Sentences with phrase «as weak student»

About 20 schools are expected to be designated next month as «priority schools» because of rock - bottom reading and math achievement plus other problems, such as weak student growth or high dropout rates.

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Student - athletes will benefit the most from reduced exposure to potentially injurious blows and from what one calls the «conundrum of having to self - report an injury that they may not recognize as being potentially injurious or dangerous in the moment of competition,» or, as recent studies suggest, that athletes know are potentially dangerous but choose not to report because they fear being punished by the coach for doing so, such as by removing them from a starting position, reducing future playing time, or inferring in front of teammates that reporting symptoms made them «weak» or less «manly»; and

Students of human pathos may one day cherish the 16 - minute recording of me, with my 100 percent positive - feedback rating as an eBay purchaser, failing to make renowned physicist Steven Weinberg, who won a Nobel for unifying electromagnetism with the so - called weak force, admit that he can't explain how a magnet holds a dry - cleaning ticket to the door of a refrigerator.

On the other hand, «historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) such as Howard, Fisk and Clark Atlanta» enroll students who are «on average significantly weaker academically than the black students at Dartmouth and the other Ivies,» the book states.

The weaker students use the Scaffolding presentation as it has some of the basic shapes and outlines to help them on their way.

Research from inside and outside the ed school consistently shows that teacher education is an extraordinarily weak intervention in the process of socializing teachers, whose main influences are a long apprenticeship of observation as K - 12 students before entering teacher education and the powerful culture of the school in which they begin to teach.

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

Help code is provided with each task for weaker students Task solutions are also included on the PPT The full working code is attached as a text file Extension tasks are included for the more able This is best taught after an introduction to subroutines.

The first in the series of SREB reports, «Education's Weak Link: Student Performance in the Middle Grades,» describes the middle grades as the «weak link» in education, nationally as well as in southern staWeak Link: Student Performance in the Middle Grades,» describes the middle grades as the «weak link» in education, nationally as well as in southern staweak link» in education, nationally as well as in southern states.

Handing over the reins to my students doesn't make me weaker as a teacher.

As a result, the pedagogy behind most MOOCs is weak, and the MOOCs are not well suited for high school students.

In a profession that already feels under siege, the decision in most states — encouraged by the U.S. Department of Education — to press ahead with using student test scores as a significant component of a teacher's evaluation «just fuels the perception that we care more about weeding out weak teachers than giving the vast majority of teachers the time and support they need to make a successful transition to Common Core,» says Schwartz.

I allow the really weak students to have the French version next to the English version so they have lots of support, stronger students are allowed a few «sneaky peaks» at the French version and the really strong students aim to refer back to the French version as little as possible.

If our students fail to achieve it is because of the «inundating smog of low expectation» or our own «weak internal locus of control» — a failure to believe that we as teachers can control events that affect our students.

There are coloring activities for the little or weak ones as well as writing activities for the older or stronger students.

At the top, honors students fret not about boredom or weak achievement, but about the stress that attends all that cramming and homework as they compete for entry into high - status universities.

I take Grissmer's silence as an acceptance of my conclusions that the RAND study shows a weak relationship between spending and student achievement and can not be used to identify good policy choices.

I did this to get my gifted students thinking about their talents ~ academically ~ as well as their weak areas.

This can be used to support weaker students or as a starting point for more able students to add further detail to.

Some teens use social networks to anonymously torment other teens, while other teens are tormenting the people who are different such as disabled students, weaker students, socially isolated students, and un-athletic students.

You will learn to overcome school challenges such as poverty, misbehaviors, cognitive lags, teacher turnover, weak school culture and student effort.

Most U.S. students continue to have a weak grasp of civics, as well as U.S. history and geography, recent national data suggest.

However, unlike the Finnish inclusion model, colleagues refer students with learning problems to our program as a way of not having to take responsibility for the success of weaker students.

Impressively, attending the school with the strongest civic climate (where 85 percent of students listed voting as a component of good citizenship) rather than the school with the weakest civic climate (where 46 percent chose voting) increased anticipated participation by a quarter of a standard deviation, or by about twice the effect of the individual student's having listed voting as a component of good citizenship.

Graduation rates, Regents test scores, drop - out rates, the progress of minority students, the performance of the weakest 9th grade students — you name it, and the results, as evaluated and tabulated by the respected university - based scholars at the Research Alliance for New York City Schools, were very strong, even remarkable.

