Sentences with phrase «class topics increased»

One study conducted with students in a statistics course found that adding three or four funny anecdotes related to class topics increased grades by 10 %.

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The big topic here is that if Treasuries are doomed to fall, we can expect weaker bonds to be put under increasing stress, leading to events that coukd serve as a catalyst for defaults and repricing in the broader asset class.

Each Spring and Fall, Adoptions From The Heart offers a series of educational classes intended to increase knowledge and inform adoptive parents on various topics; including prenatal drug exposure, infant / child care and more.

ActivInspire Flipchart for use with an IWB during whole class teaching on topic of Level 6 - Percentage increase and decrease wordy questions this has been used at KS4 for whole class teaching.

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According to Brenna, this strategy really helped her to increase her understanding of the topic and to figure out various ways to design an inquiry lab activity on greenhouse gases for her Earth science class.

At Foothills High, for example, the teachers agreed to embrace just three initiatives that would provide consistency for students and a common set of schoolwide teaching experiences for themselves: (1) sustained silent reading to increase time spent with print and to develop the reading habit, (2) use of multiple books and sources to give students experiences with a variety of engaging print genres, and (3) use of lesson impressions (Brozo & Simpson, 2007) to generate interest in class topics and create regular opportunities for content - focused writing.

«For children in urban communities with increased class sizes and decreased funding, the tests are a way to prove that the schools are failing so they can be closed and re-opened as charter schools,» said Morna McDermott, a founding organizer of United Opt Out, which issues state - by - state guidance on the topic.

The school - to - prison pipeline phenomenon that has been a major topic of discussion in education circles in recent years is defined as a result of policies that encourage a police presence at schools, harsh tactics such as extreme physical restraint, zero - tolerance policies and other automatic punishments that result in suspensions and out - of - class time, and other actions that could increase a student's chances of landing in the criminal justice system, according to Teaching Tolerance magazine, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center.

They also lead the class in authentic mathematics learning activities focusing on employing technology to increase understanding of secondary mathematics topics.

The increase in state and district mandates to use e-text helped drive the inclusion of this topic and the design of instructional activities in a secondary science methods class.

The study found that LearnSmart improves pass rates (+12.5 %), increases students» class and test preparation outside of the classroom (students who completed all the LearnSmart modules scored an average of 10 % higher on all exams), and allows instructors to cover more applied topics and real - world activities in class.

You have done the work to actively follow all of the lectures in class, taking notes, reviewing them, and increasing you knowledge about the topic.

• Introduced Celebrity Speakers, an initiative to encourage celebrities to speak on topics under discussion in class, thereby increasing students» interests in subjects such as art and history