Sentences with phrase «focus on all students instead»

I would add that true growth models — rather than «growth to proficiency» ones — encourage schools to focus on all students instead of just their low - performers.

Note that other studies of school discipline may focus on students instead of suspensions and use what is known as «unduplicated counts» as the analytical unit.

I would love to see the Lycee focus on its students instead of trying to hurt other French schools.

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Instead, he suggested, they might look like Polymath University, an online university that's focused on educating students to complete a project, not a major.

As a child, Corcoran wasn't an ace student, but instead of focusing on her scholarly shortcomings, her mother chose to celebrate her imagination.

I tell my students over and over they should research medical, technology, financial and economic fields instead of focusing on just one.

However, instead of focusing on how un-valuable a degree is, it's time to start prioritizing going student - loan free instead of ditching college all together.

Our goal is focused on the success of our tennis students on the long term of their career instead of the «win by next week» approach that sadly prevails in the tennis community..

Refrain from grading the first assignment (s) each semester; write comments, mark incorrect answers, and allow for revisions, so that students focus on the learning instead of just the grade.

Focusing on the nutrients that are in a food product rather than looking at the impact of the food as a whole causes schools to focus on looking for cheap ways to meet the minimum guidelines instead of focusing on finding quality items to feed their sFocusing on the nutrients that are in a food product rather than looking at the impact of the food as a whole causes schools to focus on looking for cheap ways to meet the minimum guidelines instead of focusing on finding quality items to feed their sfocusing on finding quality items to feed their students.

Parents should avoid offering external rewards such as money or privileges for students who complete their work or bring home good grades, and instead should focus on encouraging intrinsic motivation.

; it is weak in science and technology education often mass producing ill - educated or barely literate graduates in arts and humanities; ignores the critical role of economics, management and entrepreneurship education in the context of developing nations; destroys innovation and creativity through outdated teaching methods instead of focusing on fostering the student's own independent learning and creative thinking; and is insufficiently focused on adult, vocational and technical education.

Some real - life changes, however, are being made in a number of schools around the country that focus on the critical - thinking skills of one student at a time instead of the collective test scores of a class, or a whole school, or a state.

It has caused good schools to be labeled as failing and puts undue pressure on students and teachers to focus on passing standardized tests instead of engaging in other subjects such as the sciences, history, art, or music.

Instead, the pair will focus on expanding programs that allow grad students to earn credit for work done at NIH.

Instead of relying on institutional rankings to gauge the quality of the college experience, the researchers wrote that it would be more beneficial to students, parents, institutional leaders, and the media to focus on indicators that more accurately represent what students do during college.

But Hoover's and other Web directories can be expensive for the job seeker (even Hoover's student subscription costs $ 50 per month, though Hoover's does offer a free trial), and they focus on executives instead of the senior scientist that would be most useful to you.

Instead of emphasizing the aesthetic benefits of Spinning, like great glutes or shapely legs, Carson focuses more on what it does for her students cardiovascular systems, muscles, and metabolisms.

Today's «day in the life» post is one of my current job, which focuses heavily on supporting my fellow faculty find and use open educational resources (an educational movement to help bring down student costs by using or creating free and high - quality texts and resources instead of expensive textbooks).

They don't want a kid's graphic tee with an obscene message causing chaos, and they don't want students to focus on how sexy a classmate's outfit is instead of whatever the teacher is saying.

With dark, dour subject matter forcing possible rewrite by the school bureaucrats, a former student who would rather see it unproduced than see it altered to blunt its impact, and a meddling father who insists his son focus on his future instead of folly, Ms. Sinclair is going to have a heck of a time keeping it, as well as her own reputation, intact to the end.

Instead of a top - down approach, the teacher has proceeded from the bottom up, putting the focus on each student to be the agent in the learning process.

These leaders should focus their efforts on moving to a competency - based education that requires students to demonstrate mastery of the material, ending the archaic practice of seat - time, funding education based on achievement instead of attendance, eliminating the all too common practice of restricting students to district boundaries, and removing barriers to effective, high quality instruction.

Many teachers fall into the trap of editing student writing by focusing on marking grammar mistakes instead of offering feedback to move students forward in their writing.

Instead of saying «find excellent sources» or «use three sources,» focus your rubric language on the quality use of whatever sources students find, and on the best possible way of aligning that data to the work.

