How to make progress by Daniel Pink author

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Learners' expectations

EXPECTATIONS How often does your teacher make you explain your answers? When you feel like giving up, how likely is it that your teacher will make you keep trying? How much does your teacher encourage you to do your best? How often does your teacher take time to make sure you understand the material? Overall, how high are your teacher's expectations of you? Not high at all Slightly high Somewhat high Quite high Extremely high How much did students in class help each other learn today? What’s the most important thing you learned today? What was your favorite part of class today? How interesting was class today? How clearly did I teach things in class today? What’s the biggest thing I could have done better today? What’s the biggest thing I could do better tomorrow to help you learn? What’s the biggest thing you could have done better today? What’s the biggest thing you could do better tomorrow to help yourself learn...
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Terminology

Concrete terms refer to objects or events that are available to the senses. [This is directly opposite to abstract terms , which name things that are not available to the senses.] Examples of concrete terms include spoon, table, velvet eye patch, nose ring, sinus mask, green, hot, walking . Because these terms refer to objects or events we can see or hear or feel or taste or smell, their meanings are pretty stable . If you ask me what I mean by the word spoon , I can pick up a spoon and show it to you. [I can't pick up a freedom and show it to you, or point to a small democracy crawling along a window sill. I can measure sand and oxygen by weight and volume, but I can't collect a pound of responsibility or a liter of moral outrage. ]  While abstract terms like love change meaning with time and circumstances, concrete terms like spoon stay pretty much the same. Spoon and hot and puppy mean pretty much the same to you now as they did when you were four.  ...
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