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Four Cognitive Skills for Successful Learning

by Susan du Plessis

Sep 1, 2008 Learning Methodology 3660 Views

The word "cognition" is defined as "the act of knowing" or "knowledge." Cognitive skills therefore refer to those skills that make it possible for us to know. It should be noted that there is nothing that any human being knows, or can do, that he has not learned.
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Effective Learning - Four Keys to Success

by Brian Walsh

Sep 1, 2008 Learning Methodology 3362 Views

_notregistered/art_261_5a183d163c~.jpg You can significantly enrich your learning by incorporating the following building blocks.
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User Feedback to Increase the Effectivness of Your Study

by Robert Seiler

Sep 1, 2008 Study Skills 2491 Views

_notregistered/art_262_c3f6d94c97~.jpg How can you tell how effectively you're studying? What I'm about to tell you can really turn your grades around if you can get your head around it. Don't pass it off as something simple and perhaps not worth thinking about because I believe it is one of the easiest ways to improve your grades if you bother to make it a part of how you study.
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Why I Went Into Teaching

by Jarrod J. Williamson, Ph.D.

Sep 1, 2008 Career Development 2433 Views

_notregistered/art_263_24f307acae~.gif Successful teaching can be defined in different ways. I consider positively impacting the lives of students as aspect of successful teaching to be at least as important as expertly imparting content to students. When asked, What do you teach? my response invariably is students. In other words, I emphasize the fact that I am teaching people, as well as content. In that vein, my best teaching experience was the same experience that proved the tipping point for my going into teaching rather than professional engineering.
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Super Self-Esteem Builders

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Sep 2, 2008 Other 2532 Views

At our live Breakthrough Strategies to Teach and Counsel Troubled Youth workshops held through the U.S., we often get requests for interventions that can enhance self-worth-- and we do have many creative methods for all age levels.
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Easy Study Skills for Exams

by Ian McAllister

Sep 2, 2008 Study Skills 1682 Views

Study skills: do you start reading at one end of your library and try to read through to the other end? Of course not. So you already know one effective approach. Be selective! We can build on that now.
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Learning is a Lifestyle-Why You Can\\\'t Turn Your Back on Learning

by Cathy Warschaw

Sep 2, 2008 Learning Methodology 3108 Views

In today's society, everyone must think about "Future Proofing" them selves. There was a time when leaving school marked the end of learning. Unfortunately, it's not like that today. What you know, understand and can do when you start work becomes quickly outdated.
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How to Achieve Success in School

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Sep 2, 2008 Learning Methodology 6251 Views

_notregistered/art_269_8fef158a51~.jpg Although academic excellence is not a requirement of overall happiness and quality of life of a person, being successful in school, regardless of whether one is successful in academics or sports can be seen to be a kind of foundation for a person's future. When one is successful in school, he or she will have more direction and focus in life.
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What Really is the IQ Score, Anyhow?

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Sep 2, 2008 Other 2704 Views

_notregistered/art_270_b24d7c69c4~.jpg Do you know what the IQ score is? No, no, no. I don't mean if you know about it; everyone knows about the IQ score, but hardly anyone knows what it is. And even though no one is really certain about what the IQ score is, or how it is calculated, society puts a lot of pressure on us if it seems too "low", or makes us feel like we have extra responsibilities if it is really "high." Well, let me clear some things up for you right now.
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Pillars of Learning

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Sep 2, 2008 Learning Methodology 3653 Views

_notregistered/art_271_cb95b5aafa~.jpg Throughout life you and I learn through many avenues. While in school and at work assignments and tasks are made which rely on your capability to learn. Since positive change happens, the learning is continuous.
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