Sentences with phrase «ability students as»

At the Center for Gifted Education at the College of William and Mary, the past six years has been spent addressing issues of appropriate science curriculum and instruction for high ability students as well as melding those ideas to the template of curriculum reform for all students in science.

We asked gifted education expert Jonathan Plucker of the University of Connecticut to help us and others understand what lies ahead, particularly with regard to how the opportunities presented by the Common Core can benefit high - ability students as well as others.

Failing Our Brightest Kids: The Global Challenge of Educating High - Ability Students As reviewed by Mark Bauerlein

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As of yet, there are no fully online electrical engineering programs in Canada, but some offer students the ability to work while they learn.

To put those scores in perspective, a student with baseline financial literacy skills — including the ability to apply the concept of value for money and identify relevant financial information on items such as invoices — would score somewhere in the range of 400 to 475.

As with all universities, Murdoch's ability to attract full fee - paying international students is important in the funding mix, but this is not the whole story, according to Dr Yovich.

The stark responsiveness to the business cycle suggests that many college students, and especially female college students, have sufficient ability to complete more challenging majors, such as STEM fields, yet choose not to do so in periods with stronger labor market prospects.»

As with student loan refinancing, a mortgage lender will calculate your debt - to - income ratio to determine your ability to make monthly payments on the new mortgage.

The volume of real estate debt, auto debt, student loans, bank debt, pension debts by municipalities and states as well as private companies exceed their ability to pay.

Studying the humanities offers students «mental empowerment» so that they can go forward in life armed with «a sense of social responsibility» and «intellectual and practical skills that span all areas of study, such as communication, analytical and problem - solving skills, and a demonstrated ability to apply knowledge and skills in real - world settings.»

We may classify secondary school students for functional purposes into such groups as «practical arts,» «commercial,» «general,» and «college preparatory,» but there is nothing to prevent students from later changing to another group which appears to fit better their abilities and occupational plans.

Furthermore, just as comprehensive schools are desirable as a solvent of social class lines, so classes with students of differing abilities are valuable, provided the classes can be internally organized so as to let students proceed at their own pace, with enrichment through greater depth and scope of materials independently mastered by the most able students, and with special assistance by the teacher for the less able.

As a beginning lecturer, he had to depend upon his ability to attract students.

At the end, even though he has been fired by the school, we are thrilled as his students find the ability to stand against authority, to think for themselves.

In our new aims of education for the 1980's and beyond, therefore, we shall have to dedicate ourselves to bringing back, among other things, the civilized use of language (both written and oral), a sensitivity to beauty, powers of analytical reasoning, the intellectual vision of ourselves as historical creatures, the ability to cognitively articulate ideas rather than let communication skills courses degenerate into merely «touchie - feelie» experiences of «affirming the other,» and finally, a sensitivity to the nuances, complexities, and ambiguities of meanings.7 In this way, and only in this way, our educational system will equip its students for the future with an intellectual vision comprised of both knowledge and foresightful adaptability to environmental changes.

It is same thing as in our life as a student you work hard but you realise your ability only when you get some accolades and good marks then you would be appreciated by fellow classmates.

As well as being a keen student of geometry, he also had unquestionably faith in his own ability and a stubborn personality is believed to have been the first player to sign for Hibs who negotiated his own termAs well as being a keen student of geometry, he also had unquestionably faith in his own ability and a stubborn personality is believed to have been the first player to sign for Hibs who negotiated his own termas being a keen student of geometry, he also had unquestionably faith in his own ability and a stubborn personality is believed to have been the first player to sign for Hibs who negotiated his own terms.

Jackson had access to each student's scores on the statewide standardized test, and he used that as a rough measure of their cognitive ability.

One of the fundamental beliefs of deeper - learning advocates is that these practices — revising work over and over, with frequent critiques; persisting at long - term projects; dealing with the frustrations of hands - on experimentation — develop not just students» content knowledge and intellectual ability, but their noncognitive capacities as well: what Camille Farrington would call academic perseverance and what others might call grit or resilience.

Special Subject teachers are chosen not only for their expertise in specific areas, but also for their ability to relate to the students and serve as adult role models.

In particular, such stressors compromise the higher order thinking skills that allow students to sort out complex and seemingly contradictory information such as when the letter C is pronounced like K (what psychologists call «executive functioning»), and their ability to keep a lot of information in their heads at once, a skill known as «working memory» that's crucial to success in school, college, and work.

Social relationships bloom as students refine their ability to work together as a collaborative team, and to respect each other's individuality and diversity.

As simple as it may seem, a young child's ability to play independently or cope with frustration can indicate how well she will adjust to the demands of being an independent studenAs simple as it may seem, a young child's ability to play independently or cope with frustration can indicate how well she will adjust to the demands of being an independent studenas it may seem, a young child's ability to play independently or cope with frustration can indicate how well she will adjust to the demands of being an independent student.

