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  2. Pygmalion effect - Wikipedia

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    The Pygmalion effect is a psychological phenomenon in which high expectations lead to improved performance in a given area and low expectations lead to worse performance. [1] It is named after the Greek myth of Pygmalion, the sculptor who fell so much in love with the perfectly beautiful statue he created that the statue came to life.

  3. Pygmalion in the Classroom - Wikipedia

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    The idea conveyed in the book is that if teachers' expectations about student ability are manipulated early, those expectations will carry over to affect teacher behavior, which in turn will influence how the students will perform on an IQ test. Inducing high expectations in teachers will lead to high levels of IQ test performance.

  4. Outcome-based education - Wikipedia

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    Students are expected to learn skills that they will need when they complete their education. It also calls for lessons to have a stronger link to employment through work-based learning (WBL). Work-based learning for students should also lead to recognition of vocational training for these students. The program also sets goals for learning ...

  5. Lenore Jacobson - Wikipedia

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    Lenore F Jacobson was principal of an elementary school in the South San Francisco Unified School District in 1963 when she started a correspondence with Harvard psychologist Robert Rosenthal which led to the influential Pygmalion Effect study.

  6. Classroom management - Wikipedia

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    Teachers should also encourage student collaboration in selecting rewards and defining appropriate behaviors that earn rewards. [15] This form of praise and positive reinforcement is very effective in helping students understand expectations and builds a student's self-concept. An often-overlooked preventative technique is to over-plan.

  7. Standards-based education reform in the United States

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    All students are believed to be capable of learning and of meeting high expectations. Both advanced and struggling students can learn new things in their own ways and at their own rates. Instruction that helps an individual student learn the information and skills listed in the standards is emphasized. Both excellence and equity are valued.

  8. Positive behavior support - Wikipedia

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    For example, teachers and parents need strategies they are able and willing to use and that affect the child's ability to participate in community and school activities. By changing stimulus and reinforcement in the environment and teaching the person to strengthen deficit skill areas, their behavior changes.

  9. Positive education - Wikipedia

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    Positive education is an approach to education that draws on positive psychology's emphasis of individual strengths and personal motivation to promote learning.Unlike traditional school approaches, positive schooling teachers use techniques that focus on the well-being of individual students. [1]