“At first, students tend to freeze at the first effort. The breakthrough comes when they realize that they can make it better - can identify what their purposes were and realize better ways to achieve those purposes.” WayFirstsPurposeRealizingEffortTeachingAchieveStudentsBreakthroughBetter WaysFreeze Author:M. H. Abrams
“NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It's sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.” PeopleWellsHas BeensYoungMotivationSuccessfulAchieveStudentsAmountInvestmentProgrammesNasaStimulation Author:Neil Armstrong
“The use of online assessment tools is giving teachers a more fine-grained understanding of individual students' skills, and assisting them to determine the necessary next steps to enable them to achieve their own learning goals. We are seeing more effective differentiation in classrooms as a result.” GivingUseNextIndividualUnderstandingGoalResultsStepsTeacherSeeingAchieveStudentsFineSkillsToolsDetermineOnlineClassroomAssessmentNext StepsDifferentiationAssisting Author:Susan Mann
“Always maintain the attitude of a student. If you think you've done learning, bitterness sets in, but if you have more to achieve every day, in any arena, that makes each morning's awakening full of potential and cheery portent.” IfsThinkingDoneAttitudeMorningAchieveStudentsAwakeningBitternessArenaPortents Author:Nick Offerman
“The limitations of federal laws are able to create real progress at the local level. Ultimately, to effect not just incremental progress but progress that is transformational for students, we need committed leadership - people who believe deeply that their students can achieve at the highest levels and who know how to create the conditions at the classroom, school and system level to give them the opportunities they deserve.” PeopleKnowsNeedsGivingBelieveRealAbleSchoolLawOpportunityLevelsKnow HowProgressAchieveConditionsEffectsStudentsHighestDeserveCommittedLocalsLimitationClassroom Author:Wendy Kopp
“The only way to ensure that our promise to provide every opportunity for students with disabilities, and help them achieve their full potential, is to give our schools the dollars they need.” WayNeedsGivingHelpingSchoolOpportunityAchieveStudentsPromiseDollarsDisabilityFull Potential Author:Gordon Smith
“Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.” IfsKnowsBelieveTodayBrainAttitudeAchieveStudentsOptimismAddictionDetermineVeinsDopeAptitude Author:Jesse Jackson
“Any good teacher should become acquainted with relevant technologies. But the technologies should not dictate an education goal. Rather, the teacher (or parent or student or policy maker) should ask: can technology help to achieve this goal, and which technologies are most likely to be helpful?” ShouldHelpingAsksParentGoalTechnologyTeacherAchievePolicyStudentsHelpfulMakersRelevantGood TeacherPolicy Makers Author:Howard Gardner
“All parents want to send their children to the best possible schools. But because a good school is a relative concept, a family cannot achieve its goal unless it outbids similar families for a house in a neighborhood served by such a school. Failure to do so often means having to send your kids to a school with metal detectors at the front entrance and students who score in the 20th percentile in reading and math. Most families will do everything possible to avoid having to send their kids to a school like that. But because of the logic of musical chairs, they're inevitably frustrated.” WantMeanChildrenKidsSchoolReadingHouseParentGoalAchieveFrontsStudentsConceptsLogicMusicalMathScoreChairsNeighborhoodRelativeMetalsFrustratedEntrancesGood SchoolMetal Detectors Author:Robert H. Frank
“I think so much emphasis these days is placed upon achievement and skill and assessment that the joy has gone out of reading for many kids. Students become distracted by struggling to learn to read or by the pressure to achieve.” ThinkingKidsJoyReadingStruggleGoneAchieveStudentsSkillsAchievementPressureThese DaysEmphasisDistractedAssessment Author:Emma Walton Hamilton