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Here's a fun situation to help your teams quickly improve theirgroups' functioning. Immediately your participants will learnfunctional skills that will improve their performance in theworkplace. Enjoy variety and flexibility with these three completeactivities: * Earthquake Survival Situations Quiz * Things to Have to Prepare for an Earthquake * Things to Do During and Immediately After an Earthquake. The Leader's Guide includes instructions for administering theactivities and conducting discussions, possible variations,lecturettes, and samples of all forms and handouts. * Teach groups how to make decisions by consensus * Reveal the synergy in group decision making TIMING: 1-1/2 hours AUDIENCE: 5 to 12 participants -- several groups may be directedsimultaneously

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The landmark book Boys and Girls Learn Differently! outlines the brain-based educational theories and techniques that can be used to transform classrooms and help children learn better. Now The Boys and Girls Learn Differently Action Guide for Teachers presents experiential learning techniques that teachers can use to create an environment and enriched curriculum that take into account the needs of the developing child's brain and allows both boys and girls to gain maximum learning opportunities. This important and easy-to-use guide is based on the latest scientific scholarship on the differences between boy's and girl's brains, neurological development, hormonal effects, behavior, and learning needs and offers information on what all children need to be able to learn effectively. Michael Gurian and his colleagues applied these recent discoveries in the field during a two-year Gurian Institute pilot program in Missouri that led to measurably better academic performance and improved behavior.

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