Sentences with phrase «different subjects in school»

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CNN having three guest all believing that it is a good idea to promote god or teaching about god in the schools and not a single guest with different ideas on this subject is just wrong.

To take a single example, last year I had the privilege of participating in one of these schools in a small university town, where in a parish of about one thousand members over two hundred persons (including a goodly number of interested «enquirers» who had heard of the program through a carefully planned advertising campaign) attended eight night sessions, held from eight until ten o'clock, with a choice among eight different courses, dealing with theological, ethical, historical, devotional, and scriptural subjects.

Precisely because it is a theological school, it will be helpful to ask three different sorts of questions about it, and then to ask how the answers to the three are themselves interrelated in the structures that pattern the school's common life: What construal or construals of the Christian thing are assumed in the way the subjects of study are addressed?

If you want to think in terms of school - type subjects, at least initially, but are uncertain how to get started, or what books might be helpful at different stages, these subject pages will give a few suggestions which may suit your family.

«Based on the relatively high competence of Waldorf pupils in natural science, combined with exceptionally high indicators of motivation and reflective cognition in these subjects as well as the different pedagogical principles, it is reasonable to conclude that public education can learn from the Steiner Waldorf schools, in particular with regard to being able to concretely apply knowledge in natural science.»

If your child is struggling with a subject at school, help them learn it in a different way.

Roll back Malloy education reform policies by not interfering in high - performing schools, which would be subjected to different standards than lower - performing schools.

That is why at our massage school, nearly 80 percent of class hours are dedicated to our students to practice massaging other students, receiving massage, and observing the teacher demonstrate how to massage.The remaining 20 percent of class hours are spent discussing the theory of Raynor massage and other subjects such as hygiene, professional ethics, contraindications, the theory of hand and foot reflexology and the qualities of different aromatherapy oils, which are covered in the Diploma course.

Two other studies — one involving 79 pairs of teachers in Los Angeles (which I wrote with Douglas Staiger) and the Measures of Effective Teaching study involving 1,591 teachers in six different school districts (which I wrote with Dan McCaffrey, Trey Miller and Douglas Staiger)-- randomly assigned teachers to different groups of students within a grade and subject in a school.

Related but slightly different is the home - school cooperative, wherein a group of mothers (and sometimes fathers) pool their expertise, each teaching a subject she knows well to all the children in the group.

«In history,» high school Webmaster Fred Holmes said, «a teacher might assign students to research different areas of a particular subject.

• Supporting the teaching of computer coding across different year levels in schools; • Reforming the Australian Curriculum to give teachers more class time to teach science, maths and English; and, • Requiring that new primary school teachers graduate with a subject specialisation, with priority for STEM.

Because Paedae taught advanced math to eleventh and twelfth graders, while the Florida FCAT only tested students through grade eight, 50 percent of her evaluation was based «on the school - wide performance of students taking the tenth - grade FCAT reading test — a test in a different subject administered... to different students in an earlier grade» (p. 3).

This is an approach to the subject of Religion which has evolved over about 20 years of teaching in a number of different schools.

• too much school time is given over to test prep — and the pressure to lift scores leads to cheating and other unsavory practices; • subjects and accomplishments that aren't tested — art, creativity, leadership, independent thinking, etc. — are getting squeezed if not discarded; • teachers are losing their freedom to practice their craft, to make classes interesting and stimulating, and to act like professionals; • the curricular homogenizing that generally follows from standardized tests and state (or national) standards represents an undesirable usurpation of school autonomy, teacher freedom, and local control by distant authorities; and • judging teachers and schools by pupil test scores is inaccurate and unfair, given the kids» different starting points and home circumstances, the variation in class sizes and school resources, and the many other services that schools and teachers are now expected to provide their students.

Create a crossword puzzle to review the spelling or vocabulary words introduced in different subjects during the school week.

In response, it was decided that instead of launching straight into their LOTE subject Japanese, the South Australian students would instead spend their first year of school learning about several different countries of importance and their culturally significant stories, songs and aspects of daily life.

Worksheet created as cover work for a class who'd just started doing the topic of school so only knew the different subjects in French.

The skills and subject knowledge were obviously going to be an issue and although bodies like Computing in Schools and the BCS were and remain keen to promote computing in schools, the reality of learning a new subject, with its different pedagogical delivery style has made this transition a difficult one for most schools to eSchools and the BCS were and remain keen to promote computing in schools, the reality of learning a new subject, with its different pedagogical delivery style has made this transition a difficult one for most schools to eschools, the reality of learning a new subject, with its different pedagogical delivery style has made this transition a difficult one for most schools to eschools to embrace.

I have used this (in conjunction with printed materials) to train teachers from a wide variety of subjects in different schools, tailoring the slides shown to the priorities of the group.

I have used this (in conjunction with printed materials, not included) to train teachers from a wide variety of subjects in different schools, tailoring the slides shown to the priorities of the group.

