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"In this new edition of the highly regarded Why Don't Students Like School? cognitive psychologist Daniel Willingham turns his research on the biological and cognitive basis of learning into workable teaching techniques. This book will help you improve your teaching practice by explaining how you and your students think and learn. It reveals the importance of story, emotion, memory, context, and routine in building knowledge and creating lasting learning...
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Association for Talent Development
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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Let evidence guide your training. Your training is much more effective when your methods are based on evidence. In this third edition of Evidence-Based Training Methods, Ruth Colvin Clark offers concrete training guidance as she connects research to practice. This book is rich with examples of how research enhances training, and with it as your guide, you can incorporate evidence and learning psychology into your program design, development, and delivery...
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Dutton
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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"The Plateau Effect is a powerful law of nature that affects everyone. Learn to identify plateaus and break through any stagnancy in your life-- from diet and exercise, to work, to relationships. The Plateau Effect shows how athletes, scientists, therapists, companies, and musicians around the world are learning to break through their plateaus--to turn off the forces that cause people to "get used to" things--and turn on human potential and happiness...
25) Teaching change: how to develop independent thinkers using relationships, resilience, and reflection
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Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Learning something new--particularly something that might change your mind--is much more difficult than most teachers think. Because people think with their emotions and are influenced by their communities and social groups, humans tend to ignore new information unless it fits their existing worldview. Thus facts alone, even if discussed in detail, typically fail to open minds and create change. In a world in need of graduates who can adapt to new...
26) Psicología para creativos: primeros auxilios para conservar el ingenio y sobrevivir en el trabajo
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GG
Pub. Date
D.L. 2013.
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Español
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Cumplir con los plazos de un proyecto, estar a la altura de las expectativas del cliente, trabajar en casa de forma disciplinada, trabajar por cuenta ajena sin perder la motivación, lograr jornadas laborales que no se extiendan hasta altas horas de la madrugada, priorizar y ordenar acertadamente el trabajo pendiente ... ¿Eres diseñador, ilustrador o creativo y te has enfrentado alguna vez a cualquiera de estas situaciones? Los psicólogos definen...
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HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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From the moment we enter school as children, we are made to feel as if our brains are fixed entities, capable of learning certain things and not others, influenced exclusively by genetics. This notion follows us into adulthood, where we tend to simply accept these established beliefs about our skillsets (i.e. that we don't have "a math brain" or that we aren't "the creative type"). These damaging--and as new science has revealed, false--assumptions...
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John Murray Learning
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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THE STUDY BOOK is a practical guide to developing the academic skills you need to succeed at university, college or any higher level study. Learn how to think, research, debate, write about, and apply information - and do all the things that will directly impact on your academic success from the moment you start. It guides you through activities and processes to help you examine your learning abilities and experiences so far. It will help you to...
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St. Martin's Essentials
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Do you spend too much time learning with disappointing results? Do you find it difficult to remember what you read? Do you put off studying because it’s boring and you’re easily distracted? This book is for you. Dr. Barbara Oakley and Olav Schewe have both struggled in the past with their learning. But they have found techniques to help them master any material. Building on insights from neuroscience and cognitive psychology, they give you a crash...
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Stylus Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"Following up on her acclaimed Teach Students How to Learn, that describes teaching strategies to facilitate dramatic improvements in student learning and success, Saundra McGuire here presents these secrets direct to students. Her message is that Any student can use simple, straightforward strategies to start making A's in their courses and enjoy a lifetime of deep, effective learning. Beginning with explaining how expectations about learning, and...
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Harriman House Ltd
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"How did we conclude that the best way to prepare kids for the future is to cluster them into classrooms by age and grade, forcing them to learn the same things, at the same time and pace, seven hours a day, five days a week, for twelve years? We trust the school system to prepare our kids for the future. We get excited when they get good grades, or disappointed if they don’t. But we rarely stop to question whether school is teaching our children...
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Free Spirit Publishing Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"Y Is for Yet uses the ABCs as an accessible framework to introduce growth mindset and all its possibilities. From A to Z, or Ability to Zany, kids learn new vocabulary that expands their view of themselves as learners"--
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