Sentences with phrase «as learners in schools»

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whatever a school's commitment to a particular theological tradition may mean, therefore, insofar as it is a school, it can not entail restrictions on the freedom of teachers and learners to differ and be in error.

Like many schools, Pope John XXIII School in Evanston has embraced technology as a way to help their students become more efficient learners.

That's because Smith has since learned more about the negative impact of technology on young learners — thanks in part to her position as a marketing and communications consultant for the Toronto Waldorf School, a private school that famously eschews technoloSchool, a private school that famously eschews technoloschool that famously eschews technology....

Children and adults participate fully in the school community as responsible lifelong learners.

Here in the Ctiy of Buffalo this year a report from the Council on Great City Schools on Improving the Academic Achievement of English Language Learners in the Buffalo Public Schools System cited that only 21 % of these students graduate from high school and the academic achievement programs ignored them as a group as though they don't exist with as many as 100 never recieving their mandated language instruction.

Michael Orosco, associate professor of special education, said the findings are important, as they can help schools differentiate English - language learners with reading disabilities from those who are simply struggling with learning in a second language.

For all our kids, we must hold sacred in - school reading time to support our young people as lifelong readers and learners, while encouraging — but not counting on — at - home reading as the only time where reading occurs.

All kinds of research are being produced that could count as «instructionally relevant,» after all, from studies of systems - level factors like curriculum quality and school operations to those focused on what's happening in learners» heads, to those examining classroom - level techniques.

Mary: Even when the legislative environment is inclusive and extends educational opportunities to refugee learners, as we see in the Kenyan context, national security threats can roll back any progress made by refugee students in gaining access to national schools, as fear and xenophobia trigger government crackdowns on relocating urban refugees back to the camps or their countries of origin under the guise of «voluntary repatriation.»

A larger challenge for policymakers and education leaders is to rethink the specialist model as the panacea for augmenting instruction for English language learners in today's linguistically diverse schools, many with large concentrations of Hispanic students.

To develop these guidelines, the various international partners created opportunities for representatives from the Ministry of Education to visit schools in the refugee camps as well as schools in Nairobi that have been accommodating significant numbers of refugee learners in their classrooms.

At present, many senior leaders in education see VR, AR and MR as a distraction, because the learning benefits are yet to be proven, but what is clear, is that there will be a push ‑ pull effect that makes their introduction into mainstream teaching almost inevitable; the «push» from the software giants, wanting to promote the take - up of their products, and the «pull» of learners keen to use «cool stuff» in their school.

Pupils are more motivated, attention spans increase (especially amongst boys), teachers can tailor a pupil's programme to their specific abilities and needs, learners can be supported outside the classroom as well as during lessons, and pupils are leaving schools with a set of ICT skills that are absolutely vital to the world of work in the 21st century.

In addition to this, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) are starting to flourish as teaching tools for nurses, learner drivers and undoubtedly schools in the near futurIn addition to this, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) are starting to flourish as teaching tools for nurses, learner drivers and undoubtedly schools in the near futurin the near future.

The 309 schools included in the study differed from other city schools in the following ways: They had a higher proportion of English Language Learners (ELL), special education, minority students, and students eligible for the Title I free or reduced - price lunch program, as well as lower average math and reading scores.

And it put a special focus on ensuring that states and schools boost the performance of certain groups of students, such as English - language learners, students in special education, and poor and minority children, whose achievement, on average, trails their peers.

Lecturer David Rose, Ed.D.» 76, hopes and believes that he and his colleagues are part of a revolution — a revolution called Universal Design for Learning (UDL), which is increasingly taking hold in schools and school districts across the country and seeks to design curriculum from the outset that can accommodate all types of learners, rather than retrofitting existing curriculums on an ad hoc, as needed basis.

In Making school meaningful for Indigenous learners Ailsa MacFie uses a body of research, plus her own experiences as a teacher in a high Aboriginal population boarding school in the Northern Territory, to provide practical tools for teachers wanting to improve educational outcomes for Indigenous studentIn Making school meaningful for Indigenous learners Ailsa MacFie uses a body of research, plus her own experiences as a teacher in a high Aboriginal population boarding school in the Northern Territory, to provide practical tools for teachers wanting to improve educational outcomes for Indigenous studentin a high Aboriginal population boarding school in the Northern Territory, to provide practical tools for teachers wanting to improve educational outcomes for Indigenous studentin the Northern Territory, to provide practical tools for teachers wanting to improve educational outcomes for Indigenous students.

Finally, UDL, with its attention to scaffolding concepts for different types of learners, is being seen as a way to help schools achieve the Common Core standards, which have been adopted in all but five states.

Known as teacher learner academies, these programs give high schoolers experience in the classroom in hopes of identifying, inspiring, and preparing great teachers before they move on to college.

It refers to schools with stubborn achievement gaps or weak performance among «subgroup» students, such as English - language learners or students in special education.

Focus School: A school with persistent achievement gaps or poor performance among «subgroup» students, such as English - language learners or students in special educSchool: A school with persistent achievement gaps or poor performance among «subgroup» students, such as English - language learners or students in special educschool with persistent achievement gaps or poor performance among «subgroup» students, such as English - language learners or students in special education.

My journey for understanding the transactional relationship between the learner and the learning environment began when I walked into a first and second grade public school as a teacher's assistant in East Harlem, New York City.

Finally, I return the lists to the students in the last week of the school year — partly to remind them that taking care of them was a year - long endeavor, but also to show them that telling future teachers about their needs as learners and people can help them be successful.

