Schools & Teaching
mobi |eng | 2004-01-31 | Author:Philip Gerard

Creative Nonfiction relatively new and is no longer confined to public radio. "Commentators" as diverse as Daniel Pinkwater, an author of children's books, Robin Hemley, a short story writer and ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2015-11-15 | Author:Susan Wise Bauer

Our souls, whose faculties can comprehend The wondrous architecture of the world And measure every wandering planet’s course, Still climbing after knowledge infinite, And always moving as the restless spheres, ...
( Category: Higher & Continuing Education December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2012-06-25 | Author:Yong Zhao

When a society allows and encourages everyone, regardless of his class and occupation, to become an expert in their own way, it is certain that human potentials can be maximally ...
( Category: Schools & Teaching December 2,2017 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-12-31 | Author:Earl R. Babbie

( Category: Sociology December 2,2017 )
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2014-07-30 | Author:Espen Anderson & Bill Schiano

“Hand Credit” Bill awards credit to students for having their hands raised, even if he does not call on them. While this introduces a gaming element, he has found that ...
( Category: Skills December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2012-04-27 | Author:

Despite the widely accepted notion that motivation always increases closer to a goal, a closer look at extant theories of motivation, and especially on the standard expectancy-value theory of motivation, ...
( Category: Psychology & Counseling December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2007-01-02 | Author:Linda Elder & Richard Paul

Defense Mechanisms of the Mind The human mind routinely engages in unconscious processes that are egocentrically motivated, and that strongly influence our behavior. When functioning egocentrically, we seek to get ...
( Category: Schools & Teaching December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2011-10-17 | Author:Linda Elder & Richard Paul

The Logic of Electrical Engineering16 Now let us consider the logic of electrical engineering, followed by some of the important ways in which intellectual standards must be contextualized in assessing ...
( Category: Schools & Teaching December 2,2017 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2012-08-25 | Author:Edward B. Burger & Michael Starbird [Burger, Edward B.]

Overcoming bias. Do you remember that shadows are the color of the sky? That counterintuitive reality reminds us that preconceived notions, bias, and prejudice color our view of the world. ...
( Category: Creativity December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2008-07-30 | Author:Howard E. Gardner [Gardner, Howard E.]

Some of the questions seem practical in nature. Should we call for specialist teachers or train regular classroom teachers in the arts? Should we focus on one or two art ...
( Category: Psychology December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2015-05-19 | Author:Gene Trowbridge

On the other end of the risk capital standard would be the purchase of an interest in a group investment with a specified piece of raw land to be held ...
( Category: Schools & Teaching December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2013-03-20 | Author:Lois N. Allen & Elise Foster & Liz Wiseman

1. Ask provocative questions to guide discovery—Ask questions that provoke new thinking. 2. Lay down a challenge—Pose vivid, concrete challenges that extend the organization beyond its current reach, causing the ...
( Category: Schools & Teaching December 2,2017 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Angela Duckworth

* * * Around the time Marty Seligman and Steve Maier were linking hopelessness to a lack of perceived control, a young psychology major named Carol Dweck was making her ...
( Category: Psychology & Counseling December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2013-08-11 | Author:Holden Thorp & Buck Goldstein [Thorp, Holden]

6 Leadership As we’ve said, innovation begins with entrepreneurial thinking, and more often than not such thinking starts with an individual and not a committee or task force. For universities ...
( Category: Schools & Teaching December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2009-06-17 | Author:Nick Owen

4.7 Difficult Conversations In 1920, King Alexander of Greece was bitten on the leg by his pet monkey. The bite became infected and the poison quickly spread into the royal ...
( Category: Psychology December 2,2017 )