Sentences with phrase «do cognitive work»

He'd recently come to our «Ratio» training, which focuses on how to make more classrooms where students do the cognitive work and was now doing training and support for teachers back at his school.

Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey say that helping students develop immediate and lifelong learning skills is best achieved through guided instruction, which they define as «saying or doing the just - right thing to get the learner to do cognitive work» — in other words, gradually and successfully transferring knowledge and the responsibility for learning to students through scaffolds for learning.

Not exact matches

Kay told the Wall Street Journal that most adults do the best cognitive work in the late morning.

«We're starting to see the effects of technology automating cognitive work — things we used to think only people could do,» Schatsky says.

And though I'm a strong critic of such practices, I do have a degree of sympathy for the person who has spent, say, 20 years believing that homeopathy really works, and «seeing» it help thousands of people (a fact that can readily be explained by the operation of a whole range of well - documented cognitive biases).

Now that machines are increasingly replacing humans in doing cognitive tasks — work that was highly prized in the last century — the obvious question to ask is what will humans do?

It is true that people often believe things for bad reasons — self - deception, wishful thinking, and a wide variety of other cognitive biases really do cloud our thinking — but bad reasons only tend to work when they are unrecognized.

I am a victim of abuse (offender was a non-practicing protestant for the record) and I have seen Groeschel in recent interviews — he is clearly lacking in cognitive ability and it would not surprise me that his work in helping offenders has been overshadowed with talks of repentance and trying to understand why an offender would do such a thing.

What do professionals that work with this population do when their patients» / clients» cognitive impairment affects their safety.

«A lot of it has to do with problems of focusing attention, working memory, and cognitive flexibility.

There isn't anything you can do to change his nature at this point, and trying to explain that the kitchen cabinets are a no - go or disciplining him for knocking things over won't work because he doesn't have the cognitive skills to understand.

Cognitive Development: Playing at three becomes far more creative — your child can do small puzzles, figure out how to make toys work on their own, play make - believe, build structures with blocks, and more.

Daniel T. Willingham, author of Why Don't Students Like School: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom

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Cognitive flexibility becomes important when trying to find the correct solutions to a problem, particularly when your first attempt at solving that problem does not work.

In a randomized clinical study involving adults age 56 to 71 that recently published in Neurobiology of Aging, researchers found that after cognitive training, participants» brains were more energy efficient, meaning their brain did not have to work as hard to perform a task.

«People say cognitive training either works or doesn't work.

The programme is delivered via a series of weekly group sessions, facilitated by two health professionals who have experience of cognitive behavioural approaches and of working with people with MS.. The sessions are highly structured and incorporate a combination of learning techniques, including presentations, group discussions, flipchart exercises and tasks to do at home.

Factors other than practice believed to influence athletic performance include genetic attributes, such as fast - twitch muscles and maximum blood oxygenation level; cognitive and psychological traits and behaviors — including confidence, performance anxiety, intelligence and working memory capacity — play roles as well, though researchers don't yet know the significance of each.

Cognitive neuroscientist Giorgio Vallortigara of the University of Trento in Italy, who has studied performance of chicks on the seed - pecking test, says, «The idea of a link between lateralization strength and cognitive abilities has been around... for many years, but little comparative and experimental work has been done with animalCognitive neuroscientist Giorgio Vallortigara of the University of Trento in Italy, who has studied performance of chicks on the seed - pecking test, says, «The idea of a link between lateralization strength and cognitive abilities has been around... for many years, but little comparative and experimental work has been done with animalcognitive abilities has been around... for many years, but little comparative and experimental work has been done with animals.»

It doesn't matter whether you are brought up in a bilingual household or learn a second language later in life, speaking more than one language improves cognitive function across the board, from planning and working memory to concentration and multitasking.

«How did web - based cognitive therapy work for insomnia?.»

The way to do so occurred to Olaf Blanke — a neurologist and cognitive neuroscientist at the Brain - Mind Institute, part of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland — a decade ago while he worked with an epilepsy patient, a 43 - year - old woman with drug - resistant seizures who had to be treated with surgery.

Stix: Does that relate to, for example, the work on cognitive reserve in Alzheimer's?

