Eric Jensen (1)

Read with a discussion group of teachers in my district. The guiding principle here is to take 100% responsibility for the learning of your students. Every problem we find in our classroom (poor motivation, retention, behavior, comprehension, etc.) is due to poor teaching on our part, nothing more.
This was difficult to accept, but since I'm not particularly confident in my teaching ability (half of my students perform poorly), I was willing to take it. There are many methods, strategies, and tips that will help us motivate our students to succeed, and they were applicable to elementary and middle school students (some even for high school, but fewer).

A quick and beneficial read for any teacher.
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This is surprisingly fun, practical, and effective; not just You Need to Get Motivated (which BTW is Chapter 1).

TEN COMMON WORD ROOTS with Meaning and Usages: [con- rad- bi- -logy -logue shron- gen- auto- trans- graph- sub-][132]

USING MEMORY. cf Harry Lorayne. Memory is an abstraction, not an organ. Steps to Improve: believe, attention, use, interferences, blocks, creative, review, picture, association, contrast.

SPEED READING / RETENTION: There are 600,000 words in our language but 400 of them comprise 65% of printed material.[80] Your visual capacity is about 400 wps/ 24,000 wpm. Accept the fact that you CAN comprehend at a faster rate, and practice "seeing" more text at a time. You will. The slower you read, the more the mind wanders from the textual material. To insure retention, practice recall, but do not slow down. "Go for it".

NOTE TAKING. e.g. History: DATES CAUSES EVENTS PERSONS RESULTS.… (más)