Sentences with phrase «academic learning of its students»

, promoting the mental health and wellbeing of the whole - school community is as important as improving the academic learning of its students.

For Elanora State Primary School, promoting the mental health and wellbeing of the whole - school community is as important as improving the academic learning of its students.

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Chuck Cohn is the CEO and founder of Varsity Tutors, a live learning platform that connects students with personalized instruction to accelerate academic achievement.

C. S. Lewis explored the polarity in the address «Learning in Wartime,» delivered to Oxford students who were trying to concentrate on academics while their friends fought in the trenches of Europe and staved off the German aerial assault on London.

The aims of liberal learning are not achieved when the student simply accumulates ready - made academic information about the faiths of mankind.

Twice therein occurs the statement, «Any certain extent of academic education shall never be a requirement for credentials...» (22) While there is always more to learn for any student of Scripture, however brilliant or trained, I am not at all prepared to say that such simple pietistic use of Scripture is defective; it is not so much wrong as limited.

The Kitchen Community builds Learning Gardens in schools around the U.S. reaching hundreds of thousands of students every school day, improving their vegetable intake and academic achievements.

A blend of traditional and progressive teaching styles within a nurturing and supportive environment encourages a love of learning and challenges students to reach their full academic potential.

In the same way that responsive parenting in early childhood creates a kind of mental space where a child's first tentative steps toward intellectual learning can take place, so do the right kind of messages from teachers in school create a mental space that allows a student to engage in more advanced and demanding academic learning.

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.

Ron Berger, the chief academic officer of EL Education, tells Expeditionary Learning students the story of Austin's butterfly drawing

«It's project - based learning with lots of different ways for students to be engaged inside and outside of the classroom - all tying back to their core academics,» adds Meyer.

Dr. Cheyney currently directs the International Reproductive Health Laboratory at Oregon State University where she has developed an academic learning community comprised of five undergraduate research assistants, 12 graduate students and one postdoctoral fellow whose research agendas are focused on identifying culturally appropriate ways to improve access to high quality midwifery care as a means of reducing health inequalities for mothers and babies in the U.S and abroad.

Brigham and Rogers each offered experiential advice on how academic integration of school gardens can enhance student learning in all areas.

Entrusted with the essential task of accompanying their students on a several - year journey, Waldorf grades 1 - 8 teachers have a role analogous to that of effective parent, guiding the children's formal academic learning while awakening their moral development and increasing their awareness of their place in the world.

Recipient of: Superintendent's Key Scholar Award, Honor Roll, Georgia Scholar, Optimist Club Essay Contest — First Place, National Latin Exam — Gold (Latin I, II, and III), Spirit of Learning Award, Academic Excellence Certificate, Academic Letter, Lamp of Knowledge, Georgia Certificate of Merit, Governor's Honors Program Nominee, Student of the Month, National AP Scholar, AP Scholar with Distinction, GHSA State Literary Competition Essay Writing — First Place Divisional, Hugh O'Brien Youth Leadership Conference and Leadership 56, Mock Trial Lawyer Award, Daughters of the American Revolution Youth Citizenship Award

If you're looking for a private academic school that offers holistic learning experience to students in kindergarten, lower, and middle school, turn to Waldorf School of Baltimore.

Today's students face a great deal of academic pressure, which when combined with food insecurity further underscores the need to improve access to breakfast to facilitate learning.

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

He enthused that the university had set a creditable academic standard matched with agricultural and entrepreneurial programmes to generate employment, adding that every student has a small portion of land where they practice agriculture and learn from it.

The Daboase Secondary Technical School in the Wassa East District of the Western Region, has had to compromise the quality of academic work and learning conditions in order to provide makeshift boarding facilities for its students.

WBFO's Eileen Buckley spoke with the Assistant Superintendent of Special Education for the Buffalo Public School District to learn how the District is working to engage students in their academics.

«Joel misses the essence of teacher - student interactions, and the extent to which teachers focus on students» physical and emotional well - being, in addition to their academic learning,» said Eric Nadelstern, the former New York City deputy schools chancellor and visiting professor of practice at Columbia University's Teachers College.

Pioneer students of the Technical University (Tech - U), Ibadan will on January 7th next year resume academic activities, DAILY POST has learnt.

The District Chief Executive (DCE) for his part said the assembly will continue to support brilliant but needy students at various levels of the academic ladder, provision of physical infrastructure, motivation packages for teachers as well as provision of teaching and learning materials.

Wu Boda, director of China Academic Degrees and Graduate Education Development Center, says the new organization could learn from the experience of the European Union's Erasmus Programme, which was established in 1987 to foster student mobility and other educational cooperation within Europe.

«And if you want to become a PI, you should also learn more about the academic field, so that you have more understanding of grant writing and items you don't get exposed to as a Ph.D. student.»

IQ is generally considered a predictor of learning ability, but in this study with students who are intellectually disabled or low IQ, the results showed that IQ didn't always predict academic achievement.

My early elementary school memories up through ninth grade are of teachers struggling to maintain class discipline with occasional coverage of academics, but the students did learn how to survive under difficult circumstances.

Dr. Reaven: I am not sure if I «stood - out», but if there is anything that has helped me in my academic life it was the good fortune of being in an undergraduate program whose goal was to help students learn how to read, write, and think.