Concerns about potential inequities in the availability of different schools to different families, based in large part on geography, are plausible but have not been subject to systematic empirical analysis.

This article describes how the educational platform Little Smart Planet is gamifying different subjects at Primary and Secondary Schools in Spain.

Model one would make transparent the performance of students across the nation, providing an X-ray to show parents, educators, and policymakers how different schools and groups are performing in key subjects.

To date, our work using the distributed perspective has demonstrated the ways that leaders co-construct leadership activity, how leadership practice connects and fails to connect with instructional change, why teachers heed or ignore the guidance of school leaders, and how leadership is practiced differently in different school subjects (e.g. mathematics versus language arts).

Over the last decade, patterns in grouping students have changed markedly in the U.S.; high school students are no longer placed in rigidly defined general - education or noncollege tracks but have the flexibility to move between course levels for different subjects.

That's not how it worked in the one - room schoolhouses of yesteryear, and it's oblivious to the many ways that children differ from each other, the ways their modes and rates of learning differ, how widely their starting achievement levels differ, and how their interests, brains, and outside circumstances often cause them to learn different subjects at unequal speeds — and to move faster and slower, deeper or shallower, at different points in their lives, even at different points within a «school year.»

As long as Christian schools in California are offering academically rigorous and substantive courses — which, from the looks of the curricula they submitted and my interviews with faculty, students, and parents, they are — there is no reason they should be subjected to a different standard.

«And the way a lot of the schools in the US are now teaching different subjects — they combine English with Biology and History with Chemistry.

And while they continued to ignore it, the misuse of tests became ever more extreme, in some cases reaching truly absurd levels — for example, «evaluating» teachers based on the scores obtained by teachers in other schools or teaching other subjects to different students.

To support cross-curricular — in our time - poor, financially - strapped schools — why don't different subject departments and experts start talking to each other?

The world's first «travelling high school» takes pupils to four different countries each year — allowing pupils to experience subjects out in the field.

According to interviews with more than a dozen teachers and school administrators in five different districts, students in New York are taking more practice tests, and they're spending more time on math and reading — and less on other subjects — since Common Core was put into place.

The tests used to determine growth would have to be reasonable and valid and be used schoolwide or districtwide, rather than have different tests for teachers of the same grade and subject in the same school, Saxton said.

Lakshminarayanan is one of an additional 35 coaches who specialize in different subject areas and move from school to school.

«We also find that «F» - graded schools engaged in systematically different changes in instructional policies and practices as a consequence of school accountability pressure, and that these policy changes may explain a significant share of the test score improvements (in some subject areas) associated with «F» - grade receipt.»

By high school, bullies and victims often are pursuing different interests and subjects, so their paths are less likely to cross than they are in middle school.

Rather than sending students through each subject in isolation, these schools focus the entire curriculum around a single topic or subject - like caterpillars or a local bird species -, then examine it through the different lenses of science, math, art, history, etc..

Two groups of students were studied: elementary - school students in grades 3 through 5 (where most students have a single teacher throughout the year) and middle schoolers in grades 6 through 8 (where students tend to have a different teacher in each subject).

They argue private schools accepting vouchers should not necessarily be subject to the law because embedded in vouchers is a different kind of accountability, accountability to parents that can choose to take their children, and their tax dollars, elsewhere.

High school interims are a mix and based on the standards taught in different grade levels or subjects.

Proponents say that student report cards have multiple grades showing performance in different subjects, so having two grades on a school report card wouldn't be as confusing as some say.

Teachers at Harrow School help pupils from a local sixth - form college prepare for Oxbridge interviews in a range of different subjects.

Classes have multiple teachers, particularly in different subjects and in large schools, so long - term and deep - seated learning strategies require close co-operation between teachers.

Throughout their time in school, students will have the opportunity to make different choices on a range of issues - from decisions and choices about their own actions and behaviours, to the clubs that they join and (as they move through the Learning Trust) the subjects that they study.

Many school systems have gotten the message that they need to be more data driven, and they are now awash in data - not just yearly student test scores, but figures on how different groups of students are doing in particular subjects or grade levels, how successful a school is at attracting and retaining teachers or closing the achievement gap among disadvantaged students, or how equitable funding is from school to school.

Researchers will subject pupils from Wellington — and three other state schools that are involved in the project — to a simple baseline test and reassess them after a number of different interventions to see which methods produce the best results.

Standards ensure that students in different schools and classrooms across the country are taught the same basic information on a particular subject.

However, even when teachers remain in the same school they can switch jobs — teaching either a different grade or a different subject than they have taught before.

To earn an IB diploma, students must take six IB courses in at least five different subject areas (an arts class is optional), pass year - end tests, write a final, extended essay and complete 150 hours of «creativity, action and service» in their schools and communities.