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- 351: Sport Psychology
- ... means least, the athletes themselves. It is sport psychology that has stood apart from the discipline of psychology as a whole. "Its history is different, its concerns are often different, its centres of learning and teaching are often different, and its professional training is different." (Garfield, 1984:34) Yet despite this, sport psychology remains permanently bonded to psychology through its common interest in the fundamental principles of psychology, human behavior, and ... it enhances persistence, and finally, they encourage the individual to develop strategies for achieving their goals." (Wolff, 1993:146) Another goal setting procedure is the widespread use of the acronym SCAMP as a way of teaching athletes simple goal setting procedures. Specify exactly how much you want to improve and how you can measure it. Set goals that are challenging but have pos-sibility. Set goals that are attainable. Set multiple ...
- 352: Carl Gauss
- ... s brilliance shone through at a young age. At the age of only two years, the young Carl gradually learned from his parents how to pronounce the letters of the alphabet. Carl then set to teaching himself how to read by sounding out the combinations of the letters. Around the time that Carl was teaching himself to read aloud, he also taught himself the meanings of number symbols and learned to do arithmetical calculations. When Carl Gauss reached the age of seven, he began elementary school. His potential for brilliance ...
- 353: An Overview Of Student Acceler
- ... and focussing learning experiences around ideas that define both real world applications and relevant theories. When designing curriculum for gifted and talented students, educators not only have to develop and implement a wide range of teaching and learning strategies, they also have to strive constantly to challenge both students problem solving and cognitive skills. Having discussed model programs for educating gifted and talented children the research literature leads us to the ... children do require special programs and curriculum, also extreme care and duress should be taken when identifying children as gifted and talented. I also suspect that some average students would benefit from some of the teaching and learning methods employed for gifted and talented students. To conclude I will briefly recap the main arguments of the essay. I started off by defining acceleration, and then presented evidence for the criteria for ...
- 354: A Computer For All Students
- SOUNDOFF--A Computer for All Students--Revisited The introduction of the graphing calculator has changed the structure of teaching and learning mathematics. This made it possible for everybody to receive the benefits of a computer-generated visualization without the high cost of a computer. These graphing calculators over the years have lowered in cost ... interactive geometry, because it has not been practical or possible. The TI-92 is merely the beginning of the new revolution of hand-held computing tools. The next challenge mathematics teachers are facing is the teaching of traditional paper-and-pencil symbolic algebra skills. This task has been made obsolete by the more accurate and faster computer symbolic algebra algorithms. Students can get a far better illustration of important concepts and ...
- 355: The Works of Clive Staples Lewis
- ... convinced that the rest of his life should be devoted to studying and ideas. He started off tutoring in 1924 in philosophy at University College (Douglas Gresham, About C.S. Lewis. Online.). He began his teaching at Magdalen College, Oxford in 1925, after many delays, ultimately being elected Fellow of Language and Literature for 29 years (Kilby 270). During this time in 1929, his father died in Belfast and Lewis became ... with its catchy line "He thought that magic only existed in books, and then he met her" (Richard Attenborough, Shadowlands.). The movie takes place in the 1930's while Lewis, played by Anthony Hopkins, is teaching at an Oxford college and living as a bachelor. Then one day he receives a letter from a poetess, Joy Gresham whom he had been writing to for quite some time. The letter told him ...
- 356: Computer Based Training
- COMPUTER-BASED TRAINING Computer-based training (CBT) instruction is a very diverse and rapidly expanding spectrum of computer technologies that can assist anyone from a child to a doctor in teaching and learning a particular skill or process. This paper will describe the types of CBT and the disadvantages and advantages of using CBT. Examples of CBT applications include guided drill and practice exercises on learning ... may be required as well, and this process can distract from the core educational process. Although much effort has been directed at developing CBT systems that are easy to use and incorporate expert knowledge of teaching and learning, such systems are still far from achieving their full potential.
- 357: Childhood Socialization
- ... of every element of life. There are many ways in which we can socialize children in the world and teach them culturally unbiased and understanding ways. The first and foremost way in doing so is teaching the children by positive example. They can and will learn from parents, older siblings, teachers, and respected family members. These are the people that children look up to most and rely on for opinions and ... show children the negative stereotypes of minorities, because more than 50% of the characters in the movies are minorities. These movies and television shows are about violence, gangs and other negative societal events. This is teaching children, in a roundabout way, negative attitudes about the people around them. The movies present ideas about stereotypes and because children are niaeve, they tend to believe that if one person does something bad then ...
- 358: Communication Inluence And Cha
- ... J.F.K's "We Choose to go to the Moon" have influenced people in many ways. There have also been some negative speeches like those of the KKK and occult teachings. Even though their teaching are negative they still influence people who choose to listen to them. These teaching can also have a positive influence on a person by forcing them to speak out against teachings like those. Likewise of the speeches of the speeches of the men I mentioned earlier. Martin Luther King ...
- 359: Book Report On 1984 By George
- ... to become a believer in the party. He did this by often causing Winston pain by using a needle, which could increase or decrease the amount of pain. OBrien and the party were now teaching Winston things that were not true and they knew it themselves. Such things as 2+2=5. They were also teaching him things that people said a long time ago that was proven wrong like on page 218; The earth is the center of our universe. This is known as geocentric. They were trying to get ...
- 360: Egalitarian Language
- ... the ideas of racism or sexism there is also the running debate about religion and the nature of people to always want to win. I believe that we can reach a more tolerant society through teaching and good parenting, however, I do not believe that we could ever have a true egalitarian society. The very idea goes against the competitiveness of human nature. How can everyone be equal if we are ... people's beliefs about the subject first. We must use school systems to educate youth as well as good parenting. It is possible to remove racism and sexism from our society with many years of teaching and not tolerating those who are bigots. However I do not believe that it is possible to have an egalitarian society because although we may come to believe that all races and sexes are equal ...
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