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• In a fixed mindset, people believe their basic qualities, like their  intelligence or talent, are simply fixed traits. They spend their time  documenting their intelligence or talent instead of developing them. They also  believe that talent alone creates success—without effort. They’re wrong.

   

  In a growth mindset, people believe that their most basic abilities can be  developed through dedication and hard work—brains and talent are just the  starting point. This view creates a love of learning and a resilience that is  essential for great accomplishment. Virtually all great people have had these  qualities.

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• close. For Friedman, cheap, ubiquitous telecommunications have finally  obliterated all impediments to international competition, and the dawning 'flat  world' is a jungle pitting 'lions' and 'gazelles,' where 'economic stability is  not going to be a feature' and 'the weak will fall farther behind.' Rugged,  adaptable entrepreneurs, by contrast, will be empowered. The service sector  (telemarketing, accounting, computer programming, engineering and scientific  research, etc.), will be further outsourced to the English-spoken abroad;  manufacturing, meanwhile, will continue to be off-shored to China

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• Students will be more engaged and behave better when educators teach with  enthusiasm, using acting techniques such as physical and vocal animation,  role-playing, and the use of suspense and surprise
• Today's students are more visually oriented, more technologically sophisticated  and more challenged in their academic orientation than the students of previous  generations. Consequently, today’s best teachers are those who can adapt to  their students’ varied learning styles. We must offer lessons via multiple media  in a consistently caring and engaging way in order to motivate today’s students.
• Planning a class means planning content and planning the means of delivering  that content.
• a teacher should constantly be working on mastering the subject matter and on  developing a host of varying strategies for delivering that subject matter to  the students so that they learn and retain what is covered in class
• would have taught these teachers the effective use of specific acting-  performances skills such as, animation in voice and body, use of suspense and  surprise, role-playing, props, classroom space, and humor, which when combined  with effective entrances and exits, are guaranteed to enhance their teaching
• Shakespeare’s As You Like It, "All the world is a stage and all the men  and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances." Surely,  one would include teachers among these players. As teachers, our job in the  classroom version of a "stage," is to maximize our effectiveness between our  entrances and exits. Like actors, teachers have a message to convey -- and this  is best accomplished by incorporating proven acting skills such as animation in  voice and body, use of suspense and surprise, role-playing, props, classroom  space, and humor. The similarities between the stage and the classroom are  endless.
• The two key elements from actors' training that are not typically covered in  most teacher training programs are: a) nonverbal expressiveness and b)  adaptation to audience.

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