Sentences with phrase «have better attitudes toward»

We may be overdiagnosing LD, but it is also possible that we are simply more aware of it when we see it, better able to test and assess for it, and have better attitudes toward it, so that parents of LD children and the children themselves no longer have to try and hide it.

Additionally, students are pleased to observe their personal growth, they tend to have better attitudes toward their work, and they are more likely to think of themselves as writers.

Numerous studies have demonstrated that physically active students perform better in, and have better attitudes toward, school.

If you understand this fact, then suddenly, you can have a better attitude toward the change in your life while continuing to attempt to control the outcomes as much as possible — but not letting the things that are out of control upset you.

«We should be having a better attitude toward the markets today, but people are still nervous and concerned.»

«I like to think that I have a good attitude toward football and other players, and that I always put forth a great effort.»

Even more impressive was that students who played the game daily started to have a better attitude toward school.

It seems like you have a good attitude toward the headaches and you keep your end goal in the front of your mind.

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The interview format used by the Oliner team had over 450 items and consisted of six main parts: a) characteristics of the family household in which respondents lived in their early years, including relationships among family members; b) parental education, occupation, politics, and religiosity, as well as parental values, attitudes, and disciplinary approaches; c) respondent's childhood and adolescent years - education, religiosity, and friendship patterns, as well as self - described personality characteristics; d) the five - year period just prior to the war — marital status, occupation, work colleagues, politics, religiosity, sense of community, and psychological closeness to various groups of people; if married, similar questions were asked about the spouse; e) the immediate prewar and war years, including employment, attitudes toward Nazis, whether Jews lived in the neighborhood, and awareness of Nazi intentions toward Jews; all were asked to describe their wartime lives and activities, whom they helped, and organizations they belonged to; f) the years after the war, including the present — relations with children and personal and community — helping activities in the last year; this section included forty - two personality items comprising four psychological scales.

My wife and daughter both say I'm doing pretty well, but I have to admit that sometimes I slip into the status quo of the prevailing attitudes toward girls and women and how to relate to them as well as how to treat them.

In the latter regard, H. Paul Santmire whose study of the history of Western attitudes toward nature is one of the best available, provides perspective when he writes: «The theological tradition of the West is neither ecologically bankrupt, as some of its popular and scholarly critics have maintained and as numbers of its own theologians have assumed, nor replete with immediately accessible, albeit long - forgotten ecological riches hidden everywhere in its deeper vaults, as some contemporary Christians, who are profoundly troubled by the environmental crises and other related concerns, might wistfully hope to find» (Santmire, 5).

After the issue was decided by this public Jerusalem Conference, it would have been well nigh impossible for James to take the restrictive Jewish attitude he did toward the Christian gentiles in Antioch (Gal.

For those who hold the dialectical attitude toward evil, good can not exist in solitary splendour, nor is it opposed by a radically separate evil with which it has nothing to do.

All of them alike, to the question of the attitude of the gods toward mankind would have responded that while these could at times be most beneficent, their relation with man was on the whole little better than one of indifference.

Unless a minister has sufficient training, deep religious experience, good common sense, and a healthy mental attitude toward people and toward his work, he is not likely to make much of a go of his job.

(3) We have observed that physiological changes as well as cultural attitudes toward alcoholism (which regard it as a question of willpower rather than a sickness) probably contribute to the perpetuation of the addiction once it is established.

The first change Ehrenhalt identifies is a new attitude toward choice: choice today is universally considered a good thing; the more choices we have, the better.

When Eisenhower came to Washington, the Century welcomed him with praise for both his stern anti-communism and his evident piety, two qualities that would characterize the magazine's attitude toward domestic and foreign affairs as well as religion and politics for some time to come.

Schubert Ogden has written an essay on «The Strange Witness of Unbelief» (included in his book The Reality of God, SCM Press, London, 1967), in which he demonstrates how often it is the very negators of meaning whose way of life, attitude toward others, and struggle for a «better world» exhibit a dim yet pervasive feeling of significance in the world and in their own existence, a sense of meaning that (as Ogden argues and as I believe) is a hidden working of divine Love in their hearts.

They might well consider whether they wish to identify with her attitude toward death and the meaning it has for her.

Good aging involves recognizing that every mature person has the opportunity, as well as the need, to decide what his / her attitude toward death will be.

The new middle class, I would argue, has a number of morally positive features, especially in its attitudes toward race and toward ethnic or other cultural differences; it is a racially and ethnically tolerant culture, and this is good.

At several points he touches upon the paradoxes of modern urbanism and the tragic ironies of our cultural attitude toward cities: although we now have more individual freedom, technical ability, and, arguably, social equity, we do not live in places as hospitable to human beings as were our cities of the past; we are pragmatists who build shoddily; our current obsession with historic preservation is the flip side of our utter lack of confidence in our ability to build well; while cultures with shared ascetic ideals and transcendent orientation built great cities and produced great landscapes, modern culture's expressive ideals, dogmatic public secularism, and privatized religiosity produce for us, even with our vast wealth, only private luxury, a spoiled countryside, and a public realm that is both venal and incoherent; above all, we simultaneously idolize nature and ruin it.

