Sentences with phrase «as upper year students»

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Goldhaber (2015) summarized this research and noted that in upper elementary grades (under NCLB, required tests begin in third grade), having a lower - performing teacher (one at the 30th percentile of teachers) is roughly equivalent to a student learning half as much in the school year compared to having a higher performing teacher (one at the 70th percentile of teachers).

The results of this study raise, once again, the question as to why schools both in Australia and the United States so often reserve programs of ability grouping for students in the upper years of primary school, and why teachers are so reluctant to allow young gifted children to grade advance.

Opting out of state tests has made waves for the last couple of years as mostly White parents in mostly upper - middle class neighborhoods rallied students to opt - out of state tests.

The externship experience is a process of discovery for many of the upper - level students, a process that includes discovery of some basic doctrine relating to analysis and writing processes that Monte, as a teacher of first - year legal analysis and writing, had been attempting to teach at that earlier developmental stage.

I have been teaching an upper year class for about 10 years now that focuses students on what «type» of lawyer they want to be — meaning not whether they practice family, or criminal or general litigation but WHO they want to be as a lawyer and what type of service they see themselves as offering to their clients.

I use this as a refresher for upper - year law students.

On the academic side, effective legal writing is the subject of scores of legal writing textbooks3 and hundreds of articles.4 Legal writing instruction has been part of legal education in some form since the time of Langdell.5 The American Bar Association's law school accreditation standards recognize the importance of legal writing by requiring law students to undertake writing experiences as part of their first - year and upper - level courses.6

The November 12, 2012 deadline to submit responses to the Pathways Report and October convocation left little time to solicit feedback from students, especially as this season in the academic year includes reading week for upper year students, in - firm interviews, and exam preparation.

Since 2016, Knomos as been working with UVic's Advanced Legal Research & Writing course to enable upper year law students to gain practical experience with new and emerging legal technologies as they prepare to embark into their professional careers.

As such, I've received a wide range of advice from librarians, upper year students, research students, and professors.