Editorial Updated 5 Nov  2006, Effective Methodologies—Part III
    Robert Mager came up with a two-fold, interesting acronym in his book, Developing Attitude Toward Learning, which I studied in the early 80s. It changed my attitude toward learning and helped me think about teaching to touch all four learning domains (cognitive, affective, conative and experiential). The […]

Editorial Updated 12 Nov  2006, Continuing To Learn
     This past week I learned two important things:
1.    Our garage door quit working because one of the springs that help lift it broke.  I asked some of my colleagues about what they did to deal with their garage doors. They tried several things—one was to simply replace […]

Editorial Updated 19 Nov  2006, Affirmation
    All leaders need affirmation.
Our studies of shaping activities of more than 3000 leaders have identified two shaping activities that God uses to AFFIRM leaders.
Definition     
Divine affirmation is a special kind of sense of destiny experience in which God gives approval to a leader so that […]

Editorial Updated 26 Nov  2006, Grieving
 This week we had an unexpected death in our extended family. Marilyn and I are learning how to deal with grief as it affects our grandchildren. I come from a rather stoic background. So I don’t tend to deal with grief emotionally but rather from a more analytical bent. But […]