Sentences with phrase «often focus attention»

In addition, educators, advocates and lawmakers often focus attention on performance of students in targeted groups.

In the complicated balancing act that has become our daily lives, all too often we focus our attention on convenience at the expense of good health.

Not exact matches

Being submissive can often show up in self - reflective language, which puts more attention on yourself and focuses the conversation on you.

Even worse, many attendees are often so focused on what they plan to say, they pay little attention to what anyone else is saying.

Young people have many immediate financial needs that occupy their attention so they're often focused on the short term and not thinking about retirement.

As marketers, we often focus most of our attention on new customers and their acquisition costs while overlooking the needs and value of returning customers, the very people who will help us really build profits.

America's attention to gun control often focuses on a few specific measures: universal background checks, restrictions on people with mental illnesses buying firearms, and an assault weapons ban, for example.

It has often been charged that by focusing attention away from «the world» to God, the kingdom of heaven, and eternal life, Jesus introduced an ascetic and otherworldly element that nullifies human culture.

It extraverts us; it focuses our attention on a reality outside ourselves; it liberates us from the mire of self - concern that so often impedes our making any progress in discipleship.

Characteristically, the focus of both political and religious attention is on the single figure of the ruler, often identified as a divine king.

Depressed mothers are often overwhelmed in the parenting role, have difficulty reading infant cues, struggle to meet the social and emotional needs of their children, and are less tolerant of child misbehaviour.7 Offspring of depressed mothers, particularly if they are exposed to depression in the first year of life, are more likely to be poorly attached to their caregivers, experience emotional and behavioural dysregulation, have difficulty with attention and memory, and are at greater risk for psychiatric disorders throughout childhood.8 Home visiting focuses on fostering healthy child development by improving parenting and maternal functioning.

Often the partner can feel left out as so much attention is focused on the birth parent and the new baby.

Often the partner can feel left out as so much attention is focused on the birthing parent and the new baby.

Likewise, when people experience hypnosis, they often simply allow their bodies to relax and their minds to focus attention on the words they hear, and the various images they may represent in their minds.

Although turnout in the London mayoral election increased from 38 % to 45.3 %, the campaign itself drew attention to the potential that personality focused approaches to political leadership often encourage crass and reductive electoral politics.

Although often not a focus of public attention, Corporation Counsel is the city's chief legal officer and an integral part of managing city government.

The 1970s version of food allergies: widespread, often very serious, but newly focused on and receiving outsized social attention.

People with attention deficits have difficulty focusing and often display compulsive behavior.

As the development community continues to focus on installing new pipes and drilling new wells for the large number of people with unimproved water sources, those whose infrastructures had been improved but are now failing often fail to get as much aid and attention.

For younger adults, stress may play more of a role, and the ubiquity of technology — including the Internet and wireless devices, which can often result in constant multi-tasking — may impact their attention span, making it harder to focus and remember.

Eagles in flight are especially susceptible to turbine blades as they're attention is often focused on the ground looking for prey rather than looking forward to see obstacles.

It's no secret that women's sports often receive less attention from the press than men's sports, and when they do get attention, it tends to focus more on their appearance than on their athleticism, mental toughness, or skill.

In both my professional and personal life, I hear about «Adderall» way too often being used as an energy boost to create more focus, attention, wakefulness or just to downright make someone more «alive» at a party or after a long day of work.

You will be more focused on lifting heavier load settings quite often with some attention to moderately loaded isolation lifts.

Finding ways to maintain mental focus is key to success in a fast paced world that often requires this type of intense cerebral attention.

Often our attention is focused on facial care routines and we somewhat disregard the rest of our body.

More often than not, hypothyroidism is what I see in women I work with, so we are going to focus on that in this post (but the symptoms of hyper - thyroidism are pretty much the opposite, and should also warrant prompt attention).

The ability to concentrate and stay focused is often overlooked, but it's vitally important, especially if you run a business or have a lot of family obligations that require your utmost attention.

4) Practice often with your breath as the focus of attention.

I've found that the ones that focus on getting a high input of fat often don't even pay attention to the vegetables and fruits they eat, thinking that they must be so minimized that they don't matter.

Fisher suggests new couples often show the signs of surging dopamine: increased energy, less need for sleep or food, focused attention and exquisite delight in the smallest details of this novel relationship.

With media attention often focussed on negative stories related to dating, Scamalytics are keen to increase the number of positive stories about dater safety, and with this encourage users to join sites in the network.

Creating a profile is similarly simple, but since a lot of sites focus on physical attractiveness, it's more important to upload decent photos since that's what most often draws attention to yourself.

But with a cast of attention - seeking experts who too often steal focus from the proverbial mission at hand, it can be as exhausting and, at times, even as cringe - inducing as some have feared.

«The Danish Girl» is a fictional biopic of Lili Elbe, but Hooper's attention often wanders from that subject, as he focuses on curating the breathtaking beauty and elegance suspended in the frame.

Unlike a theme park ride which often directs your attention through sound cues placed in a 360 degree fashion around a room (think of the Hall of Presidents in Walt Disney World), cinema sound must contend with a two - dimensional screen on which audiences must stayed focused, even with 3 - D presentations where your eyes remain fixed on a general axis, where any movement outside that axis might reveal the images to be cardboard cutouts — a phenomenon all too familiar to me.

«Reassessing the Achievement Gap: Fully Measuring What Students Should Be Taught in School» argues that NAEP results offer a «distorted» picture of student achievement because of their exclusive focus on academic skills and take attention away from nontested areas that often fall under the purview of schools.

With certain practices, including mindfulness (bringing one's complete attention to the present experience on a moment - to - moment basis), meditation (a self - directed practice, often using focused breathing, for relaxing the body and calming the mind) and gratitude, it is possible to re-access a deeper happiness that is available regardless of the day - to - day challenges that life presents.

For today's short attention span, microlearning is ideal as it offers brief, focused, and easily digestible bursts of eLearning content that often takes just a few minutes to go through.

Common Core focuses kids» attention on what the text says, while balanced literacy often elicits a personal response to literature.

Students with attention deficits often are bright and capable of learning, but problems focusing and low frustration tolerance can impede their academic performance.

The poor quality of education in many parts of the East Midlands often passes under the radar as attention is focused on underperformance in the bigger cities of the North and West Midlands, like Manchester, Liverpool and Birmingham.

Most often we pay attention to our breathing, but sometimes we focus on ambient sounds, our emotions, a mental activity, etc..

Meanwhile, discipline «reforms» are focused overwhelmingly on reducing punishments, often with little attention to the potential downside for learning in the classroom.

In these conditions, district leaders must pay increased attention to often obscure work of human resources departments, focusing disproportionate attention on recruitment and retention of great teachers and principals.

Tests given more often can help students focus their attention on what is important.

Among the parents» most - often expressed requests are additional attention and services for English Learners, increased parent engagement services, and a greater focus on the needs of low - income students.

Mr. Luna is a Newark resident and started his teaching career in Elizabeth, N.J.) Let's be real, Newark often gets a bad rap as media attention tends to focus on the negatives in our city.

Not only does this describe an uphill battle, but it serves to illustrate the puzzling priorities we often emphasize — one half of minority children don't complete high school, over one half of third graders can not read at grade level, and our policy and media attention are focused on affirmative action to achieve diversity in admissions as a compelling objective at our two flagship universities!

• The «blended learning» model of education exemplified by the Rocketship chain of charter schools — often promoted by charter boosters — is predicated on paying minimal attention to anything but math and literacy, and even those subjects are taught by inexperienced teachers carrying out data - driven lesson plans relentlessly focused on test preparation.