The Best Non-Formal Education Books 2025

1. The Excellent 11: Qualities Teachers and Parents Use to Motivate, Inspire, and Educate Children, Pre-Owned (Paperback)

Pre-Owned - When The Essential 55 was published, Ron Clark became a tireless promoter, traveling the country to speak to large groups of teachers and fans. And when his Oprah appearance shot the book onto the New York Times bestseller list, he kept the heat on. We can expect the same tenacious commitment to promoting his follow-up book, The Excellent 11. The Excellent 11 contains eleven sections, with each one focusing on a theme directly related to teaching and raising children. Ron Clark draws from his own experience to give advice, telling personal stories that demonstrate the significance of each theme within the learning environment--an environment that extends beyond the classroom and into the larger world. Using themes ranging from Adventure, Ingenuity, and Humor to Dedication, Creativity, and Love, Clark provides a road map for both parents and teachers who want to enrich their children's learning experiences.

The Excellent 11: Qualities Teachers and Parents Use to Motivate, Inspire, and Educate Children, Pre-Owned (Paperback)

2. Homework for Grown-ups: Everything You Learned at School and Promptly Forgot, Pre-Owned (Hardcover)

Pre-Owned - A nostalgic compendium of essential knowledge that can help you show the world that you're smarter than a ten-year-old after all Have you ever stared blankly at your kids when they've asked why the sky is blue? Or clumsily changed the subject when they've wanted to know why the wind blows? If you're done with school, it's likely you're also done knowing the difference between an isosceles and equilateral triangle, and you probably leave participles dangling all over the place. Well, not anymore Thanks to professional know-it-alls Foley and Coates, you can now gain back your self-respect and actually show those kids a thing or two as you tell it to them straight (and not make it up from fragments of facts you kind of remember). Packed with all the basic facts that have managed to free-fall from our heads over the years, Homework for Grown-ups is the ultimate grammar school refresher course in book form. In fact, there's even a quiz at the end of each chapter to ensure you've been paying attention Written in the light, engaging style of a favorite teacher and featuring lessons in English, math, history, science, geography, art, and even home economics and recess, this fun and handy guide will help you stop hemming and hawing and start speaking with a lot more authority--and a little less shame.E. FOLEY and B. COATES are editors at Vintage who both live in London.

Homework for Grown-ups: Everything You Learned at School and Promptly Forgot, Pre-Owned (Hardcover)

3. The Excellent 11: Qualities Teachers and Parents Use to Motivate, Inspire, and Educate Children, Pre-Owned (Hardcover)

Pre-Owned - When The Essential 55 was published, Ron Clark became a tireless promoter, traveling the country to speak to large groups of teachers and fans. And when his Oprah appearance shot the book onto the New York Times bestseller list, he kept the heat on. We can expect the same tenacious commitment to promoting his follow-up book, The Excellent 11. The Excellent 11 contains eleven sections, with each one focusing on a theme directly related to teaching and raising children. Ron Clark draws from his own experience to give advice, telling personal stories that demonstrate the significance of each theme within the learning environment--an environment that extends beyond the classroom and into the larger world. Using themes ranging from Adventure, Ingenuity, and Humor to Dedication, Creativity, and Love, Clark provides a road map for both parents and teachers who want to enrich their children's learning experiences.

The Excellent 11: Qualities Teachers and Parents Use to Motivate, Inspire, and Educate Children, Pre-Owned (Hardcover)

4. Research and Statistics Made Meaningful in Counseling and Student Affairs (with InfoTrac) (Research, Statistics, & Program Evaluation), Used [Paperback]

The goal of this text is to help readers become statistically literate consumers of research and to provide readers with introductory skills in conducting statistical computation and research projects. This objective is accomplished by providing students with the basic concepts of research methodology and statistics in a student-friendly manner. The authors have attempted to present a balance of theory and practical application by guiding the reader through the development of a research proposal, and by including sample quantitative and qualitative research proposals.

