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Leadership / First Year of Teaching / Best Practice
Leadership /First year of Teaching / Best Practice Giving Feedback Grant Wiggins describes feedback as more than just hearing comments made after the fact, namely: advice, praise, and evaluation. He asserts that feedback is the information we receive about how we are doing to reach a goal. (Wiggins, 2012 ) Usable feedback followed by advice…
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Leadership /First Year of Teaching/Best Practice
Leadership / First Year of Teaching / Best Practice The big “mo”. Momentum The Oxford Dictionary of Sports Science defines psychological momentum as “the positive or negative change in cognition, affect, physiology, and behavior caused by an event or series of events that affects the perceptions of the competitors or perhaps, the quality of performance…
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Leadership / First Year of Teaching /Best Practice
Leadership / First Year of Teaching / Best Practice Mind Games “Don’t let negative and toxic people rent space in your head. Raise the rent and kick them out.” (Robert Tew) The first time I heard that quote a trusted colleague said that to me. I was amazed for two reasons. First of all, I…