The 8 “T”s of Empowerment
johndabell Leading business speaker on Sales, Intelligent Motivation and Customer Loyalty, Jim Cathcart is the author of Relationship Selling in which he outlines the 8 “T”s of empowering ourselves and authors.…
Psychology
Emotional Dissonance And Teacher Burnout
Teachers are emotional people. That’s not surprising given that we are dealing with emotion all day.
Parkinson’s Law
Do you waste time?
The Familiarity Principle In Education
Do you buy into an idea just because you keep seeing it?
It Wasn’t Me! Dottie Did It!
Children come out with some things don’t they?
Educational Cargo Cults And The Bandwagon Effect
Everyone is susceptible to cognitive biases but without understanding how they influence our thoughts, teachers may not be aware of their own lack of objectivity in decision making. Many of…
The Peter Pan Syndrome
Peter Pan syndrome refers to someone who does not want to enter adult life.
Cognitive Error: Magnification
Magnification is an example of a cognitive distortion or thinking error. It’s also called “catastrophisation” and it can sabotage our brain. Thinking in a magnifying manner is when we exaggerate…
Are You Guilty Of The Macabre Constant?
You might like to think you are unbiased but the reality is we are all full of biases. The Macabre Constant is a theorised bias in educational assessment that happens…
Cognitive Error: Anchoring
We all make mistakes and we are often wrong. Show me a teacher who hasn’t dropped some clangers.