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Supporting students with disabilities
Author: University of New Brunswick
The intent of this website is to provide helpful information for instructors in understanding how a wide range of disabilities impact students’ learning and assessment environments. The goal of this website is to better equip instructors to support students with disabilities and to identify the institution support entities that provide accommodation assistance to both students and instructors.
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6 August 2022
A Pedagogy of Kindness
Author: Catherine Denial
Aiming to teach and support learners from a place of kindness and compassion, this article discusses the author’s journey to kindness as a pedagogical driver.
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8 August 2022
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Author: Carol Dweck
Dweck shows how success in school, work, sports, the arts, and almost every area of human endeavor can be dramatically influenced by how we approach our goals. People with a fixed mindset—those who believe that abilities are fixed—are far less likely to flourish than those with a growth mindset—those who believe that abilities can be developed through hard work, good strategies, and mentorship.
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Ninety feet under: What poverty does to people
Author: John Strazzabosco
Ninety Feet Under–What Poverty Does to People identifies ninety major impacts of poverty on people, stressors that strike in total and all the time.
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Uncommon Sense Teaching: Practical Insights in Brain Science to Help Students Learn
Author: Barbara Oakley
Neuroscientists have made enormous strides in understanding the brain and how we learn, but little of that insight has filtered down to the way teachers teach. Uncommon Sense Teaching applies this research to the classroom for teachers, parents, and anyone interested in improving education.
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Doing away with ‘study skills’
Author: Ursala Wingate
One of my favourite articles to offer a critical perspective on our profession. This paper argues that the widespread approach to enhancing student learning through separate study skills courses is ineffective, and that the term ‘study skills’ itself has misleading implications, which are counterproductive to learning.
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The Revised ABC’s of Rational-Emotive Therapy (RET)
Author: Albert Ellis
Cognitions, emotions, and behaviors almost always are not pure or disparate but significantly include each other and affect one another; combining into dysfunctional, demanding core Basic Philosophic Assumptions that lead to neurotic disturbances. Rational-emotive therapy (RET) tries to help many (not all) clients to make an elegant or profound philosophic change.
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6 August 2022
The new science of learning: How to learn in harmony with your brain
Author: Todd D. Zakrajsek
This book will help students design effective learning plans, employ new strategies, recognize learning traps, improve recall, and realize better academic performance through test-taking and paper-writing strategies.
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8 August 2022
Resilience: The Biology of Stress and the Science of Hope.
Author: James Redford
As the new documentary Resilience reveals, toxic stress can trigger hormones that wreak havoc on the brains and bodies of children, putting them at a greater risk for disease, homelessness, prison time, and early death. Resilience chronicles the dawn of a movement that is determined to fight back.
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6 August 2022
Study Stack: Flashcards and Study Games
Author: Study Stack LLC
Study Stack is a study tool that makes learning, memorizing information, and preparing for an exam, a fun, stress-free, and enjoyable experience. It offers existing flash cards and study games for different subjects.
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