Sentences with phrase «students focus their attention»

This approach appears (in many instances) to help preservice education students focus their attention on how to engage their future students» prior knowledge and how to elicit responses from their future students.

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

Each lesson offers easy strategies for helping students focus their attention, improve their self - regulation skills, build resilience to stress, and develop a positive mind - set in both school and life.

Simple breathing and meditation exercises can help students focus their attention in class and remain calmer during conflict.

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The Rev. Joseph W. Knowles describes the goals of the Renewal Center Mission as (1) developing the Life Renewal Center through small «groups,» (2) giving attention to the use of present structures to focus the whole life of the church as a healing community, (3) developing a program of supervised clinical pastoral education for theological students, and (4) maintaining a Residential Center halfway house for twenty men and women who have been previously hospitalized for mental illness.

Sells's book received national attention and became the focus of controversy in 2002 when it was a summer reading selection for incoming students at the University of North Carolina — Chapel Hill.

My attention is focused on the human spirit, not the human body, for I am attending not as a medical student but as a campus minister.

It is noteworthy that, in contradistinction to the older Bible - centered training in the past, most of these students had come up through the modern graded Sunday Schools in which not the Bible but the child has been central; in which the Bible has been brought into the focus of attention only when the situation demanded it.

As a professor in the master's program for Tequila Production Process at the Autonomous Guadalajara University, the recommendation to my students is to pay attention to every single detail of the tequila production process and always focus on quality.

In addition to meeting the students where they already are — in the hallway — it allows school nutrition staff to take back the responsibility of handing out food from teaching staff, who can then focus all of their attention on starting the school day as students eat breakfast.

After cutting his teeth running the foodservice program for Eastern Kentucky University — which included operations for a K - 12 school as well as the college dining services — Chris decided to focus his attention on serving younger students.

MIDDLEBURY — The 2016 U.S. presidential campaign has helped focus media attention on mounting student debt and the rising costs of a college education.

But as Laurie Leshin, president of Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, noted during a panel on «Key Issues and Opportunities,» very little of the day's attention focused on students.

The rubric will also be useful, the researchers concluded, in focusing curriculum developers» and teachers» attention on the importance of engaging students with natural phenomena (or in solving problems) and making sense of them in terms of NGSS core ideas, crosscutting concepts, and science practices.

A better understanding of why people's attention meanders has several practical applications, including finding ways to keep students focused during class.

This is because over the last 20 years a number of countries have focused national attention on their students excelling in the areas of math and science education as a way for their country to create a highly - skilled workforce, allowing the country to compete in the increasingly competitive global economy.

In earlier studies that primarily focused on energy expenditure, teachers observed increased attention and better behavior of students using standing desks.

Dr Poropat says educational institutions need to focus less upon intelligence and instead, pay more attention to each student's personality.

The authors advocate that colleges and universities focus greater attention on developing student values and other personal qualities that will produce a new generation of citizens who are committed to creating a more just and equitable society.

In the structured Ph.D. program, career - oriented skills training unrelated to the research project, combined with serious attention to planning for the student's career, should strengthen the focus on the student's prospects and progress.

He's now a Ph.D. student at the University of Exeter in the School of Sport and Health Sciences, where his research focuses on visual attention and performance.

While Topics in Human Genetics focused my attention on the issues involved in one particular area of science, the second course that influenced my appreciation for ethics was appropriately named Bioethics, one of the core courses all students at Meharry must take regardless of department or funding status.

The pain experienced by some of the students seemed to serve a unique causal function, focusing the students» attention on the shared pain and, ultimately, promoting group cohesion.

«When students described practice experiences related to a focus on the nose during meditation, they tended to describe a quality of mind, specifically how their attention «felt» when they sensed it.»

«We found that when students focused on the breath in the belly their descriptions of experience focused on attention to specific somatic areas and body sensations,» the researchers wrote in their conference abstract.

Rather than flowing from one pose to the next on autopilot, Porat says learning a new variation forces her students to really pay attention to her instruction and focus on their bodies — which also means they're tuning out the outside world along with their own mental chatter.

Another student may have a tough time focusing or paying attention at school and may feel down about getting into trouble all of the time.

We integrated the exercises into our daily schedules and this has helped many students (and teachers) focus their attention and regulate strong emotions such as anxiety, anger and frustration.

While the front of the body is being stretched in backbends (specifically the thighs, front groins, belly, chest and armpits), we should continue to focus our students» attention on the back torso.

Still based on the more traditional and Hatha / Iyengar approach, this class is for students who wish to deepen and expand their poses at a faster pace with a focus on improving alignment For students with some yoga experience.This hatha yoga class combines strength, flexibility, and endurance through precise attention to the body and the breath.

If you choose complicated and / or unfamiliar asanas, you will have to spend too much time and attention focusing on alignment, which will distract you and your students from the breath.

Every student level can benefit from the one - on - one attention and focus of an experienced and certified yoga teacher.

If students are worried about their phones, their stomachs, or being tired, they can't pay attention and focus in class.

But these results at least indicate that accountability systems can help to focus attention on poor and minority students whose needs have been ignored or neglected.

Likewise, the interactive games and quizzes capture students» attention and keep them focused.

My understanding is that students are more focused because they have learned how to effectively manage their attention, they like being in class, and they're less worried about discord and bullying.

No matter which piece a particular researcher focuses upon, though, it's important to pay attention to matters of sample size and context and actual student impacts — as opposed to, say, teachers» qualitatively gathered impressions.

Microsoft Excel required Suitable for Early Years 2 files, 9 topics A new set of questions every time the files are opened Every question focusses the students attention on the number 10 File 1 - 3 separate grids - 20 numbers in each Shade in the pairs that = 10 Shade in the squares with numbers less than 10 Shade in the squares with numbers greater than 10 File 2 - see cover image for 4 of the topics The other two topics are 3 word quizzes and Place value, how many 10's are in each number.

Teachers, parents, and the several scientific studies blame these simple pieces of code for students» short attention span, lack of focus, bad memory, sleepiness, and self - obsession.

The task force's report, for all its focus on student performance, pays sparse attention to teaching.

For example, if in repeated instances several students are observed paying close attention to a particular instructional method (say, a demonstration) and failing to focus on another (say, a lecture), it can be inferred that those students regard lectures as less engaging.

«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.

It has focused public attention on the performance of all students, not just the top performers — and that has dividends for everyone.

One middle school instructor makes students who are slow to pay attention responsible for handing out material or starting the discussion and focuses on them more at the start of a lesson.

Were teachers, we wanted to know, focusing their attention on either high - achieving or low - achieving students in an effort to meet target scores?

There is also a razor - sharp focus on individualized attention and what it means to be part of a community — something from which all students would benefit.

Over time, discourse in the video clubs shifted from a focus on the teacher to increased attention to students» actions and ideas, toward increasingly detailed analyses of student thinking.

The second category, self - management, refers to observable manifestations of what has been referred to as executive functions or self - regulation, i.e., the student's ability to take control over what would otherwise be automatic reactions by planning, focusing attention, reframing experiences, and using mental tools.

Comics offer a way to focus students» attention on elements like dialogue, interior monologue (thought bubbles), character development, and setting.

Likert scales are a way to measure whether an individual agrees with or disagrees with a particular statement or idea, and a simple Likert scale of faces with expressions ranging from a smile to a frown is an appropriate way to begin the monitoring process, and will encourage students to focus their attention on their learning.