Reluctant Disciplinarian: Advice on Classroom Management From a Softy who Became (Eventually) a Successful Teacher
by Gary Rubinstein
As Rubinstein details his transformation from incompetent to successful teacher, he shows what works and what doesn't work when managing a classroom.
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“I have tried to keep diaries before,” John Steinbeck writes in a giant ledger book filled with his methodical script, “but they didn’t work out because of the necessity to be honest.”
This particular journal, on display at the Morgan Library & Museum in a compelling exhibition that opened on Friday, “The Diary: Three Centuries of Private Lives,” has such a modest goal — chronicling Steinbeck’s work on “The Grapes of Wrath” — that it probably does not bend the truth too much. But spend some time with these diaries, intelligently culled from the Morgan’s archives by Christine Nelson, the museum’s curator of literary and historical manuscripts, and you see how fervently the keepers of journals labor to shape accounts of themselves.
A warm-up routine can be built to give you public speaking confidence. This is the set of behaviours
that will work best for you so that when you begin your presentation you feel confident. (It will also benefit your voice and stance as well, but in this freebie, we are focussing on building confidence.) Just email me and I will send you the warm-up ideas as a set of tips by email.
How will your audience respond to your speech or presentation?
What will they take away with them and remember?
What will they remember of you?
Why will they think “Wow what a fabulous presentation!”?
And how will you create the "fabulous presentation"?
Get a range of ideas and thoughts from the contributors to this free eBook. Just email me, and I will send you the eBook.
Are you crippled by nerves or fear of public speaking? Don't be. There are heaps of ways to overcome those nerves, to face and conquer the fear. This free eBook will give you a broad range and some quotations and ideas to help. Just email me and I will send you a copy.
“A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.”
-- Francis Bacon
Digitising books is a problematic endeavour, not because of the technology, but due to the ethical issues that arise. Once a book becomes digitised problems with copyright and sales enter the frame. Nevertheless, Google Books has digitised more than fifteen million books which is about twelve per cent of all the books ever published. The digitising process has enabled a detailed analysis of the books’ content that would not be possible if done by individuals and some remarkable findings have resulted.
The analysis that has taken place was done on five million of the fifteen million digitised books. That meant that approximately 500 billion words were in the final data set. Digging into the words used in those books across time has revealed some fascinating facts about our evolving culture.
"To my daughter Leonora without whose never-failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been finished in half the time."
- P.G. Wodehouse's dedication in "The Heart of a Goof"
"No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet."
— Lady Montagu, providing advice on raising her granddaughter, 1752
“Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.”
-- Anthony Robbins
