Sentences with phrase «students feel in control»

Straightforward yet deeply thoughtful structures like this ensure that students feel in control of their emotions and their ability to learn, and teachers are better able to reach each individual student and support his or her growth.

How can we help students feel in control, confident and willing to approach learning new material?

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Students experience autonomy in the classroom, Deci and Ryan explain, when their teachers «maximize a sense of choice and volitional engagement» while minimizing students» feelings of coercion and Students experience autonomy in the classroom, Deci and Ryan explain, when their teachers «maximize a sense of choice and volitional engagement» while minimizing students» feelings of coercion and students» feelings of coercion and control.

And so in these schools, where students are most in need of help internalizing extrinsic motivations, classroom environments often push them in the opposite direction: toward more external control, fewer feelings of competence, and less positive connection with teachers.

To keep students happy while breaking their nacho habit, one expert suggested designing «smart lunchrooms» that encourage children to make better food choices while still letting them feel in control.

She really does care about each and every one of her students, and just having that love from her and from the others in my group helped me get over a lot of the grief and fear I felt after having no control over my birthing experience.

The study, which appears in the September issue of the journal Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, found students who don't feel in control of their exercise choices or who feel pressured by adults to be more active typically aren't.

for Schools program felt less impulsive, while students in a control group that didn't participate in the program showed no change.

And since avoiding academic risks means avoiding learning, praising students» intelligence eventually impaired their success in school (and life happiness as well, since they felt intelligence was out of their own control).

But relinquishing control for a few minutes each day and letting the students wrestle with a challenge offers a huge payoff in the end: (1) your students learn what it feels like to sweat, to stick it out, and to overcome a challenge; (2) when it comes time to solve, they are more invested in the solution; (3) the strategies they come up with activate prior knowledge and set the foundation for new learning — and tip you off about how they think and what they know and don't know.

The results are worth the effort: When I surveyed students who were tracking their data, they were substantially more likely to respond that they were trying their hardest and felt in control of their learning than students in other classrooms.

Rather, my students said that their learning improved because, in my paperless class, everything they needed was on their iPads, so they stayed more organized and felt more in control of their learning.

Many teachers associate a wide variety of challenges and concerns with group work: kids goofing off, copying from each other, and letting one student do all the work, as well as issues around the teacher not feeling in control.

As students develop an understanding of their islands of competence, they feel more in control.

When ELL students feel comfortable and in control of lesson tasks, their communication improves as a result of practice.

There is, in general, a feeling of «us versus them,» particularly in the hallways, where teachers see student behavior as being out of control.

When we pair that trend with the increasing time that young people spend watching violent TV and participating in violent video games, we should expect to have an increasing number of students start school unprepared to control themselves, take others» feelings into account, or listen to adults in authority.

If students are able to play the game in a controlled setting with plenty of space and structured rules, and direct supervision, Stenzel feels that tag can be a fun and invigorating activity for kids.

Organizational skills — Help put students in control of work and to feel sure that they can master what they need to learn and do.

It explores information in an interactive way, allowing your students to feel like they are in control of their own learning, creating a sense of ownership.

Your challenge in working with a student whose emotional temperature often reaches the boiling point is to control your own feelings as well as those of the student.

If all students control most of the skills and strategies at this level, the teacher may feel confident in moving the students to the next level.

Another recent study comparing «personalized learning» to a control group in traditional schools found that students in the control group «reported greater enjoyment and comfort in school, and felt their out - of - school work was more useful and connected to their in - school learning.»

Her pre-kindergarten students discuss their feelings, learnings, and plans in a community circle, where they also learn about self - control and how to care for each other.

The 69 - question form also asks about whether the child feels in control of his or her attendance and if students at school «use bad words.»

So instead of questioning the choices of your students in moments where your classroom feels like it is out of control or where conflict has occurred between kids, start questioning your own choices.

Good formative assessment gives students information they need to understand where they are in their learning (the cognitive factor) and develops students» feelings of control over their learning (the motivational factor).

Furthermore, students who feel controlled or coerced often suffer from a lack motivation and engagement in school, which leads to higher rates of suspension.

Rick Stiggins, in Revolutionize Assessment, states that, «If we expand our vision of formative assessment to include student / teacher partnerships, we can empower students to understand the learning targets, gather continuous evidence of their growth, recognize how to move consistently forward toward success, make instructional decisions that enhance their own learning, and feel — at long last — in control of their own academic well - being.»

Element 38: Displaying Objectivity and Control When teachers behave in an objective and controlled manner, students feel more secure.

Tunica schools, which have a little over 2,000 students, improved from a «D» to a «C» ranking under Pulley's leadership in just one year, but some parents feel shut out of the schools now that the state is in control.

Standardized test results don't take into account how factors outside of a teacher's control impact student performance on the day the test is taken; these include factors such as whether or not the student slept and ate well prior to the test, social and emotional occurrences (e.g., student's parents are going through a divorce, there is a serious illness in the family, student had an argument with a best friend just before the class in which the test is given, student doesn't feel well that day).

After controlling for baseline ratings of school safety, students in elementary schools where «peace areas» were implemented in classrooms were more likely to say «I feel safe at my school» than students in schools where peace areas were implemented with less fidelity.

Make the salary schedule a base with some flexibility under the Local Control Accountability Plan to let parents and students divide a set percentage of money to be paid to teachers that parents and students feel are above their field in performance.

Schools at every level were quick to reject digital textbooks because they felt like they'd lost control over what materials were used in the classroom, as though letting students use an ebook on a tablet would become a free - for - all of homemade, unvetted resources.

In a nationwide Centers for Disease Control study of tens of thousands of high school students in 2011, almost 30 percent had felt hopeless and depressed for more than two weeks running, just in the previous yeaIn a nationwide Centers for Disease Control study of tens of thousands of high school students in 2011, almost 30 percent had felt hopeless and depressed for more than two weeks running, just in the previous yeain 2011, almost 30 percent had felt hopeless and depressed for more than two weeks running, just in the previous yeain the previous year.

We are edging dangerously close to the pitfall of a school year in which the students have forgot how to show control and teachers feel burned out.

Moore becomes a student teacher at his old school in Castleford where he feels too young to control his students.

Earnest wants you to feel in control of your student loan.

I work with teens, college students, individuals, and couples who feel stuck and out of control, and aid them in the process of empowerment and transformation.»

Results from the initial study indicated that the program (designed then for lower secondary students who had specific learning disabilities) was likely to assist these students to develop more effective coping and to feel more in control (Firth, Frydenberg & Greaves, 2008).

Measures of peer acceptance showed students in the control group felt significantly more accepted by their peers than students in the experimental group.