Sentences with phrase «ability pupils who»

They are deliberately aimed at higher ability pupils who have the initiative to access the posed questions.

From the abstract: «Pupils at academically selective schools, for example, tend to out - perform similar - ability pupils who are educated with mixed - ability peers»

Under the leadership of head teacher Dean Coombes, the school is now rated «Good» by Ofsted and sits in the top 10 nationally for the proportion of lower ability pupils who gain five or more GCSEs at grade C and above.

Not exact matches

Whitehead had good ability to size up the pupils who came to see him, and his help was appropriate to that pupil, but his manner was so uniformly benign that some — Paul Weiss (the American pupil who saw him most often), my wife (Victoria Lincoln), and probably a few others — detected a basic impersonality.

There he meets Mordo (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a straight - laced pupil to Swinton's teacher who, it transpires, has the ability to access powers beyond our earthly realm.

In light of this, the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) found that low - attaining pupils who were put into ability sets tended to fall behind by one or two months a year on average.

They are known as Pupil Progress Leaders (PPLs), who move up from one year to the next with the children, so they understand their abilities, and the curriculum that needs to be delivered.

Or, if they stick with full - class instruction, they pitch much of their instruction to kids in the middle 60 percent or so of the achievement / ability / motivation distribution, doing less for pupils who are either lagging far behind or surging ahead.

Pupils who lack verbal skills, but have high spatial ability perform less well in GCSEs, research shows.

Pike's comments were made in a letter to a deputy head teacher, who claimed the inspectorate exhibits «extreme bias» against schools with lower ability pupils.

These have been hugely successful, allowing pupils who do not have the confidence to participate in sporting activities to still be involved in the project and enjoy benefits such as increased teamwork ability, developed social and communication skills and friendship building.

CPD not only improves the quality of provision by arming teachers with the knowledge, expertise and skills to develop their own provisions and become effective» teachers of SEND», but also supports those professionals who need to extend their abilities to become the adaptive, flexible thinkers that schools and their pupils need.

The argument was that if an intake is almost all lower attaining, then it can become difficult to attract teachers who want to work with pupils across a broad range of abilities.

The research revealed that those pupils who see themselves as having potential rather than having fixed abilities are more inclined to help their peers.

They have argued that admission by ability is more likely to promote social mobility, providing an opportunity for bright, poor pupils who do not live in the catchment areas of good schools.

The calculation takes account of the outcomes of every pupil who takes the key stage 2 tests, and compares each pupil to others with a similar ability profile when starting this part of primary education.

«Take two people of the same ability at age 11 and with the same parental background, track them forward, and the pupil who attends independent school is likely to earn substantially more,» he said.

It is therefore a positive move that those low ability pupils now will be compared with others with similarly low prior attainment, rather than being compared with those who achieved well in all subjects at the age of seven.

«There is wider statistical research that shows that who goes into lower - ability groups is summer - born children, boys, pupils from low income backgrounds,» said Alice Bradbury, another co-author.

More likely, however, is that people are very focused on poorer students who receive pupil premium than they are on high ability students.

As a true professional she is willing to take ownership of a student's academic progress and is confident of her ability to teach challenging pupils who have speech, language, emotional or behavioural difficulties.

PERSONAL SUMMARY A highly qualified, inspirational and hard - working Art's Teacher, who has a strong classroom presence along with the ability to make a real difference to the lives of her pupils.