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Strosnider, Roberta; Sharpe, Valerie Saxton – Corwin, 2019
Teach some of the most important skills your students will ever need! "Please, try harder." "Please, pay attention." "Please, behave." Most students want to do what it takes to succeed, but sometimes that's easier said than done. Executive function skills such as self-regulation, focus, planning, and time management…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Thinking Skills, Metacognition, Skill Development
Hall, Joan Kelly, Ed.; Looney, Stephen Daniel, Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2019
The chapters in this volume build on a growing body of ethnomethodological conversation analytic research on teaching in order to enhance our empirical understandings of teaching as embodied, contingent and jointly achieved with students in the complex management of various courses of action and larger instructional projects. Together, the…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Teaching Methods, Elementary School Teachers, Reading Aloud to Others
Oslund, Christy – Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2013
With increasing numbers of students with invisible disabilities attending college and university, faculty and staff find themselves faced with new challenges. This practical handbook provides lecturers, tutors, disability services, and administrative staff with an overview of the invisible disabilities they may encounter, dispelling common myths…
Descriptors: College Students, Disabilities, Misconceptions, Attention Control
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Schussler, Deborah L. – Theory Into Practice, 2009
This article explores how teachers manage classrooms to facilitate the intellectual engagement of disengaged students. The author proposes that teachers create an environment conducive to intellectual engagement when students perceive: (a) that there are opportunities for them to succeed, (b) that flexible avenues exist through which learning can…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Learner Engagement, Classroom Environment, Classroom Research
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Binder, Carl; And Others – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1990
Precision teaching techniques can be used to chart students' attention span or endurance. Individual differences in attention span can then be better understood and dealt with effectively. The effects of performance duration on performance level, on error rates, and on learning rates are discussed. Implications for classroom practice are noted.…
Descriptors: Attention, Attention Control, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
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Walsh, Foster – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2003
In this article, the author compares teaching and learning to the maintenance of an old car that leaks oil and must constantly be "topped up." Learning is a complex process of taking in and leaking out. The retention of new information is constantly under assault by an array of personal and contextual factors, such as a lack of interest, fatigue,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Attention Control, Learning Motivation
Morris, Betty J. – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 2004
Library media specialists need to embrace brain research and implement its findings into the teaching of information literary skills. Research in the past two decades has used imaging techniques to allow the study of brain functions when listening to music versus composing a song or when recalling a noun or verb. Imaging allows researchers to look…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Media Specialists, Information Skills, Information Literacy
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Scott, Mary E. – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1988
Understanding learning strategies used by gifted students can help teachers improve effectiveness in all learners. Six traits common among the gifted and modifiable in students with learning difficulties include (1) superior concentration skills; (2) field independence; (3) reflection; (4) internal locus of control; (5) active learning; and (6)…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Cognitive Style, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted
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Grondin, Patricia A.; And Others – Science Teacher, 1988
Describes guidelines that can be used by teachers to promote student learning. Suggests that realistic expectations, the use of activities, demonstrations, labs, a variety of teaching methods, and good discipline are important to higher-level motivation of lower-level students. Discusses testing of mildly handicapped children, and dealing with…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Attention Control, Dyslexia, Expectation
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Bronheim, Suzanne – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1991
Tourette Syndrome is described in terms of causes, treatment, associated disorders (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, obsessive-compulsive behaviors, learning disabilities), and classroom management (dealing with tics, writing problems, language problems, and attention problems). Common teacher questions concerning Tourette Syndrome are…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Behavior Problems, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education
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Yehle, A. K.; Wambold, Clark – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 1998
Offers strategies and accommodations educators can use with students having attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), including examples of their application with a 10th-grade student. Suggestions address the ADHD-friendly environment, student organization, following directions, large group instruction, maintaining attention to seatwork,…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Attention Deficit Disorders, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques
Minskoff, Esther; Allsopp, David – 2003
This book presents the "active learner" instructional approach to working with secondary school students with learning disabilities and/or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. This approach combines the diagnostic prescriptive approach with principles of individualization, direct instruction, strategy instruction, and integration of…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Adolescents, Adults, Attention Control
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Heuser, Debbie; And Others – 1985
This curriculum guide aims to facilitate teaching and learning in the area of personal/social behavior for exceptional children in grades K-12. The scope and sequence of the guide are intended to reflect the course of normal social development beginning with a focus upon the self, through the metamorphosis of the self into a social being. A major…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Behavior Development, Behavioral Objectives, Disabilities
Holcombe-Ligon, Ariane; And Others – 1992
Designed to be used by practicing teachers, students who are learning to become teachers, and faculty members who instruct such students, this manual describes how to use attending cues and responses to help children with mild disabilities attend to the important aspects of instructional activities, and how to use attending cues and responses to…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Attention Span, Cues, Educational Strategies
Pedigo, Joyce – 1986
This manual describes 18 music-based activities and suggested variations designed for classroom teachers (with little or no musical training) to teach profoundly disabled students more consistent and advanced levels of responding to their environment. Brief suggestions are presented for teacher behaviors, structure of turn-taking, and classroom…
Descriptors: Adaptive Behavior (of Disabled), Attention Control, Educational Games, Elementary Secondary Education
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