Sentences with phrase «began rewarding students»

«When we began rewarding students with points for positive behaviors each day, we saw our infractions decrease significantly, which created a big shift in our school culture.»

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Teachers are beginning to reward students for being able to function in a language, according to Marty Abbott with the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages.
When we began using the program, we rewarded students based upon the number of points they accumulated.
The dysfunctional nature of how urban schools teach students to relate to authority begins in kindergarten and continues through the primary grades.With young children, authoritarian, directive teaching that relies on simplistic external rewards still works to control students.But as children mature and grow in size they become more aware that the school's coercive measures are not really hurtful (as compared to what they deal with outside of school) and the directive, behavior modification methods practiced in primary grades lose their power to control.Indeed, school authority becomes counterproductive.From upper elementary grades upward students know very well that it is beyond the power of school authorities to inflict any real hurt.External controls do not teach students to want to learn; they teach the reverse.The net effect of this situation is that urban schools teach poverty students that relating to authority is a kind of game.And the deepest, most pervasive learnings that result from this game are that school authority is toothless and out of touch with their lives.What school authority represents to urban youth is «what they think they need to do to keep their school running.»
Certain techniques were flagged up «no hands rule; use of mini-white boards, Kagan, learning environments that are supporting; bolstering self - esteem; positivity; curiosity; creativity; identify students to lead plenary at end of lesson at the beginning; Get class blogging — quadblogging; tallies for whole class rewards; encouraging independent learning; wait time when questioning; talk about their thinking and reasoning; conversational learning; talk with learning partners before answering any questions; pair and share; Glazer learning model structure for lesson delivery — a good mix of interaction and independent work; offering choice to pupils; cross class working; allowing time to play; list / describe / explain / evaluate; new audiences beyond the school; project based learning and philosopy; swapping age - groups; cross-curricular working; read to them every day; invite varied guests in; learning by discovery using pupils» interests; stand back and watch with purpose.
«The path to college and a rewarding career begins at a young age, and high quality programs like the ones announced today will help our students realize their vast potential,» Claypool says.
From a character education perspective, individual plans should be monitored closely so that as students begin to gain control of their emotions and find more appropriate means for communication, reinforcement moves away from extrinsic rewards and towards social rewards, ultimately emphasizing students» intrinsic satisfaction in being a good citizen of the school and classroom.
Notably, ASSISTments proved most beneficial for students who began the year with lower math scores — which is perhaps the most rewarding finding for Heffernan.
The Journey Student Rewards Card was launched at the beginning of 2011 as a means to help students build their credit confidently and reward them for responsible credit use, says Sukhi Sahn, Senior Communications Manager for Capital One.
As one negotiator said, this is the behavior of a primary school student who refuses to begin his homework until first receiving his ice cream reward.
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