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Sipila-Thomas, Emma S.; Cho, Eunsoo; Brodhead, Matthew T. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2020
Homework is a task that teachers assign to students that is typically completed outside of class time to supplement in-school academic activities (Olympia et al., 1994) and has demonstrated to have positive effects on academic achievement (H. Cooper et al., 2006). There are many benefits of homework on student learning. Unfortunately, not all…
Descriptors: Self Control, Learning Strategies, Homework, Students with Disabilities
Boser, Ulrich – Educational Leadership, 2019
Although mastering the art of learning how to learn is considered one of the most important skills for young people, few teens know the basics of how to best learn something. And teachers rarely receive training in how to helps students become successful learners. The author describes seven well-supported techniques for learning anything that…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Learning Strategies, Active Learning, Attention
Philippakos, Zoi A., Ed.; Graham, Steve, Ed. – Guilford Press, 2022
Writing skills are essential for success in the 21st-century school and workplace, but most classrooms devote far more time to reading instruction, with writing often addressed in isolation or excluded. In this insightful professional development resource and text, leading researchers discuss why and how to integrate writing and reading…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Writing Instruction, Reading Instruction, Elementary Secondary Education
Mason, Linda H.; Reid, Robert; Hagaman, Jessica L. – Brookes Publishing Company, 2012
Comprehension problems have become an epidemic: One out of every four secondary school students is unable to read and comprehend the material in textbooks. Start addressing the root of the problem today with this practical guidebook, designed to strengthen adolescents' reading comprehension and written expression so they can master academic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Evidence, Adolescents, Secondary School Students
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MacArthur, Charles A.; Philippakos, Zoi – Exceptional Children, 2010
Students learned a strategy for planning, writing, and evaluating compare-contrast essays. Instruction followed the principles of self-regulated strategy development, which aims to improve knowledge about writing, strategic writing processes, self-regulation, and motivation. Six adolescent students, 3 with learning disabilities in writing and 3…
Descriptors: Text Structure, Self Efficacy, Learning Disabilities, Writing Processes
Sisk, Dorothy – Understanding Our Gifted, 2008
On the surface, gifted children may appear to be well adjusted, but they are often highly sensitive, perfectionistic, and intense. They usually have an acute awareness of moral issues, with a unique perception of themselves and others and deeper feelings at an earlier age than their peers. Because of these intense qualities, they may suffer from…
Descriptors: Gifted, Teacher Role, Moral Issues, Anxiety
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Kramarski, Bracha – Metacognition and Learning, 2008
This study investigates algebraic reasoning and self-regulation skills among elementary school teachers who participated in a professional development program either with IMPROVE metacognitive questioning (PD + Meta) or with no metacognitive guidance (PD). Sixty-four Israeli teachers participated in a 3-year program designed to enhance…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Guidance, Elementary School Teachers, Algebra
Brown, Virginia L. – 1984
The chapter outlines an approach to teaching behavior-disordered students to follow the largely unwritten rules of being "good students." A section on research and theory addresses attributions and perceptions, dependence, study skills, and social skills training. Assessment philosophy and procedures are reviewed, including the collection of…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Strategies, Personal Autonomy
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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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Graham, Steve; And Others – Focus on Exceptional Children, 1992
Principles of teaching students with special needs the processes for self-regulation of their behavior are offered, for the four components of self-instruction, goal setting, self-monitoring, and self-reinforcement. Forms of self-instruction are described, with examples, and sample recording systems are provided. (DB)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Goal Orientation, Learning Strategies
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Merrett, Jonathan; Merrett, Frank – Educational Studies, 1992
Discusses the use of correspondence training in the classroom to improve learning outcomes. Defines the training as an experimental behavioral strategy that takes into account the degree to which people achieve what they are aiming to do. Concludes from research involving middle school students that the subjects achieved a better work output in…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Elementary Education, Feedback, Foreign Countries
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Senecal, Caroline; And Others – Journal of Social Psychology, 1995
Assesses the role of autonomous self-regulation as a predictor of academic procrastination. Maintains that academic procrastination is often a motivational problem related to fear of failure. Reveals that students with intrinsic reasons for studying procrastinate less than those with less autonomous reasons (for example, external regulation). (MJP)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Anxiety, Discipline
Cummings, Carol – 2000
This book offers advice on arranging classrooms, diagnosing student behavior, and responding to students' emotional needs, examining intellectual, emotional, and physical challenges students face and providing strategies which help teachers create communities of learners, design classrooms, diagnose student behavior, and respond to student needs.…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Discipline
Northwest Tri-County Intermediate Unit, Edinboro, PA. – 1999
Although the emphasis elsewhere is on learning disabilities and attention deficit disorder as possible causal factors for high dropout rates and associated student deficiencies in adult education (AE), a project explored an alternative etiology: intention deficit disorder. The hypothesis was that higher level "executive" regulatory…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Dropout Prevention, Educational Research, Evaluation Methods
Newcastle Univ., Callaghan (Australia). Family Action Centre. – 2000
This report contains the proceedings of a conference convened to build on the work of those pioneering better teaching and learning techniques for boys. Teachers at the conference were asked to present their schools' experiences in a case study format to maximize the learning and discussion among participants. The report begins with a schedule of…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Case Studies, Child Behavior, Childhood Needs