Sentences with phrase «ask students at all levels»

I ask students at all levels, including recent college graduates, to consider teaching as a career.

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In a study published earlier this month, researchers at Michigan State University monitored the brains of 79 female and 70 male students, who were asked to fill out a survey about their own anxiety levels.

Navient, which services and collects student loans, is facing a shareholder proposal that asks the company to report on how it is managing its exposure, including at board level.

Ossining for Fair Funding Communications Director Jessica Vecchiarelli said: «With significant enrollment growth and substantial increases in student needs, we are simply asking that Ossining be put on a path to being funded at the same percentage level as the average district in New York State, at least 80 % of the fully phased - in Foundation Aid.

We're holding a live Ask Me Anything (AMA) on Twitter right now with Robert Fares, PhD student in Mechanical Engineering at UT Austin, about his research in grid - level battery storage.

... Things like, I guess, wisdom and experience and being able to link concepts together, ask probing questions that encourage students to think at a deeper level, giving quality feedback... just because a teacher's recorded a video to explain a concept, doesn't necessarily mean that students have to watch that at home - they could be watching that in the classroom while the teacher's working with another student on something that can't be automated.

Just a few days after Cuomo's announcement, David Deming of Harvard University and Christopher Walters of the University of California at Berkeley presented a new study at the annual meeting of the American Economic Association, using a national database of state funding levels, tuition policies, institutional expenditures, and student outcomes over time to ask precisely this question.

And that learning comes from observing student work, listening to the feedback I get from architects, and if the quality of student work isn't quite at the level at which I think it could be, then I have to ask myself, what can I change?

Again, this seems obvious, but it isn't, because we see new teachers ham - fistedly asking questions of students at any and all levels of the ladder but focusing on higher rungs.

In an effort to increase the physical activity level of students and staff members at Glenwood Elementary School in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, everyone in the school was asked to walk for 10 - 15 minutes one day each week as part of the Drop Everything and Walk (D.E.W) program.

At the secondary level, students are asked to calculate volume from a 3D file, or understand petroglyphs, brainstorm restoration work, and demonstrate the basics of architecture in order to better engage with complex mathematical concepts.

I suggest, if you do deliver this at level three, extend the main activity, by asking students to devise with a specific practitioner in mind, for example, Artaud or Brecht.

The following shows the types of tasks students at each of three grade levels will be asked to complete in the 1998 National Assessment of Educational Progress in writing:

Those students may have notched high scores on their AP exams, but they hadn't ever operated at the level they were asked to in their first university math and science classes, or at the level they'd need for internationally competitive careers.

At the beginning of the school year, I provided copies of all 13 of my Level 1.0 to 4.0 learning scales to each of my classes and asked students to read the scales and sort them into piles based on what they perceived to be the common themes.

Just like when students predict their overall score, asking students to state their confidence on individual questions continues to reinforce student ownership of questions at a cognitive level.

Committee for Children joins with other organizations to encourage members of Congress to sign on to a letter to Chairman Cole and Ranking Member DeLauro, House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, asking the subcommittee to fully fund Title IV, Part A (the Student Support and Academic Enrichment [SSAE] program) of the Every Student Succeeds Act at its authorized level of $ 1.6 billion.

The Making Caring Common Project surveyed 10,000 students from 33 schools across the country and asked them to rank what was most important to them: achieving at a high level, being a happy person (defined as «feeling good most of the time») or caring for others.

These are important questions to ask because students come into school with varying levels; some are ready for school, while others may be at risk for falling behind their peers.

The school staff finds itself asking, What school characteristics and practices have been most successful in helping all students achieve at high levels?

What would be the impact of a high school principal meeting with the math department and asking them to study the most remedial math students at each grade level?

As a presenter and workshop attendee, I love to ask dedicated middle school educators about what creative measures they take with their schedules to help students learn and demonstrate learning at higher levels as well as help teachers continue to grow.

