Dave Eggers Quotes About Students

Quotes about: Students

• So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students' work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas.

  Dave Eggers

  Creativity, Ideas, Space

• And that's actually the brunt of what we do is, people going straight from their workplace, straight from home, straight into the classroom and working directly with the students. So then we're able to work with thousands and thousands more students.

  Dave Eggers

  Home, People, Able

• And what we were trying to offer every day was one-on-one attention. The goal was to have a one-to-one ratio with every one of these students.

  Dave Eggers

  Goal, Trying, Attention

• High school teachers who want to get reluctant readers turned around need to give the students some say in the reading list. Make it collaborative: The students will feel ownership, and everyone will dig in.

  Dave Eggers

  Teacher, Reading, School

  Interview with Justine Sharrock, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2009.

• The key thing is, even if you only have a couple of hours a month, those two hours shoulder-to-shoulder, next to one student, concentrated attention, shining this beam of light on their work, on their thoughts and their self-expression, is going to be absolutely transformative, because so many of the students have not had that ever before.

  Dave Eggers

  Couple, Keys, Light

• You know, it's been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year with one-on-one attention, a student can get one grade level higher

  Dave Eggers

  Years, Attention, Levels

• The only thing that everyone needs to look out for is keeping the students reading through high school and thereafter.

  Dave Eggers

  Reading, School, Needs

  Interview with Justine Sharrock, www.motherjones.com. 2009.

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