untitled Régimes, détox : ils nous font tout gober Tous ceux qui ont le bonheur de connaître la belle, martiale et riche Valérie Orsoni l'ont entendue raconter ce qu'elle appelle son «épiphanie». Un jour de 2003, aux Etats-Unis, où ce petit bout de femme corse végète avec son premier mari, les médecins lui annoncent une tumeur au cerveau, ainsi qu'un cancer des cervicales - ou de l'utérus, selon les versions docilement rapportées par la presse féminine. Malheureuse comme pas deux, allongée sur son lit de souffrance, fixant le plafond, elle réalise soudain que la médecine ne peut pas tout et, par association d'idées, décide de prendre son destin en main et de se lancer dans le... conseil diététique. «Finis, les régimes qui ne marchent pas !» promet Valérie aux désespérées qui veulent «partager une expertise de coaching minceur qui a déjà conquis le tout-Hollywood». Les antigluten font du blé Tourne, tourne, carrousel des privations ! Le Pr Khayat dégoupille sa grenade
untitled Los Angeles’ bold move to reform special education GWEN IFILL: It’s been four decades since a groundbreaking law known as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, IDEA, took effect. Today, it helps ensure that more than six million students with disabilities have the right to a free and appropriate public education. But, in many places, it’s been a struggle getting schools to comply with the law, and nearly 100 class-actions have been filed. Special correspondent John Tulenko, with our partners at Education Week, follows the impact of one such case in California. JOHN TULENKO: Los Angeles, California, is the nation’s second largest school system. The story begins in the early 1990s with a student named Chanda Smith, who was dyslexic and by high school could barely read. CHANDA SMITH: It’s just like a bunch of words just scribbling on the paper, just everything just scribbling or just — it was very overwhelming. JOHN TULENKO: Now 39 and a mother of four, Chanda continues to struggle with a learning disability. JOHN TULENKO: Right.
Teenagers and sleep - Family Lives Understanding your teen's body clock "My son David almost missed one of his GCSE’s this summer because he just can't get out of bed in the mornings," says 38 year old Ellen, from Huddersfield. "I have to leave the house at 7.30 and then I'm worrying the whole time, phoning him every 10 minutes to try and make sure he gets up on time for school. How hormones affect the teenage body clock Teenagers and their parents have very different body clocks. When it comes to sleep patterns, there are definite changes in teenagers - particularly around the timing of sleep, explains Neil Stanley, a sleep researcher at the University of East Anglia. Scientist David Bainbridge, author of "Teenagers: A Natural History" believes this is due to a 'rewiring' of the brain in adolescence which may mean that the teenage body clock runs more slowly than an adult's, making the day seem longer. David also says that teenagers haven't yet developed the mechanism required for registering fatigue.
Les enfants intellectuellement précoces sont-ils particulièrement anxieux ? - Scilogs.fr :Raison et psychologie Petit exercice de fact-checking : Perception des personnes sondées ... ... et conclusions des articles scientifiques, concernant le lien entre anxiété et précocité intellectuelle. En rouge, "les surdoués sont plus anxieux que les autres", en orange "les surdoués sont aussi anxieux que les autres" et en vert "les surdoués sont moins anxieux que les autres". Voir le graphique interactif. De nombreux stéréotypes sont véhiculés, diffusés et amplifiés par les médias au sujet des enfants dits intellectuellement précoces ou surdoués — c’est-à-dire, selon la définition la plus courante, dont le QI dépasse 130. Une idée crédible et banale L’idée que les enfants précoces sont particulièrement anxieux est extrêmement répandue. "Les enfants surdoués comprennent plus vite que les autres. C’est en gros ce qu’on peut lire et entendre un peu partout. Ce que dit la science Seulement voilà. Commençons par deux cas particuliers. Un effet de la culture ? Les 13 études citées Beer, J. (1991).
