23rd June 2009
Quality is continuous improvement. The Plan -> Do -> Check -> Act cycle is a fundamental component of pursuing quality in any organization. It can be useful for a building principal or any educational manager to evaluate his or her style of leadership i...
23rd June 2009
It is common practice to appoint new department or school managers from the ranks of successful teachers or trainers or, in industry, engineers or other "production" positions. Such appointees sometimes have had little or no practical management training...
22nd June 2009
Why Vocational and Career Education Are Important
There are three major reasons why every school district should offer strong vocational learning opportunities:
1. Vocational competence is critical to the economic health of our nation.
2. A signi...
18th June 2009
Are you aware of this reality? - - "95% of all that has ever been known about the physiological workings of the brain has been discovered in the last ten years." - - International Brain Dominance Review; Vol. 7, No. 1, 1990
Unfortunately, more than 18 ...
13th June 2009
Different students receive information best in different ways. They also process and use information best in different ways. Ways of processing and using are called multiple intelligences or talents; we shall discuss those in a future article. Ways of rec...
12th June 2009
Introduction
All of the same principles of brain-friendly teaching apply to teaching college students and other adults as much as they apply to K-12 students. However, for years, the problem of NOT observing the principles had been more pervasive in s...
12th June 2009
There is an effective process for pursuing quality or continuous improvement in any school. This description of the path to quality is based upon the author's fifty years of direct involvement and observation in public education. Here are the steps in t...
11th June 2009
A practical combination of interpersonal intelligence and intrapersonal intelligence is called emotional intelligence. The important model on which this article is based was defined by Daniel Goleman in his great book EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE.
The purp...