Ultimately, students did focus more on academic and grit skills (especially when I began returning quests instead of simply assigning low grades to mediocre submissions).

Offscreen Education groups, he points out, work essentially the same way an international news team might, using much of the same equipment for sending reports back home, but instead of focusing on news and conflict, the student teams aim for the mundane.

«Instead of devising testing schemes, which commonly lead to more retention and dropping out, policymakers should focus on providing all students with appropriately certified teachers, challenging curriculum, high quality facilities, and ample supplies of up - to - date books and materials.»

Focus on the positives: Enter the feedback process with a mindset that has you looking for what students did well instead of what needs to be fixed.

In the realm of formal schooling, he suggests that instead of focusing on preferences — asking students to declare that one piece of work is superior, more valuable, or more beautiful than another — teachers should first emphasize and cultivate a student's ability to distinguish and articulate differences that matter.

As a result of their mindset shifting, teachers like Mrs. Cox are able to focus on their true passion, which is helping students learn by planning the «how» instead of the what, when, or why.

Instead the system requires students to rote learn and move on while teaching staff focus on data collection and admin rather than people.

Instead, they can focus on understanding the collaborative tools available to students, the multiple means of showing their understanding, and the ways to create a lesson that will engage different types of learners who have grown up with technology.

Schools would do better scrapping student progress and focussing instead on school improvements, according to Russell Hobby, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT).

In addition, in cases in which inclusion really means «mainstreaming» (special education students are «brought into» a regular classroom for certain periods of the day) or when special education professionals focus solely on special education students instead of supporting, and interacting with, all students, individual differences are magnified and social isolation is increased.

New Jersey policymakers are too concerned about «on - average» research and should focus instead on providing the right options for every individual student.

Instead of aiming for big - name colleges, families should focus on the schools more likely to give students skills and experiences that are relevant to their future.

The best educational institutions in the world recognize that development of the whole child instead of focus mainly on the academic part of an education is critical to ensuring students are able to prosper in the 21st century world.

Instead of focusing on teacher instruction in order to aim for a particular grade, students can immerse themselves in the experience of the assignment.

Online and blended learning have the potential to dramatically transform our education system by being able to individualize for each student's distinct learning needs (just look at the results from Carpe Diem, KIPP Empower, or Rocketship Education), but whether it does so will have a lot to do with policy — whether we change the incentives and focus not on merely serving students and micro-managing the inputs, but instead focusing on the student outcomes and leaving behind an antiquated factory - model system for a student - centric one.

Indeed, our review findings would suggest that if professional development is explicitly focused on improving an observed teacher practice instead of being focused explicitly on addressing a pupil need, then it is less likely to be effective at improving outcomes for students.

The program focuses on getting the students back in school instead of financially penalizing their families — many of whom do not have the money to pay.

Instead of focusing on the negative side of the problem and the lack of options, steer students to using language that is positive, empathetic, and will direct them toward solution - based thinking.

My experience has shown me that students focus too much on reading the subtitles instead of trying to listen for understanding.

Instead of focusing on academics, the program targeted students» psychosocial skills — emotion regulation, empathy, friendship skills, self - control, and social problem - solving skills.

Instead, it focuses on three specific challenges that are often encountered when districts, especially small districts, grapple with the costs of their highest - need special - education students, and it makes three recommendations that districts and states could put into practice today, without waiting for reforms or help from Washington, as they seek ways to mitigate those problems:

Taking time to understand these principles and embed them into your decision making processes and management of CPD, will ensure that you avoid wasting valuable time and financial resource on opportunities that are unlikely to improve student outcomes, and focus instead on providing effective, sustainable support to all staff.

Instead of reading like one might read a novel to escape, reading programming language requires the student to focus on one specific idea at a time, to think linearly but in a conceptual way.»

What would be great to see is Microsoft move away from just focusing on the content creation marketplace of its traditional Office suite and instead leverage its acquisition of LinkedIn and Lynda.com to do three things: support competency - based learning — through badges, portfolios, and rich profiles for all students; invest in building students» social capital — a key determinant of life success that education typically ignores — in a deliberate way; and, through both of these efforts, help students discover and cultivate their true passions.

Instead of focusing the education conversation around a select number of hot topics ~ often related to school governance ~ we should focus our efforts on overcoming larger societal realities and their impact on student learning.