He is well versed in the process of implementing and administering Student Information Systems with integrated Learning Management Systems and developing seamless digital document, workflows, student applications and academic review processes universitStudent Information Systems with integrated Learning Management Systems and developing seamless digital document, workflows, student applications and academic review processes universitstudent applications and academic review processes university wide.

Over the school break, students can forget a lot of what they learned and fall out of practice with academic skills.

It also prepares students for life in university through study of formal writing style, academic vocabulary building, and the formation of clear opinions during class debate.We are here to help and are dedicated to your needs.A culturally diverse, progressive and welcoming city.Students are provided with regular computer work and test practice so that they can apply newly learned strategies under test conditions.This program is for students interested in taking ESC's 12 - week UCTP (University College Transfer Program).

And since avoiding academic risks means avoiding learning, praising students» intelligence eventually impaired their success in school (and life happiness as well, since they felt intelligence was out of their own control).

I'm going to focus on the development of students» academic discourse as a high - leverage instructional practice that contributes to deeper learning, one in which our urban students need particular explicit instruction.

Select words that are crucial to learning academic content and ask students to act out the definitions of these words in different parts of the room.

In a classroom where students are doing the majority of the talking, where they are engaged with each other in rich, structured conversations and where they use academic vocabulary to support their ideas with evidence, I know two things are happening: Students are experiencing deeper learning, and this classroom is a step closer to ensuring educationalstudents are doing the majority of the talking, where they are engaged with each other in rich, structured conversations and where they use academic vocabulary to support their ideas with evidence, I know two things are happening: Students are experiencing deeper learning, and this classroom is a step closer to ensuring educationalStudents are experiencing deeper learning, and this classroom is a step closer to ensuring educational equity.

In the postsecondary space, the Gates Foundation made a number of grants — both directly and through NGLC — to intriguing ventures with the potential to improve education dramatically, including some of my disruptive favorites: start - up MyCollege Foundation, which will establish a non-profit college that blends adaptive online learning solutions with other services at a low cost; University of the People, the world's first tuition - free, non-profit, online academic institution dedicated to opening access to higher education globally; New Charter University, a competency - based university that charges only $ 199 per month for students seeking a degree and for which NGLC will fund a research study of its online students and a comparative one of students enrolled in a blended - learning environment delivered through a partnership with the Community College of the District of Columbia; Southern New Hampshire University, which under its President Paul LeBlanc has already created an autonomous online division and will now pioneer the «Pathways Project,» which will offer a self - paced and student - centric associates degree; and MIT, which will use the funds to create a free prototype computer science online course for edX.

05, principal of KIPP Ascend, a charter school in Chicago, are just as important as academics, which is why all 66 KIPP schools across the country operate on longer days — her school from 7:25 a.m. until 5 p.m. «Expanded learning time provides more time for students to work on academic skills, but also other skills that are as equally important to develop their sense of self — the arts or a language, for instance,» she says.

In «Learning from Rudolf Steiner: The Relevance of Waldorf Education for Urban Public School Reform,» a study published in 2008 in the journal Encounter: Education for Meaning and Social Justice, researcher Ida Oberman concluded that the Waldorf approach successfully laid the groundwork for future academics by first engaging students through integrated arts lessons and strong relationships instead of preparing them for standardized tests.

Benefits to School Life Looking at the lasting impact of LOtC experiences in terms of academic performance, Learning Away's recent research found that school trips resulted in higher academic achievement, with 61 per cent of students achieving higher than their predicted grade following a school trip based on the subject area.

Based on these statements, we can categorize the schools roughly into five groups: those that have a child - centered or progressive educational philosophy and typically seek to develop students» love of learning, respect for others, and creativity (29 percent of students); those with a general or traditional educational mission and a focus on students» core skills (28 percent of students); those with a rigorous academic emphasis, which have mission statements that focus almost exclusively on academic goals such as excelling in school and going to college (25 percent of students); those that target a particular population of students, such as low - income students, special needs students, likely dropouts, male students, and female students (11 percent of students); and those in which a certain aspect of the curriculum, such as science or the arts, is paramount (7 percent of students).

Service learning can have positive effects on students» performance on subject - matter examinations and assessments and creates opportunities known to improve academic achievement, such as giving students the chance to act autonomously, develop good relationships with adults and peers, and increase personal self - esteem and feelings of self - efficacy.

«It's very important to have these conferences, especially to learn — to see — where our student stands as far as academics are concerned,» he says, «and it also helps us get involved in the education of our kids.»

Approximately 38 percent of white students and only 20 percent of black graduates met the academic - curriculum requirements adopted in 1985 by the state's Board of Trustees of the Institutions of Higher Learning, the report says.

From a list of 15 topics ranging from coping with stress to academic planning, they're asked to rate the five that are most important for student learning.

The best way to learn about the global problems is travelling around the world, for this reason the students of this new graduation would have to travel each academic year to different countries and continents to study the way to achieve the MDGs!

Once the rules are in place and students understand logical consequences, teachers can move on to other aspects of the Responsive Classroom approach, such as Academic Choice, which gives students more flexibility in their learning.

And now let's take another step back and consider the alignment between the work done by those outside of the classroom — including principals, central office administrators, and superintendents — and the desired goal of seeing deeper learning structures, like rich academic discourse, experienced by all students.

According to NYLC, service - learning is defined as student programs organized in relation to a specific academic course or curriculum, with clearly stated learning objectives that address real community needs in a sustained manner over a period of time.