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Making the connection between Research and Practice is the hope of most music education researchers. This volume brings the two together with the goal of furthering the dialogue concerning music education for young learners.
Collected between these two covers is a wealth of poetry born from divine inspiration, spanning two decades of the author's life: tales of the gods and goddesses of multiple pantheons, songs of nature and of the ancestors that came before us, prayers, private conversations with a myriad of deities, praise for the deeds of great heroes, and verses of love, adoration, and gratitude. Come explore these pages and join with the author in a celebration of the gods and spirits that give our lives meaning.
Motivation to engage in reading is a consistent problem for students in general and boys in particular. To solve this problem, we often seek answers from everyone but those we are hoping to motivate. We read the latest article on motivation and think we have finally come up with the recipe that will motivate all of the boys in our class. When it doesn’t work for everyone, we go back to the drawing board and try something else until we finally understand that all boys are motivated by different things. That is the basis of this book: nothing will work for ALL boys, but there are ways to equip teachers to find out how the boys in their classes are motivated. It provides them with a direction to go once they’ve established the needs of their students and offers suggestions for how to meet individual motivational needs. Each chapter addresses a different motivational need, providing background information and practical classroom applications.
If you have Voices you'd better listen to them Flannery O'Connor once said. Since 1982 the University of Georgia Press has published the winners of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, one of the country's most prestigious literary awards. Now celebrating its fifteenth year, the award continues to introduce some of the most exciting new voices in fiction writing today. Listening to the Voices is a dazzling collection of stories from the most recent winners of the award.
Listening to the Voice of the Heart is an invitation to revisit your self-image, values, and to recognize your hidden desires, your secret dreams. At the same time, it brings the romanticism of one who inhabits their own dream and recognizes their weaknesses without dwelling in them. It is an appeal to sensitivity, whether in artistic creation and appreciation, or in attention to affection and the beauty of everyday life. I hope that by diving into these thought pills each reader can revisit themselves and be provoked to listen to the voice of their own heart, searching within themselves the necessary motivations to recover the right to dream. Written by Elian Bittencourt, a musician who composes or a composer who writes, this work understands and accepts contradiction as an inseparable part of human existence. As such, it can be a visit to the inner world of a Brazilian artist living in Portugal, as well as a personal compass and a reminder of important values that are learned throughout a lifetime. Site: www.elian.pt
Typically, when companies want to improve their products, they go to their customers. But why not reach further and explore the entire market? In this eye-opening book, Eric Reidenbach goes beyond the "voice of the customer" that so many consultants talk about to introduce you to a groundbreaking concept: the Voice of the Market. Like most business people in this global marketplace, you are searching for that edge that will help you increase market share. In this book, Dr. Reidenbach, teaches you how to identify, and capture the Voice of the Market and then use that data and a new understanding of it to make your organization market-focused. It is not about hijacking customers with one-time special pricing. Instead, it is about applying the proper tools and processes to move your organization from a production or sales orientation to a truly market-based focus. Listening to the Voice of the Market: How to Increase Market Share and Satisfy Current Customers is not for the lazy entrepreneur. Of course, interviewing internal customers is much simpler and probably less painful than probing the thoughts of those customers who have so far eluded you. But with this book as your guide, you will develop surveys that are more than skin deep, learn how to deliver them to the right people, collect information that is useful, and then turn that information into action steps that will help you cultivate customers who feel listened to, which is the first and most obvious step in building loyal relationships.
Listening to the Voice of the Customer is the only how-to manual that takes you step-by-step through the design, implementation and analysis of a customer satisfaction measurement program. In it you will learn: How to develop a customer satisfaction measurement program that provides the information you need to increase customer retention and profits. How to select the best survey method. Includes the pros, cons, and costs of telephone, mail, and in-person interviews, and computer-assisted surveys. How to select the right sample size for your survey, and avoid biases for truly significant results. How to increase your survey response rates: survey methods, timing, incentives and more. How to survey large and small customer bases for accurate results. How to write survey questions that will get you meaningful results. Including examples of survey scales and formats that you can adapt to your own work. How to design a survey questionnaire that is easy to read and use. Including guidelines on questionnaire length, placement of specific types of questions, and writing an effective cover letter or script. How to implement your survey. Including data gathering, coding and data entry techniques. How to analyze your survey results and accurately compare data gathered over time. How to produce actionable reports based on your findings. Listening to the Voice of the Customer will show you how to develop a customer satisfaction measurement program that provides actionable information to help your organization become truly customer-focused. Throughout the book you will find very specific tips and advice based on the authors work developing and implementing customer satisfaction measurement programs. So whether you're new to customer satisfaction measurement or have a program in place, you'll find Listening to the Voice of the Customer an invaluable resource.
Listening to the Voice of God is your invitation to take a break and claim precious treasure from the Word of God. Add faith, and the treasure will multiply in your heart and enrich your life. You’ll gather gems of wisdom. You’ll relive the move of God in ancient times, and witness him speaking today. Take your break with an open heart and mind. Shut out the world’s distractions. Claim your treasure from God’s boundless supply.