Yann Hérault's team at the IGBMC (Strasbourg, France) and the Institut Clinique de la Souris (PHENOMIN - ICS) have recently published data helping to better understand neurocognitive pathways affected in the pathology; this work in the framework s of the European consortium GENCODYS («Genetic and Epigenetic Networks in Cognitive Dysfunction») has been done in collaboration with the teams of Hendrik Stunnenberg and Hans van Bokhoven from the Raboud University (Nijmegen, Netherlands), and the IGMM (Montpellier, France).

If you do nt have apnea, some docs recommend cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT): You work with a trained therapist to change how you think about sleep and learn sleep - inducing techniques (like how to set up your sleep space and what to do before bedtime).

Indeed, not only did cognitive performance improve, they saw a marked boost in how different parts of their brains worked together.

This is helpful if we're looking to get some work done; focus; get some energy going; increase cognitive performance because we're learning; or we're taking in new information; or we have to be focused dealing with people all day.

I had to be on the verge of utter catastrophe to begin to feel the effects of cognitive decline to do all this work and then feel the effects of all this healing that happens when you provide a healthy habitat for the human ecosystem and all this repair happens.

I didn't realize, however, that the conscious efforts I had initially put into my posture had actually become a natural occurrence beyond my cognitive intention until a colleague at work repeatedly pointed out my perfect posture as I sat at my desk.

It has also been scientifically proven to enhance cognitive function and hGH, although there are no established mechanisms and scientists don't exactly know how it works although it is known to work and devoid of side effects.

In the «doing» of the physical yoga, mind and body work together to create and then utilize the internal space for the redrafting of internal physiological and cognitive schemas — positive paths of thought - feeling that thereby inform positive conceptualizations of self.

When we speak of our «gut reactions» or «I just didn't feel right about that situation», this is our cognitive, unconscious mind at work.

Despite decades of relying on standardized test scores to assess and guide education policy and practice, surprisingly little work has been done to connect these measures of learning with the measures developed over a century of research by cognitive psychologists studying individual differences in cognition.

This is especially important because the Common Core is demanding on students and asks them to learn in ways that No Child Left Behind often did not - and to develop the stamina to dig into challenging work that includes increased cognitive rigor.

Tina Grotzer, a cognitive scientist at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, does work that explores the notion of complex...

Though most of P - 21's stated goals are laudable — who doesn't want their kids to be creative, capable of working with others, technologically competent, proficient at complex cognitive tasks, etc.?

Daniel Willingham Why Don't Students Like School: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for The Classroom

Students are required to do their own cognitive work while engaging with the online content.

Dan Willingham, a cognitive psychologist at the University of Virginia and author of the American Educator's «ask the cognitive scientist» column, offers a bridge between the laboratory and the classroom in his volume, Why Don't Students Like School: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for The Ccognitive psychologist at the University of Virginia and author of the American Educator's «ask the cognitive scientist» column, offers a bridge between the laboratory and the classroom in his volume, Why Don't Students Like School: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for The Ccognitive scientist» column, offers a bridge between the laboratory and the classroom in his volume, Why Don't Students Like School: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for The CCognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for The Classroom.

As I read, I kept feeling grateful to Paul Tough for having done this work — gathering the stories of kids like Keitha Jones, the traumatized Southside Chicago teen who reminded me so much of a handful of kids I've taught; connecting Keitha's experience to research on neurochemistry and infant psychology, and situating these elements in both a socio - economic context and in the landscape of an education world focused on developing children's cognitive (and testable) skills.

So some students might be good at working out area but don't have those cognitive skills to get to the three - dimensions volume and capacity.

As the report itself concludes, while there are some encouraging results overall - including positive trends in language and cognitive skills, and communication skills - differences according to demographics such as gender suggest there's more work to do.

I don't work with students with mild to severe cognitive abilities, so I don't have experience with that population.

The research uncovered empirical evidence with high degrees of confidence that determined which teaching skills, cognitive abilities, qualifications and attitudinal factors contribute most to teacher effectiveness... but the consortium didn't stop their work there.

All of this, of course, is a work in progress while teachers are learning to engage in positive, productive, cognitive conversations, extending trust to each other, and commiting daily to doing what's best for kids.

Moreover, a new statement by the American Statistical Association reminds us that ranking teachers based on test scores does not even work for measuring their effect on cognitive skills.

But there's also the cognitive part — how deeply do they understand the work?

Learning based on cognitive psychology and what anthropology may or may not have to do with our work.

Cognitive science may explain why something that you've always done works, and that knowledge helps you stay the course through temptations to multitask or cut corners.