Learn From Your Mistakes Mistakes are unavoidable in life and leaders certainly make their share of them. Any time you look to break new ground or technologies or whatever it is you are leading, you open up many new avenues for mistakes and they are inevitable with change. You can’t have one without the other and so learning to use mistakes well is an important leadership trait. The first point about mistakes is that a great leader learns from their own mistakes. They know when they make it and
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University of Phoenix Material Ethical Actions Worksheet Write a 100- to 150-word response to each of the following questions: • Was there anything in either the University Of Phoenix Student Code Of Conduct or the Student Code of Academic Integrity that surprised you? If so, what was it? Why were you surprised? If not, why not? There was nothing surprising about the University Of Phoenix Code Of Conduct or the Student Code of Academic integrity. I am familiar with having codes of conduct
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VARK Analysis Every student has their own unique style of learning, with today’s technology; students can easily go on the internet to identify their preferred learning style if desired. By doing so, this would assist the learner to identify their preferred method of learning which can assist the leaner to become more successful in their learning process. As an assignment, the participant answered two different questionnaires the “VARK” (Visual, Aural, Read/Write, Kinesthetic) (Fleming, n
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The Perils and Promises of Praise In her article, “The Perils and Promises of Praise,” Carol Dweck provides a lot of research to prove her claims that student praised for being wise, which according to Carol many educators belief that it will build confidence and further motivate students’ to learn, is untrue, whereas students praised for effort (works-hard ) get a boost in their performance. Indeed, the author has a reasonable point, I strongly agreed with her assessment that by giving students’
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Angela Feliz ECEL-502-02 Fieldwork #7 Becoming a mentor was one of my goals as a teacher. I am a person who likes to help other people and teach. This year my principal gave me the opportunity to mentor a novice teacher and for the first three week of March, I attended to a mentoring workshop. Through the training I realized that being a mentor it is a huge responsibility, and at the same time a great opportunity for me to learn and grow as a teacher. As a mentor, I have to assist and provide
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authors seem to emphasize the intelligence of each main character; and, that intelligence is touted at a higher regard than strength. We see this in Odysseus who repeatedly uses his brain and intellect to outsmart others. Of course, he uses some force, but it is suggested that he was just as much of a warrior with his mind as he was with his sword. We also see this in Oedipus as he used his foresight to become a great leader. However, although Oedipus’s use of his intelligence was touted as noble, the
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I. Growing up I’ve always set goals so that I could accomplish something great in life. II. My family always supported any goal’s I made, and persuaded me to pursue my entire list of goal’s in life. “What ever you set your mind to, you can accomplish”, was the quote I heard almost everyday growing up. So of course, my mindsets was set on finishing school with descent grades, and move on in life, attend college and take any necessary steps to become a registered nurse. Pretty standard huh? Trying
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Growing With a Gifted Child By Diane Scanlon 1996 - Updated 2008 When my son was 3, he could read those great big dinosaur names and match them to their pictures. I knew this was not normal. That’s why I hid his books whenever we had guests. At 3 1/2 he was reading ingredients on boxes in my grocery cart and telling me which ones we shouldn't buy. People would look at him funny, so, I did my best to leave him home whenever I had to go to the market. When he was 4 and reading high school
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VARK Analysis: Learning Styles A learning style refers to how a person best acquires and processes knowledge. Learning is the way we interact with the world we live in. A person’s unique experiences will shape their preferred method/style of learning (Linares, 1999). Alfred Binet a French psychologist in the early 1900’s who was known as the father of the IQ test was the first to study the different learning styles of individual’s (Guilford, J., n.d., “Definition of the Kinesthetic Learning
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The VARK Analysis Paper Maureen O. Omoaghe Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V November 3rd , 2013 The VARK learning style assessment is a questionnaire that was designed by Neil Fleming in 1987. It provides those who take the test with an idea of what learning style they have. There are four scores that can give a person up to five study strategies: multimodal, visual, aural, reading and writing and kinesthetic. (Fleming, 2011). The learning style can also help students develop, explore, and
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