How To Treat Others: 5 Lessons From an Unknown Author. Five Lessons About How To Treat People -- Author Unknown 1. First Important Lesson - "Know The Cleaning Lady" During my second month of college, our professor gave us a pop quiz. I was a conscientious student and had breezed through the questions, until I read the last one: "What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school? " Surely this was some kind of joke. I had seen the cleaning woman several times. She was tall, dark-haired and in her 50s, but how would I know her name? "Absolutely," said the professor. I've never forgotten that lesson. 2. One night, at 11:30 p.m., an older African American woman was standing on the side of an Alabama highway trying to endure a lashing rainstorm. A young white man stopped to help her, generally unheard of in those conflict-filled 1960s. She seemed to be in a big hurry, but wrote down his address and thanked him.
A special note was attached. Sincerely, Mrs. 3. The little boy pulled his hand out of his pocket and studied the coins in it. 4. 5. The Mayonnaise Jar and 2 Bottles of Cold Beer. "To Risk" by William Arthur Ward. Matching Teaching Style to Learning Style May Not Help Students - Teaching. By David Glenn If you've ever sat through a teaching seminar, you've probably heard a lecture about "learning styles. " Perhaps you were told that some students are visual learners, some are auditory learners, and others are kinesthetic learners.
Or maybe you were given one of the dozens of other learning-style taxonomies that scholars and consultants have developed. Almost certainly, you were told that your instruction should match your students' styles. For example, kinesthetic learners—students who learn best through hands-on activities—are said to do better in classes that feature plenty of experiments, while verbal learners are said to do worse.
Now four psychologists argue that you were told wrong. "We were startled to find that there is so much research published on learning styles, but that so little of the research used experimental designs that had the potential to provide decisive evidence," says Harold E. Advocates of learning styles respond that Mr. Mr. That sounds intuitive. Deep Thoughts. The Places You'll Go --Theodore Geisel. You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.
You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the guy who'll decide where to go. ~ Dr. . ( Oh, the Places You'll Go! (left button to play, right button to save)