Sentences with phrase «academic expectations of»

Early - childhood advocates have been concerned for some time that the academic expectations of elementary school are filtering down to kindergarten.

Have an independent body — perhaps out of a university or other independent institution — create these academic standards and maintain them to keep up with the changing academic expectations of post-graduates.

Research has found that across preK — 12 and postsecondary settings, the racial attitudes of educators have important consequences for the learning and development of students, whether these attitudes manifest in academic expectations of students or disciplinary practices.

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.

Predictors of Change in Academic Expectations of Hispanic High School Students.

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.

Some cognitive scientists suggest that teachers may subtly communicate different academic expectations of boys and girls and these biased expectations may become self - fulfilling.

Shabazz students must commit to the academic expectations of the school and give assurance, in writing, that they will observe nonharassment, alcohol and other drug, and attendance policies.

Not exact matches

That the Marxist Left should argue theoretically and act practically from the standpoint of the most advanced productive forces in their society, that they should develop in depth all the liberating factors immanent in these forces and use them strategically, is no academic expectation but a political necessity.

The conversation made an impression on Nicole, who is the president and founder of The Expectations Project, a national organization that mobilizes people of faith to support public education reform and close the academic achievement gap.

In the academic sphere, we have not always managed parents» expectations perfectly, and because we are young plant, any falling short makes us vulnerable; but some batches of results, especially in English and in languages, have been better than most schools back home.

There is discontinuity between earlier education and colleges and a mismatch between faculty expectations and the academic preparation of entering students.

It is not clear, however, whether Brown's constant stress on high academic expectations simply assumes the canons of critical, orderly, disciplined inquiry that the research university model had made commonplace in the 1930s in American graduate education outside of theological schools, or whether he is rather calling for theological school teachers who are very learned but are not necessarily themselves engaged in original research.

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.

Dr. Jerry's popular speeches, lectures and seminars have presented assemblies of students, teachers, parents and administrators with practical approaches on how today's teens can overcome the trials and tribulations of growing up, from coping with bullying to meeting parental academic expectations to walking away from drugs and other self - destructive behaviors.

Do parental high expectations get kids excited for a future of academic and personal achievement, or lead to other issues?

And that was on top of the stress of incredibly high academic expectations, which I was just encountering — that was my first semester.

The trend to learning centers is partly due to high parent and school expectations; it's also attributable to research that shows that kids are capable of learning early academics and other skills that previously were not taught until later.

The teacher should have the best idea of whether the child can meet social and academic expectations.

Even though I have followed my academics with all the seriousness it deserved, and was mindful of my performance, I was not with much expectations on this day.

It is open to academics and / or practitioners who have improved upon — or extended beyond — current expectations of best practice in education and training.

«The university understands that it needs to have a settlement that is fair to both the faculty in compensation, facilities, and services, and to students, in terms of their financial and academic expectations.

«Preschool programs are so full of academic expectations that adding a Spanish lesson time may not be helpful or developmentally appropriate,» Lippard said.

«That's what we train you for, that's what we're good at training you for, so that's the expectation, that if you're going into this program, you're going to want to become a part of an academic medical center,» says Robinna G. Lorenz, who is an M.D. - Ph.

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.

In addition, there are growing expectations that the research arm of academic medicine must, like the clinical arm, be a revenue source — thus the new alliances with industry, especially in the area of technology transfer.

candidates must learn to manage the expectations of two cultures, academic and industrial.

In this way, we seek to avoid the two - sided performer - user pitfall that we have observed in earlier and related federal agency endeavors to promote research / knowledge utilization: on the one hand, requiring or inducing academic grantees to torque or overstate their research findings in order to connect to immediate policy issues; on the other hand, creating unrealistic or premature expectations on the part of users that early stage fundamental research will be directly relevant to their immediate needs, leading them to be disappointed or disenchanted when well conceived and implemented academic studies fail to produce such information.

The conflict between the public's belief in teaching and the academic belief in research makes the central problem of the university unique; there's no other great social institution afflicted by such a radical division between public expectations and professional goals.

The study, published in the journal Science Communications, remains one of the few in the academic literature to systematically assess mass media reporting based on the expectations of researchers, reporters and the average reader.

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].

He doubts a similar breakthrough could be achieved in today's academic culture, because of the expectations on academics to collaborate and keep churning out papers.

At Browns Mill, every parent and child is asked to sign an «Achieving Academic Excellence through Nutrition» commitment contract, outlining the parameters and expectations of the program.

A new film by David Cronenberg is always reason to celebrate, but «A Dangerous Method» dampens expectations, offering up a curiously muted object, one to be admired rather than embraced, a fascinating academic discussion that remains resolutely distant from any sort of easy interaction.

«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.

The survey aims to reveal the different ways in which teachers use data, especially its place in informing, managing and monitoring our expectations of students» academic progress.

This series — launched in September 2004 — examines the new approaches to leadership in education at a time of increasing academic expectations on schools.

They're sitting at individual desks and there's teachers and curricula, and more interestingly for us, very strict behaviour expectations and expectancies for the kids, not just in the academics but more in terms of how to behave in the classroom.

The combination of high expectations and adequate supports has been shown by several meta - analyses to be one of the most impactful strategies for improving academic achievement (Hattie, 2009).

This committee's responsibility is to continually assess the extent to which the school's expectations and procedures provide an ethical learning community that maximizes the character development and academic success of all its members.

More recent research has examined non-test score outcomes, uncovering differences by race / ethnicity in teacher expectations for students» educational attainment and subjective evaluations of students» academic ability.

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?

There are also articles about obstacles to greater progress: a study reveals that teacher expectations impact students» likelihood of completing college and are often lower for black students than for their white counterparts, even after accounting for students» academic and demographic backgrounds; and a look at how allowing laptop use in the classroom actually distracts from student learning.

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.

These kinds of high expectations, along with adequate support structures in place, have been shown to be some of the most impactful strategies for improving academic achievement.

«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?

Before schools can respond to external pressure for increased academic performance, they must transform themselves from atomized, incoherent organizations to ones in which faculty share an explicit set of norms and expectations about what good instructional practice looks like.