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Dr. Callahan promotes autonomy by structuring his high school psychology course around the interests of his students. The” what” and” why” of goal pursuits: Human needs and the self-determination of behavior. Psychological inquiry,11(4), 227-268. Sheldon, K. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Yeager, D.

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APRIL 15, 2020

Play facilitates cognitive development, said James Coan, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia who studies the neuroscience of human connection. James Coan, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia. and Natalie Reid Dorn professor of human development at the University of California-Davis.

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JANUARY 13, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: The big wrinkle is that the researchers found that it’s not effective to start the school year with a couple of weeks of lessons on the scientific method, which many teachers do. Schunn, published October 2019 in the journal of Contemporary Educational Psychology. Weekly Update.

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MARCH 13, 2019

Yet, for too long, we have unfairly blamed K-12 counselors for persistent gaps in enrollment across income and race, questioning their expectations and support for students’ plans. Sign up for our newsletter. She is also the co-author of Ready, Willing, and Able: A Developmental Approach to College Access and Success.

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MARCH 16, 2020

But Ron Dahl, who directs the Institute for Human Development at the University of California, Berkeley, argues that adolescence is actually a second opportunity to invest in children because of the enormous brain development during this period. This is the “ human connectome ” and each person’s is unique, like a fingerprint.

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JANUARY 2, 2018

It’s 12:15 p.m. Kendall Cotton Bronk, associate professor of psychology, Claremont Graduate University. Research and scholarship on “purpose” has gained momentum in recent years, converging from developmental psychology, moral philosophy, positive psychology and other directions. Illustration: Jutta Kuss/Getty Images.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Though grounded in complex positive psychology research, the strength-based approach boils down to a simple rule: Focus on what students do well. Others use strength systems designed by the British Centre of Applied Positive Psychology or by Thrively, a California-based startup. Leave this field empty if you're human: Not so in Galt.

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MARCH 11, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Martin Credé, a social psychologist at Iowa State University, has been particularly outspoken. ” Credé first published his analysis of all the grit studies he could find and laid out the problems in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology in 2017. . Choose as many as you like.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Too few parents and teachers are talking about race, gender and other identity traits with children often enough, which means they are missing out on critical opportunities to teach children to become tolerant of differences from an early age. Sign up for our Early Education newsletter. Weekly Update.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: There’s bad news for parents who hope their toddler may learn something from a screen while also being entertained for just a few minutes: it’s unlikely to happen. Georgene Troseth, an associate professor of psychology at Vanderbilt University. Subscribe today! It launches in August.

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AUGUST 26, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: The consequence is that many students are posting considerably lower scores than they otherwise would be if they were paying attention and putting in full effort, according to Wise’s calculations. The field of psychology has developed several theories. Choose as many as you like.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: A team of U.K. A meta-analysis ,” was published online December 2019 in the Journal of Educational Psychology. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Choose from our newsletters. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning. Proof Points.

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JULY 24, 2018

Anne Gregory, an associate professor of psychology at Rutgers University, recalls just such a scenario when an angry high school student shouted an expletive (“F— off!”) Leave this field empty if you're human: And there’s evidence for that effect. Photo: Jim Vaiknoras for The Hechinger Report. at his teacher, bringing class to a halt.

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JANUARY 22, 2018

In K-12 and college classrooms across the country, some educators are enacting at least partial device bans, some are advocating for teaching style changes (fewer lectures, for example) and still others are seeking help from the technology itself. Inevitably, something gets missed. Some differing views. I need a break.’ ”.

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MARCH 9, 2020

There’s so much information and so many personal stories about how the coronavirus has negatively affected the global community from health, economic, psychological and social perspectives. However, there are ways we can lean into our shared humanity, and I hope these suggestions can help spark that change for your school.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: Black male teachers are often asked to mentor or motivate students, particularly male of students of color, who their white colleagues may have trouble reaching. Sign up for our Mississippi Learning newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: “They might not be called a fidget spinner but it’s the same thing,” said Paulo Graziano, director of the S.E.L.F.-Regulation Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Choose from our newsletters. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning.

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APRIL 26, 2020

I’d already adapted this class in 2013 as one of Coursera’s free online humanities offerings. I myself was teaching a class on campus, “The Modern and the Postmodern,” that I am now teaching remotely. In our current stay-at-home period, more than a thousand people have joined the pre-recorded version of this class each week.

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MAY 1, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: A core belief of those who created the program, which began this year, is that there is dignity in all work, a belief reflected in the range of careers highlighted. “We RIASEC is part of a psychology theory about how the choice of occupation relates to personality.) Weekly Update.

