Sentences with phrase «academic expectations as»

As president, he has no interest in weakening the perceived value of a Purdue degree, so I take it as a given that he will be scrupulous in ensuring that the online students meet the same academic expectations as the students in residence.

This study raises academic expectations as well.»

Not exact matches

It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.

As the Bears try to navigate some of the country's highest academic expectations and financial obligations, football's fit in a highly unique environment will be better managed by Wilcox.

However, Mendick proposes that to challenge the ever - increasing pace and expectation of the Higher Education sector, academics could treat their work more as a job and less as a vocation.

The report provides two complementary recommendations (neither of which is a small feat) so that, perhaps, the demand for stable academic jobs and the supply of these employment opportunities can meet in the middle: Trainees» career expectations should be recalibrated, and the system as a whole should be restructured.

The researchers found that low - SES students demonstrated greater academic confidence and expectations and identified more strongly as high - achievers when they perceived their institution as warm, versus chilly, towards socioeconomic diversity.

However, a declining interest in a faculty research career may also imply a greater divergence between students» interests on the one hand, and the academic orientation of traditional PhD curricula as well as advisor expectations on the other [8].

So, thank you to those students who understand that the expectations in the library are there for me to enforce to provide an academic place for high school students, yet as an individual, aside from my role in the library, I may be someone to get to know.

«Dede has gone far beyond any expectations of an academic journal reviewer in terms of number of timely reviews completed, depth of understanding of the field of research exhibited, and a compassionate voice so necessary in mentoring emerging scholars as authors,» it read.

I also detect no evidence that the establishment of kindergarten programs as a result of the funding initiatives prompted an increase in academic expectations of students in the early grades, which would have adversely affected children with low levels of achievement.

Instead of assigning disciplinary consequences when students don't meet behavior expectations, why not deal them as we would deal with academic failures and missteps?

In Against the Odds: How «At - Risk» Students Exceed Expectations (Jossey - Bass Publishers; Publication Date: December 1998), Janine Bempechat, an assistant professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, examines the lives of children who seem to defy the odds, giving parents, educators, and anyone interested in the well - being of children hope and inspiration as they strive for academic excellence in all our children.

«The primary goals were to introduce incoming students to the conventions and expectations of academic writing at HGSE, as well as to the various writing techniques and resources available,» says Assistant Dean for Master's Studies Jennifer Petrallia.

Instead of looking at students as willfully disobeying all the good manners they've been taught, what if we put a process in place to teach our expectations for student behavior with the best practices often reserved for academic work?

By requiring testing in the same grades as in public schools, and by enacting significant consequences for results in larger scale participants, it is designed to identify and grow effective schools, with an acknowledgment that, as in public schools, some schools will have difficulty adjusting to new academic expectations and a small number may prove incapable of ever adequately responding to expectations.

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New York State Commissioner of Education Thomas Sobol has proposed doubling the number of students who master three years of high - school mathematics as one of 12 strategic objectives for the year 2000 designed to raise academic expectations in the Empire State.

But it is unclear to what degree they reflect racial bias as opposed to differences in socioeconomic status and levels of academic preparation between white students and black students that could influence both expectations and outcomes.

Our first approach measures the relationship between student outcomes and one teacher's expectation, controlling for the other teacher's expectation as well as the student's home background, academic ability, and past grades.

The highest - performing charters are those that that have most fully embraced a «no excuses» approach to teaching and learning; have created strong school cultures based on explicit expectations for both academic achievement and behavior; have an intensive focus on literacy and numeracy as the first foundation for academic achievement; feature a relatively heavy reliance on direct instruction and differentiated grouping, especially in the early grades; and are increasingly focused on comprehensive student assessment systems.

For example, the report says, «Ohio recently enacted a provision requiring e-schools to offer an orientation course — a perfect occasion to set high expectations for students as they enter and let them know what would help them thrive in an online learning environment (e.g., a quiet place to do schoolwork, a dedicated amount of time to devote to academics).»

At the very least, states with fully online schools should adopt a policy like the one in Ohio, which requires such schools to offer an orientation course — the perfect occasion to set high expectations for students as they enter and let them know what would help them thrive in an online learning environment (e.g., a quiet place to study, a dedicated amount of time to devote to academics).

As schools across the country move toward implementing the Common Core State Standards, district officials face a major challenge: How do they make the new academic expectations understandable to parents?

Teachers at Pearl - Cohn work together in small groups called flocks, an approach devised by a group of teachers as a way to ensure that academic expectations and standards of behavior were applied consistently across the school.

