Motivated Minds

Author: Deborah Stipek, Ph.D.
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
ISBN: 1466873434
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 249

Book Description
Motivated Minds--a practical guide to ensuring your child's success in school. What makes students succeed in school? For the past twenty years, the focus has been on building children's self-esteem to help them achieve more in the classroom. But positive reinforcement hasn't necessarily resulted in measureable academic improvement. Through extensive research, combined with ongoing classroom implementation of their ideas, Deborah Stipek, Dean of the School of Education at Stanford, and Kathy Seal have created a program that will encourage motivation and a love of learning in children from toddlerhood through elementary school. Stipek and Seal maintain that parents and teachers can build a solid foundation for learning by helping children to develop the key elements of success: competency, autonomy, curiosity, and critical relationships. The authors offer both practical advice and strategies on understanding different learning styles for Math and reading as well as down-to-earth tips about how to manage difficult issues -- competition, grades, praise, bribes, and rewards -- that inevitably arise for parents and teachers. Most important, Stipek and Seal help parents create an enriching environment for their children at home that will mesh with the school experience and become a positive, effective climate for learning.

Motivating Minds

Author: Elisheva Zeffren
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1475836392
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 219

Book Description
Would you like to establish an animated classroom atmosphere where students are motivated to gain skills, absorb knowledge, express opinions, and examine alternatives? Would you like your students to reflect on the quality of their thinking and learning? With her usual eloquence, Elisheva Zeffren articulates students’ need to think critically, formulate conclusions, and uncover what is relevant and important to modern life. The lucid writing style, easy-to-read charts, creative exercises, practical and concrete goals, make this book simple to revisit. Educators can take the innovative ideas back to their classrooms and implement them with little or no preparation.

A Real Goon's Bible

Author: Derrick Johnson
Publisher: eBookIt.com
ISBN: 0983440980
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 122

Book Description
To all those who stand tall through it all! This one's for ya'll.In life there's a start and finish to everything, but what counts the most are the things one does while going through it, such as having morals and principles that detour even the thought of indulging in activities that put your beliefs at question. I'm a firm believer in the Game God and the rules and codes of the "jungle" we call the streets, and when one violates the Laws of the Game, there will be various forms of consequences and repercussions. Times have changed true indeed, but what hasn't changed is the definition and understanding of what defines a man, a stand up man at that. There once was a time when men carried their own weight, no matter what threats or tactics law enforcement used on them; but due to all the real thoroughbred soldiers and their lengthily prison bits, the younger generation hasn't been receiving the guidance and discipline us true soldiers had to endure. So in turn, many are bred to be something all real men despise-rats and snitches.With all this being said, the Game hasn't changed, it's the individual who's playing that has changed, along with the help of the government who is guiding and molding them to their specifications to be less than the strong men their meant to be. They're not only the worst of the worst, they're lost.So to all the real "G's" who refuse to bend or fold, my hat's off to you because believe it when I tell you-we're the last of a dying breed.

Genisova

Author: Randy Kovicak
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1532061269
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250

Book Description
The future of mankind is in jeopardy. Scientists who monitor the sun have discovered that it is unexpectedly growing warmer and emitting more dangerous ultraviolet rays. One man, a young, brilliant entrepreneur has a vision and the resources to do something about it. For those who believe, it will be a journey that will take them to realms beyond Earth and deep within their soul. In a race against time, often going against popular trends, the people of Genisova come together to create hope for the survival of humanity. Along the way, some incredible discoveries are made that may just show the true potential of humans.

Adapted Brains and Imaginary Worlds

Author: Donald Beecher
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773598537
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
In Adapted Brains and Imaginary Worlds, Donald Beecher explores the characteristics and idiosyncrasies of the brain as they affect the study of fiction. He builds upon insights from the cognitive sciences to explain how we actualize imaginary persons, read the clues to their intentional states, assess their representations of selfhood, and empathize with their felt experiences in imaginary environments. He considers how our own faculty of memory, in all its selective particularity and planned oblivion, becomes an increasingly significant dimension of the critical act, and how our own emotions become aggressive readers of literary experience, culminating in states which define the genres of literature. Beecher illustrates his points with examples from major works of the Renaissance period, including Dr Faustus, The Faerie Queene, Measure for Measure, The Yorkshire Tragedy, Menaphon, The Dialogue of Solomon and Marcolphus, and The Moral Philosophy of Doni. In this volume, studies in the science of mind come into their own in explaining the architectures of the brain that shape such emergent properties as empathy, suspense, curiosity, the formation of communities, gossip, rationalization, confabulation, and so much more that pertains to the behaviour of characters, the orientation of readers, and the construction of meaning. Discussing a breadth of topics – from the mysteries of the criminal mind to the psychology of tears – Adapted Brains and Imaginary Worlds is the most comprehensive work available on the study of fictional worlds and their relation to the constitution of the human brain.

