I am constantly amazed by the number of clients I work with who make things harder than they need to be. There’s often several reasons why: They were shown to do something that way so they’ve always done it that way. They don’t have the time to try something different so they figure, “at least…
Strategies for Helping Kinesthetic Learners (Part 2)
Be yourself The kinesthetic learner detects phoniness quickly. Be yourself especially if you are slightly weird and/or funny. Teach with all your passion, enthusiasm, and drama. Kinesthetic students learn best when content is taught in an entertaining way—they engage more. By accessing your own nutty creativity, you can help dry content come alive. It may…
Strategies for Helping Kinesthetic Learners (Part 1)
Why do some students love school and do well while others in the same school, with the same dedicated teachers, are miserable in school? After working in schools all over the country, I’ve come more and more to believe that schools operate like a private club for visual learners. Kinesthetic students—those with a limited ability…
Teamwork Makes the Dream Work
I’m not awesome at using computers. Is it helpful for me to spend hours trying to be ‘good’ at computers? It could be, but I can probably guess that I would be frustrated at least 80% of the time. I would have some serious self-doubt and self-loathing going on and I would be feeling down…
60 000 Thoughts per Day
Scientists say that we have over 60 000 thoughts each day. That is a scary, huge number. However, what is even scarier is thinking about which thoughts we listen to without even realising it and which ones we let fade off out of our minds just as quickly as they arrived. I like using the…
Feeling Overwhelmed – Simplify Things
At times we can try to be all things, to all people. However, this can be to the detriment of our own well-being. The following strategies, inspired by author Kelly Exeter, are intended to help you slow down and bring some calmness to your life whenever you are feeling at risk of becoming over-whelmed. Reduce…
The Pygmalion Effect (Part 2)
In part 1, I highlighted that teachers’ expectations can dramatically affect students’ achievement. This uniquely human phenomenon is the Pygmalion Effect. Here is another example. If a student in your class scores significantly better on a test, than you would have predicted, would you look first at alternative reasons before admitting you had pre-judged this…
The Pygmalion Effect (Part 1)
Teachers’ expectations can dramatically affect students’ achievement. Really believing makes a difference. Teachers can create better student results by just believing in them. This is even truer with underachievers. If a teacher is told that her students are bright, the teacher will be more supportive, teach more difficult material, allow more ‘wait’ time for students…
A Picture Tells a Thousand Words
We often need to put images into our documents such as newsletters, reports or even in Powerpoint presentations to colleagues, students or parents. Using appropriate images provide powerful visuals to reinforce the written (or spoken depending on the format) words. As the old saying goes…A picture tells a thousand words that creates a memory that…
Why Would You Want to Work in Schools?
During my career, the status of the teaching profession has declined. A generation or two ago I believe that a number of parents were more supportive of teachers. In times gone by, when issues arose parents were more likely to back and support teachers than immediately jump to the defense of their children and ‘attack’…
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