Today, in lieu of a lesson plan, we've invited Larry Ferlazzo, a teacher and author, to write a guest post that brings together a number of recent Times and Learning Network pieces about motivation — and shows practical ways teachers can use them to help students learn to exert self-control, gain self-confidence and motivate themselves to learn and achieve.
"But one cannot forget that the Yanomami and other indigenous groups have learned how to exert pressure on the government in order to receive food or other benefits," he said.
But it was evidence that even with the new White House team's extraordinarily deep Congressional experience, there have been slips as the administration learns how to exert power on Capitol Hill.
It feels economically strong, assertive and more coherent at least in its anti-Americanism.Russia has learned to use its vast natural resources to exert power in Europe and beyond.
The degrading conditions of life in prison make it so some prisoners, who have learned to adopt aggressive adaptations for survival, tragically exert their power over other prisoners in the form of rape.
The premise is not that meat provided some indispensable nutritional building block but rather that, as a limited commodity, it exerted a civilizing influence, giving rise to ingenuity (and, one imagines, politics) as people learned to barter and share.
He spent hundreds of hours crushing peanuts with forceps to learn exactly how much pressure to exert.
You may have to try this a couple of times before you learn exactly how much force to exert.
Yet the smartest and most sophisticated of the young men in their circle is also the most verbally wily, using his learning and his wit to exert a cruel sexual power.
I have been in exile for 14 years, and have learned that there are many ways to exert influence in China from abroad.
