Sentences with phrase «students learn a new language»

In our Focus on Education report, WBFO's Eileen Buckley reports there's not an unwillingness to learn, but it's a matter of some students learning a new language.

A study in the journal Psychological Science finds that students learning a new language in a total immersion environment had reduced access to their original language.

A good working memory is essential in helping young students learn new languages, NTNU researchers have found.

Students learn a new language, discover another culture, and truly become global citizens.

Not exact matches

IHSNO is an open - enrollment charter school with 565 students and claims to be the only high school in New Orleans to offer the rigorous International Baccalaureate Diploma Program (IBDP), which requires students learn a foreign language.

Backlash over the rollout of the Common Core learning standards, along with aligned state tests and new teacher evaluations, came to a head last April when more than 20 percent of the state's eligible students refused to take the state standardized math and English language arts exams.

NEW YORK — Pre-K students at dozens of schools throughout New York will have the opportunity to learn a second languaNEW YORK — Pre-K students at dozens of schools throughout New York will have the opportunity to learn a second languaNew York will have the opportunity to learn a second language.

«Dual Language programs offer academic rigor for students and the opportunity to maintain their native language while learning a new one and learning about diverse cultures.

The scores of New York City students increased slightly in both math and English language arts on the latest state tests, released on Aug. 14, as students became more familiar with the Common Core Learning Standards and their teachers worked hard with what materials and training they eventually got.

«Lexigrams were learned, as human language is, during meaningful social interactions, not from behavioral training,» said the study's lead author, Kristen Gillespie - Lynch, an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the City University of New York and a former UCLA graduate student in Greenfield's laboratory.

In her new book Now You See It, Cathy N. Davidson — a self - identified «student of the Internet» — uses infant language learning to argue that our attention is strongly guided by experience and culture.

In one study in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, students who learned a new language grew more complex white matter, aka the communications network.

New York, NY About Blog The New York Language Learning Center provides outstanding language courses designed to help students master the ability to speak English fluently.

The visionary filmmaker argues that students must learn a new language of image and sound in order to succeed.

Any project that assists ELL students with socialization in their new environment will ease the struggle of both learning a new language fluently and being surrounded by an entirely new culture.

The first one was on implementing the Common Core for English - language learners; the second was on how games offer an exciting new frontier for student learning and engagement.

Some decisions were easy: to provide a program from 7th grade through graduation; to move students through the program on an individual basis; to ask our teachers to be well educated, but to act more as generalists than specialists; to keep teachers» student loads down, and to offer advisories instead of more formal and distant «guidance counseling»; to offer only one foreign language, but to expect all to learn it; to put our money into more adults, some of them young adults, rather than into high rents or new furniture.

Spanish Cognates Classroom Signs 2 Designs - Post these cognate signs in the beginning of the year to lessen the jitters that students may have over learning a new language.

New York City Education Department to Add or Expand 40 Dual - Language Programs New York Times, 1/14/15 «But Paola Uccelli, an associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, said that some research has shown that in well - run programs, students learn both languages.

In using these alternate methods, they allow a more relaxed atmosphere for the students to learn and process a new language.

In 2005, we began a new program to for Miami - Dade Public Schools to introduce students with autism, learning disabilities, and visual, physical, language and emotional impairments to dance instruction by developing a new and unique dance residency program.

In one of these vignettes Maria, an able student interested in learning Arabic, which is not offered in the school, is directed to a computer program and shown happily learning the new language.

These cards are for students who struggle with learning new vocabulary, have English as a second language, or are on individual program plans.

While they might be able to lead the student council, start their own club, learn an instrument, master a new language, research a new topic, they prefer to sleep between assignments or «lay on their backs or stomachs» and relax.

New methods and technologies are opening up incredible opportunities in this realm, providing real - world connections with those speaking other languages, thus motivating students to learn to communicate in a foreign language.

Students learning other foreign languages could use the sheets to write the new words under the familiar name.

Change the language each month, so students learn to count in a new language as they learn to manage their behavior.

PBL projects can give students something to latch onto as they're learning to use a new language.

I show this video to my ELL students, and after they describe it in writing and verbally, I ask them to tell me how they think its content might be related to learning a new language.

I'm passionate about global education and language learning and I'm always looking for new ideas to help inspire and engage students and educators.

Although this way of thinking would be new to the school curriculum, it is a familiar concept in learning areas such as music, second languages, swimming and (Kumon) mathematics, where students progress through a sequence of proficiency levels not linked to ages or years of school.

New blended - learning models combine online and face - to - face activities to meet students where they are; help them move on when they're ready; and expand access to electives, languages, and careers.

Art, history, engineering, language arts, and technology, both old and new, come together for eighth grade students in this rich project learning expedition at King Middle School in Portland, Maine.

New doors open as students at Chicago's Walter Payton College Prep learn an international perspective reinforced by four years of language study, global videoconferences, and travel abroad.

If there's time, demonstrate what needs to be done: Show how to complete a new district form on the Smart Board or illustrate how to write learning intentions or success criteria in student - friendly language.

The new Common Core State Standards in English - language arts / literacy demand more sophisticated language and literacy skills from all students, especially those who are still learning English.

Some of the particular strategies we use to respond to learner need may be new — or newly adapted to provide support for particular groups of learners (such as English language learners or students with learning disabilities).

One parent wrote asking how her student, who is learning English, as a second language, would be able to succeed with the new standards.

Learning to move between the existing and new languages and cultures is integral to language learning and is the key to the development of students» intercultural undersLearning to move between the existing and new languages and cultures is integral to language learning and is the key to the development of students» intercultural underslearning and is the key to the development of students» intercultural understanding.

Students bring to their learning various preconceptions, assumptions and orientations shaped by their existing language (s) culture (s) that can be challenged by the new language experience.

By learning a new language, or learning to use an existing language in new domains and contexts, students are able to notice, compare and reflect on things previously taken for granted; to explore their own linguistic, social and cultural practices as well as those associated with the target language.

In the next six months, the New Standards Project will turn to the question of how to judge what students know and are able to do as it develops performance standards in English / language arts, mathematics, science, and «applied learning.»

However, the authors of a new study say that minority students are less likely than similar white peers to be in one of five common disability categories — emotional disturbance, intellectual disability, «other health impairment,» specific learning disability, and speech and language impairment.

Students internalize new learning, make connections, and develop academic language through writing.

This publication describes this new effort as a campaign across California to develop strong, articulated, equitably accessible preschool through high school programs and learning opportunities that will prepare students with high level proficiency in two or more languages.

I was encouraged this week to learn that ESSA — the new American education law — that replaced NCLB includes language that opens the door beyond academic testing to include «multiple measures of student learning and progress, along with other indicators of student success...» Education Week notes that sprinkled throughout the law are references to an instructional strategy that has enormous potential for reaching learners with diverse needs.

The new math and English language arts standards replace the Common Core in Indiana after months of debate about what students should know and learn at each grade level.

Often compared with the Common Core standards for math and English language arts, the new science standards stress the deeper learning of broad scientific concepts over the memorization of facts, and place a greater emphasis on introducing students to the workplace practices of scientists and engineers.

It is our intent to promote bilingualism for all, whereby English speaking students also learn a language other than English, to increase literacy in two languages, promote cultural awareness, and provide educational equity and excellence for students in New York State.

Rhonda taught in urban public schools for more than two decades in both special and general education classrooms, working with many students who were learning English as a new language.