NASSPE. Women Are Like Spaghetti: Bill Farrel, Pam Farrel: 9780736904865: Amazon.com. The Minds of Boys: Saving Our Sons From Falling Behind in School and Life. "The ideas in THE MINDS OF BOYS seem to be catching on.
The Gurian Institute has trained more than 15,000 teachers. " — Newsweek, September 19, 2005 "In THE MINDS OF BOYS, Michael Gurian and Kathy Stevens target their advice to both parents and teachers, and stress practical information, from nutritional guidelines to recommended classroom layouts. " — Education Week, September 7, 2005 "In The Minds of Boys, Gurian and Stevens use biological research and more than 20 years of classroom experience to present a detailed plan of how to most effectively teach boys.
" — NEA Today, November 2005 (National Education Association) "Parents of boys have always known it in their hearts. . — Nancy Churnin, Dallas Morning News "THE MINDS OF BOYS...a call for a reassessment of how we educate our sons (that) is long overdue. " — Washington Post Book World "Parents perplexed by their bright sons who constantly struggle in school will find hope in The Minds of Boys. " — Soledad O'Brien, USA Weekend and CNN — Tracey J. Cordelia Fine. "Delusions of Gender takes on that tricky question, Why exactly are men from Mars and women from Venus?
, and eviscerates both the neuroscientists who claim to have found the answers and the popularizers who take their findings and run with them. ... What all this adds up to, she says, is neurosexism. It's all in the brain. But Dr. Fine persuasively argues that it is, in fact, all in the mind. ... New York Times "a witty and meticulously researched expose of the sloppy studies that pass for scientific evidence in so many of today's bestselling books on sex differences ... "carefully and with great precision demolishes the nonsense that pervades the popular and technical literature pretending to be scientific fact, exposing it as truthiness which is nowhere close to truth. ... Professor Judy Roitman, University of Kansas Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter "highly readable and enjoyable ... should be required reading for every neurobiology student, if not every human being.
" Ruby Payne. Ruby K.
Payne, Ph.D. is the founder of aha! Process and an author, speaker, publisher, and career educator. Tale of Two Brains - Men's vs Women's Brains. Finding Forrester - Coleridge, Kipling, and more. Karpman Drama Triangle. Classic drama triangle[1] The drama triangle is a psychological and social model of human interaction in transactional analysis (TA) first described by Stephen Karpman, M.D., in his 1968 article "Fairy Tales and Script Drama Analysis".[3] The drama triangle model is used in psychology and psychotherapy.[4][5] The three roles[edit] The model posits three habitual psychological roles (or roleplays) which people often take in a situation: Of these, the rescuer is the least obvious role.
In the terms of the drama triangle, the rescuer is not a person helping someone in an emergency. ... the Victim is not really as helpless as he feels, the Rescuer is not really helping, and the Persecutor does not really have a valid complaint.[6] The situation plays out when a situation arises and a person takes a role as victim or persecutor. Melodrama often features a central, triangle cast. Rescuer[edit] Overview and theory[edit] Three quantitative variables are often useful to consider for games: Haley Joel Osment - I hate that you're my mother scene "Pay It Forward" (2000) Association for Middle Level Education - AMLE. Presenter Handouts. Innovation Day. Created by an Australian software company called Atlassian, FedEx Day is a day of autonomy where employees are allowed to work on anything they are interested in (as long as it has nothing to do with their job).
It is coined FedEx Day because these employees are expected to DELIVER a project overnight to share what they have learned. (Google has a Google 20%) What purpose does this serve? FedEx Day is motivating! According to Daniel Pink, author of Drive the most effective motivators are, “autonomy (the ability to chart your own course), mastery (the ability to become an exert at something), and purpose (the idea that what you are doing serves a purpose larger than yourself).” From the kids themselves... Can this same concept be transferred to the classroom? Absolutely! Teachers guide students in developing higher level questions based on their interests.
During Innovation Day, teachers will facilitate, coach, question and guide. Our Goal for the First Innovation Day We won’t! Kidblog. Bloom-iPads-Apps. LiveBinders. ConferApp - A Note-Taking App.
Wikispaces. Xtranormal. Managing the Madness: A Practical Guide to Middle Grades Classrooms. John Medina. Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School.