Sentences with phrase «done by pupils»

The union says excessive and unnecessary «accountability measures» required by school leaders for Ofsted mean teachers have to spend hours making detailed records of work done by pupils in lessons.

The next models increase in the complexity of work to be done by pupils.

Not exact matches

By looking at pupil dilation, ear twitching, small head movements and other indicators of cat emotions, the feline - feeling researchers found cats do get really excited around their owners, yet they choose to express it in extremely subtle, essentially imperceptible ways.

Teachers and pupils do not judge the desirability of various studies and learning activities by the pleasure, comfort, or satisfaction they yield; their sole concern is for the contribution made to the development of right habits of thought and conduct.

The Cedars» approach is to emphasise the interconnectedness of knowledge by drawing out links between subjects so that our pupils do not compartmentalise what they learn.

This was made quite clear by Ed Balls, minister for Children Schools and Families when he said on 23 February 2010, «A Catholic faith school can say to their pupils we believe as a religion contraception is wrong but what they can't do is therefore say that they are not going to teach them about contraception to children, how to access contraception or how to use contraception.»

The Government did not retract Mr Balls» claim on 23 February that we will be forced to enable sexually active pupils to access contraception, and, by implication, that we support this.

A total of 16 pupils were affected by the school's policy of «grade exclusion» because they didn't achieve at least three B - grades in their first year tests.

We do not have control over hiccups, as they are partially controlled by the autonomic nervous system, which also controls things like our heartbeat, pupil dilation, and other involuntary bodily functions.

It's a vivid and persuasive social polemic, rooted in real children's lives, that brings the schools of urban America leaping off the page — and should be forced reading for Michael Gove and his merry band of free - schoolers, who, having filched the idea of charter and KIPP schools from the US, now need to look West again to see how fiddling with school structures can never, by itself, help pupils do better.

On collective worship: «The Committee is concerned that pupils are required by law to take part in a daily religious worship which is «wholly or mainly of a broadly Christian character» in publicly funded schools in England and Wales, and that children do not have the right to withdraw from such worship without parental permission before entering the sixth form.

Teachers were required by the provisions of the emergency Plan Vigipirate to report any pupil whose remarks could be interpreted as an «apologie du terrorisme».

A real - time electronic poll of BME teachers attending the seminar found that: 78 % do not think the work and contribution of BME teachers is recognised and valued by schools; 58 % do not think treatment of BME teachers has improved in the last decade; Only 36 % feel outcomes for BME pupils have improved in the last decade; 98 % feel that racism continues to be a serious problem in the UK today; 53 % do not see themselves still being in the teaching profession in the next five years, with 31 % saying they are planning to change career and the rest saying they plan to retire or take a break from the profession.

This action cuts back to the modern - day Westminster office, and swaps between this and enjoyable classroom antics as Sam attempts to do focus group - style research by teaching some pleasingly irreverent pupils in a school each week.

Mr Prempeh who still stands by his statement claims that Ghana does not have a curriculum or a pupil's standard.

pupil behaviour remains a major concern for teachers, with nearly three - quarters of teachers saying they believe there is a widespread behaviour problem in schools; 84 % stated that they did not believe that the increased powers to search pupils, introduced by the Government, would help tackle pupil indiscipline; 55 % do not believe that same - day detentions, a power initiated by the Government, will assist them in maintaining discipline; 52 % did not feel that the power to confiscate items from pupils would be of assistance to them.

Also bring academies into some kind of proper locally based democratic control, local government or directly elected schools boards, admissions to be done by LAs, insist on pupil premium, absolutely vital.

Miliband condemned the incident, saying on Twitter, «The person who shouted during the speech by a year 11 pupil was totally wrong and doesn't speak for Labour.

Entirely justifiably, teachers and school leaders remain concerned that inspection outcomes do not always give credit for the full extent of schools» achievements, especially those that are not readily captured by pupil performance data.

Over a third (37 %) said secure employment with fair access to pay progression would most encourage them to remain; Excessive workload was the biggest problem being experienced during the induction year, followed by a lack of support to deal with poor pupil behaviour; Nearly six in ten (59 %) say they do not have a reasonable work / life balance.

Current statute is written so that charter schools will get a $ 1,500 increase in funding per pupil if the Legislature doesn't act by June.

A report by the Children's Commissioner for England has found that pupils in the North West are less likely to do well in secondary school.

