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Enriched versus Impoverished Learning Environments

Very simply, enriched environments coupled with play, social interaction, care, and challenges are important for learning. All of these factors are significant to the growth and strength of dendrites! Marian Diamond, 1998; URL In my experience, I have had had many amazing teachers and had been inspired to work hard to become one myself. I…

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Formal Testing can be a Stressful Form of Feedback

How do we usually respond to receiving grades and report cards, or transcripts from our teachers and professors for assignments, quizzes, tests, and exams? One’s past experiences can impact on how we feel about getting graded.  How we respond also depends on how well we think we prepared for the testing, how much effort we…

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Receiving Critical Feedback

I remember the critical feedback of others in so many respects were uninvited, imposed, and unexpected, as well as scathing and nasty. Harsh teachers that would ridicule your answer they demanded you to provide even when you did not know the answer. I once had a teacher at George Brown College teaching web design who…

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