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John Medina

John Medina
What's the best way to raise a smart, happy child through age 5? Scientists know. Brain Rules for Baby offers parents facts – not just advice – in an engaging, practical way. Now updated and expanded with a new chapter on sleep! Read the Introduction If workplaces had nap rooms, multitasking was frowned upon, and meetings were held during walks, we'd be vastly more productive.

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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.

UDL Guidelines Graphic Organizer This graphic is also available in PDF format. UDL Guidelines graphic organizer text despcription This graphic organizer of the Universal Design for Learning Guidelines depicts the three main principles of UDL in three color-coded columns with numbered explanations and bulleted examples beneath each principle heading. Principle I. Provide Multiple Means of Representation is shown on the left in dark pink and includes the following:

What Students Remember Most About Teachers Dear Young Teacher Down the Hall, I saw you as you rushed past me in the lunch room. Urgent. 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!

Richard Felder: Resources in Science and Engineering Education Richard Felder's Home Page Richard M. Felder Dr. Richard M. Felder is the Hoechst Celanese Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering at North Carolina State University. Word Puzzles Word Searches In each of the these word searches, words are hidden horizontally, vertically, or diagonally, forwards or backwards. Can you find all the words in the word lists? Associated Words In each of these puzzles, a list of words is given.

Ruby Payne Ruby K. Payne, Ph.D. is the founder of aha! Process and an author, speaker, publisher, and career educator. Recognized internationally for A Framework for Understanding Poverty, her foundational book and workshop, Dr. Payne has helped students and adults of all economic backgrounds achieve academic, professional, and personal success. “We’re Not in Kansas (nor Cambridge) Anymore” - Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda Lisa M. Hess, Associate Professor of Practical Theology, United Theological Seminary Arriving onto the campus of my first fulltime teaching job in higher education was not unlike finding myself in a strange land with a little dog under my arm. “Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore,” I remember saying aloud, wondering what I had done in accepting this new job I thought I wanted.

What's Your Sentence? An Exercise in Exploring the Self Throughout the school year, I am always trying to find ways to help my students discover themselves, their passions, strengths, and identify the skills that they will need to achieve their lifelong dreams. I know.. a bit lofty, but it's important to take some these initial small steps in 4th grade! I did this activity with students last January, and since it went well, and it’s a new year, it's a great time to re-examine goals and ideas about who we want to be. I showed students this Dan Pink video: What's Your Sentence? 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.

Learning Revolution Events - Announcing Online Google Summit - Film Fest Big Week - Curiosity Hacked August 13th, 2014 A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. - Horace Mann The Learning Revolution Project highlights our own "conference 2.0" virtual and physical events and those of our over 200 partners in the learning professions.

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 Home NASSPE

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