Sentences with phrase «fewer able students»

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A few months ago, I was talking to my friend Joey Ferguson, a web developer in D.C., and asked how he was able to pay off $ 16,000 in student loans in... Read more

You and I might be able to agree that there was some intervention by God when I find that I am advising a Catholic student who brings up the Holy Spirit's work out of the blue, and I just happen to have bought a Catholic Bible (of no particular us to me) a few days before.

The few games I've been able to get to this year, attendance in the student section is so bad that you'll see clusters of students sitting down, taking advantage of the leg room available while there is a group down at field level about 10 rows deep, standing and cheering as you'd hope.

In the Midwest few parents were able to contribute to their offspring's higher education — that was known, taken for granted, and most students preferred it that way.

SS: All three schools have a high number of free - and - reduced price - eligible students, and only a few of them were able to get to [regular] breakfast service before school.

«We noticed over the past few years an increase in students feeling so stressed out and feeling overwhelmed and not able to cope,» says Ellen Chagnon, director of guidance at Dover - Sherborn.

The following scene transpired: various medical professionals came in to check if I was able to handle general anaesthetic or other medical procedures, plus a few looky - loo medical students who wanted to see a natural breech birth as they had never seen one - but Lanny shooed them out and informed they couldn't watch the show - and then some epic pushing.

These cuts mean fewer teachers will be able to give the kind of individualized attention we know helps students learn better.

In May Quinn and one of his students, Chris Somers, were finally able to pin the blame on airborne particles just a few micrometers in diameter.

For instance, faculty members from the University of California, Berkeley (UCB), regularly came to CSE to recruit students, so I met a few of them and was able to take a class at UCB.

A few graphic design students made this for us: That's a lot of people that will need to use critical thinking skills and be able to think through problems like a scientist!

Last fall, using a rhinovirus C preparation grown in the Palmenberg lab — currently one of the few places in the world capable of culturing the virus — and an imaging technology new to Purdue, Rossmann's graduate student, Yue Liu, first author of the study, was able to map the full atomic structure of a rhinovirus C particle.

PBL students had fewer stereotypical images of scientists on a «draw - a-scientist» test and were able to generate more problem - solving strategies than students in the traditional group.

Although we have a few models that have been able to personalize learning and do a better job of instituting mastery - based learning for students, no one has figured out how to do it at scale per se yet, and there is still plenty of room for growth in student outcomes.

The basic idea is that students learn most when they are engaged, and one of the best ways to engage them is to present them with a problem that they might be able to solve, then let them struggle with it for a few unscaffolded minutes.

Proportionately few students are able to write or even understand a computer program.

It seems that for a young child, it's important to have a single teacher who knows that child well enough to customize teaching to his or her needs, who spends enough time with students to be able to understand and respond to their behavior, and who has few enough students to focus energy on building relationships with them.

Although practice tests and classroom drills have raised the pass rate for the reading section of the TAAS in high schools, few students are able to use those same skills to complete actual reading assignments outside of class, to make meaning of literature, or to connect reading assignments to other parts of the course such as discussion and writing.

Although many teachers understand the importance of students doing the work, few are able to create the conditions for success within a classroom of 30 students.

As students become more adept using empty number lines, they can solve problems with fewer steps; instead of jumping by ten at a time, they might be able to jump all the tens in one jump (jump 30, or 40, or more, as called for in the problem).

Three to five questions make for a good exit ticket, and students should be able to complete the whole thing in just a few minutes at the end of a class period.

«I have worked with a few students with mental health issues, and being able to access their learning without the need to leave home and face other people, or deal with travelling, has given them the opportunity to build confidence with the feedback and encouragement I am now able to give on an individual basis.

One consequence, said James Ryan, dean of the Ed School, is that «Far too few students receive a high - quality education and far too few are able to reach their potential.»

Students who were able to identify and reappraise their own feelings of boredom had fewer bored episodes and higher academic achievement, according to the research of Ulrike Nett's group in Germany.

