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How To Double Your Reading Speed
In this week’s video blog, I share with you 5 simple strategies to help you double your reading speed. These strategies will help you increase your reading speed from about 200 words per minute (the average adult reading speed) to over 400 words per minute. As a brief recap, listed below are the 5 simple […]
Post Tagged with accelerated learning, brain-based learning, life skills, personal developmentBrain Rules for Students and Educators
In this week’s video blog, I go through the 12 brain rules from Dr. John Medina’s awesome book “Brain Rules”. I discuss each of the brain rules and then give some insights about how students and educators can use these rules to learn and teach more effectively. I share some great information so please watch […]
Post Tagged with accelerated learning, accelerated teaching, brain-based learning, brain-based teachingMake Your Message Memorable – Five Brain Facts All Presenters Should Know
In this week’s video blog, I discuss 5 facts about the brain that anyone with a message that they want remembered should know. This video is especially valuable for teachers, speakers, trainers and anyone else wanting to make sure that their content is remembered long term. Here is a preview of the 5 brain facts: […]
Post Tagged with accelerated learning, accelerated teaching, brain-based learning, brain-based teaching, life skills3 Important Memory Principles to Help You Remember Names
In this week’s video blog, I share with you three important memory principles and how you can use them to remember people’s names. I also share with you a powerful app that I used in conjunction with these principles to quickly memorize all 100+ of my students’ names – even while in Vegas 😉 Here […]
Post Tagged with accelerated learning, brain-based learning, life skills, personal development5 Quick Tips to Get the Most of Your 86,400 Seconds
Everyone gets the same amount of time everyday day – exactly 86,400 seconds. Why is it then that some people accomplish so much more than other people? The simple answer is that people who get more done every day have learned how to use their time more effectively. The key word ion that last sentence […]
Post Tagged with accelerated learning, life skills, personal development, successful study habitsMy One-Year Challenge
I recently returned from an amazing training called the World’s Greatest Speaker Training with Brendon Burchard. One of my biggest take aways from the training is the need to be consistent with my online videos. Unfortunately, I haven’t been very consistent over the last year. Teaching full-time, starting a speaking career, raising a family, and […]
Post Tagged with accelerated learning, brain-based learning, life skills, mindset, personal development, state of mindHow To Ace Your Final Exams
Since finals are right around the corner for many students, I thought I would take the opportunity to make a quick ~5-minute video with some useful tips to help you ace your final exams. This month’s video blog is titled “How To Ace Your Finals Exams (5 Quick Tips in 5 Minutes)”. The video is […]
Post Tagged with accelerated learning, brain-based learning, preparing to learn, successful study habits10 Rules of Good Studying – Part 2
In last month’s video blog, I discussed the first five of the 10 rules of good studying from Dr. Barbara Oakley’s best selling book “A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math an Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)”. In this month’s video blog, I discuss the last 5 rules of good studying. Please […]
Post Tagged with accelerated learning, brain-based learning, personal development, successful study habitsDr. Joe’s Secret for Super Students
Dr. Joe’s Secret for Super Students: The Science of Effectively Teaching Science. Last summer, I appeared on my very first radio show. I was interviewed on the talk show “Living The Dream” on Radyo Filipino Amerika in San Diego, CA. The topic was accelerated learning techniques and how I apply them in my classroom to […]
Post Tagged with accelerated learning, brain-based learning, life skillsTen Rules of Good Studying – Part 1
The spring semester is well under way. If you’re a student, your first set of exams (or celebrations as I like to call them) is probably right around the corner. This is your chance to show what you know and see for yourself the progress that you’ve made since the beginning of the semester. Get […]
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