Bøger af Linda Edwards

For courses in Creative Arts in Early Childhood Education. This text emphasizes process over product in guiding preservice teachers to guide preschoolers and primary-grade chidren in creatively expressing themselves in the arts: visual arts, dance and movement, and drama. Key changes to this edition include a new feature on extending creativity into the home with families, more multicultural content and examples of multicultural art forms, and a new section in each chapter addressing national standards. New to this Edition! Many changes and major revisions in this fifth edition provide a comprehensive look at the creative arts and how the arts can expand our understanding of the teaching and learning process. Inclusion of Mathematics, Science, Social studies and the Language Arts Standards. Each of the content chapters presents the national standards for mathematics, science, social studies and language arts and describes how these standards can be integrated into visual and performing arts lessons. This feature will help students and instructors answer the question: "How do I include the creative arts within a standards driven curriculum?" This new feature will enable students and instructors to address all of the national content areas standards in ways that are appropriate for young children. Curriculum Planning, Lesson Plans and Arts Integreation. The chapters on music, dance and movement, visual arts and theatre (drama) presents strategies for developing lesson plans to encourage using the arts as an all encompassing arena for including mathematics, science, social studies and the language arts within a creative arts curriculum. Assessment.Assessment procedures are presented and described to provide students and instructors with concrete ideas that will provide children opportunities to demonstrate their capabilities in a fair and accurate manner in an authentic setting that is integrated into the instructional process. Theory Into Practice: Implications for Teaching. These sections take a critical look at theory and presents ideas for linking theory to practice. Suggestions are provided for developing activities based on the developmental level of the children. This feature demystifies what can be abstract theoretical ideas and describes theory in terms of children's active learning modalities. Where Does a Teacher Get Ideas for Creative Arts? This feature presents ideas gleaned from practicing teachers about how they use children's interests in deciding on ideas for process oriented art lessons. Successful lessons from teachers are included throughout the chapters on music, dance and movement, visual arts and theatre.

Who Touched Me? is Part One of the personal recollections and reflections of Linda Edwards. It tells the traumatic stories of her life from age five through to thirteen. This first book includes family rejection, molestation, attempted suicide, and a good girl turning bad. Who Touched Me? Has lessons that people from all cultures, religions and walks of life can relate to. Apostle Linda Edwards hopes that; by exposing her good, bad, and ugly, people can overcome their struggles in life and be saved, healed, delivered, and set free by facing their truth.

HEARING EYES chronicles author Linda Edwards' personal prophetic life stories that were taken from her 25 years of journaling. These "modern day parables" will capture the attention of those who enjoy unusual stories and can be instrumental in teaching the reader how they too can hear the Lord speak to them through their life events and through what they see. Linda candidly reveals how her prophetic marriage to Michael is a "marriage made in Heaven", yet, seemed like "hell on earth" the first six years. Several of the most important words that the Lord has clearly spoken to Linda include the following commands, revelatory words, and instructions that she chose to obey and to share more fully within HEARING EYES. "Write the vision ..." Habakkuk 2:1-2 "I will give you POWER against darkness!" "If you trust ME, I will make him a Godly man!" "You are a picture of the Church and I am turning up the heat!" "Foil the plans of voodoo!" "Teach how to see in the Spirit!" "I will come if you will open your umbrella!" "The Church will not be effective in the marketplace until the marketplace comes out of the Church!" "Wear the fire scarf and stand before them as a sign that fire is coming to the heart of Texas!" "It is time to unveil the picture of the Church!" Linda Edwards, a native Texan, is married to Michael Edwards, military retiree. The Edwards graduated in 2000 from Christ For The Nations Institute, Dallas, Texas, where Linda served as student body president from 1999-2000. Linda has been guest speaker at several Women's Aglow meetings and churches. Michael and Linda are co-founders of Hearing Eyes Ministries (HEM).

A journey from sceptic to passionate practitioner.

This is a tale of an inspired journey from corporate dinosaur to dynamismin action. Maxine is a newly appointed chief executive who inherits an ailing organization. The organization has a very poor reputation based on historical mismanagement and poor performance. Maxine inherits a board of directors who are either rigid and set in their ways or poorly equipped to be operating at director level. This is the story of how Maxine uses her vast range of leadership skills to turn the company into a thriving, flexible, dynamic and successful organization.Dr. Linda Edwards is the founder of Rising Star Training & Consultancy. She is an executive coach, traner and writer with a reputation for enabling personal and organizational transformation. A chief executive at the age of 32, she has spent the last 13 years working as a consultant and coach to numerous organizations, Linda currently lives in Goytre in rural South Wales with her husband Robert, two cats, Bramble, and a Welsh sheepdog, called Star.www.LindaRisingStar.com

For courses in Creative Arts in Early Childhood Education.This text emphasizes process over product in guiding preservice teachers to guide preschoolers and primary-grade chidren in creatively expressing themselves in the arts: visual arts, dance and movement, and drama. Key changes to this edition include a new feature on extending creativity into the home with families, more multicultural content and examples of multicultural art forms, and a new section in each chapter addressing national standards.

This wide-ranging and highly readable introduction focuses on the contemporary fascination with the big questions about God and the supernatural, setting out clearly and fairly what people believe and their reasons for believing it. All the major faiths are covered, along with new and alternative movements, neo-pagan and New Age thought, and...