Sentences with phrase «as teacher motivation»

According to him, even though the policy is a good intitiave, its implementation has been deficient in aspects of proximity to the undeserved school children as well as teacher motivation.

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Nobel Prize - winning economics professor, James Heckman, emphasizes the importance of non-cognitive skills such as persistence, curiosity and motivation, but how can teachers best foster those traits in students?

He noted that the government saw education as the bedrock to human development, hence the necessary motivation of teachers, which he lamented did not reflect in their job.

«Motivation to listen carefully and courteously to the teacher or one's fellow pupils rests on a desire to win a free can of cola rather than from a growing understanding among class members of their interdependence as human beings,» it added.

However, the NPP, during its 2016 election campaign, insisted that the country still needed more teachers and nurses and pledged to introduce the allowances, since they served as motivation for many to attend nursing colleges and colleges of education.

The District Chief Executive (DCE) for his part said the assembly will continue to support brilliant but needy students at various levels of the academic ladder, provision of physical infrastructure, motivation packages for teachers as well as provision of teaching and learning materials.

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Even as school systems redrew their boundaries, fired black teachers and principals, and tore up foundational enrollment structures to comply with desegregation orders, they largely ignored Coleman's earlier research on motivation and academic achievement, which found that competition «has a magic ability to create a strong group goal.»

Teachers can use the labels as motivation for writing haikus, by sticking magnetic tape on the back of labels to use on magnetic whiteboards.

As Morelock puts it, «This is the secret sauce to all of this: teacher motivation.

Hadi Partovi, founder of Code.org, cites lack of trained teachers as the biggest obstacle to getting computer science into the classroom, and software developers have little motivation to shift from the private sector into education.

Torney - Purta recommends putting a focus back into civics with an opportunity for discussion in the middle school curriculum, enhancing professional development for teachers, recognizing the differences within immigrants, and using ethnic identity as a source of motivation.

Taking the role of mentor and learning facilitator is cited as one way for teachers to raise youngsters» self - esteem, motivation and emotional stability.

They've also been seen as motivation for teachers to teach to the test.

Perhaps the motivation for this is political, as senior teachers and administrators benefit most from retroactive implementation.

Our findings also suggest teachers can not rely on a fixed positive «set - point» of motivation and engagement among their students as a buffer for poor quality instruction and activity.

Meanwhile, supplementary materials provide the teacher with guidelines for final team presentations, as well as tools to measure things like student motivation, engagement, and productivity — necessary because most teachers aren't going to know instinctively how to grade something as abstract as video game skills.

«Teacher identities and professional histories; departmental structures; differentiated roles, such as reading specialists and literacy coaches; lack of teacher preparation to teach literacy skills; arguments over whose responsibility literacy instruction is; competing factors such as motivation and engagement; disparities between in - and out - of - school literacy practices; and the increasing demands of reading to learn all contribute to the stagnation in literacy achievement,» hTeacher identities and professional histories; departmental structures; differentiated roles, such as reading specialists and literacy coaches; lack of teacher preparation to teach literacy skills; arguments over whose responsibility literacy instruction is; competing factors such as motivation and engagement; disparities between in - and out - of - school literacy practices; and the increasing demands of reading to learn all contribute to the stagnation in literacy achievement,» hteacher preparation to teach literacy skills; arguments over whose responsibility literacy instruction is; competing factors such as motivation and engagement; disparities between in - and out - of - school literacy practices; and the increasing demands of reading to learn all contribute to the stagnation in literacy achievement,» he says.

A body of research literature on teacher quality has isolated the impact of teachers on student achievement, apart from other factors, such as the student's own motivations, support from family and peers, and school resources.

The report, scheduled for release this week, examines racial patterns in the aspirations and motivations of middle and high school students, as well as their feelings toward teachers and the role that peer pressure plays in their academic aspirations.

Here's just one example: After almost a year in Head Start (with an average cost of about $ 7,700 in 2005), children were able to name only about two more letters than their non — Head Start counterparts, and they did not show any significant gains on much more important measures, such as early math learning, vocabulary, oral comprehension (more indicative of later reading comprehension), motivation to learn, or social competencies, including the ability to interact with peers and teachers.

«We need to help students comprehend their classmates» values, perspectives, and motivations so they can learn from each other as well as from their teachers.»

Aging teachers may not understand a younger generation as well as younger teachers, and their motivation levels may be in decline as well.

Both Dr. Sax's and Professor Kleinfeld's otherwise insightful commentaries seem to take as their motivation a dramatic policy prescription that I have explicitly not advocated, namely, the gender matching of students and teachers.

If student motivation and higher engagement is truly the desired end game, then we as teachers must adapt right along with our students in our classrooms.

However, given as a list, none appear to have any particular emphasis (i.e., learning theories (# 5) seems as important as parent communication (# 13) and motivation (# 4)-RRB-; they are not tailored to fit the needs of teachers in any specific context (i.e., urban or rural, turnaround or successful); and they do not consider the developmental stage of the student as it relates to each topic.

Many teachers enter the profession with a fantastic sense of drive and purpose within their vocation, but find that this motivation diminishes over time as a result of changing working conditions and expectations.

As such, teachers in this group appear fearful of and anxious about failing in their work and do not have high levels of positive motivation.

