Institute of Learning

  100 Ways to Rise Above Posted: 24 Apr 2017 10:11 AM PDT The rungs on a ladder present a perfect visual for negativity – each rung looks like a minus sign – stepping up the ladder enables you to rise above. Negativity is an opportunity for higher, greater thinking, exploring a bigger, better, wider, different angle, a new method or way. Negativity helps highlight a need to improve, invent and create – to overcome problems by finding solutions. Problem focus locks the problem in place – solution focus unlocks potential answers. Whenever negativity arises, you can ask yourself "How can I rise above this?" Every failure is a new beginning – a chance to progress, to move forward and upward. Most negativity is a temporary setback, which halts positive progress whether negativity is thought based or action based. Most negativity is temporary. When negativity arises a great processing method is to simply write it down or mind map it; capture the essence of the "probl

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  The Socratic Method Inquiry is at the heart of the Socratic seminar,  Socratic dialogue, or Socratic method, as it is most commonly called. This strategy is named after the philosopher Socrates, who used a broad form of questioning with his students. Each question that is answered predetermines the next question. Socrates used it to show his students the error of their thinking.  Since the time Socrates used inquiry to promote thinking, the Socratic method has changed somewhat through the years. Today, this method is used primarily as a process of inductive questioning, through small steps, with knowledge as the goal. In a classroom, a teacher can use a set of questions to provoke students to think about something. The questions push students to examine what they know with the result of them analyzing a topic in depth.  By using the Socratic method, learners can come to value and recognize good questions while also improving upon a thoughtful method of thinking. Students become more

  Flipped Learning is a pedagogical approach in  which direct instruction moves  from the group learning space to the individual learning  space, and the resulting group space is transformed  into a dynamic, interactive learning environment where  the educator guides students  as they apply concepts and  engage creatively in the  subject matter. ***************************************** Our TEACH-LEARN ENGLISH EASILY' handbook contains scores of ideas how to implement flipped approach! *****************************************         Michigan state university WHAT, WHY, AND HOW TO IMPLEMENT A FLIPPED CLASSROOM MODEL WHAT IS A FLIPPED CLASSROOM? WHY YOU SHOULD FLIP YOUR CLASSROOM? HOW TO IMPLEMENT A FLIPPED CLASSROOM? WHAT HAS RECENT RESEARCH ON FLIPPED CLASSROOM AND MEDICAL EDUCATION SUGGESTED?   WHAT IS A FLIPPED CLASSROOM? Flipped classroom is a “pedagogical approach in which direct instruction moves from the group learning space to the individual learning space, a