This lesson represents a common mistake, whereby the introduction to new material and the guided practice ask students to perform at a lower level on Bloom's Taxonomy but the independent practice expects students to synthesize and analyze.

Teachers should ask themselves, «What instructional strategies, at which levels of cognition, will be most effective for teaching students what they need to know?»

Each [group] was asked to do research at their particular grade level to study ways in which differentiated instruction could be used to help the school close the racial student achievement gap.

When you ask education leaders in Omaha why the achievement gap is so glaring, you get the usual answers, «Those kids don't care, they're too poor to achieve at high levels, their parents don't get involved, etc. etc.» Fortunately we know that when schools expect ALL students to achieve, and give them great teachers who believe in their ability, students can beat the odds and rise above the challenges.

In our classrooms today, we need to look at the balance of all the things we try to accomplish — teachers are asked to do an awful lot — but I don't think we should lose sight of the fact that in addition to teaching students and making sure their achievement levels are high, teachers can also be a source of inspiration for kids that help them do great things.

When asked why he chose to use this particular simulation, he responded with three reasons: (a) he did not think this particular class (which consisted entirely of learning / behaviorally challenged students) had the self - control necessary to perform the activity themselves, (b) the simulation directly supported the specific concepts he wanted his students to understand, and (c) it allowed them to visualize at a molecular level.

But asking a third - grader to read on grade level is different than asking all students to score at least a 26 on the ACT.

More than 40 downstate superintendents have asked Koch to delay PARCC testing, saying «the testing initiative has moved too fast, is ill - planned, does not support the basic tenets of quality formative assessment such as validity and reliability, is consuming vast and valuable resources (both human and monetary) at the district level, and, most importantly, will not truly benefit our students.»

The SAAL project asks how formative assessment practices — at both the teacher and student level — can contribute to learner agency.

Analyses revealed at least a 10 % difference between Years 1 and 2 in teacher observations in grades 2 - 6 for the following factors: decrease in whole - group instruction, increase in small - group instruction, increase in asking of higher - level questions, increase in comprehension strategies instruction, increase in teacher - directed stance, decrease in student support stance.

The team will be asked to assess the writing skill level of the selected students at the beginning of the year and indicate end of year goals that would signal desired student learning.

With a systematic use of the program (finishing at least three episodes per week, speaking out loud when asked), students quickly progress from being non-readers or reading below grade level, to reading at grade level.

Reviewers attending the Dallas meeting were asked to consider each test question, at each grade level and to decide whether a proficient student would have a 50 - 50 chance of answer it correctly.

The other comparison is called criterion - referenced and asks whether a student is performing at an acceptable level.

At the Design Question 4 level, students are asked to analyze problems, generate and test hypotheses, and acquire critical - thinking and problem - solving skills.

We have proved examples of students who have asked for our service more than once, and we are grateful that they have acknowledged the efforts made by our time at every level.

At the federal level, the financial aid form FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) does not ask about grandparents» savings for the child.

I ask because I still remember my high school Calculus teacher needlessly expanding the expression «2 +2» into a convoluted equation involving arguments he hoped would exceed the competence of high school students, making an elementary error of substitution at a more fundamental level, and getting 5 as his answer.

Students at the high school, college and graduate levels are beginning to ask what these concepts mean for environmentalism.

This year students in my first year and my upper level Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility courses at the University of Ottawa inspired me to reach out to Slaw.ca editor Simon Fodden and ask him if he would be interested in publishing some of their work on this blawg.

Since the law is a subject that most people study at postgraduate level, one of the questions frequently asked by prospective undergraduate students is, «what degree should I choose?».

The session topics started at the law school level, asking how we can better prepare students to enter the ever - changing legal profession.

English: Students are asked to spend a day at school «putting themselves in someone else's shoes» reflecting and recording the challenges that particular groups of people face on an everyday level such as people with a disability or people not fluent in English.

RECO (Ontario) could hire some university students as interns and have them wander about in shopping malls asking passers - by to answer questions about their interactions with Realtors at all levels of contact.