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PERSONAL ESSAY: COLLEGE YEARS AND LESSONS LEARNED

asked to declare a major during my freshman year, I said business. But I really had my eye on becoming that NBA star, at least unt...

Montessori Educational Program and Physical Environment's Importance

in which the child can grow and develop (MontessoriConnections, n.d.). Preparing the environment includes having the appropriate ...

NJ State Troopers and Privacy Rights

a person in a position that cannot be held by someone with AIDS submits a receipt for AZT; in the third, a claims administrator se...

Part One of Faust by Goethe

at any time--Faust is ever completely satisfied with life, that is, if he is provided with a moment so perfect that he wishes for ...

Runners and Exercise and Diet Training and Conditioning

The benefits of well thought exercise are uncontested when it comes to so-called "crash building". Improperly conducted, however,...

Failing Grades and Learning Disabilities

category was first formulated in 1977. The phrase, "All student will learn to read by third grade" has become a rallying point in ...

2 Articles on Distance Learning

model is essential: students must create their own understandings and meanings from the resources and information available. Human...

Distance Learning Programs' Evaluation

they dont know how to enroll, or they do not understand why it is important" (Bersin, 2002, p. 38). Needless to say, if the course...

Jerome Bruner's Life and Achievements

has veered off track from the cognitive revolution of his time. Humans, according to Bruner (1992), are storytellers and as such ...

Learning, Metacognition, and Perception

2002). Metacognition, which reflects a bit more mental tangibility in its definition, is comprised of three distinct components: ...

William Glasser and Jean Piaget's Theories of Personal Learning

understanding - including habituation and violation of expectation - with each stage represented by age-related limitations and sp...

How We Grow Into Who We Are

include "back-yards graying / with knowledge, embankments blazoned / with pig-face whose hardihood / be theirs, / mantling with pu...

Addiction Behaviors and Two Psychological Theories

up with them. They will become compulsive and obsessive about getting their drug or drink. Classical conditioning theory would e...

Sophocles, Shakespeare and Actions That Speak Louder than Words

is apparent in Hamlet in many ways. First, when Polonius asks Hamlet what hes reading, Hamlet says "Words, words, words" (II.ii.19...

TECHNOLOGY AND INSTRUCTIONAL DELIVERY

school turned to its Center for Distributed Learning (CDL) which was "quickly overwhelmed with requests for assistance" from facul...

IOM and the New Purchasing Operating Model

in braking the vehicle (Recall Information, 2010; Green and Fisk, 2010). The Economist (2010) reports that the braking syst...

Healthcare and the Universal Worker

system level orientation. This system perpetuates itself, so the universal worker feels excluded and can find no real attachment t...

Three Reflective Learning Models

situations and is most commonly used in education, as well as the way in which may take place during actions. The most commonly ut...

Bruner's Constructivist Theory

stage. This is when knowledge is presented in visual images. When new information is presented, it is useful to provide a visual i...

Introduction to Montessori

uses the external world to obtain information and knowledge (Montessori 1995). The child has an absorbent mind from birth to age...

"Youth Do Not Care About Politics": Why, and What Can be Done?

material possessions and feelings of isolation from political officials and institutions. Forbrig, Joerg. Revisiting Youth Pol...

Factors Affecting Human Behavior

issue, concern or problem (Van Wagner 2010). There area strict codes of conduct regarding any research in the field of psychology...

The First American Casualties in the Korean War

Korean War. Unfortunately Task Force Smith was just the opening page of a war that would turn out to be a long and gruesome affair...

Hermann Ebbinghaus Life and Contributions

f?r Psychologie und Physiologie der Sinnesorgane (Hermann Ebbinghaus). (The title translates roughly as the "Journal of Psychology...

Effective Teamwork

transition to storming and norming stages, they will begin to listen more carefully to the other members, and in the performing st...

IBM AND THE LEARNING ORGANIZATION

have the ability and capacity to learn, he explained, but what stood in the way were the rigid corporate structures in which they ...

Lessons and Principles from Maxwell

evident over the last fifteen years almost makes long-range planning a waste of time but we know that long-range planning today sh...

The Value of Social Networking Tools in a Teaching Environment with Specific Consideration of Business Students

at the way tools that are used as social networking tool are being used, adapted and are adding value to the learning processes fo...

Reflective Learning in the Radiology Department

This is the event for which the processes focused, on which the reflection is taking place. This is an objective stage where the d...

Learning Theory Applied to a Government Department

the need to learn to develop and respond may not be seen as new, this dates back to ideas such as Sun Tzu and Confucius (Thompson,...