June, 2007

So little have I accomplished, but an important steps have been taken in spite of some noises or disturbances. Noises and disturbances are inevitable in my life. The point is how smoothly and swiftly I would push, or push forward.
Mental Toughness for Sports was what I read while the basketball exercises were taking place. That was worth quick reading, though I doubt if I had better purchase a copy, even in English, when its English copy is out of print and the second-handed one costs a lot. Its contents are a mixture of Csikszentmihalyi (a flow theorist), Zen, and some experiences of top level sports players. How tough can I make myself in my actual life?
How should I take advantage of the mailing list "English Learners"? Am I too advanced to take part in it? Should I post short messages which introduce some aspects of the Japanese culture? Izukoh_ecom has already been a habitat for my English writings. My writings need a habitat, or habitats?
How ironic questions work? A textbook for business writing suggests we should avoid using them. No wonder! It works as a rhetoric, but either negatively or positively. The latter cases, I suppose, are rare. The figure of speech sounds arrogant or offensive to me.
Curriculum is a framework; teachers are contents. Whether the new curriculum will work or not will depend on its contents. What will the contents be like?
How should I cope with fools? Why do they get panicked so easily? It is really difficult to enjoy meaningful communication with those panickmongers.
Intriguing against some is to intrigue with others.
Piling meaningless attempts doesn't make any sense. You must rather lay bricks, each of which has a meaningful shape and its own message.
Watching a video taken in a class in SELHi. Teachers are watching it. What are they getting from that? Are they going to imitate it, or just killing time? Mimetic pays as far as teachers are the organized. As soon as he/she becomes an organizer, mimetic hinders them.
Sponsorship vs leadership; why the former is the better? The former has something to do with knowledge management.
Keep reading "Blackwell Dictionary of Cognitive Psychology" by the help of a Japanese translation of "Blackwell Dictionary of Cognitive Psychology." BDCP and BDCP(JT) henceforth.
English Seminor C's Unit 8 is about the Jew refugees on this ship St. Lewis just before the start of World War II. The story was totally new to me. How should I deal with the topic and the students who are to struggle with the text?
Would-be the-first-graders' English teachers are choosing their textbook. The question is not what textbook they will use but what they will do for their students.
Preparing for vocational admission is arriving at its climax. The candidate students should have had 2 mimic examinations this week, and are expecting for another on this weekend. 3 exams in total within a week!
To implement a set of constraints needs a set of procedures. Menscious thinks the set of procedures leads to the implementation of a set of constraints. A chicken lays an egg? Or an egg hatches to be a chicken?
The language of cognitive science has provided a new way of speaking about education. A new conceptual framework enables us to treat diverse educational phenomena in a unified way.
A set of constraints and a set of procedures; they go hands in hands. That is a culture.
A conceptual framework of social science and a conceptual framework of cognitive science; they will go hands in hands. That is the theory of human development.
The interview season starts today, on a break of the rainy season. That also means the door-to-door selling to junior high schools has also started. Parents and junior high school teachers utter concordances. By configurating the concordances, we may be able to extract certain truth.
Some concordances suggest that we are bound down to certain constraints. Biases speed up our cognitions, while constraints stick them.
What stance should I take to meet the possibility of the privatization of the knowledge teachers have. The knowledge acquired by a teacher will be probably considered as his/her property. Transferring it to another teacher will be considered to be selling a good. Its cost should be covered either by the purchasing teacher himself or by the educational body for which the purchaser is working.
Some of our students have a culture in which they do their best to escape from the pressure of entrance examinations.
Efforts to try not to do their best is a key to understand many of today's youths. They are hardworking so as not to work hard. Are they hard workers, or not?