In the military, a poorly formatted email may be the difference between mission accomplished and mission failure. The structure of the email is important in making communication crisper and cleaner, eliciting quicker and higher-quality responses. Here are three of the main tips on formatting your emails with military precision: Subjects with keywords. The first thing the…
Keep It Simple
I am constantly amazed by the number of clients I work with who make things harder than they need to be. There’s often several reasons why: They were shown to do something that way so they’ve always done it that way. They don’t have the time to try something different so they figure, “at least…
Cut Them Some Slack
We rarely know what is going on in other people’s lives. Whilst we might be frustrated by the behaviour of our students (and at times by our colleagues or boss) we rarely know all of the information about what is going on in their lives. We don’t necessarily know about health issues, financial issues or…
Strategies for Helping Kinesthetic Learners (Part 2)
Be yourself The kinesthetic learner detects phoniness quickly. Be yourself especially if you are slightly weird and/or funny. Teach with all your passion, enthusiasm, and drama. Kinesthetic students learn best when content is taught in an entertaining way—they engage more. By accessing your own nutty creativity, you can help dry content come alive. It may…
Strategies for Helping Kinesthetic Learners (Part 1)
Why do some students love school and do well while others in the same school, with the same dedicated teachers, are miserable in school? After working in schools all over the country, I’ve come more and more to believe that schools operate like a private club for visual learners. Kinesthetic students—those with a limited ability…
Teamwork Makes the Dream Work
I’m not awesome at using computers. Is it helpful for me to spend hours trying to be ‘good’ at computers? It could be, but I can probably guess that I would be frustrated at least 80% of the time. I would have some serious self-doubt and self-loathing going on and I would be feeling down…
How Does Your Balance Wheel Measure Up?
Imagine that this wheel is, in fact, a life raft. The idea is to keep air in all six compartments because if any one were to get spiked and lose its air, the other five would keep you floating. If, on the other hand, you had all the air in one compartment only, like ‘work’…
60 000 Thoughts per Day
Scientists say that we have over 60 000 thoughts each day. That is a scary, huge number. However, what is even scarier is thinking about which thoughts we listen to without even realising it and which ones we let fade off out of our minds just as quickly as they arrived. I like using the…
Feeling Overwhelmed – Simplify Things
At times we can try to be all things, to all people. However, this can be to the detriment of our own well-being. The following strategies, inspired by author Kelly Exeter, are intended to help you slow down and bring some calmness to your life whenever you are feeling at risk of becoming over-whelmed. Reduce…
The Pygmalion Effect (Part 2)
In part 1, I highlighted that teachers’ expectations can dramatically affect students’ achievement. This uniquely human phenomenon is the Pygmalion Effect. Here is another example. If a student in your class scores significantly better on a test, than you would have predicted, would you look first at alternative reasons before admitting you had pre-judged this…
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