Sentences with phrase «by pupils rather»

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Rather, as claimed by Clement of Alexandria and, with much greater intellectual power, Origen, his pupil and successor as head of the Alexandrian Catechetical school, Christianity is paideia, divinely given in Jesus Christ and inspired Christian scriptures, focused in a profound conversion of soul, and divinely assisted by the Holy Spirit.

The report also suggests schools should consider grouping pupils by attainment rather than age.

His words were echoed in the Commons by Schools Minister Nick Gibb who said: «We see a new and stronger role for local authorities emerging over the years as champions of parents and pupils, challenging rather than defending underperforming schools.»

His star pupil (Kerri Russell) has fallen victim to a particularly nasty black - market arms dealer (Philip Seymour Hoffman), and rather than follow standard operating procedure by disavowing her as she languishes in Berlin, the IMF would like Ethan to get her back.

About a half - hour into the film, after Allen establishes his standard, complicated love story, this time involving a «genius» philosophy professor named Abe Lucas (played by Joaquin Phoenix, with a heck of a gut), Jill, his brightest pupil (Emma Stone), who says she's in love with her boyfriend, and Rita, a married professor (Parker Posey), who all teach / attend the same Newport, R.I. university, «Irrational Man» takes a rather dark and very welcome turn.

Urban school districts spend significantly less per pupil on their high - poverty schools than their low - poverty ones, a fact that is routinely masked by school budgets that use average - salary figures rather than actual ones, a new paper suggests.

You could leave it at that, but my pupils went on to do a project in teams where each group had a different Desnos poem and had to work out what it was about (the gist rather than translating it) and present it to the class by reading it out in French, alongside a powerpoint with images to illustrate it, and then explain in English what it was about.

Education Secretary Nicky Morgan says lower results should not be interpreted as a decline in performance by pupils, saying that it was more honest to accept a dip when the bar was raised, rather than sit back and watch numbers climb like an ever - upward tick.

Moving on to what people think about education and schools, Page said that overall, concern about education is drifting downwards and that it is actually pupil behaviour and discipline that is the biggest issue (at 17 per cent) followed by funding (nine per cent) rather than standards and attainment.

The union's final point is to make sure that schools are supported by health and social care services to allow schools to fulfil their role to promote pupil wellbeing rather than making up for cuts to other services.

Rather, its recipe deals with them, as with other kids, via inclusive, child - centered instruction delivered in similar schools by exceptionally well - prepared teachers whose skills are supposed to include differentiating their instruction according to the needs, capacities, and prior achievement of all their pupils.

Each includes: Literacy section with key words and definitions Starter Lesson objective (The above a set in a box to allow pupils to cut out and stick these into their book) Three sets of questions to aid differentiation by task rather than outcome A set of extension questions Plenary questions to check understanding Homework questions (differentiated) Additional info on how to check if answers are correct and where this skill would be used in real life.

The sheet includes: Literacy section with key words and definitions Write on the sheet starter Lesson objective (The above a set in a box to allow pupils to cut out and stick these into their book) Three sets of questions to aid differentiation by task rather than outcome A set of extension questions Plenary questions to check understanding Homework questions (differentiated) Additional info on how to check if answers are correct and where this skill would be used in real life.

Guidance released in 2010 by the Department for Education and Skills recommends taking a positive approach, so that rather than focusing on what not to do, the teacher encourages pupils to recognise what they already do in life to keep themselves safe, and to extend this to less familiar places and situations.

By adopting a blended, multi-age model, the school cut per - pupil costs in half and rather dramatically raised tests scores within 3 years.

«By introducing a progress measure, we will ensure schools are fairly judged on the performance of all their pupils rather than focusing entirely on attainment, which created a perverse incentive for schools to focus on some children at the expense of others.»

Christodoulou, who used to be head of assessment at Ark Schools before moving to her new post this summer, said the purpose of the tests was to give teachers a way to measure the «absolute» progress of their individual pupils over the year — rather than be stuck with their «relative» progress against the rest of the nation as shown by the government's headline progress measures.

