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James M. Lang
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in Cleveland, The United States
September 17, 1969
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“If we want to help students maintain their attention throughout the class period, we have to begin by thinking like playwrights and composers, recognizing that students need changes of scene, shifts in format, and opportunities to pause and catch their cognitive breath.”
― Distracted: Why Students Can't Focus and What You Can Do About It
― Distracted: Why Students Can't Focus and What You Can Do About It
“No Child Left Behind has diminished [teachers'] sense of control of their own classroom, narrowed the focus of their jobs, and stifled pedagogical innovation.”
― Cheating Lessons: Learning from Academic Dishonesty
― Cheating Lessons: Learning from Academic Dishonesty
“This experience I had with predicting the outcome of games and remembering the actual outcomes afterward more firmly than I remembered games about which I had not made predictions reflects a basic principle that memory researchers have been exploring for many years now: making predictions about material that you wish to learn increases your ability to understand that material and retrieve it later.”
― Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning
― Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning
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