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Six Powerful Ways to Cultivate Student Attention and Promote Student Success 

Faculty Focus

It turns out that with each passing year, I’m finding it increasingly difficult to capture and hold a student’s attention and focus during my lessons. Our cognitive resources do, however, have a limit; therefore, we must always choose from the available resources that we can pay attention to. 2020, Orhan and Beyhan, 2020).

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Six Powerful Ways to Cultivate Student Attention and Promote Student Success 

Faculty Focus

It turns out that with each passing year, I’m finding it increasingly difficult to capture and hold a student’s attention and focus during my lessons. Our cognitive resources do, however, have a limit; therefore, we must always choose from the available resources that we can pay attention to. 2020, Orhan and Beyhan, 2020).

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Students Are Distracted. What Can Educators Do About It?

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But Lang admits that holding students’ attention is now harder than it’s been in the past, and he offers some practical suggestions on how to respond. We talked about his tips for holding attention during online classes, his thoughts on banning devices in the classroom and how he got into writing about teaching in the first place.

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Taking a Tech Break and Unplugging From Classroom Technology

Teach Hub

Increases Focus and Attention Numerous studies have examined the impact that screen time has had on a child’s attention and concentration and have found that excessive screen time is associated with attention problems such as distracted focus and reduced concentration. Here are a few of the benefits.

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How to Become a Citizen Scientist

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Critical Thinking and Scientific Literacy Exposure to the scientific community and its methods enhances students’ and amateur volunteer scientists’ approaches toward specific problems. Pay close attention to the prerequisites such as time requirements, travel, equipment, training period, and prior experience.

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Teaching Through a Lens of Compassion: Strengthening Pre-service Teachers’ Math Muscles

Faculty Focus

The combination of focused attention to SEL and fundamentally taking an asset-based approach to teaching mathematics changes our classroom setting in numerous ways. Gurpreet Sahmbi is an educator at the University of Toronto in mathematics education and research methods in teacher education.

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PhotoVoice: Using Technology to Impact Student Learning and Assessment

Faculty Focus

Many struggle to actively pay attention. PhotoVoice is a visual method used to understand the world through the eyes of those experiencing it. As a faculty member, I often hear the blatant dismissal of students and their preoccupation with technology. Students are always on their phones.