Training the Brain to Listen: A Practical Strategy for Student Learning and Classroom Management Image credit: iStockphoto Editor's note: This post is co-authored by Marcus Conyers who, with Donna Wilson, is co-developer of the M.S. and Ed.S. Brain-Based Teaching degree programs at Nova Southeastern University. They have written several books, including Five Big Ideas for Effective Teaching: Connecting Mind, Brain, and Education Research to Classroom Practice. During the school year, students are expected to listen to and absorb vast amounts of content. But how much time has been devoted to equipping students with ways to disconnect from their own internal dialogue (self-talk) and to focus their attention fully on academic content that is being presented? Explicit instruction on cognitive strategies that can help students learn how to learn may have a positive impact on both academic performance and classroom management by emphasizing that students are in charge of their own behavior and learning. The Anatomy and Psychology of Listening Teaching Students to Focus and Listen
A More Powerful Teacher’s Guide Let’s begin with a math problem: Mathematically, this is a mistake, but it accurately reflects the break-down of the content of one of the most popular math programs, so let’s take a deeper look. 56 is the number of supplementary resources for one lesson, including online links, hands-on activities, supporting work from previous grades, extra workbook pages, and more. 4 is the number of objectives presented in this particular lesson, each with corresponding problems under colorful headlines and pictures of adorable children. Even more, the expectation is that all four objectives can be taught using both conceptual and procedural strategies within a 45-minute block. These two values (56 and 4) together are supposed to equate to the sum of 1: one (1) clear, concrete lesson in which all students are successful. This is a lot to take in. This is how textbooks and teacher’s guides fail teachers: by not providing them with the clear roadmap they need to make sense of each lesson.
Why Procrastinators Procrastinate PDF: We made a fancy PDF of this post for printing and offline viewing. Buy it here. (Or see a preview.) pro-cras-ti-na-tion |prəˌkrastəˈnāSHən, prō-| noun the action of delaying or postponing something: your first tip is to avoid procrastination. Who would have thought that after decades of struggle with procrastination, the dictionary, of all places, would hold the solution. Avoid procrastination. While we’re here, let’s make sure obese people avoid overeating, depressed people avoid apathy, and someone please tell beached whales that they should avoid being out of the ocean. No, “avoid procrastination” is only good advice for fake procrastinators—those people that are like, “I totally go on Facebook a few times every day at work—I’m such a procrastinator!” The thing that neither the dictionary nor fake procrastinators understand is that for a real procrastinator, procrastination isn’t optional—it’s something they don’t know how to not do. Pretty normal, right? Notice anything different?
Quand la pub fait place aux clichés sexistes Quand on pense aux publicités sexistes, on se représente les campagnes Moulinex - les robots ménagers qui «libèrent la femme» ou encore les aspirateurs Hoover qui «rendent les femmes plus heureuses». Mais le sexisme et la misogynie dans la pub n’ont pas pour autant disparu. La preuve avec Numéricable, qui s’est offert lundi 6 janvier le tout premier bad buzz de l’année. La campagne «Téléchargez aussi vite que votre femme change d’avis», diffusée dans le quotidien 20 minutes, a entraîné une véritable vague d’outrage, aussi bien de la part des femmes lassées d’être la cible d’attaques sexistes et gratuites, que des hommes, qui n’ont pas trouvé ce cliché plus drôle. Comme pour se faire pardonner, Numéricable a annoncé dès le lendemain que le pendant masculin : «Téléchargez aussi vite que votre mari oublie ses promesses». Les clichés sur les femmes : un bon filonNuméricable n’est d’ailleurs pas la seule marque à avoir été épinglée comme sexiste au cours des années précédentes.
UK supermarkets ban sales of energy drinks to under-16s | Life and style Sales of energy drinks to children under 16 will be banned by most major UK supermarkets from Monday, following concerns about their high levels of sugar and caffeine and impact on health and behaviour. Customers buying drinks containing more than 150mg of caffeine per litre in branches of Asda, Aldi, the Co-op, Lidl, Morrisons, Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Waitrose will be asked to prove they are over 16. The high street chemist Boots is the latest retailer – and the only non-supermarket – to announce a ban, following the lead of a voluntary restriction taken by Waitrose in January. Drinks such as Red Bull, Relentless, Monster Energy and Rockstar have become increasingly popular. The compulsory health warnings read: “High caffeine content. The teachers’ union NASUWT called last year for the sale of the drinks to under-16s to be banned by all retailers. Also seeking a ban are medical experts, including the charity Action on Sugar, as well as the TV chef and food campaigner Jamie Oliver.
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