Research and Statistics Made Meaningful in Counseling and Student Affairs (with InfoTrac) (Research, Statistics, & Program Evaluation), Used [Paperback]

5. Center Time, Used [Paperback]

The how-tos of management, developmentally appropriate practices, room arrangements, assessment, record keeping and parent conference ideas. Also, centers on manipulatives, woodworking, books, blocks, language arts, dramatic arts and more! / Reproducible Book / Teacher Resource, Homeschool

Center Time, Used [Paperback]

6. Experiencing Service-Learning, Used [Paperback]

A unique resource for students and professors alike, this book reveals the important practical, educational, and emotional benefits provided by college programs that allow students to help others through service work in inner-city classrooms, clinics, and other challenging environments. Filled with vivid first-person reflections by students, Experiencing Service-Learning emphasizes learning by doing, getting into the field, sharing what one sees with colleagues, and interpreting what one learns. As the authors make clear, service-learning is not a spectator sport. It takes students "away from the routines and comfort zones of lecture, test, term paper, exam" and puts them into the world. Service-learning requires them to engage actively with cultures that may be unfamiliar to them and to be introspective about their successes and their mistakes. At the same time, it demands of their instructors "something other than Power-Point slides or an eloquently delivered lecture," as no teacher can predict in advance the questions their students' experiences will raise. In service-learning, students and teacher must act together as a team of motivators, problem solvers, and change agents. While most of its personal vignettes come from service-learners who have worked as mentors in elementary schools, the book also includes a chapter in which coauthor Michele Gourley describes at length her experiences at a faith-based health clinic in Honduras. In offering such stories--along with a succinct introduction to basic concepts, an assessment of how service-learners can effect transformational change, and project examples--this text will not only prepare students for the adventures of service-learning but also aid professors and administrators tasked with developing service-learning courses and programs. Robert F. Kronick is a professor of educational psychology and counseling at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and the author of Full Service Community Schools. Robert B. Cunningham is a professor emeritus of political science at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. His books include Agendas and Decisions: How State Government Executives and Middle Managers Make and Administer Policy, coauthored with Dorothy F. Olshfski. Michele Gourley is a physician and public health professional with a background in rural community health and state health policy.

Experiencing Service-Learning, Used [Paperback]

7. Understanding Student Affairs at Catholic Colleges and Universities: A Comprehensive Resource [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. In response to the growing concern over nurturing Catholic identity at Catholic colleges and universities and an outcome of the Lilly-funded Institute for Student Affairs at Catholic Colleges and Universities (ISACC), this book is the first of its kind to focus not only on student affairs in Catholic higher education but on lay men and women who received training at secular institutions. An essential book for administrators, staff, and faculty at Catholic institutions of higher learning.

Understanding Student Affairs at Catholic Colleges and Universities : A Comprehensive Resource, Used [Paperback]

8. Service-Learning Through a Multidisciplinary Lens (PB) [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. A multidisciplinary investigation of service-learning. The papers are divided into sections on: dimensions of service-learning research; theoretical perspectives on service-learning; service-learning and the disciplines; the impacts on service-learning participants; and future directions.

Service-Learning Through a Multidisciplinary Lens, Used [Paperback]

9. Service Learning for Youth Empowerment and Social Change: Third Printing [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. This book presents informed current thinking on the topic of community service learning programs for youth, offering both veteran and new voices in the field. Combining theory and research with descriptions of innovative programs and specific recommendations for program design, the authors argue for an approach to service learning that engages youth not only in helping others but in critical reflection and the democratic pursuit of social reform. Topics covered range from the theory and practice of service learning to research and ideas about teacher preparation and educational reform. Contributors include the editors, Joan Schine, Joseph Kahne, Joel Westheimer, Jim Youniss, Miranda Yates, Carol Kinsely, Richard Lakes, Tricia Bowers-Young, Cynthia Parsons, Alice Halsted, Robert Maloy, and others.

Service Learning for Youth Empowerment and Social Change : Third Printing, Used [Paperback]

10. Building a Quality Teaching Force: Lessons Learned from Alternate Routes [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. This book presents the evidence gleaned from people who have been at the forefront of working with alternate route programs. The authors describe lessons learned in key areas of demonstrated success in building a quality teaching force through alternate routes to teaching: Recruitment and selection of candidates for successful teaching Mentoring and support Program content and curriculum Candidate assessment Organization and management The book is designed to assist those creating and/or implementing programs for the preparation of teachers primarily in field-based settings.

Building a Quality Teaching Force : Lessons Learned from Alternate Routes, Used [Paperback]