Sentences with phrase «about student ability»

Teachers make less assumptions about student ability, and students feel they have a much greater capacity to learn.

What about student ability to solve complex problems?

If teachers of color hold higher expectations for minority students — stemming from their perceptions about student ability, effort, and behavior — they might be more likely to push students to work hard and to insist on their best effort in all assignments.

In an ideal world, if teachers and staff at a struggling high school voiced a strong commitment to improving instruction, developing their skills, and challenging their own beliefs about student abilities, their superintendent would just smile and say, «Great.

At the other school, teachers and staff told me about their collective struggle to improve instruction, talked about their desire for more professional learning, and described how they were challenging and changing their own beliefs about student abilities.

Not exact matches

«What we want students to know is schools are serious about this, that they have gone out of their way to make sure they have the legal ability to discriminate against LGBT students,» said Sarah Warbelow, the campaign's legal director.

«If you're not going to be in the top half of the class, you're going to run the risk of mistakenly thinking that you are not a good student, of coming to a conclusion about your own abilities that's at odds with reality.»

A recent report from the Global Financial Literacy Excellence Center at the George Washington University said 54 % of millennials are concerned about their ability to repay their student loans, and nearly half don't think they could come up with $ 2,000 for an emergency.

Baldwin told the students of fashion that «billions of people around the world» buy all kinds of things in order to «make a statement to the best of their ability, and within the boundaries of their own tastes and budgets, about who they are.»

I enrolled myself in community college with doubts about my ability to be a good student.

Since the 1980s, the country's leaders have been concerned about the quality of the educational system and its ability to prepare students for contemporary economic and social life.

By: Bettina Elias SiegelMSNBC has a story up today about a practice that's old news for school food services directors, but may not be widely known by TLT (The Lunch Tray) readers — i.e., quietly giving «alternative» meals to students who come through the lunch line without the ability to... Read more

Teachers convey to their students deep messages — often implicitly or even subliminally — about belonging, connection, ability, and opportunity.

The initial reaction of many educators, when they first encounter the research about non-cognitive abilities that I wrote about in How Children Succeed, is to try to figure out how to teach their students these skills.

She read Carol Dweck, the Stanford psychologist who discovered that students» motivation can be boosted or undercut by the messages they hear about their own ability to improve their intelligence.

In this century, deeper - learning proponents argue, the job market requires a very different set of skills, one that our current educational system is not configured to help students develop: the ability to work in teams, to present ideas to a group, to write effectively, to think deeply and analytically about problems, to take information and techniques learned in one context and adapt them to a new and unfamiliar problem or situation.

Dweck's fundamental mindset discovery was that students are strongly influenced by implicit and explicit messages about their capacity to grow and improve their intellectual abilities.

But in my reporting for How Children Succeed, I noticed a strange paradox: Many of the educators I encountered who seemed best able to engender noncognitive abilities in their students never said a word about these skills in the classroom.

School officials, especially in big cities, were concerned about how the changes might affect their ability to feed needy students.

MSNBC has a story up today about a practice that's old news for school food services directors, but may not be widely known by TLT readers — i.e., quietly giving «alternative» meals to students who come through the lunch line without the ability to pay.

Dweck's data shows that students who believe that they can improve their own abilities deal better with setbacks and apply themselves more energetically to difficult tasks — all of which would be very useful to a student about to tackle Homer or the Pythagorean Theorem.

And it has become clear, at the same time, that the educators who are best able to engender noncognitive abilities in their students often do so without really «teaching» these capacities the way one might teach math or reading — indeed, they often do so without ever saying a word about them in the classroom.

She is excited about Camp Kesem's continued growth and the organization's ability to support more children, and engage more student leaders, each year.

Certainly, studies support that painful truth that students — no matter their economic status — lose about two months of math abilities over the summer months.

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.

It is almost a sort of inner awareness brought about through the ability of the students to explore all aspects of learning for themselves, and this consciousness allows them to learn about their individual personalities while learning the basic facts and figures of the lessons simultaneously.

By: Bettina Elias SiegelMSNBC has a story up today about a practice that's old news for school food services directors, but may not be widely known by TLT (The Lunch Tray) readers — i.e., quietly giving «alternative» meals to students who come through the lunch line without the ability to... Read more

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.

The questions have been field - tested by over 100,000 middle school and early high school students for their ability to assess students» knowledge of life and physical sciences and to identify students» common misconceptions about the sciences.

Duckworth and her adviser, Martin E. P. Seligman, gave 300 eighth graders, their teachers and their parents a questionnaire about the students» ability to control impulses and follow rules.

«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.

The lead author of the current work, doctoral student Casey A. Gilman, measured the ability of five gecko species varying in weight from about 0.7 to 3.5 ounces (2 to 100 grams) to adhere to glass on a force - extension instrument that measured geckos» clinging force.

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.

In an entrepreneurial education as a course of studies the students are expected to have thought about their motives for their future work, and therefore the focus is on giving them the «ability.»

They measured students» beliefs about themselves, both broadly and about their academic abilities, as well as their social adjustment in school, including their feeling of belonging and attachment, academic values, and peer support.

Cappella and her colleagues found that attending a middle or junior high school negatively impacted certain measures of beliefs about students» academic abilities.

Students will inquire about the cardiovascular effects of yoga and it's ability to help one lose weight.

With clear instruction, humor and innovation, he aims to make yoga fun and accessible to students of all ages and abilities while imparting a sense of wonder about the body and mind.

We shouldn't pass any judgment on student's size, ability, diet, lifestyle, etc. even if we feel very strongly about it.

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And while I recognize in many cases this says a lot more about them as a student than me as a teacher, where their grade reflects effort that they put into my class and not my ability to educate, there's very little that can dampen that initial blow.

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Admittedly, the White family and the students have a lot to learn about each other but when Coach White notices the boys» exceptional running ability, things begin to change.

Feelings Thermometer: Emotions run on a continuum from low - key to intense and students often lack the ability to recognize when they are about to be overpowered by emotions.