You can increase your intelligence: 5 ways to maximize your cognitive potential | Guest Blog. The views expressed are those of the author and are not necessarily those of Scientific American. "One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one’s greatest efforts. " —Albert Einstein While Einstein was not a neuroscientist, he sure knew what he was talking about in regards to the human capacity to achieve.
Not so many years ago, I was told by a professor of mine that you didn’t have much control over your intelligence. Well, I disagreed. You see, before that point in my studies, I had begun working as a Behavior Therapist, training young children on the autism spectrum. One of my first clients was a little boy w/ PDD-NOS (Pervasive Developmental Delays-Not Otherwise Specified), a mild form of autism. He wasn’t the only child I saw make vast improvements in the years I’ve been a therapist, either.
Although the data from those early studies showed dismal results, I wasn’t discouraged. 1. 2. 3. 4. 1. 2. 3. Why Professors Should Be Like Preachers - Tyler Cowen. ... or coaches or therapists. The primary importance of motivating students in post-secondary education. At a good teaching school, a professor is expected to run the class and, sometimes, have a small group of students over to his house for dinner. As the former function becomes less important, due to competition from online content, the latter function will predominate.
The computer program cannot host a chatty, informal dinner in the same manner. We could think of the forthcoming educational model as professor as impresario. In some important ways, we would be returning to the original model of face-to-face education as practiced in ancient Greek symposia and meetings by the agora. It will become increasingly apparent how much of current education is driven by human weakness, namely the inability of most students to simply sit down and try to learn something on their own. What Makes a Great Teacher: Training? Experience? Intelligence? Grit? If a teacher is successful in the classroom, does it matter how she got there, or how long she intends to stay in the profession? Should personal qualities like perseverance and grit count just as much as completing the requisite coursework in curriculum and instruction? Those are some of the questions being asked in the wake of a new study that reflects favorably on Teach For America’s corps members who teach mathematics in schools that have typically struggled to fill teaching vacancies.
The study, conducted by Mathematica Policy Research for the U.S. The TFA aspect of the study looked at middle and high school students at 45 campuses in eight states, over two academic years. Working paper by the Center for Longitudinal Data in Education Research. As Politico’s Stephanie Simon pointed out in her reporting, “the gains weren’t miraculous,” with students climbing up to the 30th percentile from the 27th percentile. “The issue is people staying,” Weingarten said. Can Emotional Intelligence Be Taught? STOP STEALING DREAMS: Seth Godin at TEDxYouth@BFS. Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity? When Memorization Gets in the Way of Learning - Ben Orlin. I once caught an 11th-grader who snuck a cheat sheet into the final exam. At first, he tried to shuffle it under some scratch paper.
When I cornered him, he shifted tactics. "It's my page of equations," he told me. "Aren't we allowed a formula sheet? The physics teacher lets us. " Nice try, but no dice. The principal and I rejected his alibi and hung a fat zero on his final exam. Looking back, I have to ask myself: Why didn't I allow a formula sheet? "What's the sine of π/2? " "One! " So I skipped ahead, later to realize that they didn't really know what "sine" even meant. Some things are worth memorizing--addresses, PINs, your parents' birthdays. Memorization has enjoyed a surge of defenders recently.
Certainly, knowledge matters. I define memorization as learning an isolated fact through deliberate effort. First, there's raw rehearsal: reciting a fact over and over. Raw rehearsal is the worst way to learn something. Such tactics certainly work better than raw rehearsal.