Bøger af Brian Harris

MY FUTURE is written for high school teachers, counselors and career advisors. The book provides 150 ready-to-use career/educational planning activities along with black-line masters for related handouts for the students. MY FUTURE is intended to assist students in making more appropriate decisions after high school whether they are planning on college, university, the trades, or direct entry into the workplace. Chapter titles include: Occupational Icebreakers; Identifying Your Interests; Identifying Your Abilities; Identifying Your Values; Choosing An Occupation; Successful Transitions After High School; and Setting + Achieving Your Goals.

This book is written specifically for the Ontario Grade 10 Career Studies Course. The book provides a ten week program of 50 lessons that relate directly to the Ministry of Education Aims + Objectives for the course. Each lesson provides an objective, the rationale, resources required, process, discussion questions, and other related activities. Many lessons include black-line masters for student handouts.

This book is intended to help students in grades 9 - 12 to get a job, whether full-time or part-time. This book is based on the author's extensive experience in helping students and adults successfully get employed. Chapter titles include: Identifying Your Personal Skills; Developing A Positive Attitude; Developing Effective People Skills; What Is Your Work Ethic; AdvantagesOf Being Flexible; Identifying Your Job Specific Skills; Tips For Marketing Yourself; Writing Effective Cover Letters; Writing A Strong Resume and Successful Job Interviews.

Two-thirds of high school students do not have a clear idea of what they are going to do after they graduate. Not only does this increase anxiety for a significant number of students, it also means that after first year of college or university, a number of students will change their program. Given the huge expenses associated with college and university, this may cause financial hardships for the students and their parents as program changes can add an additional year of expenses to the total cost of their education. Students often breathe a sigh of relief (and do better in high school) when they discover a goal for their future. Research has shown that the best approach to being successful in any future career is to build on one's strengths. When students understand how to build on their strengths to choose a college or university program, they will generally be happier and more successful. The question one might ask is "How can high school students identify their strengths and then match future career choices to these strengths?" The book After High School can help students answer this question. After High School is written by award-winning teacher/counsellor and Amazon bestselling author Brian Harris. Based on more than twenty years of experience in helping high school students plan their future, in this practical book Brian provides a step-by-step, easy-to-understand approach, to help high school students set realistic goals for after graduation. The book contains a self-scoring interest inventory complete with up-to-date career lists. Students can complete this helpful test right in the book and score their results with easy-to-use instructions (all in 30-45 minutes). In addition, After High School shows students how to identify their values and abilities. Overall, After High School can help students to identify their strengths and show them how their future plans can build on these strengths. The content of this very useful book is based on first hand experiences by the author in working with thousands of high school students. This book is widely used in high school guidance departments, career classes, homeschool settings, and individual students working on their own. Help teenagers reduce their stress about future planning by giving them this self-directed guide to help them to identify their strengths and discover which careers (from up-to-date career lists included in the book).best match their strengths.

Court-room dramas hold an endless fascination, but they are often a pale shadow of the real thing. Consider for example the case of the young man who, after being acquitted of his girlfriend's murder, was challenged by the dead girl's brother in a procedure which had not been used since the middle ages. It failed, but the facts of the case were recalled over a century later by another tragedy, which eerily mirrored them. Or the case of the vicar's son convicted of cattle mutilation who was cleared, not as a result of diligent police work, but by the creator of England's most famous fictional detective. This book contains a number of 'unsolved mysteries', like the murder of a magistrate which nearly ended the career, even the life, of Samuel Pepys. Other curiosities concern the quaint rules by which pirates were once bound and Parliament's continuing concern for outlaws' rights. Even the foggier crannies of the law can offer up their amusements, like the rhyming will which was put up for probate and the extraordinary story of how the law of cremation was reformed by an eccentric Welsh doctor and a Hindu ex-soldier. Told by a retired barrister, the tales in this book illustrate the role of the law in resisting oppression, whether from robber barons or modern governments. Selected for their intrinsic interest, the tales highlight lessons concerning the nature of justice and the diversity - sometimes the unknowability - of human conduct.