However, most learning disabled students have general learning ability that is as strong as, or higher than, their peers.

While at the capitol, they took the opportunity to reconnect with other congressional leaders such as Senators Tommy Tomlinson and LeAnna Washington to continue discussions about legislation that will strengthen Licensed Athletic Trainers» abilities to safeguard student athletes in Pennsylvania.

The ability to operate in a group setting has proved vital, particularly recently as I begin to learn how to exist as a part of complicated healthcare teams in my current role as a medical student.»

I've taught nearly 500 students and we as educators constantly hear parents talk about how their child is gifted but the implication they make is that their child is gifted over others, well guess what... every child's ability isn't better than another although each is uniquely gifted.

Union contracts, for example, could allow senior teachers, who typically are paid more, the ability to choose the school at which they teach, which could be seen as providing increased support for students in one building over others.

Memorisation is being mistaken for learning and high academic records as a yardstick for measuring the ability of students» creativity.

The evaluation system pushed by Cuomo as part of this 2010 re-election campaign devotes half of a teacher's evaluation on their students» performance on standardized test scores that teacher unions argue is a poor measure of a teacher's ability.

He also emphasized the state's ability to fight back against federal rulings, citing as an example the federal government's decision to rescind an order requiring public schools to respect the gender identities of transgender students.

The governor said the planned increases gave families and students the ability to plan their finances as opposed to the sporadic — and occasionally large — tuition hikes enacted over the years.

Spurred by Trump's announcement in September that he planned to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, members of the chamber wrote a letter to the Florida congressional delegation urging them to «quickly find a legislative solution before the program expires»... «Without a legislative solution, 800,000 DACA recipients will lose their ability to work and legally study, and it will leave many Florida employers, workers and students without certainty,» the chamber's CEO Mark Wilson wrote in the letter... «The Florida Chamber supports an earned pathway to citizenship for immigrants that pass criminal background checks as well as supports policies that reduce illegal immigration and improve on border security.»

One of the biggest fears medical students face in seeking treatment for depression is being branded as unfit to be doctors and having a medical board question their ability to practice medicine.

More than half of geneticists (56 %) reported that data withholding reduced their ability to educate students and postdoctoral fellows, and 28 % said they had been unable to replicate published research as a result of data withholding.

For the PhD student, choosing a supervisor can be a risky business as it is very difficult to assess someone's organisational ability and interpersonal skills in the course of a brief interview.

Students who received top recommendations, the UNC co-authors suggest, show a «constellation of characteristics that typically correlate with research success [such as ability to] persevere and maintain focus and optimism in the face of regular challenges.»

«The major advancement of this new tool is the ability to use a low - cost and accessible imaging method such as EEG to depict deeply located brain activity,» said both senior author Dr. Talma Hendler of Tel - Aviv University in Israel and The Sagol Brain Center at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, and first author Jackob Keynan, a PhD student in Hendler's laboratory, in an email to Biological Psychiatry.

Despite these hierarchies, some degree of «decentralization» could be found in more than half of the projects, as measured by the ability of graduate students to make changes of their own to research protocols.

As she grew up, she lost the ability to speak French fluently; although she took French in college, she was no more fluent than any other college student who has had some classes.

In one study of 1,651 high school students from three states, reading ability was just as important to students» science - class grades and scores on state - level science tests as the amount of science knowledge they had.

This reflects «the usefulness of conventional VAMs, despite their inability to perfectly control for student ability,» as Hull observes.

«A lot of the privately educated students are incredibly articulate, and they are able to speak about their discipline... with what seems to be like supreme confidence,» Reay says, noting that it takes a while for working - class students «to recognize that supreme confidence isn't the same as ability.»

As an EU citizen living in Scotland, at the moment I am worried about how Brexit will affect my ability to stay and work in the United Kingdom, and how it will affect my students, the members of my lab, and a lot of my colleagues and collaborators.

The prompt instructed some students to write about their most important values, such as friends or artistic ability; these students were in the intervention group.

All students, regardless of intellectual ability, had lower exam scores the more they used the Internet for non-academic purposes such as reading the news, sending emails and posting Facebook updates.

This year, Hummels will serve as one of 46 NASA Student Ambassadors, selected for their outreach efforts and for their ability to generate public attention for NASA's space discoveries during the International Year of Astronomy.

«Having the ability to represent false beliefs means recognizing that others can have different thoughts from us,» said Peipei Setoh, who, as a graduate student, conducted the study with University of Illinois psychology professor Renée Baillargeon and fellow graduate student Rose Scott.

First, the PhD student does not only require the ability to turn «suspension of disbelief» into an art form beyond the illusory skills of our most eminent Shakespearean actors; he or she must also retain the ability to remain as cynical and as hard - bitten as Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca.

On Aug. 9, two classes of 19 students learned about the scientific forces behind the cast of physical abilities such as endurance, balance and strength that help athletes succeed.