Sentences with phrase «chance of helping students»

Only when children have support for all their needs will schools have a real chance of helping every student master required education concepts and skills.

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Because of a recent change in the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), grandparents can soon use their tax - efficient 529 plans to help pay college costs earlier without impacting students» chances for federal financial aid.»

A co-signer can help borrowers improve their chances of being approved for, or get lower interest rates on, their student loans.

«We're trying to raise awareness that more than one side needs to be heard on the issue of homosexuality, and we're helping to ensure Christian students have the chance to express their viewpoint,» said Candi Cushman, a Focus on the Family education analyst, in the release.

Returning to academia after a short detour as editor of the AAAS Minority Scientists Network (MiSciNet) gives me another chance to pursue my passion: helping minority students reach their full potential in science.

In his so - called «Choices and Chances» workshops, Richards helps students make informed decisions about what they want to study and why, regardless of their ethnic or social backgrounds.

Having the chance to see and interact with scientists across a range of dimensions of diversity can help students develop their identities as scientists.

The annual competition invites students to submit two - minute videos that help educate others about the health benefits of black, green, oolong, and white tea — all of which come from the Camellia sinensis tea plant — for the chance to win a $ 20,000 scholarship.

As the Executive Director of Teach for America in New Orleans, Kira has the chance to help students and teachers find a new sense of possibility by literally and figuratively building schools from the ground up.

The problems that NCLB flagged have not gone away, but states now have a chance to address them using tools and techniques that better equip parents to demand change and maintain a sense of urgency about the needs of the disadvantaged students the Elementary and Secondary Education Act was crafted to help!

Create rich and complex tasks so that various students have a chance to excel and take on the role of helping others.

But even as she acknowledged toward the end that technology has a role to play, she missed spotlighting how technology can help us redesign schools to allow students to achieve what appears most important in her mind: the chance for students to have far more meaningful face - to - face interactions with teachers and peers — a counterintuitive yet important part of blended learning's promise for many students.

Ranging from giving children the chance to extract their own DNA to characterising the proteins of an enzyme, trying their hand as a formulation scientist and even working through crime scene forensics, the experiments have been designed to help give students insight into how science is used in everyday life.

Students with disabilities have received a chance to achieve the same educational success as healthy youth can with the help of contemporary assistive educational technology.

In the case of elementary students, they are given the chance to make up missed work, and school officials work with families to help improve attendance.

Expanding the set of choices: College Match helped students identify «match» colleges, or selective colleges that are a good fit based on students» academic profiles, financial considerations, and personal needs and that would most likely increase their chances of college success.

He has a wealth of experience in working with schools and young people, which will be invaluable in helping Future First expand our work enabling schools to boost students» confidence, motivation and life chances.»

We work every day to achieve this vision and have so far helped more than a thousand state secondary schools and colleges across the country to engage their community of former students to improve the motivation, confidence and life chances of the current generation.

Talking is important for everyone, for their quality of life and life chances, and these resources will help you develop your students» skills regardless of their starting point.

My students love it and I get chance to sit down with the students who need extra help, or catch up on a bit of marking.

«IEP meetings are tremendously significant in the lives of families and students, helping to shape students» educational futures and chances for success,» write Mapp, Carver, and Lander.

It gives students a chance to create fascinating graphic organizers that help them arrange evidence of their year of learning with visual appeal.

Some students in St. Paul, Minnesota, who were at risk of being retained, will have a chance to catch up with their classmates through a first - of - its - kind program designed to help lagging students.

Through planning curricula - aligned projects, school and community makerspaces can help once again to democratize education and build learning communities where all students have a chance to grow into thoughtful, confident leaders of tomorrow.

Among the founding faculty was Chezare Warren, now an assistant professor at Michigan State University, a young math teacher who jumped at the chance to help design a curriculum for these students — many of whom had never thought college to be an option for them — that would consider their unique stories and focus on understanding the factors that would lead...

Known as assistive technology (AT), these developments help level the playing field for students with special needs, giving them a greater chance at success in some of the more challenging areas.

Because they are not fully responsible for a class of their own, novices will have the opportunity to engage in a semester - long case study of an individual student in which they have a chance to systematically figure out what helps that child learn and how to work effectively with the family.

The chance to show children that some of history's greatest artists, leaders, and inventors were dyslexic (this helps relieve some of the pressure and shame that students feel).

If there is a way to refine the feedback loop between students, parents and teachers, there is a good chance we can eliminate some of the difficulties around understanding and help improve overall performance.»

The film director Steven Spielberg is helping underwrite a program that will give thousands of California high school students a chance to attend free screenings of his movie about the Holocaust, «Schindler's List.»

(Its carefully wrought wording should help its chances of passage: «Shall the Constitution of Georgia be amended to allow the state to intervene in chronically failing public schools in order to improve student performance?»)

Learn strategies from Dr. Nancy Marchand - Martella that empower secondary literacy teachers and help boost students» chances of success.

Results should be available in just weeks — instead of months — after completion, meaning teachers might have a chance to help struggling students before school lets out.

Perhaps the best adventure that awaits you is the chance to help educate some of Utah's brightest and best students.

Instead of school officials and other adults dictating what and how students with special needs should learn, more emphasis is being placed on giving students the chance to lead their own meetings and help chart their own course toward mastering academic and life skills.

We have been given the chance to help our students improve their lives and view their world as one full of opportunities.

Therefore, requiring students to vary their responses can not only help more of them shine by working in their dominant learning style but it can also allow all students the chance to find new ways to learn.

A strong performance of understanding helps students understand what is important to learn, provides experiences that will help them learn it, and gives them a chance to observe their growing competence along the way.

From The Journal in West Virginia: Jefferson County Schools recently announced a new partnership with TalentEd to help its schools identify, hire and develop effective teachers in an effort to give students the best chance of academic success.

In the coming years, principals will have a chance to help construct systems of assessment that help improve learning — for teachers, parents, students, and policymakers.

«If we don't wake up as a country and see what needs to be done to help these educators do their jobs and give students their chance to succeed in a city like Stockton, then the rest of the nation should worry.»

The Russell Group of research - intensive universities said it invested millions of pounds in bursaries and other initiatives designed to help the least advantaged students have the best possible chance of winning a place.

«I'm pleased to see that an active and assertive campaign from students, parents, and civil rights advocates has helped to reduce slightly the vast racially and disability - driven disparities in exclusionary discipline, but that progress means little to students who are needlessly pushed out of classrooms and denied their chances to learn.»

Teachers in both groups did give similar responses when asked whether they felt they had a chance to help students succeed, both in and out of school, and whether they thought the job was personally fulfilling.

I believe the most valuable aspect of this MOOC - Ed was the chance to hear from others throughout each module, to hear from actual students who had learning differences, and to be able to obtain and add more strategies to my tool box to help the students I interact with.

When students then have the chance to get help from a tutor, or from peers, then re-take the quiz and contribute to the class's overall achievement, it gives them a sense of accomplishment and competence.

Equitable schools prioritize Response to Intervention and give students who are in need of extra support a chance to get the help they need.

If we want to give students the best chance at success, we need to do a better job of determining whether their teachers are helping them.

Offering high school students the chance to take college courses for free or a low fee can help offset the rising cost of a college education, Lowe says.

Nevada is exploring a weighted lottery that can potentially help students who need it most have a better chance of getting into the school of their choice.