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Happy back to school! Parents, teachers and students, find funny and motivational back-to-school quotes about education, learning and working with others.
A motivational speaker (or inspirational speaker) is a speaker who makes speeches intended to motivate or inspire an audience. Such speakers may attempt to challenge or transform their audiences. [1] The speech itself is popularly known as a pep talk. [2]
Steve Rizzo is an American motivational speaker, author, and former stand-up comedian, who is notable for his humorous style of motivational speaking and writing. [1] Rizzo is a member of the National Speakers Association (NSA) and an inductee of the Council of Peers Award for Excellence Speaker Hall of Fame. [2]
Motivational states explain why people or animals initiate, continue, or terminate a certain behavior at a particular time. [2] Motivational states are characterized by the goal they aim for, as well as the intensity and duration of the effort devoted to the goal. [3] Motivational states have different degrees of strength.
The sports drama “Unstoppable” follows the inspirational tale of Robles, who was born with one leg, as he goes from Arizona high school wrestling superstar to undefeated college national champion.
Motivational posters can have behavioral effects. For example, Mutrie and Blamey, [4] of the University of Glasgow and the Greater Glasgow Health Board, found in one study that their placement of a motivational poster that promotes stair use in front of an escalator and a parallel staircase, in an underground station, doubled the amount of stair use.
Poster advertising Pausch's lecture "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams" (also called "The Last Lecture" [1]) was a lecture given by Carnegie Mellon University computer science professor Randy Pausch on September 18, 2007, [2] that received widespread media coverage, and was the basis for The Last Lecture, a New York Times best-selling book co-authored with Wall Street Journal reporter ...
Just-in-time teaching was developed for university level physics instructors in the late 1990s, but its use has since spread to many other academic disciplines. Early work was done in the physics department at Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) in collaboration with physics instructors at Davidson College and the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA). [1]