The website contains around 400 job role suggestions with details of academic requirements, personal skills and salary expectations, as well as over 240 regional employers who are offering opportunities aimed at young people with many of them advertising live vacancies relating to apprenticeships, work experience and volunteering.

Parents cited high test scores as evidence that charter kids were shedding negative expectations and conceiving of academic progress as inevitable.

According to research sponsored by the Council of Urban Boards of Education (CUBE) and the National School Boards Association (NSBA), they include (1) feelings of safety among staff and students; (2) supportive relationships within the school; (3) engagement and empowerment of students as valued members and resources in the school community; (4) clear rules and boundaries that are understood by all students and staff; (5) high expectations for academic achievement and appropriate behavior; and (6) trust, respect, and an ethos of caring (Bryant & Kelly, 2006; Elfstrom, Vanderzee, Cuellar, Sink, & Volz, 2006; Perkins, 2006).

In her previous role as the Associate Commissioner for Bilingual Education and World Languages, she spearheaded the release of the nationally - recognized Blueprint for English Language Learners» Success, a statewide framework that establishes clear expectations for administrators, policymakers, and practitioners to prepare English Language Learners (ELLs) for academic success.

Stanford University Emeritus Mathematics Professor R. James Milgram — the only academic mathematician on Common Core» s validation committee — refused to sign off on the final draft, describing the standards as having «extremely serious failings» and reflecting «very low expectations.»

On the other hand, the CCSS can facilitate policies that are good for gifted learners, such as academic acceleration, which depends on clear expectations of what students should know and be able to do at specific grade levels.

«School leadership is as demanding a profession as any business or public sector job, especially in an era of rising public expectations and greater accountability for results,» said Robert Schwartz, academic dean at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and chair of the Executive Leadership Program steering committee.

Teachers also learned how to engage all their students in academic work by using core practices such as responsive conferencing, group learning, effective teacher talk, habits of learning, and universal expectations.

Many teacher evaluation programs refer to high academic expectations by using language on specific qualities such as these from the CCT Rubric for effective teaching:

Student expectations and character development with the same intentionality as academic content

It's rare that academic expectations get as much attention as they have here in Indiana — but for the average parent or interested outsider, it's hard to have an opinion on a debate that's so full of jargon and nuance.

High or low self - expectations, as measured by children's estimates of their grades, is one of the strongest known predictors of their ultimate academic success (J.Hattie, 2009).

And in Massachusetts, typically one of the strongest academic performers, the state said about half of the students who took the same tests as Ohio's children met expectations.

Introduced as an ambitious educational reform at the end of the last decade to make sure that, across the U.S., students graduating from the K - 12 system are college and career ready, Common Core has ramped up academic expectations that schools everywhere, including those in Kentucky, are still far from meeting.

As a result, there are large inequalities in how incoming kindergarten students will be prepared to meet the increased academic expectations of the Common Core State Standards.

Across the education field, there is unusual consensus that strong teacher leadership is central to improving our schools, particularly as teachers and students strive to meet higher academic expectations.

Known in education research literature as the «Pygmalion effect,» a teacher's higher or lower expectations of a student are significantly predictive of the student's future academic outcomes.25

During the 2015 legislative session, the Association worked with lawmakers to consider progress towards academic performance expectations as one of the most important factors in determining charter renewal.

As a member of the task force, I am excited for the opportunity to join my colleagues in making recommendations to craft a new structure to improve California's education system focused on inclusive education practices, high expectations for students and education leaders, and providing evidence - based instruction and learning supports so that all students have an opportunity to learn the standards in all core subject areas, which will ultimately lead to increased accountability and academic success for all.

And labels that classify academic skill can become self - fulfilling prophecies as teachers may lower expectations for students in special - needs classrooms.

LAUSD plans a Common Core makeover for its elementary report cards The report card changes are being proposed as part of a plan to better help parents track how well students are mastering the expectations spelled out in new sets of academic standards.

«By incorporating high academic standards and clear expectations with plans for greater student engagement and achievement, Alabama stands ready to meet the rigorous demands of preparing students for the work force and for their roles as citizens in our democratic system.

«As an authorizer, I am motivated by the potential of charter schools to provide our children with excellent educational options based on high expectations for all, an unwavering focus on academics, the pursuit of social justice and the hard work, dedication, and talent of teachers and staff.»

With a mix of human capital reforms, such as rounding out the teaching force with UCLA graduate students who have expertise in key subjects, added student learning and enrichment programs in and out of classroom, and a new focus on developing a college - going culture of high expectations, UCLA is setting out to take what is, by most measures, a struggling school and drastically improve academic outcomes for all students.

«Dancers hold themselves to very high expectations - we take that and apply it to academics as well.