End Your Classroom Management Nightmare: How to Manage Unmanageable Students

If you are a teacher with severely misbehaved students, this must-read article will finally explain what to do. Here are the critical management techniques that they didn't teach you in college.

Totally Terrific Tools to Turn On Unmotivated, Indifferent, Failing Students

Finally, a place to turn when you need to light a fire under your turned-off students. Check out these deliciously different, decidedly more effective tricks, tips, techniques and methods to motivate unmotivated, bored, indifferent and failing students.

Research Needed to Understand the Human Animal

Are humans different from all other higher-order mammals in the animal kingdom? Do humans warrant a separate and unique category? Are humans themselves different by way of breeds? Should we classify each breed or now that the world is closer together are humans so inter-mingled that they are all becoming one?

Controlling Anger

All of us get angry. Some of us get angry very often. Some are able to control the anger. Some of us express our anger freely, whereas some suppress it.

Preventing Future Violence

Understanding the development of violence allows us to not only predict, but prevent future acts of violence. Services must be provided as early in the cycle as possible.

Rage Of The Tortured Child

Tormented childhoods produce high achievers?

Borderline Schizophrenics and Paranoid People

In psychology classes in colleges across America, they discuss the issues of paranoia and schizophrenics. Such anomalies are fun to study and generally they are studied as brain disorders. But there are some very interesting facts about these folks, which often do not consider.

The Cosmos is Infinite, the Mind Finite?

Many believe the cosmos is infinite. Indeed this is certainly a possibility as we look out into space and realize how insignificant we really are.

Mankind's Fascination with the Human Mind

Ever since mankind could ask the serious questions, he has pondered what makes the human mind tick? Why do we think the things we do? And thus philosophy has been able to capture the imagination in countless hours of thought.

Expressing Your Hate Is Sometimes Useful

When talking of hate, people do not always think this is a normal feeling. Hate is sometimes understood as something very wrong. Ok, you can hate in different ways.

Memory and Learning - Just How Does it All Work?

Understanding what memory is and how it works may encourage some who are frustrated by even minor memory lapses. In this excerpt from his book, Dr. Brian Walsh discusses types of memory, how emotions affect memory, and how memory decay can be combated.

'Broken Mirror' May Cause Autism

The human brain has a matching system of observation and execution that causes mirror neurons to fire both when a person observes others performing a goal-directed action and when he or she carries out the same action. This is the neural mechanism that allows most people to automatically understand others' actions, intentions and emotions, neuroscientists believe. However, when children with autism observe and imitate emotions, they display virtually no activity in a key part of the brain's mirror neuron system, according to new imaging research.

Dreaming

Had any good dreams lately? We spend nearly a third of our life sleeping, and a large portion of that is spent dreaming. It is time well spent.

What is a Paradigm Shift?

A Paradigm Shift is when a significant change happens - usually from one fundamental view to a different view. In most cases, some type of major discontinuity occurs as well.