is based on luck and talent. But that is not always the case. Research psychologist Carol Dweck has been doing a study on students in class. She discovered that some people have something called a fixed mindset in which they believe that their intelligence will stay the same no matter what. On the other hand some people have a growth mindset where they believe that they will become smarter and
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fantastic course named as “Study Skills”. On Monday, September 8th we did not get on the wrong foot but with an interesting topic by knowing our results related to “Multiple Intelligences”. Since I was curious about interpreting my scores, I was just looking forward to it and it was worth it. I got Intra and Inter intelligence and Linguistic as my highest ones. I was surprised because this means that I suit with careers such as teacher (that is what I really fancy) and my ability to cooperate in order
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The purpose of Carol Dweck’s “Brainology: Transforming Students’ Motivation to Learn” the audience seems to be parents, but primarily educators. According to Dweck’s article, a poll took place in the 1990’s among parents, and it was found that “almost 85 percent endorsed the notion that it was necessary to praise their children’s abilities.” Throughout her research with her graduate students, it was found what the students feel and believe about their brains.The author’s article states that teachers
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determine your level of intelligence. He argues that working class people are skilled, intelligent individuals that deserve more credit. Mike Rose came from a working-class environment who gained a college education. He also became an American education scholar and studied literacy and hardships of working-class Americans. This gives him a broad perspective of both the working class and the upper-class. He has noticed upper-class individuals consider amply the mind and intelligence of white collar workers
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Real World Activities 1. There are two “traditionally” known methods of the use of Business Intelligence (BI), these are “mere” reporting and transformational. Initially, the goal of BI was in the reporting, taking raw data that the organization collected over a given period of time and converted it into a meaningful representation. This enables organization to see things such as statistics on sales happening in a specific region during a given timeframe. This is what we see in Hillman Group’s
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[ 1]What were the outcomes of your My Foundations Lab Path Builder? After I completing the writing learning path and builder and the foundations lab,it suggests what the next steps for me after I would be and my further expand my knowledge in the further expand and my area I going to do well and I have mastered all the available topics I mastered writing and sentence skills;I learn an additional stay with punctuation,mechanics , and my spelling. I will use the My Foundations Lab Path Builder to
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Student’s Survival Guide Brandie Bowland Axia College GEN105 July 12, 2009 So I am coming to the end of the 9 weeks of my first two classes. When I first decided to take on going back to school I was thinking to myself “What have I just gotten myself into?” Then came my first day and I was thinking “I hope that I am not in over my head!” Turns out that it wasn’t as hard as I thought it was going to be. This class made it very easy to learn how to access the resources that are available
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SUBJECT ASSIGNMENT: CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT - TECHNIQUES AND REFLECTIONS ON PRACTICE Assignment: Do the following exercises and justify or explain your answers where appropriate. Task 1 Look at Ur’s list of patterns of interaction below. Decide whether each interaction is either more student-centred or more teacher-centred. Justify your answers. Group work .This type of work is student-centred in regard to the active participation of the students in the task given. Closed-ended teacher questioning
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interesting points that they can relate to. The last style is the tactile learner; the doer’s the people who learn by actually doing things hands on. Based on data taken from two questionnaires “Assessing Your Learning Style” (Kolb, 1984) and “Multiple Intelligences Survey” (McKenzie, 1999) I discovered that my learning style is Kinesthetic or tactile. Let’s discuss how I discovered my learning style and how I adapted to it to benefit my learning experience and I will discuss an example of how I applied this
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and diagnostic assessments at the start of the students learning. It is an essential part of the learners needs to carry out assessments and was recognised as far back as 1904 when Alfred Binet, a French psychologist, developed the first intelligence test, which was to spark of the interest in individual variations. Since 1904 there have been many different tools developed to define the differences in learning styles (http://www.ehow.com/about_5381758_history-learning-styles). A) Identify
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