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Friday, June 04, 2010
New from G-W! - Career Success
Career Success: The Attitude Advantage is a unique text-workbook that presents soft skills to prepare for real-world success. Focusing on keeping a positive attitude, improving human relations skills, and exploring career issues, this text is designed to increase awareness and understanding of the challenges and responsibility of being an employee. Each chapter opens with a case study that provides challenging, realistic examples to build critical-thinking, team-building, and problem-solving skills. The Analyze section follows the case to build key concepts and provide additional human relations content. Each chapter then concludes with an additional case and an opportunity for self-assessment of key information that has been presented. The easy-to-follow lessons, with highlighted vocabulary terms, provide a systematic program for preparation for personal growth. A comprehensive Instructor’s CD is also available to guide presentation of the content and serve as a springboard for group discussions. Included on the Instructor’s CD are lesson plans, solutions to workbook activities, and Activity transparency masters to use for additional hands-on applications. View E-Mail Blast

Thursday, June 03, 2010
New from G-W! - Print Reading for Industry
Check out the brand new Print Reading for Industry textbook available now from Goodheart-Willcox Publisher.

Print Reading for Industry is designed to assist students in reading and understanding industrial prints. This completely revised text starts with the basics of print reading and progresses to advanced topics. It presents a thorough discussion of print reading techniques, providing the necessary information and guidance to read the “language of industry”. Highlights of the 2011 edition include:

Combination text and write-in workbook.
New topic and content organization.
Up-to-date review questions and print reading activities.
Authentic industrial prints for hands-on learning.
Advanced “Bonus Print Reading Exercises” relate to prints on C-size sheets that are included with the textbook in a separate folder.
Advanced “Bonus” prints can be purchased in electronic form on CD.

Everything you need for a successful Print Reading program is at your fingertips with Print Reading for Industry. The teaching performance package provides you with a student text that includes the oversized, advanced prints; an instructor’s CD; EXAMVIEW Assessment Suite®; and PowerPoint Presentations. The advanced “Bonus” prints can also be purchased in electronic form on CD. View E-Mail Blast

Friday, April 09, 2010
The Culinary Professional and Coauthor Receive Awards
Goodheart-Willcox Publisher is pleased to announce our new textbook The Culinary Professional (ISBN 978-1-60525-118-9) has been awarded the Literature Text Book Culinary Academy Award in the 2009–2010 Cordon d’ Or – Gold Ribbon International “Annual Cookbooks & Culinary Arts” Culinary Academy Awards. The Culinary Professional is an introductory textbook that features illustrated explanations of culinary techniques, identification of foods and equipment used in the professional kitchen, and foundational knowledge and skills for a successful career in foodservice. Coauthors, Chefs John Draz and Christopher Koetke, will be honored on Friday, April 30, 2010 at The Don CeSar Hotel in St. Pete Beach, Florida. Please join us in congratulating them.

In February of this year, Christopher Koetke, dean of The School of Culinary Arts at Kendall College and coauthor of The Culinary Professional, received the Inaugural Award for Excellence in Culinary Education from the Foodservice Educators Network International (FENI). This award acknowledges Koetke’s achievements and leadership in foodservice education. Goodheart-Willcox Publisher is delighted to have such a well-respected culinary educator and professional as one of our authors. View E-Mail Blast

Friday, February 26, 2010
New from G-W! - Video Game Design Foundations
Video Game Design Foundations provides students with a complete understanding of the technological and creative aspects of video game design in an easy-to-follow format. This “turnkey” curriculum is the complete guide to immersion in the field, from beginning each game build project through completion, integration, and marketing. Simulated design teams will have the opportunity to learn all aspects of team building, including the creative, business, and technological components required to launch a new video game system.

Students will participate in a simulation of a real video game design team, seeing each project from origination to fruition. This provides an invaluable lesson in team building that can be applied to any other aspect of the technology and engineering industries in real-life future careers. View E-Mail Blast

Friday, February 19, 2010
New from GW! - Teaching
Educators throughout have been looking for a quality textbook that helps prepare students for a career in education. Goodheart-Willcox is pleased to present its exciting new textbook, Teaching.

Teaching helps the teachers of tomorrow explore the world of education, and discover what makes a teacher effective. This new text explores the theories of human development and the various developmental stages of children through their teen years. Your students will learn about the history of education in the United States and how schools impact society. They will learn about all types of learners – how they change physically, intellectually, emotionally, and socially – and how that impacts the way they are taught. They will also learn how to design an instructional plan, choose teaching strategies, and create an effective learning environment for their future students.

Teaching brings together all the elements required to take the first step toward a career in education, and combines them in a hardcover, full-color text. The complete teaching package available this April includes a workbook and an Instructor's CD to complement the text. The Instructor's CD contains bulletin board ideas, student learning experiences, transparency and reproducible masters, chapter tests, and answer keys. Help your students take a first step toward their career in teaching. Request your preview copy today.

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