Sentences with phrase «traditional classroom practices such»

Research has found that the attitudes students take toward learning are heavily influenced by whether they have been led to attribute their success (or failure) to innate ability, to effort, or to other factors — and that traditional classroom practices such as grading and competition lead them to explain the results in terms of ability (or its absence) and to minimize effort whenever possible.

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Imagine if such studies — both of traditional classroom practices and the digital variety — became much more common.

Combine the struggles in improving literacy with low levels of classroom management skills among many teachers (another problem traceable to ed schools), the arbitrary nature of traditional school discipline practices, and the problems within American public education attributable to racialist practices such as ability grouping, and it is little wonder why the overuse of suspensions is such a problem for our kids.

Such networks «work against the traditional isolation of teacher from teacher, university from classroom, novice from experienced educator... to craft a new professional community with a new discourse for the understanding and improvement of practice» (Raphael et al., 2001, p. 606).

The program consists of both traditional classroom practice, such as teacher - led class discussion and student worksheets, and complementary interactive computer - based activities (CD - ROM) for individuals or groups.