Education and the Distracted Family (eBook)

Creating Success with and without Technology

Steve Sonntag (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2014
240 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4758-0827-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Education and The Distracted Family is very important for all middle, junior high, and high school families due to the amazing opportunities and the major challenges of technology, especially with the internet and smartphones. Families may be acquainted with some possibilities of utilizing new technology on their own and are informed of some possibilities through schools. Nevertheless, young adults always seem to be much more involved in technology than their parents.At the same time, families can become too involved in or very distracted with their technology so that they lose sight of the reason for being families in the first place.This book provides a healthy guide for families by introducing practical, creative ways to balance these cravings for such technologies, to take care of themselves as individuals, to improve their relationships with one another, and to work with the educational community even better. It shares many different ways to be that much more successful as a family now and for the future.

Autor

Steve Sonntag has been a mentor teacher, his California district's high school teacher of the year, department chairperson, tutor, charter school teacher, family and teacher workshop presenter, university and charter school teacher, Phi Delta Kappa officer, and writer during his 43 years in education. His goals are to encourage, praise, and inspire his readers in order to improve their lives in practical, creative ways.

Inhalt

IntroductionPart I: Your Awesome School Options To Match You, the Great Young Adults!Chapter 1 Your Awesome School OptionsChapter 2 Always for Your Health!Chapter 3 You Don’t Want to Be Bugged Chapter 4 You Don’t Want to Accept What You’ve DoneChapter 5 Your Attitude Will Make or Break YouChapter 6 How to be Successful Each School YearChapter 7 Technology: Your Best Friend or Your Worst EnemyChapter 8 Who Needs the Administration?Chapter 9 Can You Do without Those Extra People at SchoolChapter 10 Your Teachers Are The Keys to Your FutureChapter 11 Do You Really Need All Those Subjects?Chapter 12 Meaning to Read or Read for MeaningChapter 13 Your Studying Can Mean More Success!Chapter 14 You Don’t Like Some of the StudentsChapter 15 These School Resources Can Really Help YouChapter 16 Your Community and YouChapter 17 When You Get FrustratedPart II: The Best Team: Families and SchoolsChapter 18 Parents, You Can Be The Best Supporters of Your Young AdultsChapter 19 Meaningful Ideas to ConsiderChapter 20 Appreciation within the FamilyChapter 21 Can You Really Have Fun as a Family?Chapter 22 When and How to Receive RecognitionChapter 23 Together on behalf of and after SchoolChapter 24 The Future is just One Step AwayAppendix: Suggested Resources

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.5.2014
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Unterrichtsvorbereitung ► Unterrichts-Handreichungen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• ISBN-10: 1-4758-0827-5 / 1475808275
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4758-0827-8 / 9781475808278