This meta - analysis of social and emotional learning interventions (including 213 school - based SEL programs and 270,000 students from rural, suburban and urban areas) showed that social and emotional learning interventions had the following effects on students ages 5 - 18: decreased emotional distress such as anxiety and depression, improved social and emotional skills (e.g., self - awareness, self - management, etc.), improved attitudes about self, others, and school (including higher academic motivation, stronger bonding with school and teachers, and more positive attitudes about school), improvement in prosocial school and classroom behavior (e.g., following classroom rules), decreased classroom misbehavior and aggression, and improved academic performance (e.g. standardized achievement test scores).

The initial motivation for young white teachers entering urban schools appears to be the same as the people I interviewed, that is, they are concerned about racism as a moral issue and they want to make a difference.

Living by the mantra «pedagogy before technology», Dr Cowling works to help teachers and academics innovate with technology, improving student motivation and learning outcomes, and leveraging technology as a tool to improve the overall education process.

As well as offering workshops and presentations, we now offer an online lesson - study approach, in which social - learning cohorts of teachers apply these insights to classroom practice via our new online course on Building Student MotivatioAs well as offering workshops and presentations, we now offer an online lesson - study approach, in which social - learning cohorts of teachers apply these insights to classroom practice via our new online course on Building Student Motivatioas offering workshops and presentations, we now offer an online lesson - study approach, in which social - learning cohorts of teachers apply these insights to classroom practice via our new online course on Building Student Motivation.

For those of us who cover the nation's education crisis, it is easy to joke about the ranting and raving of some defenders of traditional public education, who have what they consider to be clever names for charter schools and impugn the motivations of reformers with wealth (even as they defend teachers unions who bring in $ 622 million every year through dues collected forcibly from teachers who may or many not even support their aims).

Interested in motivation and self - regulated learning, as well as specifically understanding what motivates students in school by investigating potential influences from family, peers, and teachers.

A motivation for this assumption is that, without conditioning on additional information, we can regard the random variables corresponding to different classrooms for the same teacher (within a school) as exchangeable.

Books such as Haim Ginott's Teacher and Child, William Glasser's Schools Without Failure, and Tom Gordon's Teacher Effectiveness Training and ideas such as mastery learning, programmed learning, positive reinforcement, and the teacher - motivation approach all suggest that schools must eliminate or at least minimize student fTeacher and Child, William Glasser's Schools Without Failure, and Tom Gordon's Teacher Effectiveness Training and ideas such as mastery learning, programmed learning, positive reinforcement, and the teacher - motivation approach all suggest that schools must eliminate or at least minimize student fTeacher Effectiveness Training and ideas such as mastery learning, programmed learning, positive reinforcement, and the teacher - motivation approach all suggest that schools must eliminate or at least minimize student fteacher - motivation approach all suggest that schools must eliminate or at least minimize student failure.

Strong programs that have the most effect, they found, are Native language and culture immersion programs that enhance student motivation, ethnic pride, and self - esteem; provide varied opportunities for parent and elder involvement; and provide investment in teacher professional development and «community intellectual resources,» as evidenced by «grow your own» approaches to Native teacher preparation.

The Troops to Teachers scheme, run by the University of Brighton, is based on the idea that military values such as leadership, discipline, motivation and teamwork are particularly useful for teaching.

The Confucian philosophy of learning and achievement places primary emphasis on nonintelligence factors — such as personality traits (e.g., motivation, perseverance, effort) and environmental factors (e.g., parental and familial support, teacher and school instruction)-- rather than natural ability as the most important prerequisites for desired performance (Chen & Stevenson, 1995; Rosenthal & Feldman, 1991; Shi & Zha, 2000).

«My experience in the classroom — and as a school governor — has been really valuable, providing me with motivation and perspective of what you're trying to achieve and helping teachers to do the best possible job.»

TPACK may be influenced by contextual factors such as grade level, curricular standards, student characteristics and background, instructional and social interactions, teacher motivation and beliefs, classroom layout, school - related expectations, support for technology, and types of technology available (Mishra & Koehler, 2006; Rosenberg & Koehler, 2015).

As other researchers have noted, observing students» enjoyment, motivation, and engagement while using the apps encouraged the teachers to develop more learning activities that incorporated the technology (Flewitt et al, 2015).

In other words, the New York University professor wrote, the scores «reflected something other than what the teachers did, such as the students» ability and motivation, or the characteristics of a class or conditions in the school.»

Teacher motivation and commitment increases as they engage more in innovating.

The Prepare for Lesson presentation guides the teacher through the whole lesson process by providing the aims of each lesson along with the acceptable evidence of learning, execution instructions as well as motivation for the students.

A high school student in Winchester similarly cited his strong connection with teachers as a primary motivation for coming to school: it's «one of the things that makes you want to come to class,» he explained.

Fry examined how often and which primary sources teachers used, how teachers used primary sources, and teachers» perceptions of students» motivation, interest, and achievement as a result of the primary source professional development.

As a future teacher, I want to encourage children and young adults to rise above and use their struggles in life as motivation to do well in schooAs a future teacher, I want to encourage children and young adults to rise above and use their struggles in life as motivation to do well in schooas motivation to do well in school.

These students are reaching the halfway mark in their teacher education programs and one of my most important goals is to create a sense of energy and motivation as they — for the first time — take on the responsibility of working with small groups and organizing instruction for whole classrooms of students in Milwaukee's high needs urban schools.

Conversely, if the teacher's brain rejected past professional development activities as meaningless, that teacher will likely come to the new activity with little motivation.