If you are a teacher this book can help you to be more effective (and enjoy better behavior from your students). Numerous research studies show that classroom management is a key factor in helping students to learn. Classroom management is also the number one area where new teachers (and even many experienced teachers) identify a need for further professional development. "Classroom Managment", based on extensive research and many years of practical experience, is an attempt to address this need. Improved classroom management can not only help to increase learning, but also to make teaching more enjoyable and satisfying. "Classroom Management" is a practical book that can provide teachers with hundreds of proven strategies, tips and techniques that they can use to improve their skills in the area of classroom managment. In addition, 125 ready-to-use classroom activities (along with the black-line masters for related handouts) are included to engage your students in establishing a more positive classroom environment which is more conducive to learning. There are two major sections within this book as follows: A - What Should I Be Doing During The First Few Weeks of School; B - How To Deal Effectively With Inappropriate Behavior. Chapter titles include:1 - A Simple Beginning That Can Create Lasting Effects2 - Classroom Rules That Really Make A Difference3 - Classroom Routines That Will Make Teaching Easier For You4 - The Benefits Of Establishing A Positive Classroom Environment5 - The Benefits of Developing Empathetic Listening Skills6 - Constructive Assertiveness7 - How To Successfully Resolve Conflicts8 - How To Teach Your Students Anger Management9 - Specific Discipline Strategies10 - Traits of High Effective Teachers "Classroom Management" can also help teachers to form a consistent, proven model to use in handling inappropriate classroom behavior. This book can help all teachers to better understand the strategies and techniques that highly effective teachers use on a daily basis to improve student behavior and increase student success.

"After High School" is an easy-to-use step-by-step guide to help high school students plan their future. "After High School" includes a self-scoring interest survey along with surveys to help students identify their abilities and values. This book can help students better understand which careers best match their strengths (up-to-date career lists are provided in the book). "After High School" was written by Brian Harris who has more than two decades of experience in working in guidance departments in high schools, colleges, and universities. Brian is also an Amazon Bestselling Author. This book can help students to better understand which future college/university program choices (or even choices in the trades or workplace) are best for them after high school.

On average, only one of out every two students who starts a college program ever earns a degree. This book is intended to help you to be one of the two graduating students who is successful at college. Based on the author's extensive experience in teaching and counseling in high school and college settings, "College Success" is packed with proven practical ideas to help any college student to be more successful. The tips and strategies are easy to understand and easy to implement to improve your success at college.

For more than 20 years "Ontario Scholarships" has helped high school students to obtain entrance scholarships and other awards at Ontario universities. "Ontario Scholarships" lists thousands of scholarships and awards with the award amounts, criteria for obtaining the award, the application process, deadlines, and contact information. The book also provides tips on applying for scholarships. The book provides an overview of public and private awards as well as providing information on specific scholarships that are available at each university in Ontario. The book also presents an up-to-date, easy-to-understand overview of OSAP (the Ontario Student Assistance Program).

Dark Comedy / Flexible Casting; 2m, 1f or 6m, 3f / Simple Sets Tall Grass is a dark comedy comprised of three one-act plays. Each play requires two males and a female and the same three actors can play the roles for each play. THE BUSINESS PROPOSAL begins with a botched marriage proposal by a nice young man to his type-A girlfriend, who instead informs him that she has just accepted a position to become his boss. Over the next six-months the two try to sort out what they really want out of their professional and personal lives. The solution comes as a surprise, both to themselves and to the audience. The play also features a comic waiter and some voice-overs which can be done by the same actor. THE GERBIL is the story of a burglar caught breaking into the home of a dysfunctional couple, whose love for their daughter is the glue keeping their marriage together. The brutal ending reveals the harm their marriage has taken on the daughter, although she never appears on stage. In TALL GRASS we find an octogenarian couple fighting to maintain their independence. The arrival of a mysterious social worker tests the true extent of their resolve.

More daring than Dilbert, more subversive than Marx, this ultimate manifesto for millions of lazy "workers" at every level presents the tips, tactics, and techniques for reclaiming lives, sanity--and mid-day naps.Featuring inspiring profiles of famous lazy people and a lexicon of indispensable words to buff up a shabby resume, this book is truly a guide to life in the slow lane.

Following the huge success of The Tortoise Usually Wins, 2012, and The Big Picture, 2015, in When Faith Turns Ugly Brian Harris explores why the Christian faith sometimes wears two masks - usually life-serving and transforming, but occasionally escapist, illusionary and even poisonous.

The Tortoise Usually Wins is a theological exploration of the theory of quiet leadership aimed at those who reluctantly accept the mantle of leadership, but who often make a significant difference.

A thoughtful but accessible presentation of the key foundational beliefs of the Christian faith.A firm understanding of our faith is increasingly important in a world of differing beliefs and perspectives. If we do not have the knowledge to underpin our beliefs we are in danger of appearing shallow to unimpressed onlookers. What we really need is the building blocks of faith. We need a sense of how what we believe will work out in practice.This accessible yet thought-provoking book equips us with the key building blocks of the Christian faith. From these strong foundations, an authentic and robust Christian faith can thrive as we live and work in the secular arena.Discover solid biblical foundations to live out a confident faith in an ever-changing context.