by Bruce Balmer | Mar 1, 2021 | Motivation, Statistics, Uncategorized
As chance would have it, I was recently asked to read another educational psychologist’s repot on another student. The report (expensive) stated that, among his many other problems, the student in question has “poor impulse control.” As I read it it...
by Bruce Balmer | Nov 19, 2020 | Uncategorized
When I was at school learning languages I thought the performance of the top students was forever beyond my reach. I believed this so strongly that I never even tried to work out how to catch them up. I may have had some encouragement from the school on that. First,...
by Bruce Balmer | Nov 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
Good morning! So my plan was to add 150 new words of Italian each day during November. That is around the amount added during a degree, learned in a month but that is a conversation for another day. The lives of adults do not always run smoothly due to the many...
by Bruce Balmer | Nov 5, 2020 | Uncategorized
5 days completed, 750 words of Italian learned (150 per day as promised). To put that in perspective it is significantly more progress than a GCSE student makes in a year. But unlike the GCSE because I am expanding my vocabulary very quickly it is exciting. I look...
