Social Learning

Diesen Monat geht es in dem Spezialthema rund um den Garten im Frühling: Welche Dinge gibt es im Garten, und welche Arbeiten gibt es dort zu tun? Außerdem sind Sie diesen Monat zu Besuch im Naturpark Westhavelland in Brandenburg, in der dunkelsten Region Deutschlands: Der Naturpark ist der erste deutsche Sternenpark. Die Hörtexte finden Sie in dem Begleitheft. So können Sie mitlesen, wenn Sie möchten.

Im Herbst zeigt das Wetter seine verschiedenen Seiten: Mal ist es warm, dann regnet, hagelt oder stürmt es wieder. Über das Wetter sprechen kann man aber immer, denn es ist das ideale Small-Talk-Thema. In diesem Spezial lernen Sie deshalb alle wichtigen Wetter-Wörter!

Der Sommer ist da, deshalb geht es in dem Spezialthema diesen Monat um deutsche Wörter und Ausdrücke rund um sommerliche Aktivitäten...

Das Spezialthema diesen Monat ist die interkulturelle Kommunikation. Jede Kultur ist etwas anders. Deshalb kommt es manchmal zu Missverständnissen, wenn sich verschiedene Kulturen begegnen. Sicher waren Sie auch schon einmal überrascht, weil man in Deutschland etwas ganz anders macht, als Sie es aus Ihrer Kultur kennen.

In diesem Monat geht es über die Mediensprache: In den deutschsprachigen Nachrichten erfährt man täglich Aktuelles über Deutschland, Österreich und die Schweiz. Als Deutschlerner ist es aber oft schwierig, alles zu verstehen. Journalisten verwenden in der Nachrichtensprache nämlich oft spezielle Formulierungen und Satzkonstruktionen. Die typischen Phänomene werden hier vorgestellt. Außerdem gibt es diesem Monat einen Besuch in Zürich.

Diesen Monat ist das Spezialthema die deutsche Alltagssprache. In der gesprochenen Sprache benutzen Deutsche oft andere Wörter oder Satzkonstruktionen als in der Schriftsprache. Als Deutschlerner ist es wichtig, die Unterschiede zu kennen. So verstehen Sie die Deutschen besser. Außerdem können Sie, wenn Sie die Besonderheiten der Alltagssprache kennen, eine zu informelle Sprache in offiziellen Situationen vermeiden.

In dem Spezialthema geht es diesen Monat um die Familie. Lernen Sie Wörter rund um die Familie und Verben, die ausdrücken, wie die Beziehung...

In dem Spezialthema geht es diesen Monat um das Thema Höflichkeit. In jeder Kultur gibt es Unterschiede, was als höflich oder unhöflich...

New York Times best-selling author, comedian, and actor Patton Oswalt shares his entertaining memoir about coming of age as a performer and writer in the late '90s while obsessively watching classic films at the legendary New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles. Between 1995 and 1999, Patton Oswalt lived with an unshakeable addiction. It wasn't drugs, alcohol, or sex. It was film.

Paper Belt on Fire is the unlikely account of how two outsiders with no experience in finance—a charter school principal and defrocked philosopher—start a venture capital fund to short the higher education bubble. Against the contempt of the education establishment, they discover, mentor, and back the leading lights in the next generation of dropout innovators and in the end make their investors millions. Can such a madcap strategy help renew American creativity? This story is the behind-the-scenes romp of one team that threw educational authorities into a panic.

There are so many Latin phrases in everyday use that often we use them without understanding the background and context within which they were actually used. 'Carpe diem'; 'Stet'; 'Memento mori'; 'Et tu Brute' – examples would fill a book. And often these phrases are also used in English translation: 'The die is cast'; 'crossing the Rubicon'; 'Rome was not built in a day'.

Your students aren't reading. They aren't engaged in class. Getting them to talk is like pulling teeth. Whatever the situation, your reality is not meeting your expectations. Change is needed. But who's got the time? Or maybe you're just starting out, and you want to get it right the first time. If so, Teaching College: The Ultimate Guide to Lecturing, Presenting, and Engaging Students is the blueprint. Find out how to hack the world of higher education instruction and have your course become the standard.

Mafatu's name means "Stout Heart," but his people call him a coward. Ever since the sea took his mother's life and spared his own, he has lived with deep fear. By the time he is twelve years old, Mafatu can bear it no longer. He must conquer his fear alone...even if it means certain death. This classic tale of a young boy's hidden strength has been a favorite of readers of all ages since 1940.

Explore a major turning point in the history of Europe and the Middle East. The fall of Constantinople was an event that had great repercussions across both East and West. Why did it happen? How did it happen? And what was the aftermath?

Black education was a subversive act from its inception. African Americans pursued education through clandestine means, often in defiance of law and custom, even under threat of violence. They developed what Jarvis Givens calls a tradition of "fugitive pedagogy"—a theory and practice of Black education in America. The enslaved learned to read in spite of widespread prohibitions; newly emancipated people braved the dangers of integrating all-White schools and the hardships of building Black schools.

Behind most major political stories in the modern era, there is an agenda - an effort by opposition researchers, spin doctors, and outside interests to destroy an idea or a person. The tactic they use is the Smear. Every day, Americans are influenced by the Smear without knowing it. Paid forces cleverly shape virtually every image you cross. Maybe you read that Donald Trump is a racist misogynist or saw someone on the news mocking the Bernie Sanders campaign. The trick of the Smear is that it is often based on some shred of truth.

Men's masculine behaviors and traits have been suppressed by popular culture combined with “egalitarian blank slate” ideals that have been integrated within institutional systems and supported by national and local governments for the last 50-70 years. Where are the benefits this egalitarian utopia promised? Why has it become so popular to shame, guilt, and insult masculinity and masculine behaviors? After 50 to 70 years of this, what are the results?

In Losing the News, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Alex S. Jones offers a probing look at the epochal changes sweeping the media, changes which are eroding the core news that has been the essential food supply of our democracy. Losing the News depicts an unsettling situation in which the American birthright of fact-based, reported news is in danger. But it is also a call to arms to fight to keep the core of news intact.

Celebrated educators and authors Anna-Lisa Mackey and Melissa Ragan deliver an insightful, rigorous, and accessible treatment of social emotional learning in education. Using research from the Theory of Constructed Emotion, the authors highlight the relationship between the new view of neurobiology and Social Emotional Learning. Perfect for K-12 educators, principals, superintendents, and other education leaders, The Social Emotional Classroom will also earn a place in the libraries of parents and caregivers who are responsible for young people's day-to-day learning.

Presidential politics has always been a minefield of competition, excitement, and even scandal. Learn about the evolution of presidential politics from the election of George Washington, the nation's first president, to the election of Barack Obama, the nation's first black president. Learn which elements have stood the test of time, such as the Electoral College, and other elements, such as voting rights and processes, that have evolved with the changing times.