Teachers who use gamification in their classrooms need to think of each new year of students as a whole new game and not simply a new level. You need to start fresh with the same basic ideals and build off of what works. It’s never going to be the same for two different classes or...
“But wait!” I panicked. I had just met the new me, she was still forming. Alaska had tugged the bravery out of me I hadn’t had to use in a while and had given it a new shine. She had empowered me to step so far outside my comfort zone as to only view it again with bi...
More Students Respond.To test the amount of active engagement using whole class Q&A vs. Kagan Structures, researchers contrasted whole class Q&A with two Kagan Structures, Numbered Heads Together and Show Me. On the average, 3 of the 21 students in the class raised their hands when Q&A was u...
But in the end, I had to go back to work. Full time. With additional hours quite often. And that meant I had to learn the new job, and learn an entirely new sort of programming to go along with it. Which meant long evenings and weekends taking online programming classes and writing ...
Upon completing his apprenticeship, Breguet worked for two of the most esteemed watchmakers of the era, Ferdinand Berthoud (1727–1807) and Jean-Antoine Lépine (1720–1814). Recognizing the importance of mathematics for his craft, Breguet continued his education with evening classes at the Collège...
They described that they were pa- tient with students and would invest a lot of time (some- times even their free time after classes) to help them overcome difficulties or practice specific skills. "I'm rather calm. There was a situation in which students panicked before a test because ...
In college I did the same thing, but with classes. Bringing my workout clothes to class let me head straight for a workout after the last class of the day. The cues and chains you choose will be specific to your lifestyle, but chaining is one of the most powerful methods you can us...
In the work of Maslow and Alderfer there are five and three classes of needs, respectively, organized in a hierarchy from the basic, lower-order needs such as the physiological drives to higher-order needs for actualization or growth. In the work of Herzberg there are just two categories of...
A quick browse online yielded the SLO County Health Department Tobacco Control Program, which offers six-week smoking cessation classes at no cost. Though seriously jonesing for a smoke, I found sharing my thoughts with the counselor in a group wasn't as painful as I had feared. Sure, I ...
It focuses on areas they want to improve inside or outside of work and we offer free books, courses and classes to help them achieve their goals. This helps keep people motivated, as it puts the driver wheel in their hands and they see progress as time goes on! Thanks to: Loren ...