Call us naïve, but it goes like this: Come to some agreement at a national (though not federal - government) level about what students should know and be able to do, at least in a few key subjects.

This means that in addition to the work EMERGE is doing, we'll be able to help thousands of additional HISD students go to college over the next few years.

Few of the K - 8 BIA schools are able to keep track of students once they leave to determine if they graduate from high school, added King.

She objects to the «no excuses» approach to education, which expects strong performance from students regardless of family background, saying that the few schools that are able to accomplish the task are unusual places filled with kids from families with especially devoted parents.

Even after several years of significant attention, fewer than one in three had been able to reach established academic goals, and less than half showed any student performance gains.

A few teachers have said, «The student might not be able to read, but they can read you.»

Brick - and - mortar schools will be very different places than they are today: using more technology, staffed by fewer but more able teachers, working with much better information, and delivering instruction better matched to student needs.

Complicating the issue further, few researchers are able to gauge whether or not students make selection decisions on their own (based on their own research), or whether they are overly influenced by family and friends, and to what degree, or even, how much influence popular ranking scales have?

If policymakers had maintained the same overall teacher - to - student ratio since the 1970s, we would need 1 million fewer teachers, training could be focused on a smaller and more able population, and average teacher pay would be close to $ 75,000 per year.

The example of Brandon teaches us a lot of things, but my top two takeaways are that teaching in this population is a marathon — with milestones few and far between — and that if we act as if students can do something, they just might be able to.

By implementing a few new engagement techniques, teachers may be able to encourage students to be more engaged in class and to put an end to boredom.

Invest in high - quality assessments that contain fewer multiple choice items and more constructed responses that require students to not only know, but be able to apply, key concepts to unique situations.

Schools with relatively few disadvantaged students are widely thought to be able to recruit teachers of higher and more uniform quality.

Because society needs more citizens who are intrinsically motivated to work and able self - regulate, and because I think few of us enjoy being micro-managed, I went searching for ways to give my students more choice in our multiage classroom while also maintaining the type of engagement that principals and teacher coaches expect to see during their frequent drop - ins during the school day.

A few states have even passed laws regarding CBL that basically say if a student can have an educational experience other than classroom seat time, such as study abroad or work experience, then they should be able to earn credit for those activities.

A learning activity that might take 20 minutes to complete in a classroom setting might take a few days to discuss online, especially if students are not able to be online together at the same time.

The school also has a distance learning program for students that are not able to attend classes and only need a few more credits to graduate.

While music, art and physical education teachers took on a few additional students and incorporated reading and math into their lessons, classroom teachers were able to divide up a smaller pool of students for more personalized instruction.

This is just a snippet into the lives of teachers, but perhaps you will see why we are so scared, angry, and frustrated at having our livelihoods held captive by just a few students who have little to no desire to succeed, who are attending merely to be able to keep their driver's licenses, and who understand that their teacher has no authority to make them do a single thing if they choose no to.

In highly segregated systems, disadvantaged pupils are more likely to be found in less popular schools — with schools serving few disadvantaged students less able to counter the effects of that disadvantage.

With so few charter schools even possible able to serve only a limited number of students it is surprising the argument even survives.

The fewer cues students have to remember, the more likely they will be able to follow them.

And while school counselors who connect students with CTE coursework and career pathways find it an effective career advising and development strategy, relatively few are able to make these connections.

«Every child in the U.S., every college student, every disconnected youth, every working parent who just wants a few more credits that might be able to improve their position at a job, everyone deserves the kind of opportunity I had to get a great education,» he said.

Much depends on the few states that will be able to reach beyond the immediate challenges they face, forge a new consensus on broadly shared prosperity as their state goal, and redesign their whole education system so the vast majority of their students can reach the standards they will need to reach to achieve that goal.

n the past, student's that were not able to graduate from high school could take a few tests and get a GED certificate.