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Nowhere near practically perfect
Early in my career at beginning of the 1980s, my boss gathered everyone in the office to watch a film on generational differences. When the polished speaker concluded the presentation, I noticed an interesting omission. Turning to one of my … Continue reading
A healthy suspicion
While researching how successful people were in transferring leadership skills from one type of business to another (like the route of going from acting to politics that a number have traveled), I came across an article entitled “7 Reasons Leaders … Continue reading
Posted in Educational trends, Leadership
Tagged are leaders born, can leadership skills be taught
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Musical Memory
The cream of the crop students sat in this International Baccalaureate high school history class. They listened attentively to a teacher who had come back from retirement just to teach such a group. Strolling back and forth in front of … Continue reading
Pinning down emotional intelligence
If you do any research on testing for Emotional Intelligence, you are likely to run into a couple of names repeatedly. One is Howard Gardner who came up with the idea that there are several types or modalities of intelligence. … Continue reading
Posted in Emotional intelligence, Standardized Testing
Tagged Howard Gardner, John D. Mayer, Peter Salovey
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Failing to allow failure
During the fall semester of my son’s senior year we went on a mad rush of college visits. We were trying to find the most elite school offering a high level of computer science, where he would actually have a shot … Continue reading
Posted in Educational trends
Tagged acheivement, failure, getting accepted to college
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Did you actually read what you thought you read?
The first few years my daughter was in grade school, she would sit at the table in the breakfast nook and do homework while I prepared dinner. One evening while I stirred cracker crumbs into a meatloaf mix, she sat … Continue reading
The mystery behind the motivation to learn
No matter how much we dissect the functioning of the brain to illuminate how people learn, the bigger mystery is what causes people to learn. Typically when someone dives down into what why some people excel at learning they will … Continue reading
Feeling and knowing
Almost all articles on brain based learning will emphasize the importance of emotions in learning. Emotions are supposed to direct our attention and aid our memory. Learning accompanied by emotional impact lasts far longer than a lecture that goes in … Continue reading
Neat little boxes
Not all research on how the brain functions comes to the same conclusions. In fact one of the major problems with applying brain-based theories in actual instruction is that the findings are frequently contradictory. The cellular structure of the brain … Continue reading
Posted in Educational trends, Group psychology
Tagged brain based instruction, prejudice
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Learning from inside out
The instructor in my high school English class was rather dry. She would drone on about difference between past and subjunctive verbs, and participles, and gerunds. She was a well read and well traveled person. On the side wall she had … Continue reading
