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Total Quality Education

Adapted from Deming's Total Quality Management, ICAL's 14 Total Quality Education points address meaningful education in a rapidly changing world.  

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Total Quality Education


The Accelerative Learning Road Less Traveled

In our quick change society, deep change is rarely considered as an option.  Yet deep change is the path we choose in order to ensure long-term lasting change with high positive impact for students.  We design our courses so that they work with any teacher and any student.  This requires a design model that can be used by anyone, and not only the person who creates it.  In the field of Accelerative Learning, creating that design model is the road less traveled.  

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The Accelerative Learning Road Less Traveled


The Creative Teacher (Guest Article)

A creative person is curious, experimental, adventurous, playful, and intuitive.  In our society, we tend to view certain kinds of people, like artist, scientists, and inventors as being creative.  But what about teachers?  We are all born with creativity, and if you believe you are a creative person you will find ways of using this creativity in your teaching.  All it takes is an inquisitive mind, a willingness to take risks, and the drive to make things work-three qualities that everyone has.

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The Creative Teacher


Accelerated Learning

What if you could learn a lot more, a lot faster, and have a lot more fun doing it?  You can. Accelerated Learning is one of the most exciting and effective applications of the new learning theories, and it's revolutionizing learning in schools, corporations, and living rooms all over the world.

Based on the work of Bulgarian psychiatrist Georgi Lozanov, who developed the theory of "suggest-opedia," and Dr. Evelyna Gateva, a language educator, accelerated learning also incorporates Howard Gardner's multiple intelligences theory  and the power of the arts

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Accelerated Learning in Context



Music at the International Center for Accelerative Learning

This paper describes a number of ways music contributes to the ICAL methodology.  This is a good place to begin accessing the greater potential of the students’ capacity to learn.

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Music at the International Center for Accelerative Learning



Nonverbal Classroom Management

Talk less. Teach More!  Nonverbal Classroom Management: Group Strategies that work.  This article is from a book for teachers written by a teacher: Pearl Nitsche.  It has been proven that over 82% of a teacher's communication with students in the classroom is nonverbal.  The theory  and techniques are based on the tenets of Neurolinguistic Programming.

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Nonverbal Classroom Management: Group Strategies that Work.

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