This is in keeping with the clear principle behind the progress measures: schools should be judged by the progress their pupils make rather than the starting points of their pupils.

Too often, it is the marking itself which is being monitored and commented on by leaders, rather than pupil outcomes and progress as a result of quality feedback».

That's why, when I worked for Tony Blair, I helped introduce a new right of access — clauses 95 and 96 of the guidance — for pupils eligible for free school meals to free travel to a choice of three schools rather than the one designated by the local authority.

Suzanne O'Farrell of the ASCL head teachers» union said that some schools might be «future proofing» their pupils» results by treating grade 5 as a pass rather than a grade 4.

You can put all the videos on your network or VLE for free viewing by your pupils with both companies but the CGP complete package costs # 25o rather than # 350 for MathsWatch.

It encourages pupils to improve how their writing communicates with the reader by making connections between a linguistic feature and the effect it has on writing, rather than by focusing on grammatical inaccuracies.

The legislation, cosponsored by three Senate Republicans — directs local county boards, rather than school systems, to pass along state per - pupil funding to regional charters.

Schools are struggling to fund their pupils with special needs while some local authorities are building up reserves rather than distributing resources, according to a new report by...

«They look generally to improve performance for lower performing, or lower ability pupils rather than specifically tackling those that are actually disadvantaged by poverty which is the main aim of the grant.»

«We are introducing a national fair funding formula so schools are funded according to their pupils» needs, rather than by their postcode.

By the end of fifth grade in France, the relative benefit to disadvantaged pupils who start at the amazingly early age of 2 rather than 4 is over one - half of a standard deviation, quite a large effect size.

The idea of the Flipped Classroom is that pupils learn new concepts at home, rather than at school through watching educational videos (quite often made by their teachers).

That half a million dollars will be made up by the $ 50 - per - pupil increase in state aid negotiated by Gov. Mark Dayton, even if it is money most taxpayers would rather not be handing to the bonds issuers.

«The environment to which pupils and students are to adapt is not the economy of real experience but rather a mere ideal concept generated by mainstream economists, particularly those of the Chicago School of Economics who, in their pursuit of «economic imperialism», have applied it to education: Its concept of a market is a purely abstract super-conscious price and coordination mechanism according to which all human activity must be aligned.

These incentives might include additional per - pupil funding for each transfer student, construction funds to make more space available, funds to recruit and employ on - site advocates and mentors to ensure the social comfort and the pedagogic progress of these students, and funds to underwrite their transportation by the same convenient means that wealthy people use to transport their children to private schools — not by circuitous and exhausting bus routes, but rather by point - to - point travel, typically in small vans, from one specific urban neighborhood to one specific school or district.

For example, at Bridgemary, which serves a distressed community with a history of low school achievement, pupils are grouped and taught by ability rather than by age.

At Washwood Heath Technology College in Stechford, billed as the city's first «vertical learning» school, pupils are taught by stage rather than age.

MPS students receive thousands of dollars less in per pupil funding than their suburban counterparts, yet groups like MMAC, rather than help create jobs for a city rocked by unemployment and crippling poverty, can only offer up ideas that take away the voice and self - determination of the people of Milwaukee.

The latest figures reveal primaries closed the progress gap by one month (difference between disadvantaged pupils and their peers) in 2015 (represented below by birth years, rather than academic year).

This was being driven by the pressure on schools to perform well in league tables, he added, rather than the interests of pupils.

The Iowa Association of School Librarians (IASL) righted a legislative wrong this session by persuading state lawmakers to reverse a provision in a 2013 law that increased the per - pupil funding formula for school districts that shared a single librarian rather than employing their own.

Even in this case, it must be noted that certain photographs represent a private sketch group meeting in one of the women artists» homes; in the other, the model is draped; and the large group portrait, a co-operative effort by two men and two women students of Repin's, is an imaginary gathering together of all of the Russian realist's pupils, past and present, rather than a realistic studio view.