It is important to note that many of these results are much stronger for students with weaker reading skills, as measured by their 8th - grade reading scores.

Various studies in the 1970s and 80s described the limits of higher levels of authority in the governance structure for education, and the relatively weak impact of state policy on student outcomes.294 But loose coupling does not mean that no influence flows from superordinate entities.295 Even as schools are busy developing their own policies and initiatives, they pay attention to demands from «outside the system» when those demands are consistent with the directions in which their organizations are already moving.296

weak effort or disruption should never result, as it often does today, in suspension and then return to the same class, but rather in separation from the students who are working hard, with intense remediation intended to allow a new start in a new class the next quarter.

«Experimenters separated seventh - and eighth - grade students into two groups — strong and weak readers as measured by standard reading tests,» Hirsch wrote.

Given this weak statistical evidence of positive relationships between student achievement and district or school data use (as reflected in the principal and teacher survey items), we turned to our qualitative data, which provided the following insights:

The reports describe these programs as being characterized by large class sizes, heavy responsibilities placed on parents, and weak student academic growth.

An AFT report «Passing on Failure» delineates several reasons for student failure: «immaturity, weak curriculum and instruction, excessive absenteeism, lack of effort, failure of teachers and administrators as well as parents to use practices that promote high achievement, and failure due to a combination of factors listed above.»

Unfortunately, research shows that most students in the United States are weak when it comes to reading and writing non-fiction, as is apparent in the results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

U.S. students are particularly weak in performing math tasks with higher cognitive demands, such as taking real - world situations and translating them into mathematical terms, according to the OECD report.

Bullies who prey on weaker students have existed about as long as there have been classrooms.

Students outcomes are a product of the education system as a whole, interacting with other factors, and therefore represent a weak metric of whether the piecemeal change is having a positive impact.

For the 162 programs identified as the weakest in the nation, the common thread was low admission criteria and poor student teaching requirements.

A closing thought on the moral imperative: as a society, if we only help the weakest teachers improve, we're not going to improve the average levels of achievement by enough to ensure our students can find work and thrive in the 21st Century.

If students are having trouble formulating hypotheses, they can refer to that portion of the scoring guide as they differentiate between strong and weak examples of hypotheses, practice drafting hypotheses, give one another descriptive feedback on their drafts, and assess their own drafts» strengths and weaknesses.

Sure, Supt. John Deasy has managed to at least talk the talk on systemically reforming the district (even as he makes rather weak moves as striking a deal with the AFT's City of Angels local on a teacher evaluation plan that does little to actually measure the performance of teachers based on their success with the students they instruct in classrooms) and has even allowed for families at 24th Street Elementary to exercise the district's own Parent Trigger policy and take over the school.

By providing lots of ways for students to exhibit proficiency, you provide success for students who are struggling with other academic skills which may be weaker, such as math, organizational or reading skills.

We know that many students continue to struggle to read by the end of the third grade, and show ever - weaker comprehension as they move through elementary school and beyond.

If, as a teacher you can key into the student's strong points and work on the weak ones, it doesn't matter if you care or not.

If your students have weak academic skills (as opposed to Emotionally Impaired students) you or your classroom aide may administer the reinforcement program.

As a public charter school we have a wide diversity of students and many come to us with a weaker background in mathematics than is necessary to enter concurrent enrollment classes at the college where we are located.

Lawmakers are also pushing for a program that would push academically weak college students into a community college program before gaining admission to the state's four - year universities, known as NC GAP.

That school got the green light with a 6 - 3 vote (1 recusal), even though discussions continued throughout the board meeting as to whether or not that was a smart move, given the application's weak points on how to accommodate students with special needs and the degree to which it will be able to recruit as many students as school leaders say they think is possible.

The Common Core, while arguably a strong baseline for student learning in the United States, are rightfully being criticized for a weak emphasis on 21st century competencies like creativity, collaboration, and communication (Partnership for 21st Century Skills, 2010), as well as for a narrow focus on only reading and math.

To cite an example using traditional grading marks, a student who started out as a rather weak writer in 10th grade English and earned three «Ds» on initial writing assignments but worked hard to improve his skills and earned three «Bs» by the end of the term should receive a «B» as a final mark on writing, not a «C» (the average).

This earlier study also reported weaker effects of (likely individually provided) transformational leadership practices on student achievement as compared with the effects of collective leadership in the present study.