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How can teachers reconcile the time they give initially to teaching and practicing routines rather than to teaching academic content?

Critics of Jones's incentive systems do not like the idea of "bribing" students to work and behave well, which they are supposed to do anyway. (This same complaint is made about behavior modification.) Why would you consider using incentives?PAT?as he suggests?

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This solution discusses whether teachers reconcile the time they give initially to teaching and practicing routing rather than to teaching academic content. The explanation is given in 304 words.

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In an efficient learning environment, learning outcomes are developed through the act of teaching, that is the structured intentional development of appropriate skills and proficiency to achieve certain goals. There is a clear understanding in teaching that is based on dissemination of information, the application of that information, and the opportunity for the learner to acclimate the information in a usable and replicable form. This is structured primarily in the use of practice. Practice is the ...

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