Richard J. Giordano

Super-Charged Learning

How Wacky Thinking and Sports Psychology Make it Happen

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Produktbeschreibung

Super-Charged Learning uses the skill-sets that elite athletes use to be champions! Now parents can show their children how to use these to be champions . . . in their academics. Athletes want to be bigger-faster-stronger. Make your child that kind of learner: learn bigger quantities of information, learn faster, hold onto what's learned longer.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 504g
• ISBN-13: 9781475813074
• ISBN-10: 1475813074
• Artikelnr.: 41477655

Autorenporträt

Richard Giordano now works with university student-athletes in helping them make progress toward graduation while maintaining their athletic eligibility after having spent over twenty five years in public education as a teacher and secondary school principal. Through his book, Super-Charged Learning, he makes the strategies he teaches elite athletes available to people of all ages, and parents of K-12 and college-age children in particular.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Preface Introduction: Chapter 1: When We Were Children .
. . on being out there Childlike Behavior Atomic Learning Do Not Touch!
Grow Up? Getting Back to Childhood Chapter 2: The Human Genome . . . What
Is It and Who Cares Anyway? What it Is A Dirty Word? Inferior yet Superior
Here Kitty Kitty! Watch the Birdie! Sit Fido! Volition and Superiority To
Be or Not To be . . .It Really Is the Question Exceptions to the Rule
Combining Resources A Double Whammy Chapter 3: Greeting Cards, Obscenities,
and the Stuff of Learning Happy Birthday to You You Dirty So-and-So The
Maligned Canine A Matter of Semantics Profanity . . . Why? Color My World
Doggie Understanding? A 500 lb. Gorilla Understanding! Use it or Lose it! A
Necessary Disclaimer Chapter 4: Making up Crap . . . the Process and the
Product Schooling in the 1950's, a South-Side Experience Hangin' Up Their
Stuff . . . The Parable of the Hooks Well, It's Kinda' Like This . . . The
Magic Connection Inside an Automobile Engine Mom Always Said: "Pick Your
Friends Carefully!" A Large-Toothed Beaver and a World Religion Cute and
Funny Sticks! A Stick-Deodorant Tale Choose to Learn . . . Do Something!
Synergistic Thinking = a Strategy Choice Making up Crap . . . Synergistic
Thinking, What to Do . . . How to Do It The Rest of the Story Chapter 5:
Crappy Examples Casual Acquaintances or Close Friends Brainy Stuff A Very
Large Pachyderm Death, a Eulogy, and a Process A Photograph Will Do Quite
Nicely! A Rich Guy, a River, and a Basketball Superstar Going to the Bakery
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Remembering! So What If You Can't
Sing? A Long-Ago Rock & Roll Legend Singing the U S Presidents Getting From
Here to There The Doctor Will See You Now Whack-A-Doodle Science
CHOPKINSCaFeMgNaCl Strange Stuff . . . Ooo-Eee-Ooo Bizarre Works! Chapter
6: Education and Sports Teaching or Coaching Schools . . . Teaching Sports
. . . Coaching The Seasons of Our Lives It's Because of the Farmers? Just a
Little Sports History Football Players, Excellence, and the "Off-Season"
Chapter 7: Athlete-Powered Learning Going to the Picture Show Education
Alone . . . No Sale! A School Principal's Fiasco Force-of-Will . . . the
Necessary Ingredient The Dog Ate My Homework! Do I Need Glasses/Contacts?
You Want to Buy . . . You Must Pay! Good Diagnosis and the Right
Prescription Put it Away, Somewhere . . . Now! 'Time to Build Some Brackets
Say it Away! The Best Way? Good Housekeeping Chapter 8: Sports, Academics,
and a Piano Player . . . Psychology for Success My . . . How You've Grown
Up! You Think it Before You Do it Who Says So Anyway?! Getting Your Head in
the Game . . . Sports and Academics Play That Funky Music . . . Playing
Football . . . Playing Books (What? When? Where?) Putting On Your Academic
Game-Face Where the Rubber Meets the Road The "Louisville Lip"
Trash-Talked, But to Whom? Chapter 9: Schools Can't/Don't Do the Job? So
What?! Parents . . . It's Your Job! The Prizefighter and the News Anchor
Games People Play School Games . . . and Not Just on Athletic Fields The
History . . . How We Got Here It's Your Job? NO! It's My Job! Human
Behavior . . . Complicated, Dynamic Modern Attitudes . . . Why We're Not
like the Pilgrims Movie Dialogue to Remember! Who?, What?, Why?, Where?,
When?, How? Who? What? Why? Where . . . When? How? THE Student Chapter 10:
The Black Student, Countering Destructive Peer Pressure Acting White . . .
How Do You Do That?! Black Culture and Education Cultural Expectations,
School Climate, and Acting White Two Minus One = Less Than More Black
Student-Athletes: High Status, but With a Catch Just Dumb Jocks? Athletic
Participation = Corporate Culture Success Fighting the Charge Uncle
Costanzo's Wisdom I Wanna Be Like Mike! A University, a Basketball Player,
and a Little Girl: Success Beyond the Boards Eating the Elephant . . . One
Bite at a Time Chapter 11: So What Was That All About? A Songster and a
Caretaker Beyond a Caretaker's Workshop A Mountain Man and a Message
Athletics and Education . . . Related? The Answer to the Snail's Question
Parents, 'Time to Take Your Place! A Word about Words Peyton's Insight . .
. The Critical Additive