If you aren't sharing that with your organization - and, in the case of schools, with your broader community - then you are committing the deepest of hypocrisies: assuming the boss role in a learning organization without revealing who YOU are as a learner.

Fortunately, since eLearning instructors are not physically constrained in supervising a single classroom at a time, they can handle way more learners than an old school (pun intended) teacher ever could — which means you don't have to hire as many.

In Ontario, schools have raised their test scores and graduation rates by providing resources such as full - time student success teachers, who help English - language learners and other students in neeIn Ontario, schools have raised their test scores and graduation rates by providing resources such as full - time student success teachers, who help English - language learners and other students in neein need.

Semrow notes that «being in school longer would have given teachers more free time to reach out to me» to get to know her strengths and weaknesses as a learner.

The formula included weights for housing prices, minority, English - as a second language learners, children with special needs, children who are permitted free school meals, schools located in rural under - privileged areas, rusting economic areas and with high percentages of «working classes».

Ferro and her co-director Deborah Hoard focused on U.S. public schools which seek to create a «culture of intellectual life» and to respect «the whole child as a learner and as an adult in training.»

This month, 10 school districts in California charged in a suit that their state is not complying with the federal law's mandate to test English - language learners «in a valid and reliable manner,» as the law says.

State efforts at carrying out requirements to test English - language learners under the No Child Left Behind Act are receiving increased scrutiny, as hundreds of schools across the country fail to meet goals for adequate yearly progress at least in part because of such students» scores.

A growing chorus of people are saying that some school districts are overzealous in categorizing students as English - language learners in the aim of complying with federal and state laws to ensure that children of immigrants get extra help with English.

As we become more group - oriented in the workplace and in school, our knowledge of ourselves as individual learners and members of a community becomes more important,» said Mara Krechevsky, program chair and a senior researcher at Project ZerAs we become more group - oriented in the workplace and in school, our knowledge of ourselves as individual learners and members of a community becomes more important,» said Mara Krechevsky, program chair and a senior researcher at Project Zeras individual learners and members of a community becomes more important,» said Mara Krechevsky, program chair and a senior researcher at Project Zero.

Ferro explains these schools seek to nurture a «culture of intellectual life» and to respect «the whole child as a learner and as an adult in training.»

Ninety - five percent of students at Redwood City's Hoover School, in San Mateo County, come from low - income and working - class Latino families, and nearly all start school as English language learners (School, in San Mateo County, come from low - income and working - class Latino families, and nearly all start school as English language learners (school as English language learners (ELLs).

I have seen apathetic students change to students who are excited, enthusiastic learners; students who were failing every subject become engaged in learning and making better grades; students who, in the past, avoided talking with me about their grades, come... waving their report cards in their hands to show me their improvement; students who thought of themselves as incapable begin to think of themselves as capable learners; and students who thought that dreams were for others, begin to dare to dream about the world outside their school and community and how they can contribute.

«We have kids who start school in kindergarten as English learners and they're still English learners 12 years later» — if they stay in school, says SEAL director Laurie Olsen.

As a former special education teacher and an attorney representing parents of struggling learners, I'm in schools nearly every day of the week in one of the largest school districts in the country, Miami.

As James Betts, school governor and managing director of educational software publishers Kudlian believes, «CPD will also help to dispel the myth that the new curriculum is overly difficult, and will lead to empowered teachers who are happy and confident in taking our digital learners forward.»

NYC is proudly publicizing a recent study that observed, «approximately half of the students who entered kindergarten in New York City public schools as English learner students were reclassified within four years.»

In the year prior to entering a KIPP school, 80 percent of the KIPP students are from low - income families, as measured by eligibility for free or reduced - price school breakfast and lunch (FRPL); 96 percent are either black or Hispanic; 7 percent are English language learners; and 7 percent receive special education services (see Figure 1a).

For the master's candidates who will soon be serving as reading specialists in schools around the nation, Mason said the video exercise demonstrates the importance for teachers of focusing on the learners in the classroom first.

Mary Glasgow Magazines, which is celebrating its 60th anniversary, publishes 17 magazines aimed at secondary school language learners around the world specialising in French, German, Spanish and English as a foreign language.

As Lamb, Teese and Polesel have shown, with the increasing residualisation of public schools caused by the flight of cultural capital — itself a result of years of federal and state neglect and artificial choice programs promoting private schools — public schools have a larger proportion of problematic learners, disadvantaged and refugee families, and students at risk of school failure, but have larger class sizes than ever before in comparison with most private schools.

Students in «50 - 50» language - immersion schools, in which students spend half of their day learning in a nonnative language, perform as well as, or better than, students in monolingual schools on standardized tests, and these benefits extend to English - language learners as well as native English speakers (Gómez, Freeman, and Freeman, 2005; Palmer, 2009; Thomas and Collier, 2002).

One school is investigating how best to coach and support learners in lower secondary classrooms to use evidence - informed learning strategies such as spaced retrieval practice, interleaving, and interrogative elaboration.

Asil Yassine, who taught English - language learners (ELLs) in Detroit before enrolling in the Harvard Graduate School of Education, was herself an ELL student as a child.

In this post, I am going to try to make the case for why this one word is arguably the most important word for every teacher, school leader and student to meet her or his peak potential as a learner and as an individual.

As The Head of High School, I have that excuse that I am busy in the limelight; as the principal learner, I am in the spotlight and need to make time to groAs The Head of High School, I have that excuse that I am busy in the limelight; as the principal learner, I am in the spotlight and need to make time to groas the principal learner, I am in the spotlight and need to make time to grow!