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MAY 22, 2018

“We have this way of processing things in our brain where we actually attach information to a particular person, so we can imagine that person talking as we read their words,” says Monica Riordan, a cognitive scientist and assistant professor of psychology at Chatham University, in Pittsburgh. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter.

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OCTOBER 9, 2017

Years later, studying psychology, she wondered if mindset interventions would also be effective in her field. The researcher, Jessica Schleider, currently a psychology fellow at Yale Medical School, adapted Dweck’s online program into two half-hour mindset lessons, one aimed at depression and the other at anxiety.

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APRIL 19, 2020

Lingering events on my schedule are a drop in the bucket compared to what our students are missing — physically, psychologically and emotionally — each day they are not in school: Spring concerts and musicals, field trips, rehearsals and lessons, all meticulously and thoughtfully arranged by music teachers in Nashville and across the country.

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APRIL 5, 2023

Some 3,200 students, many of them the first in their families to attend college, are participating in the inaugural year of the New Deal-esque program , in service jobs in K-12 education, food insecurity and climate mitigation.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: “Wanting students to be able to ‘analyse, synthesise and evaluate’ information sounds like a reasonable goal,” writes Daniel Willingham, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning. Proof Points.

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DECEMBER 31, 2017

But what about the value of recreational music-making, which is widely believed to improve physical and psychological well-being? Also, in one remarkable prison program in Philadelphia, music affords inmates “a chance to feel human again.”. “My Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning.

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JULY 2, 2018

She knows something about working under pressure: a nationally competitive soccer goalie in her youth, Beilock went on to earn PhDs in both sports science and psychology. Leave this field empty if you're human: I talk about this broadly as choking under pressure or having math anxiety or anxiety about a particular subject.

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MARCH 25, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: “The certificates made students attend school less,” said Robinson, clearly dismayed by what her experiment had wrought. In the California experiment, Robinson randomly assigned students in grades six through 12 to three groups: retrospective awards, prospective awards and no awards.

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JANUARY 10, 2024

Engagement and Focus According to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the American Academy of Pediatrics, children ages 8-12 spend three times more on screens than is recommended daily. E., & Lafreniere, K. Current Directions in Psychological Science , 27 (5). Frontiers in Psychology , 10.

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JANUARY 23, 2019

But the neighborhood just to the north, Hancock Park, is 71 percent white, with a median income of $85,000; the student body, meanwhile, is 79 percent Latino, 12 percent African-American, 7 percent Asian, and 64 percent “economically disadvantaged,” drawn from Koreatown, Mid-City, and neighborhoods farther afield. Tammy Kim/Hechinger Report.

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JANUARY 7, 2017

She’s a postdoctoral student at nearby Carnegie Mellon University in a new field called “Human-Computer Interaction.” It’s an open question whether a human teacher could get just as strong outcomes with these youngsters as Yannier’s contraption; Yannier hasn’t checked that, and doesn’t plan to do so.). Because it …”.

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AUGUST 30, 2019

Studies suggest that when it comes to fighting summer melt, programs that rely on human interaction — in the form of one-to-one counseling, “near-peer” coaching (like CARA’s, in which college students coach high school students), workshops and personalized communication — may hold the most promise.

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AUGUST 30, 2018

The net of medical and psychological services that support children outside of school is riddled with holes, which makes services within the school system all the more important. Instead of them being penalized for being little humans, they’re going to be given coping skills and mechanisms to help them be little humans,” Kali said.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Leave this field empty if you're human: The next hurdle came while Colson was still in middle school, when Brown realized that he had been placed on what is called the certificate track, which meant he would graduate with a certificate of completion, an alternate diploma that is not recognized by most colleges and employers. “The

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APRIL 14, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: “The college is trying to beat the curve,” said Sanchez. The program doesn’t just test students’ math skills, it also tests their physical and psychological fitness for the job. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2018

At Haven, a decade-old South Bronx charter school serving roughly 450 kids in pre-K through seventh grade, moods are characterized by colors. The goal with Alyssa, as with all her classmates, is to keep her “in the green.” Red and blue represent unpleasant moods: anger, frustration; sadness, boredom.

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MARCH 12, 2025

Keep up with our free weekly newsletter on K-12 education. The algorithm detects potential indicators of problems like bullying, self-harm, suicide or school violence and then sends a screenshot to human reviewers. Related: A lot goes on in classrooms from kindergarten to high school.

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APRIL 2, 2024

When she works in a classroom, Niobe Way, a professor of developmental psychology at New York University, wants to dive into the deep end. She has them discuss a question that plumbs what it means to be human: “Tell me about a time when you felt a sense of belongingness.” “How How do you experience trust?” What's home mean for you?”

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