Cultivating a Motivated Mindset

Author: Ydrate Nelson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780986092930
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
No matter the outcome, good, bad or indifferent, motivation and mindset play a role in the results of your day-to-day life. When you learn to apply the 8 steps to Cultivating a Motivated Mindset, your actions will become more definitive and your goals more attainable. Cultivating A Motivated Mindset is a resource guide to aid you on your mission to BE THE GREATEST version of yourself. Your journey to Greatness begins with the 8 steps:Step one: Believe in yourself.Step two: Adopt a positive mindset.Step three: Find your why and set a goal.Step four: Master focus management.Step five: Don't compromise your goals.Step six: Find your tribe.Step seven: Take breaks when needed.Step eight: Don't give up.

The Motivated Mind

Author: Raj Persaud
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448110793
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 530

Book Description
- Do you make New Year resolutions? Almost everyone does, because we want to achieve positive personal change. But did you know that most resolutions are repeated five years in a row, and that the vast majority are broken by June. - Have you ever dieted? Yet if diets work, why do we need so many, and new ones all the time? The evidence shows that we persist in buying diet books and following fitness fads because we want to believe the new approach will be the one that works... Today, we seem to be obsessed with advantage and disadvantage, fairness and the level playing field, without realizing that in life, the ability to overcome obstacles is a key part of any success strategy - as is our inner drive and motivation. In The Motivated Mind, award-winning author and psychiatrist Dr Raj Persaud investigates the latest research on this fascinating subject - and he comes to some surprising conclusions. Complete with fascinating case studies, The Motivated Mind offers fresh & inspiring insights into understanding the key to success - the key to fulfilling your dream.

Road to Greatness

Author: Pritam S. Sahota Donald A. Assmann Mary Arnella-Venezia Michael Rubell Gulzar S. Sandhu Zbigniew W. Wojcinski
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1662443226
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 164

Book Description
“Greatness” has been defined as a quality of being great, distinguished, or eminent. “Road to Greatness” employs examples of selected individuals who achieved greatness. The road begins with a desire to become successful by creating a personal path to attain exceptional goals. “Genius= 1% Inspiration and 99% Perspiration.” - Thomas Edison (Inventor: He made 1000 unsuccessful attempts before inventing the light bulb.) “Never, never, never, never give up.” – Sir Winston Churchill (Historian, Nobel Prize Winner in Literature (1953) and Prime Minister of the UK during World War-2.) “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein (Theoretical physicist; Winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics.) “If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney (Entrepreneur, animator, writer, film producer; record holder for individual Academy Awards.) “People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.” Sir Edmund Hillary (Mountaineer, explorer, philanthropist; first climber with Tenzing Norgay to summit Mount Everest in 1953). “Road to Greatness” explores four groupings of over forty success factors that are instrumental in extraordinary achievement: Physical and Mental Fitness Connection of Inner and Outer Circles Constant Learning Skill Development Achieving competence in the success factors enhances an individual’s ability to achieve greatness and can be developed through discipline and deliberate practice by incorporation in small increments into routine activities. True greats consistently grow through self-awareness to overcome their limitations, take on challenges, and endeavor to face the obstacles they encounter. The characteristics and traits that drive greatness are inherent within all of us and can be applied to any field, subject, or discipline. “Road to Greatness” provides a roadmap to create a personalized path to extraordinary achievement for students, parents, teachers and graduates entering the workforce. Although it is uncertain what challenges you will face, the roadmap and exploration of greatness arms you with the tools you will need. As such, only one question remains: Are you willing to embark on your own road to greatness?

Inspiring Middle School Minds

Author: Judith A. Willis
Publisher: Gifted Unlimited
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 340

Book Description
Teaching adolescents can be quite challenging. Dr. Judy Willis, a neurologist and teacher, explains the inner workings of the adolescent brain. She uses the findings of brain research in her classroom to explain how parents and teachers can trigger untapped inspiration in students. Middle school education has often been a "black hole" for gifted students, seldom providing adequate challenge. By understanding how the brain works, however, we can make learning for all youngsters exciting and stimulating. The information and advice in this book will help parents and teachers design positive and rewarding learning experiences that will then be stored in long-term memory rather than "deleted" or "filtered out."

Words that Change Minds

Author: Shelle Rose Charvet
Publisher: Author's Choice Publishing
ISBN: 9780787234799
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 246

Book Description