and meditative contemplation which is aimed at letting the day go and engaging in sleep. Hereby the focus is set on letting the day go with its experiences and thoughts.