THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED DISCIPLINE 	The Discipline section of M. Scott Peck’s The Road Less Traveled first deals with life’s difficulties. He makes it clear that we all have problems and pain but we have to deal with it to get by and to make life less difficult. "Life is difficult... Once we truly know that life is difficult--once we truly understand and accept it--then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted‚ the fact that life is difficult no longer matters."(p
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However‚ it is not right to blame a teacher for making a biased assessment. The idea of a less biased assessment comes from the teacher’s knowledge of the student and of reading and writing. The more practiced teachers are with understanding student literary practices‚ the more likely better results will appear from assessments. Things that
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that young people are the future. Hence it’s important for young people to be educated and since the earth is made up of more than half being under the age of 25‚ education has become more of a central concern than a solution to creating a better and more efficient workforce for a sustainable world. But in recent times it has been seen that most young people become less interested in education in their early teens when they attain a little responsibility. Therefore the question “why some young people
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Transactional Leader as the word implies business or exchange. Burns‚ 1978‚ opined that a transactional leader is someone who leads though social exchange. It is a process that I simply call trade by batter‚ you do this for me‚ and you get that in return. A politician can be a transactional leader when he seeks to exchange one thing for another i.e. making promises and pulling through with the promises after an election. Also most business leaders are seen as transformational when they give out incentives
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How Effective is Public Management Research? An Analysis of Scope and Methodology David W. Pitts Andrew Young School of Policy Studies Georgia State University 14 Marietta St. NW Ste. 328 Atlanta‚ GA 30303 404.413.0111 404.413.0104 FAX pitts@gsu.edu Paper prepared for presentation at the 9th Public Management Research Conference‚ Tucson‚ Arizona‚ October 25-27‚ 2007. The author thanks Sergio Fernandez for assistance in developing the coding instrument and Ravtosh Bal and Lauren Edwards for
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old question. Are leaders made or are they born? My belief on this – I believe that a leader is made‚ not born. Why do I say that? Before going further‚ lets be clear on one distinction – when we say a leader is made‚ it does not mean that someone can be taught to become a leader by attending leadership courses. While it helps‚ it is not enough. Warren Bennis (a leading leadership researcher) believes that one cannot be taught to become a leader but one can learn to become a leader over the years through
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Why are some young people less likely to achieve high educational qualifications? There are many reasons why some young people are less likely to achieve high educational qualification‚ from parental care through gender divide‚ and whether the birth mother smoked during pregnancy to one of the most striking reasons‚ social class. (Department for Education and Skills 2006)‚ (Connolly 2006). Children from a lower class background will almost always underperform when compared to children from
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Effective communication is important as a starting point for any relationship whether it is for children or adult as no relationship can start without verbal communication. How we communicate depends on the person whether it be adult to adult‚ child to child or any combination‚ the style needs to be adapted according. Children-We should talk to the children and listen to them thus we can help them to extend their thinking‚ learning and understanding. Communicating with the children by going to their
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Effective communication is important in developing positive relationships with children‚ young people and adults as it forms a foundation on which any good relationship is established. When we talk to one another‚ we form an opinion of that person‚ judging their tone of voice‚ their body language and if the person is showing interest by maintaining eye contact. In becoming a Teaching Assistant especially‚ I want children of all ages‚ parents and staff to view me in a positive light‚ and as a role
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ORGANIZING IS DIG-ORGANIZING AND RE-ORGANIZING BY Michael Gecan Metro Industrial Areas Foundation Your congregation – be it Catholic or Protestant‚ Jewish or Muslim‚ Buddhist or Bhai- has been around a while. You may have had only one or two clergy leaders‚ or you may have had many. Like all organizations‚ you have fallen into certain patterns of operation‚ some good and some not. Again like all organizations‚ you have two choices: to continue to do what you always have done (because that’s the way
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