Sentences with phrase «students basic human needs»

By creating conditions that satisfy students basic human needs for survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun, teachers can motivate students to learn and behave in respectful, responsible ways.

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For older kids, Tough eschews our current tactic of offering students extrinsic rewards, and instead encourages teachers to nurture intrinsic motivation, fueled by the basic human need for competence, autonomy, and relatedness (or connection).

It took a lot of courage for me to do this, but it has helped define what I need to «click» with a teacher: basic human kindness, respect for the student, and gratitude that they have come to class, regardless of how their body performs each day.

Currently if a student is in a failing school, the parents can raise their hand and request their student go to another, non-failing school, in the same district without sacrificing basic human needs like breakfast and lunch, and transportation, and special needs students get access to the services they need.

Although one can find heroic exceptions here and there (generally in schools led by extraordinary, beat - the - odds and damn - the - torpedoes principals), far too many public schools in tough neighborhoods and poor communities fail to get beyond the challenges of discipline, truancy, turnover of both students and staff, the ever - present risk of drop - outs, students» lack of basic skills, and such fundamental human needs as feeding breakfast to kids who come to school with empty stomachs.

The Gereau Center students focused on inspiring education by creating an atmosphere that promotes positive energy through attentiveness to basic, human needs.