Sentences with phrase «face of academic challenges»

The Student with Low Self - Esteem When working with children with low self - esteem, the challenge is to restore their belief in themselves, so they'll persevere in the face of academic challenges.

The challenge in working with children with low self - esteem is to restore their belief in themselves, so they persevere in the face of academic challenges.

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Our kids are facing significantly more challenging academic demands, and they're expected to balance that with a schedule full of extracurriculars.

Understanding the social, academic and cultural pressures and challenges tweens face, as well as some of the dangers, can help prepare you and your tweens for this bumpy phase of development.

Challenge number two is — this is something that I became more aware of working on Helping Children Succeed — that even going beyond the challenges that low - income kids face and the gaps in our academic outcomes, there are significant problems with some of the basic approaches to teaching and education that we have in our schools: The basic principles of American pedagogy, how we teach math, how we teach anything.

The development is one of the few challenges some parents are facing since secondary school enrollment for the 2017/2018 academic year commenced.

The high - tech school faces «significant academic and operational challenges» and «a culture of disempowerment and opaqueness,» Sammakia told the assembly, minutes show.

During a contentious three - hour debate on Thursday, Jewish lawmakers condemned the legislation as anti-Semitic, arguing that many of the state's roughly 700 school districts have faced similar fiscal and academic challenges to East Ramapo.

Conflicts of interest are just one of the challenges that academic scientists face in cultivating productive relationships with industry.

Yet military service has left many of them facing not just the usual academic challenges but also the emotional scars of battle, semesters lost to continuing service obligations, and veteran's benefits that don't cover their educational and living expenses.

As a new French report highlights, early - career researchers face significant challenges landing permanent academic positions — but there may also be some rays of hope

Then he faced the challenge of building an academic research area without the start - up package that universities offer tenure - track faculty, while starting over in research.

Many medical research and physicians» advocates praised Price's appointment, expressing hopes that his experience in the trenches of both private medical practice and an academic medical center will make him sensitive to the challenges that researchers and teaching hospitals face.

Educational improvement efforts, Eye concludes, should focus not on correcting a nonexistent overall deficit but on improving the academic performance of the students «in the lower portion of the performance distribution,» many of whom face social and familial challenges that interfere with their education.

As for the challenges I face through my job, they often have to do with the discrepancy between the interests of industrialists and academics, the first being preoccupied with short - term issues while the others are turned on by longer - term problems.

One can tell easily about a professor's academic standing and scientific merits through his publications and achievements by simple online search, but building trust between researchers in different parts of the world and sustaining it throughout the project is undoubtedly the biggest challenge facing global collaboration.

Yet Palmer and Templeton still face all the challenges of beginning a new faculty position: recruiting students and staff, finding research funding, teaching, integrating themselves into the academic community, and establishing a steady flow of ideas and data.

D.M.: Basic research level academics are facing great challenges, much of it related to funding, but also the national commitment to basic research and the competitiveness of U.S. research globally.

The study, published in the journal PLOS ONE, explores key challenges that face this burgeoning area of Chinese higher education as the nation pushes to become an academic superpower.

As one of the nation's oldest learned societies and independent policy research centers, the Academy convenes leaders from the academic, business, and government sectors to address critical challenges facing our global society.

In his normal day - to - day life, Hiro faces daunting academic challenges and social trials as the new prodigy at San Fransokyo Institute of Technology.

Thus, although both groups may post lower rates of school readiness, Hispanic children from Spanish - speaking homes face the additional challenge of learning the language of the classroom, making them especially vulnerable to poor academic outcomes.

After visiting the schools, Gustafson reported that all four — each an independent «mom - and - pop» operation with no links to national groups — faced a host of challenges, including strained budgets, low enrollments, curriculum problems, inexperienced staff, weak professional development for teachers, and board members ignorant of testing and other academic essentials.

It is persistently at the bottom of most national rankings for academic performance and students» well - being, and faces daunting challenges: nearly three quarters of students are from low - income families and some 16 percent have limited English language proficiency.

With schools today facing an array of complex challenges — from working with an increasingly diverse population of students, to integrating new technology in the classroom, to meeting rigorous academic standards and goals — observers...

This article is part of an occasional series examining the challenges facing disadvantaged students who show academic potential.

This special report examines the challenges CAOs are facing in school districts across the country and how they are working to improve academics in the age of common standards and digital teaching and learning.

Making time in the school day to emphasize academics, tutor students who need extra help, schedule common planning times for teams, or meet a wide variety of other needs is a challenge all principals face.

