Sentences with phrase «about particular students»

Datnow and Park say leaders should ensure that looking at data serves a broader purpose than measuring individual student achievement — which too often leads to deficit assumptions about particular students or groups.

January was a mad rush of looking over essays, tracking down tax forms, deciphering the FAFSA form, reminding teachers to submit recommendations, and calling colleges to answer questions about particular students» applications.

When multiple requests were made about a particular student, the SIOP peer facilitator set up a parent - teacher conference with the student's family.

Not exact matches

It was designed to be a shared space where students and members of the education community — professors, deans, researchers — can learn about the many opportunities offered by the energy industry in general and Total in particular.

In particular, reaching students while they're young is key so that we can educate them about career opportunities.

In particular, Code.org strives to reach underserved minority groups such as girls and Hispanic and African American students so they, too, have a chance to learn about computer sciences.

What do you think it is about this group of students in this particular moment that feels like a break from the past?

Irene Lanzinger, president of the BC Teachers Federation, echoed the call for public investments and stricter regulation of banks, and added particular concerns about schools, women and students.

Wrenn, if you're still watching this particular post, I'm curious about your opinion on my thought of students claiming «financial discrimination» if private schools stopped accepting Pell grants.

On both sites, I am always open to input from other students of Scripture about how to translate Greek and Hebrew, or how best to explain a particular word or phrase.

Maybe more than ever, the students displayed the «competency» about being able to argue intelligently based on their own reading of Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau, and of being able to integrate particular arguments from the text in their own «comparative narratives.»

We did end up having a discussion about different faiths - expressing nor endorsing opinions on any in particular but merely educating the students on the differences (and then they pointed out the lack of difference between many).

A quick and somewhat obvious example of the fundamental interrelatedness of reason and emotion is the excitement a student may feel about a particular subject matter that impels her / him to learn more.

Medical students need to learn more about nutrition, and in particular the role of breast feeding in infant nutrition.

Something about the campus environment predisposes students to react to seemingly negligible events (an email about Halloween costumes, rumors of exclusion from a frat party, one person hearing racial slurs from a passing driver) with shocking levels of anxiety, including a particular distress about free and therefore potentially offensive speech.

Nutrition aside (these particular animal crackers do contain some whole grain), this seems like a terrible message to be sending our students about sound food choices, particularly in an age of rampant childhood obesity.

Today I share a story about a dedicated elementary school principal who eats the school lunch with his students everyday and who, when hearing complaints about a particular entree, worked to get the problem solved.

«It is not reasonable to give only 48 hours considering the number of students who have been affected by this particular exercise so our statement raises concerns about the time given for the selection of the available options by the students,» she said.

The usual medical student experiences are unlikely to reveal much about the experience of being a faculty member in a particular field.

These are a great resource even if there isn't any information on the particular company you are applying for, as there is some common practice and reading about students» experiences with other employers should reassure you.

«Students often focus on a particular technique and don't think about the bigger picture,» she says.

Rosenau is worried about one particular clause: «that no student shall be compelled to perform or participate in academic assignments or educational presentations that violate his or her religious beliefs.»

The joint NSCL / JINA program, the Physics of Atomic Nuclei, is for both high school students and science teachers and designed to get them excited about science and, in particular, nuclear astrophysics.

At the same time, we wish to help students (1) experience authentic processes of science, in particular discussion / debate about experimental data and their interpretation (including «grey areas»), (2) recognize the creativity and open - ended nature of research, and (3) see the diversity of people who undertake research careers (i.e. not just the genius / geeks of popular culture).

While he insists much remains to be learned about ERAD in particular, Rapoport recently added a fourth project, the mechanism of protein import into peroxisomes, to attract students and postdoctoral fellows who want to make an impact on a less - studied biological problem.

Folayan, a former pre-med student in New York City, now a documentary filmmaker, talked with me about why she dropped her pre-med path to pursue filmmaking, her influences in life, and why she made this particular film.

If you have a story to tell — something you've realized over the course of your career about how to get students excited about learning; a strategy you recently tried that didn't quite work out and how you changed course; an aha moment that led you to rethink how you teach a particular subject or lesson — you're in the right place.

Shape poems are fun for students writing about a particular topic.

In particular, enriching field trips contribute to the development of students into civilized young men and women who possess more knowledge about art, have stronger critical - thinking skills, exhibit increased historical empathy, display higher levels of tolerance, and have a greater taste for consuming art and culture.

Often, a student's end product is awareness and knowledge about that particular field or organization, and that information can be used in future decisions about college or career plans.

Some students want to just dip their toes into seeing whether a particular field is of interest to them, so they'll spend about an hour of their week at a site.

Consequently, there is a need for more research to understand how writing outcomes may be improved, especially since written tasks are often how students communicate their knowledge about a particular topic or discipline within both formative and summative assessment tasks.

«I have found some really great tours that don't just take the students through some pictures but also have them searching for particular information and learning in - depth, specific things about their topic.»

You're on the front lines of transforming K — 12 education, and you have a story to tell: something you've realized over the course of your career about how to get students excited about learning; a strategy you recently tried that didn't quite work out and how you changed course; an aha moment that led you to rethink how you teach a particular subject or lesson.

«Using the QT model and, in particular, looking at the higher order thinking and explicit quality criteria, requires you to think about how much higher order thinking you've asked students to do in the task, how you've valued it and how you've transmitted that knowledge to students.»

Lastly, when students come across a sight word, or a word that they can not remember how to spell or read, they now know how to investigate that particular word while learning a little more about English orthography.

Teachers held discussions with their class about the relationship between effort and outcome in mathematics; in particular about the worth of the students» workbooks and the mathematical routines and practices they were encouraging students to adopt.

If the student has a particular hobby or interest, suggest that she talk to the class about it.

Our conferences became a truly collaborative event as we invited colleagues from other disciplines to come in and talk to the students about particular presentation sections.

Students in these programs are asked to think about sociological, psychological, and policy issues rather than to discuss what it takes to teach a particular lesson effectively.

Here's my answer: «No one ever worries about what percentage of students are admitted to a college because they can afford to pay full tuition, or because their parents attended a particular university.

RV: And David I understand that you're a lecturer in teacher education, so I was wondering, is behaviour management, in particular for students with disabilities, something that the pre-service teachers are concerned about?

In particular, students infer and interpret key information about the characters from their introductions into the play, before tracking how their characters develop through close analysis of key quotations.

These functions include the ease with which teachers and other adults who are regularly around individual students can directly observe the soft skills they are expected to support, the clear implications for intervention suggested by low scores on a particular skill by a particular student or group of students, the signals sent to administrators about teachers and groups of students who may need additional help, and the usefulness in communicating with parents.

They spot strengths in other students, talk about how they are using particular strengths themselves and develop an understanding that they all have their own unique capabilities and ways of understanding the world.

Professor Howard Gardner, one of Rose's first professors at the Ed School, says, «Todd's focus on what we know about the individual student and how we can mobilize pedagogical and curricular resources to meet the particular student is of fundamental importance.

In the presentations, each student tried to persuade classmates to eat a particular fruit or vegetable by providing facts about its origin and its nutritional value.

I would urge those writing about low - cost areas in particular to be careful about buying the argument that a huge proportion of local students are poor.

Using specific names for people, places, and things — for instance, if a story was about a particular family member, stating that person's name and relationship to the student.

Regarding its pedagogical use, students can record their own videos describing how they solved a particular problem step - by - step (e.g. a trigonometry problem) or explaining their thinking process about the structure of an essay.