Image via Wikipedia Reflective journaling is the process of deliberately recording your thoughts and feelings and then analyzing them in a process called double loop learning. With reflective learning, we examine our feelings and responses and then we look at how we act upon this newfound knowledge improving our self awareness and self-consciousness. Reflective journaling, […]
Month: May 2010
Image by The Library of Congress via Flickr Buddhists have a name for the quality of inquisitiveness that we associate with very young children and kittens: they call it child-mind. It is a state of consciousness that is highly sought after by long-term practitioners of the meditative arts. It is a state of mind that represents […]
Transparency in your personal life: an act of courage
Image by Will Lion via Flickr Transparency was one of the stated values of our most recent senior leader in the college, and as I look back at his two-year career here, as he prepares to depart, I can see that he really lived that value area it made it very easy to work with […]
The Ft Leavenworth experience
Image via Wikipedia To capture our discussion from our Post Instructional Conference about what officers would miss if they don’t come here: 1. Deep deliberate looks into complexity with a team. Discussion: It’s too easy for distance learning and virtual teams to treat planning and problem solving as transactions of a couple hours and a […]
Should I have a long or short bias at this moment?
Image via Wikipedia There were two duelling hypotheses at work today in the market, looking at symbol: in SPY, the exchanged traded fund for the US S&P 500 index. Price had gone back and forth between buyers and sellers, bulls and bears.. Was the high of the day seen at 110.8 and /or was the […]
Obama: “Did you plug the hole yet, Daddy?”:: Bush : “Mission Accomplished”
Image via Wikipedia The left used the “mission accomplished” phrase as a way to demonstrate the disconnectedness and tin ear of the Bush administration. Obama unwittingly offered a similar phrase to characterize his own administration’s performance in the Gulf oil spill when he quoted his daughters as saying “Did you plug the hle yet, Daddy?”. […]
Making learning fun
Image via Wikipedia In a lot of educational writing, it’s taken as a given that creating an atmosphere of fun in the classroom must inevitably lead to learning. It’s fair to ask what is the relationship between fun and learning, however from an evidential perspective. This analysis leads you to develop a working definition of […]
Creating a positive environment in the classroom
Image via Wikipedia A positive classroom environment comes from the interaction of faculty and students in the curriculum. Here are some tips that can help you maintain the positive energy that is so helpful for creating an effective learning climate. Model the positive enthusiasm as a teacher that you hope your students will demonstrate when […]
What to say at halftime when we’re losing
Image via Wikipedia It’s my opinion that your halftime speech should be the same each game, regardless of the score. And I say that because I think you should be focusing on the things that really matter and that is: are the players executing the game plan that we have agreed upon and are they […]
Developing leadership in all our young athletes
Like anything involving kids, you want to make sure that you start with the absolute basics and set them up for success. That’s what you would do if you were teaching a new foot skill in soccer, and leadership shouldn’t be any different. Stay focused on the basics of leadership with your kids. Here are […]