Having done this, we can then ask ourselves how much of that teaching is reflected in our own decisions and deeds, as well as in the attitudes we take toward others.

This is the distinguished seventh - century prophet Zephaniah, who pictured Yahweh as a kind of sinister Diogenes, holding aloft a lamp and searching out in Jerusalem all who, like coagulated wine, have «thickened on their lees,» lost all their covenant sensibilities, and whose attitude toward Yahweh is the ultimate denial of prophetic Yahwism «Yahweh will not do good, nor will he do ill» (1:12).

The more we talk math, the better chance infants and toddlers have to build a positive attitude toward math learning and learning in general.»

The effect of these kinds of supports on home visitors has not been well studied, but some research on similar interventions indicates implementation of evidence - based practices with fidelity monitoring and supportive consultation predicts lower rates of staff turnover, as well as lower levels of staff emotional exhaustion relative to services as usual.29, 30,31 Moreover, a supportive organizational climate has been associated with more positive attitudes toward adoption of evidence - based programs.32

If your child has developed a bad attitude and is being rude and disrespectful toward you, one of the best things you can do is not take the bait.

Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.

The 72 - question survey asked for demographic information, as well as why respondents had marched and what they thought about government policies and public attitudes toward science.

Norman Lederman, Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Science at the Illinois Institute of Technology, said, «It has long been known that actual research experiences in science and mathematics impact students» attitudes toward science and mathematics as well as the STEM career aspirations of pre-college and college students.

The American Association of Occupational Health Nurses (AAOHN) and the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) have published guidance for employers aimed at helping them better understand the implications of marijuana use on the workforce as attitudes toward marijuana and laws restricting it continue to change.

They have lower attitudes toward water conservation and less confidence in their ability to adopt good landscape irrigation practices and technologies.

Well, Superdrug had some of the same questions, which is why they surveyed more than 2,000 people in Europe and the United States to get more insight into the human experience of sexuality and our attitudes toward it.

Although it's not normally what a doctor would prescribe, it appears that something as basic as cultivating a patient and understanding attitude toward ourselves may actually make all the difference to our general well - being.

Having a positive mindset toward working out may even help you get better results from your workouts According to a new study carried out by researchers at the Freiburg's Department of Sports Science, mindset and attitude matters.

«Nothing in my situation has changed but my attitude toward my life has changed for the better.

(Sorry, but I have a bad attitude toward health care providers, because all I have had over these 18 - years is Medicaid — the reason for getting better educated and seeking law school — for better health care as I get older.

Plummer is proud, deliberate but all too keenly aware that time is passing - not just the cultural attitudes toward the war, politics and race, but his own time as well as his health has deteriorated to the point where he has decided to retire.

Emmett, played by John Gallagher, Jr., is a goofball out of Dazed and Confused who has kind of a blithe shrugging attitude toward the end of the world and delivers the movie's best line, an aside about Howard having made a pilgrimage to Waco, Texas.

PBL Research Review: Studies have proven that when implemented well, project - based learning (PBL) can increase retention of content and improve students» attitudes toward learning, among other benefits.

Students who had experience in the project work performed better in basic math, word problems, planning capabilities, and attitudes toward math.

When parents get involved in their children's education, children are more likely to do better in school, be better behaved, have more positive attitudes toward school, and grow up to be more successful in life.

He further suggested that prior to establishing a community of practice, PD developers should have well - prepared activities and support to help teachers change their beliefs and attitudes toward technology.

Given the state of our understanding about distributed leadership, therefore, policymakers and leadership developers would do well to adopt a more conservative attitude toward the concept until more evidence is developed to move the term beyond the obvious and provide a clearer understanding of its actual impact on schools and students.

Her main areas of research are vested in the cognitive process of writing, literature - based reading, the socio - cultural aspects of literacy as well as teachers» attitudes toward diversity.

A 2016 report highlighted the evidence linking social and emotional skills, such as self - control, to school quality.71 Furthermore, a 2015 study found that students with parents who were highly satisfied with the school environment, including the school's disciplinary practices, had higher levels of perseverance and better attitudes toward school.72 As a result, research - validated culture - climate survey tools may serve as a proxy for students» social and emotional skills.

Across all groups of elementary students, evidence strongly suggests that retention policies rarely produce improved learning and often have negative effects on learning as well as attitudes toward school and learning (McCoy and Reynolds, 1999; Westbury, 1994; Darling - Hammond, 1998).

It has been found to encourage positive attitudes toward school, increased academic performance and empathy as well as reductions in stereotyping and aggression.

Our pasts have been replaced many times over, and you as you might have been able to tell by 41's attitude toward me, those changes haven't all been for the better.