Teaching Students How to Be Better Listeners Ask students to write for one minute on “What do I hope to get out of this lecture?” or “What was the most important point in the reading assignment for the day?” Another strategy is to ask students to listen to you for 5-15 minutes without taking notes …
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The book highlights four core important lessons: 1. Students attending 4-year universities are too often “academically adrift.” Undergraduate learning is rarely prioritized. 2. Gains in student performance are disturbingly low – a pattern on limited learning is prevalent on contemporary college campuses. 3. Individual learning in higher education is characterized by persisten and/or growing inequality. …
Class 1: Chris Palmer – Producing for Environmental Filmmaking When you walk into the classroom there is a table full of snacks – candy, wheat thins, guacamole, fruit. Apparently each student is assigned a day to bring snacks for the class break. Already I like this professor’s style. Food makes people happy. He writes the …
I was in college when I started my ritual of making pancakes for lovers on Sunday mornings. The Jewish boy used to love the way I sliced up the bananas and tucked them into each hotcake with the tips of my fingers. It sure was messy… I rarely washed the bowl after cooking because a full …
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YOU ALWAYS RACE IN THE LAST STRETCH… For the past year and a half I have been trying to communicate with you so that I could be more successful, but you were always distracted by your “extracurricular activities… Image of B-O-Y screwing blond assistant… Cutline: Does this mean I’m getting a promotion? Image of B-O-Y …
Gysela’s dreams were coming true. The B-O-Y in charge gave her money to start her own publication, however, it was about a subject she knew nothing about. She tried not to let that fact stop her. She hired freelance writers, built a web site…It was fun and happy until a major company deadline came around. …
Is everyone just pretending? I am pretending that I am stronger than I really am. If I’m fake, then everyone I attract is just a reflection of myself. And it seems that there is nothing I hate more than fake people. Therefore, I must hate myself. Why am I pretending? Who do I think I …
For the past year and a half I have worked for a company in Miami that made me feel like I was in a 1970s battle for women’s civil rights. The men in charge promoted women with low-cut dresses and played footsies with assistants at board room meetings. But after attending The Latina Style Business …