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: 8. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 502g
• ISBN-13: 9781475813074
• ISBN-10: 1475813074
• Artikelnr.: 41477655

Autorenporträt

Richard J. Giordano worked for over twenty five years in public education as a teacher and secondary school principal. Having left the public schools, he developed a unique educational program, that to help university student-athletes maintain good academic grade point averages while competing in sports. Beginning with football players at Indiana University and the University of Notre Dame, his "Making up Crap" learning heuristic was later employed to help both male and female athletes at other universities in a variety of sports. His work with student-athletes resulted in his first book: Super-Charged Learning: How Wacky Thinking and Sports Psychology Make It Happen. www.superchargedlearning.com. Dr. Giordano resides in Colorado. He is a frequent guest on the Rush to Reason radio show in Denver, speaking to the cultural and educational issues that impact the public schools in Colorado and around the nation. He can be reached by e-mail at: [e-mail]

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