In classrooms full of distractions, students expect their professors to be performers. Faculty members say that’s not their job. Both sides might need to rethink their views, writes Jeff Selingo.

It's easier to get away with not paying attention in the back. Sit in the same seat every day. Sitting in the same seat allows your mind to use contextual cues it learns while you're taking the ...

Yes, paying attention to my surroundings is something I — and honestly most of us — need to improve in general, but there’s one activity in which our attention seems to particularly wane: class.

It’s been tough to get schools to adopt the stand-up desks for obesity prevention, but if it turns out they also keep kids more disciplined and improve attention &#8212 that might just close the ...

Maya McFadden photo. Fair Haven School's Lesly Lopez introducing vocab in dual-language lesson. Hannah Tanguay was on a mission to teach her Fair Haven School first-graders two different definitions ...

Increasingly, over my past three years at the University of Massachusetts, I have observed more and more blatant texting in class. Some try to hide their phones while sending a message, but the usage ...

When my 7-year-old started having trouble focusing at school, I did not think much of it. I sternly told her to pay more attention. But my words did not resonate, apparently.

When students pay attention in class, their brains are in sync. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2017 / 04 / 170427120908.htm. Cell Press.

Pay attention in class! by Anna Rosevear. 1st April 2004. Recently my self-esteem was vastly pumped up by the offer of a job lecturing at a most prestigious university.

When students pay attention in class, their brains are in sync. Cell Press. Journal Current Biology DOI 10.1016/j.cub.2017.04.002 ...