Experimental Training Program: Wilderness/Adventure Learning
.... to meet the growth of challenging competition.
So who defines leadership? What is a leader and how would you raise these skills
that may be laying dormant in your subordinates?
Organizations need great leaders to help them successfully survive the
many difficulties of this decade. Yet, the very notion of leadership has rapidly
degenerated into a cliché, a buzz word. In many people's minds, leadership has
become identified with an overly simplistic conception of vision and empowerment.
Althoug .....
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Discuss Your Goals For The Next Four Years And Comment On Your Post-College Plans
.... and contacts he gave me opened countless
windows of opportunity. One of his references led me back to my high school
where I am now teaching a college theatre preparatory course for the 12th grade.
He was ecstatic! I couldn't express to him enough how much I enjoyed his class
and all the lectures and theatre games we played. It is those little things
that I remember most.
After our joyful trip down memory lane, Professor Sacharow (who
preferred me to call him Larry which I just couldn't do out of pl .....
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Getting Into College
.... actually get up on stage and sing for that skinny man with the clear
acrylic braces showing on his teeth who was seated at the piano. Yet, he had
struck a deal with his mom to wait and observe, leaving at any time he felt he
wanted to.
Twenty minutes later, he watched his mother from a different perspective:
just a dot in a sea of other mothers sitting in the audience. As he stood in
that group of ten youngsters, his meager vocabulary could not describe the fear
in his body. didn't know w .....
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Getting The Most From Our Education
.... get things right. Maybe we do need to do more to
create civic pride, do have something that people can say, "I'm involved with
this". For me everytime I check out and explore something new I always learn
something. And whenever I reach out and help someone, I fell good. It was great
to see the students of General Brown help out in the community with the
Thanksgiving dinner for the seniors (I know there was another school that helped
out too, I forgot who, if someone else remembers, please jump in and add .....
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Education: "We Should Cherish Our Children's Freedom To Think"
.... are.
Ho uses his high school years as an example. In his homeland of
Indonesia he was only able to answer a question when asked. His 6 year old son,
brought up in California, at a very young age is able to express his ideas and
emotions, even if they differ from the truth. He feels that many American
parents take this for granted. True, our public education certainly is not
perfect, but we should never rule out perhaps the most important thing, one can
posses; freedom of speech.
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Great Teachers, Bad Students
.... are not seniors.
There are students from every grade level who do not do their homework or study.
Effort must be put forth by the student in order for learning and retention to
occur.
Students who use illegal substances show the characteristics of a poor learner.
The abuser may consistently forget homework assignments and do poorly on exams.
Recovered drug user Bob* explains, "The pressure from your friends and society
to use drugs is sometimes overwhelming. Once I started, everything went
downhil .....
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How To Improve Your English
.... habit of listening
to radio stations. Repeat after the broadcast and learn how to pronounce
correctly and frequently.
Thirdly, we should try to talk with Americans, find native English-speaking
people who will give you conversation practice. Don't be afraid to speak ,afraid
to be laughed at. If we never learn to take risks to open mouths, it will be
impossible to improve speaking skills. There is no reason to be ashamed of
speaking poor English. If we can learn from our mistakes, failure can becom .....
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How To Writing A Research Essay
.... but not very interesting and get boring. It tends to lose your
audience.. A strong essay is one that uses facts to support an argument based on
the writer's analysis of the topic. Even though this is easier said then done.
Always keep the essay question in mind during your research. Ask
yourself: "What do I need to know in order to answer the question?" Have a
system of how you are going to answer that question. Find plenty of information
to support your argument. Throughout your research you will s .....
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Legal Education In The US
.... but stresses that "well-developed academic ability" is preferable to
intense specialization in any one field: economics, social sciences (sociology,
psychology, anthropology, political science), computers, accounting, and the
sciences. Most pre-law students earn their undergraduate degrees in one of the
social sciences, rounding out their general preparation with courses from other
disciplines. All these subjects may be studied at virtually any university. Law
schools in the US do not require that studen .....
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A Liberal Arts Education
.... education provides a strong foundation of knowledge in many
fields and subjects allowing students to create new theories, inventions, and
connections between fields. With this foundation, great thinkers can build and
expand from what others have learned rather than wasting time and effort on what
has already been discovered. While it is true that the factual information
about each subject is very important, the most useful tool liberal arts students
can possess is the knowledge of the strengths and c .....
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Managing Classroom Behavior
.... disturbances, if they are personal, you
may try ignoring them, talking with them, or even living with the problem. The
fourth question you need to ask your self is if this behavior is developmentally
significant. Although there are other types of developmentally significant
behaviors, most will fall into four primary categories: academic failure,
aggression, depression, and problems with peers. The fifth question to ask is,
"Should I concentrate on a behavior excess or deficiency?" A behavioral exces .....
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Multicultural Education: Piecing Together The Puzzle
.... multicultural education is
directed toward only minority groups, thus discriminating against middle class,
white, heterosexual males. Others believe that multiculturalism is against
Western and democratic ideals. A final argument is the claim that
multiculturalism will divide our presumably united nation. Although critics of
multicultural education may feel they have valid arguments against the issue, I
feel that the goals of multicultural education make it an important part of the
curriculum that ever .....
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My College Plans
.... ranks among the top 100
research institutions in the nation.
When I was asked the question what I wanted to be when I grow up I
really didn't know, until my Sophomore year of high school. It wasn't till then
when I decided that I wanted to be a journalist. I guess I just hadn't had my
call until then. This was the year that probably changed my whole life. It was
the year that I took my first year of newspaper class. I really chose the class
not knowing what I was about to encounter. But, after I got .....
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My Quality Education
.... is our ability to interact with others. Every day of our lives we
will be required to interact with another person or many people. School
provides us with the perfect opportunity to learn how to get along with others
with minimal conflict. This could perhaps be the single most element of
education. Education also provides us with an education of our own culture. In
a school setting the extent of the information often varies depending on which
culture is being studied. Much of the time, if not al .....
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Mystification
.... answer, or conclusion that otherwise would not have been covered in the
classroom. Mystification would be an easy way to ease the corruptness of the
school on the student.
Getting out of the classroom would also teach the student not to rely on
the school as there only main source of education and would also teach them to
think on a higher level, thinking and questioning more independently. Would
this not broaden a the education of a child? It is often known that what
children do not know, or what .....
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