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"Life changing INSET ..."

Providing education, training and consultancy

Achieving tomorrow, today

Reading:

What I read, professionally...

"Drive", Daniel Pink. Intrinsic and extrinsic motivstion. Why rewards are bad!

Anything by Stephen Covey - bit touchy feely but real sense and what he says to do does work.

Anything by Patrick Lencioni
 - great for teams, etc.

Anything by Malcolm Gladwell - he has only written four books. Good for thinking outside the box.

Anything by Steven Pinker - really love this "How the brain works" stuff. We are close to a revolution in our understanding of the brain. I wonder if we will be shown to have been quite crude in our current way of educating our children?

Early stuff from Edward de Bono - six thinking hats etc. His later stuff is less good, in my opinion. Wonder why my logo has six colours?

Louise Stoll and anyone she collaborates with. Just makes learning so straightforward. Kate Meyers' books are good as well.

Leadership and Self Deception by The Arbinger Institute. It has a sub title "Getting out of the box".

"Gut Feelings" by Gerd Gigerenzer. How to use your fast judgement self and make better decisions.

"Freakonomics" by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. (Does it seem I tend to like books written by Stevens!!??)

"Fierce Conversations" by Susan Scott

"The Coaching Manual" by Julie Starr. Just be careful with the advice about taking notes while coaching. In most sessions you do not need to. Your client knows what is happening.

"The Halo Effect", Phil Rosenzweig. Shows up what poor research is.

"Made to Stick", Chip and Dan Heath. Great book. Just read it.

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In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists. — Eric Hoffer

I thought you knew which way.

Let's check out this ManYana website and see what it has to offer.

I just liked this:

Sam Levenson - "Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child.

She must be found and stopped."

signpost folk

How did Edward Bear come down the stairs?

Google it and then think whether or not there is a better way.

"Life changing INSET."

"Brilliant day - we learned so much"

Monika says, "So basically, you're not paying attention."

Any comments?

The little things we say, and do.

"That's good, Amita.....no, it really is".

A student of mine, who is not the most confident of young people, tells me that she has remembered me saying the above to her several years ago. She has held onto this as a positive in her life and it has helped her through some difficult times.

Do we realise the impact we can have as teachers?

“It seems that perfection is reached not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,

Terre des hommes, 1939