Apparently this was exploited, particularly in Italy, by women who wanted to adopt a doe - eyed appearance by creating large pupils.

It's not just that Sunday shows that he is simultaneously impressed and dismayed by his former pupil's success (a success that Sunday did just about everything in his power to prevent); it's also that Sunday's instant of recognition makes Brashear something of a spectacle and celebrity, a good man doing good work.

It did, however, give McKellen a boost in his mid-fifties, if largely only because the film was seen and enjoyed by Bryan Singer, who cast the Brit to play a Nazi war criminal hiding in 1980s America in the Stephen King adaptation Apt Pupil and then as Magneto in X-Men, a role that raised his profile, which could only have helped Peter Jackson employ him as Gandalf.

The task can be done by asking the pupils to estimate the size of the city first and then using this website to found the populations http://www.citypopulation.de/UK-Cities.html, or alternatively there is a worksheet with the populations written, if you do not want to use the website.

(My technicians managed to get round this somehow by authorizing this macro so we didn't have to set this on the pupils PCs).

Last year, I started the course by explaining to my pupils that, although getting an A-level qualification was a wonderful thing, by understanding statistical analysis they would also be able to charge # 40,000 per year for a spreadsheet, as I had done in an operational performance benchmarking service I had owned.

Following recent reports of a crisis in school funding availability, two thirds (66 %) said the government is not doing enough to help schools prioritise necessary improvements to areas used by pupils.

Excellence in Health and Safety Award This award, sponsored by IOSH, recognises the valuable work that responsible managers do to create and maintain a safe and healthy environment for teachers and pupils.

Figures show that school design and layout, if done well, can boost pupils» performance by 25 %.

Almost two in five secondary pupils (37 per cent) don't take part in extra-curricular activities run by their school.

They do this by promoting qualities that are designed to help pupils develop valuable skills and motivate them to be more engaged and achieve better grades.

In the survey carried out by the e-Learning Foundation, 29 per cent of the 500 respondents who do not run any form of home access programme said they planned to use some of their Pupil Premium funds to address 1:1 access, while that number increased to 51 per cent amongst schools already running a programme.

With the latest GCSE results showing the sharpest decline in the percentage of students achieving C grades or above since 1988, and school leaders saying that pupils are bringing more worries into school than they did five years ago, these statistics highlight the concerns for students» mental wellbeing and suggest that today's students are struggling to cope with the increasing demands placed on them by exams.

Additionally, the report advises that while grammar school pupils do score slightly higher at GCSE, much of this is explained by prior levels of attainment, meaning that bright pupils do just as well in the best comprehensives as they do in grammars.

MANY teachers do not know how to use data provided by annual assessments of their pupils» literacy and numeracy ability, despite often criticising the tests themselves, a new report has found.

This «learning - by - doing» culture is a sure - fire way to engage pupils; after all, coding doesn't have to just be sitting in front of a screen and typing lines of text.

Pupils will: analyse the Stresemann as our saviour source Highlight key changes made by Stresemann and explain why people did and didn't like them.

The lesson shows by way of examples what the pupils need to do in order to master the topic so that they can confidently answer any relevant questions on this topic.

«They feel they are not doing a good job by their pupils because they are having to focus on literacy and maths, which are important, but are not everything.

The advent of more student testing, especially the spread of value - added measures of pupil and school performance, has given us both the technical ability to evaluate teachers by the results they produce and the moral imperative to do so.

Plenty of teachers strive to do right by all their pupils.

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.

However, it did maintain that if the reduction was accompanied by more personalised teaching with good quality feedback, there is evidence that pupils will do better.

Pupils revise school subjects, opinions and unform by doing a reading activity - moving around the room to find information.

This will also model what to do in preparation to next slide: the pupils will choose a box by saying out loud the word the picture represents (and in French of course!).

The trial was delivered by researchers from the University of Bristol and Harvard University and independent evaluators from Queen's University Belfast found that pupils receiving the intervention made an additional month's progress in maths compared with a similar group whose parents didn't get the texts.

In a pilot scheme where every child at primary schools in Newham and Durham was offered a free meal, they were more likely to eat a better diet at school, do significantly better in class — with an average of two months more progress by pupils at key stages 1 and 2 — and be less fussy about what they ate at home.

«We know that primary teachers up and down the country are doing an incredible job of supporting their pupils from day one, by sparking their creativity and imaginations.