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  2. Experiential learning - Wikipedia

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    The main point of difference between this and academic learning is more “real-life” experience for the recipient. [ 39 ] [ 40 ] [ 41 ] This may include for example, learning gained from a network of business leaders sharing best practice, or individuals being mentored or coached by a person who has faced similar challenges and issues, or ...

  3. Aerobics - Wikipedia

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    A water aerobics class at an Aquatic Centre. Both the term and the specific exercise method were developed by Dr Kenneth H. Cooper, an exercise physiologist, and Col. Pauline Potts, a physical therapist, both of the United States Air Force. Cooper, an exercise enthusiast, was puzzled about why some people with good muscular strength were prone ...

  4. Water aerobics - Wikipedia

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    A water aerobics class at an Aquatic Centre. Water aerobics (waterobics, aquarobics, aquatic fitness, aquafitness, aquafit) is the performance of aerobic exercise in water such as in a swimming pool. It is done mostly vertically and without swimming typically in waist deep or deeper water. Water aerobics is a form of aerobic exercise that ...

  5. Aerobic exercise - Wikipedia

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    Aerobic exercise has long been a popular approach to achieving weight loss and physical fitness, often taking a commercial form. In the 1970s, Judi Sheppard Missett helped create the market for commercial aerobics with her Jazzercise program, [55] at the same time as Jacki Sorensen was expanding her system of aerobic dancing. [56]

  6. Pilates - Wikipedia

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    It has clear connections with the physical culture of the late nineteenth century, such as the use of special apparatuses, and claims that the exercises could cure ill health. It is also related to the tradition of "corrective exercise" or "medical gymnastics" as typified by Pehr Henrik Ling. A reformer Pilates class.

  7. Homework - Wikipedia

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    Younger students who spend more time on homework generally have slightly worse, or the same academic performance, as those who spend less time on homework. [6] Homework has not been shown to improve academic achievements for grade school students. Proponents claim that assigning homework to young children helps them learn good study habits.

  8. Communicative language teaching - Wikipedia

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    Bruner appears to have been influenced by Lev Vygotsky, a Russian psychologist whose zone of proximal development is a similar concept. Later in the 1970s British linguist M.A.K. Halliday studied how language functions are expressed through grammar. [10] The development of communicative language teaching was bolstered by these academic ideas.

  9. Active learning - Wikipedia

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    2-What is called the "one minute paper" could be a useful strategy for students to respond. When the teacher asks a question related to a topic that has been taught, students will write their answers individually within 60 seconds. 3- "Think-pair-share" is a method that has been used to walk students through three ways of learning.