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To most of us, learning something 'the hard way' implies wasted time and effort. Good teaching, we believe, should be creatively tailored to the different learning styles of students and should use strategies that make learning easier. Make It Stick turns fashionable ideas like these on their head and will appeal to all those interested in the challenge of lifelong learning and self-improvement.

This is an audio summary of Make It Stick, a book that offers concrete techniques for becoming more productive learners.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Being a teenager has never been easy, but in recent years, with the rise of the Internet and social media, it has become exponentially more challenging. Bullying, once thought of as the province of queen bees and goons, has taken on new, complex, and insidious forms, as...

Classroom management is traditionally a matter of encouraging good behavior and discouraging bad by doling out rewards and punishments. But studies show that when educators empower students to address and correct misbehavior among themselves, positive results are longer lasting and wider reaching. In Better Than Carrots or Sticks, longtime educators and best-selling authors Dominique Smith, Douglas Fisher, and Nancy Frey provide a practical blueprint for creating a cooperative and respectful classroom climate in which students and teachers work through behavioral issues together.

Learn English the Australian way! There are plenty of sites online to teach you British or American English, but what about good old Aussie English? If you're planning to visit my beautiful country, but have only ever had language classes from a British or American tutor, you won't be ready for the huge difference you'll experience from native Australian speakers. Let me help ya, mate!

FREE English course! Each class is about a specific expression, a few specific words or a grammatical structure and is divided into 4 tracks. In each track the things you're learning are repeated again and again but with different dynamics so you don't get bored! Track 1: Explanation (use, examples, common mistakes) Track 2: Conversation (hear the words in context in a conversation, followed by analysis) Track 3: Interesting Stuff! (a short presentation about a topic) Track 4: Translation Challenge (you have 5 seconds to translate from Spanish to English to review what you've learnt) After all...

FREE English course! Each class is about a specific expression, a few specific words or a grammatical structure and is divided into 4 tracks. In each track the things you're learning are repeated again and again but with different dynamics so you don't get bored! Track 1: Explanation (use, examples, common mistakes) Track 2: Conversation (hear the words in context in a conversation, followed by analysis) Track 3: Interesting Stuff! (a short presentation about a topic) Track 4: Translation Challenge (you have 5 seconds to translate from Spanish to English to review what you've learnt) After all...

FREE English course! Each class is about a specific expression, a few specific words or a grammatical structure and is divided into 4 tracks. In each track the things you're learning are repeated again and again but with different dynamics so you don't get bored! Track 1: Explanation (use, examples, common mistakes) Track 2: Conversation (hear the words in context in a conversation, followed by analysis) Track 3: Interesting Stuff! (a short presentation about a topic) Track 4: Translation Challenge (you have 5 seconds to translate from Spanish to English to review what you've learnt) After all...