Teaching students that their intelligence can increase [1] can help them maintain motivation in face of challenges [2] and promote academic achievement.

This special report, «The Chief Academic Officer's Evolving Role: Powering Big - Picture Learning Goals,» examines the challenges CAOs are facing in school districts across the country and how they are working to improve academics in the age of common standards and digital teaching and learning.

«He has a keen interest in how diverse modes of academic research can benefit education practice and policy,» Faust added, «and how the concrete challenges facing educational leaders and policymakers, as well as teachers and students, can helpfully inform the scholarship and teaching we do here.

Leveraging the power of afterschool programs to reduce chronic absence is especially important now given the economic challenges facing communities and schools and the growing number of students at risk of academic failure and dropping out.

These are the competencies every student around the world should gain in school in the 21st century, the blend of academic skills and character, of self - knowledge and leadership, of complex thinking, communications, creativity and capacity to solve problems which are essential to participate in complex societies and to face the rapidly evolving challenges of our times.

Teachers work largely in isolation; face uneven sets of challenges; and must respond not only to the academic needs but also to the physical and emotional needs of their students.

One of the biggest challenges facing academic libraries and their leaders is the rapid digitization of information services.

Among the thousands of participants who engaged in professional education at HGSE this past summer, new college presidents worked together to prepare for their roles as leaders of higher education institutions; scores of academic librarians met to discuss the challenges facing their ever - changing field; and over 100 early career principals developed leadership skills to better support teacher development and student achievement.

Catapult Learning, Inc. has dedicated over four decades to providing outstanding education solutions that generate demonstrable academic achievement and better life outcomes for students, regardless of their learning barriers or other challenges they may face.

As they strive to meet high academic standards, ELLs face the added challenge of learning, comprehending, and applying the academic English through which teachers and textbooks deliver important information.

The biggest academic challenges she is likely to face are course expectations and — depending on where she goes to school — exit exam requirements, and those are largely independent of Common Core tests.

A group of LA Unified students joined local and national educators last week to describe academic challenges they face and to suggest ideas for what could help them.

Beginning teachers are faced with the great challenge of overcoming these challenges to attain high student academic achievement.

It lays out a blueprint for addressing three of the most intractable challenges facing college applicants today: excessive academic performance pressure, the emphasis on personal achievement over good citizenship, and the uneven opportunities available to students of varying income levels and backgrounds.

The event, held at the Rubin Museum in Manhattan, honored five people who have demonstrated exceptional commitment to enacting positive change in education: Tanell Pendleton, an English teacher who has worked at Bronx Haven High School for eight years, and Michael Wolach, founding teacher and instructional coach at Jill Chaifetz Transfer School, both of whom have worked with Eskolta on multi-year projects on topics ranging from developing students» academic mindsets to implementing outcomes - based grading; Cristal Cruz, a graduate of Brooklyn Frontiers High School, who, after facing significant challenges during school, graduated as salutatorian, enrolled in college, and is now working at Good Shepherd Service to support students in the same way she was supported; and Jeff and Tricia Raikes, co-founders of the Raikes Foundation and part of the founding team of Microsoft, who have become champions of school improvement by establishing national initiatives such as the Mindset Scholars Network and the Student Agency Improvement Community.

Facilitated sessions and individual coaching calls throughout the year bring together teams to deepen their learning around Academic and Personal Behaviors, share strategies and approaches to help students persist in the face of rigorous learning challenges, and build capacity both within and across schools to implement changes and share learning.

But critics say the measure is too simple — it fails to sufficiently account for the academic growth that good schools help students achieve and does not take into consideration the challenges that schools serving a high number of poor students face.

A major challenge facing students as they pursue a postsecondary degree is a lack of academic preparedness for college - level math, evident by high rates of referral to developmental math and low...

The issue is that Governor Malloy's education reform bill sets up a system of Commissioner's Network Schools to focus resources on a set of schools that face the greatest challenges when it comes to academic achievement.

Charter Schools» Discipline Policies Face Scrutiny As the number of charter schools continues to grow, one facet of their autonomy — the ability to set and enforce independent disciplinary standards — has raised difficult questions about whether those schools are pushing out students who pose behavior or academic challenges and how their policies affect regular public schools.

Title I schools face particular challenges that affect academic performance, including high rates of student mobility and large proportions of English language learners.

This question becomes especially critical for traditionally marginalized student groups, such as English learners who already face the challenges of finding their social identity and learning a new language while discovering their academic identity as well.