Sentences with phrase «conventional classroom students»

This means that the average tutored student performed better than 98 % of the conventional classroom students.

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Milyutin — who confesses that he struggled with math in primary school — cited a 1984 review by the late Benjamin Bloom, which reports that students who received one - on - one tutoring performed better than 98 % of students taught in a conventional classroom.

Students inhabit fairy tale lands as well as chemistry labs, and a wide variety of places in between — the classroom may be the garden, woods, or auditorium, in addition to the more conventional locales.

The University of Nebraska - Lincoln's Marilyne Stains and her colleagues found that 55 percent of STEM classroom interactions consisted mostly of conventional lecturing, a style that prior research has identified as among the least effective at teaching and engaging students.

As well as conventional home to school transport, many of our members provide services that enable students to access opportunities outside of the classroom.

But while she was teaching to a classroom of students at one time in a conventional school, she said, «I felt I was just talking to myself.»

Unlike conventional arts education, student work in integrated classrooms reaches a higher level because students are encouraged to master real arts skills, while engaging the world and the other subjects through their art.

Beyond the conventional roles such as student government and team captains, leadership emerges when we encourage our students to take on big issues that have an impact on the world outside the classroom.

Of course, this would involve displacing or at least supplementing the traditional 1:35 student: teacher ratio of the conventional classroom.

Enhancing the curriculum In addition to the financial savings, teachers have told us that environmental sustainability has helped to enrich the curriculum by providing different learning opportunities for students struggling with conventional classroom activities.

Sometimes, Jamison says, it's hard to assure teachers accustomed to the conventional classroom that it's acceptable for students to participate in some of their education remotely, via the Internet.

Unlike conventional colleges and universities, Western Governors doesn't require students to spend a set number of hours in a classroom, average out their performance on assignments and tests, then hand out letter grades and credits.

Yet we've organized conventional schools in an industrial model and we batch - process students in ways that made sense to «cult of efficiency» experts circa 1920, that lent themselves to uniform teachers delivering a uniform curriculum to groups of twenty to thirty same - age pupils in more - or-less identical classrooms during a six - hour day and 180 - day year that made perfect sense for a country that lacked air conditioning and that wanted to standardize the school year.

Amplify's school district customers bought the company's tablets and placed them in students» hands, but most otherwise left the conventional, one - teacher - one - classroom school model in place.

There are conventional classrooms, but also breakout rooms where small groups can collaborate, a commons, and a quiet room for the many students who, like Corey, have sensory issues.

For students who benefit from learning outside of a conventional classroom setting, Odysseyware offers opportunities to maximize learning time.

Conventional wisdom about learning is often detached from what the research says, and a recent Center for American Progress study highlighted this disconnect.68 For instance, research by Carol Dweck and others has shown that simply praising students «for being smart» is an inappropriate way to motivate them in the classroom, and it can adversely impact their achievement.69 But most Americans believe just the opposite.

One of the most popular pieces of conventional wisdom in the national debate over education is that teachers lose the capacity to further improve student achievement after only a few years in the classroom — their effectiveness plateaus early in their careers.

Following conventional wisdom about classroom management often results in manipulating students instead of respecting them.

The rigid rules in conventional schools continually distract students from important work in the classroom.

Educators in these schools challenge conventional thinking about student grades, standards and testing, the curriculum development process, leadership, school climate, student promotion and retention, classroom management, and parent involvement.

Different from the conventional approach of teacher observation, I quantify teacher behaviors through their language and interaction with students from word - to - word transcriptions of classroom videos.

Therefore, we must look beyond the conventional, consider the overall dynamics of the classroom, and plan for a working environment in which all the students can fully develop their abilities and interests within the confines of one organizational unit.

While conventional books are still important and needed in the classroom, Kindles provide benefits to a student in Africa that books can not provide.

If truth be told, in today's day and time, a number of online medical assistant training programs bestow the similar excellence in tutoring and edification that a student would receive in a conventional classroom setting.

In contrast to the conventional classroom set - up, whenever a student logs into the online portal, his presence is documented.