Sentences with phrase «focus on student needs»

First, today's public discourse — rife with truisms like «children first» and «focus on student needs, not adult issues» — suggests that teachers and staff should devote every ounce of their attention to students; anything else is said to be a distraction.

Typically, school psychologists administer psychological evaluations for individual students and oversee the creation of individualized learning plans for students with special needs, while social workers tend to focus on student needs outside school.

Narrowing the confidence gap and narrowing the achievement gap; Focus on student needs, learning and engagement; and Curriculum continuity from grade - to - grade, class - to - class, school - to - school.

«It's time for us to send a message that we're going to focus on student needs, not test scores.»

We believe the role of Assistant Principal requires focus on student needs as well as serving as instructional leader.

These reports offer teachers and education support professionals (ESP) recommendations to create a system of continual professional learning with an intense focus on student needs, and they were created with input from two expert panels and task forces focused on how educators, including ESP, can work even more effectively to help students, their families, and communities.

The teachers» decisions related to room and materials arrangement indicated a focus on student needs.

The TECH framework provides guidelines that exemplify this focus on student needs and learning outcomes.

We align our practices, routines, and structures for adult learning to focus on student needs.

Building a classroom library addresses this need, focusing on student needs and interests through high - interest informational texts.

Providing more time does not necessarily change practice on its own.22 Teachers would benefit from capacity building to facilitate this time well, build the trust necessary to support a culture of critique, collect and analyze data effectively, and remain focused on student needs.

They support communities of learners from preschool to college - and career - ready high school seniors by delivering instruction that focuses on student needs.

Syracuse union leaders pinpoint several items they think a district must demonstrate to make this sort of school redesign work, including capacity, a focus on student need, and openness to union feedback, and they highlight critical points in the process for union involvement.

Not exact matches

Math education software DreamBox provides educators with recordings and data into how students are learning and progressing so that educators can focus on the areas where their classrooms need the most help.

Daunted by the expense of a four - year program, students are focusing on learning the skills they need for the jobs they want.

With offices in Dorado, Puerto Rico and Cottonwood Heights, Utah, Zurixx is a multi award - winning company focused on constantly improving programs to fit students» needs.

To do this, we focused on the students and their needs.

Micro Focus On - demand Digital Learning is provided as a subscription to allow students to access training whenever it is needed.

Commerce students receive a solid grounding in management fundamentals, while having the freedom to focus on a discipline that meets their academic and professional needs.

As we focus on these issues and meeting the needs of our students and families during this difficult time, the rise in «fake news» related to this tragedy is reprehensible.

Our focus is on our students, our families and our staff, and looking to reopen school, provide appropriate counseling and support for them and the resources that they need.

If we learn to teach with different foci and emphases, perhaps with less isolation from one another and more emphasis on the needs of students, the church, and the world, can we affect the ways in which our guilds function?

Why could they not focus on the graduation of students without feeling the need to be intrusive and over-bearing with their religious views to the point that a legal case could be made against them?

«We're trying to raise awareness that more than one side needs to be heard on the issue of homosexuality, and we're helping to ensure Christian students have the chance to express their viewpoint,» said Candi Cushman, a Focus on the Family education analyst, in the release.

While students do need high expectations for their work and conduct, focusing on order becomes hazardous when it overtakes the joy of experiencing God's grace.

But that should not be the aspiration of the majority, and we need to make sure we are serving students well, and not just focused on building programs.

«Going forward, educators need to focus on teaching students how to connect food to overall health and wellness,» Lehmuller says.

And it suggests that school - discipline programs might be more effective if they were to focus less on imposing punishment and more on creating a classroom environment in which students who lack self - regulatory capacities can find the tools and context they need to develop them.

Experienced teachers focus on intellectual and character growth, attending to the social, ethical, and emotional needs of sensitive and capable students.

In contrast, parents who value a performance orientation, focus on their student's achievement as mainly measured by grades and test scores — the need to score better than others in order to succeed.

Sometimes the focus is so much on the student and their needs that parents forget about their own.

What students need is a schoolwide mindshift: - away from global and at times disruptive and controversial schoolwide reforms - to a tailored individual - focused approach that promotes one - on - one personal connections (staff - student and student - student) and gives students anti-stress «mindfullness» tools — like breathing and relaxation exercises and attitude recognition and readjustment — that they can use throughout their lives.

However one comment on this:»... Though given that there are an equal number of students who are wired very anxious as those wired needing more stress to engage and focus, many of the systemwide anti-stress measures at Paly are a zero sum game — they help AND hurt about the same number of students.»

Since I don't have a classroom of students to analyze, I just focus TOO much energy on analyzing my kids... I need to practice the «just wait» mantra daily.

In high school, this can be very important as students must focus on specific subjects that will fit their needs best for college preparation.

These spring and summer sports camps in Ontario focus on tennis instruction with the inclusion of multi-sport activities depending on the age, ability and needs of the students.

FRAC issues School Wellness Policy and Practice: Meeting the Needs of Low - Income Students to focus benefits of the new federal wellness policy mandate on those most in need.

These two processes are reflective of one another and have a strong focus on careful consideration of the health needs of students, carefully constructed questioning and relevant goal setting to actively engage students in addressing their own and their peers» wellbeing ensuring a rich healthy, supportive learning environment for all.

EFA is currently looking at ways of allocating place funding in the academic year 2016 to 2017 and encouraging institutions to focus on recording accurate data on high needs students in 2014 to 2015.

The Montessori way of learning is focused on hands - on learning that is tailor - fit in accordance to the needs and learning curves of students.

«It's a challenge day - to - day (for student borrowers), but the need to focus on dealing with this debt takes away the opportunity to do other kinds of investments or purchases that would actually benefit everyone in the economy,» said DiNapoli.

«Governor Cuomo's State of the State address contains a number of policy proposals that will help New York's students in important ways, including focusing resources on at - risk students and schools with the greatest needs.

Our focus should be on serving the students who need the most help and most services, which requires a school by school assessment and analysis.

«Our Senate budget focuses on the priorities of hardworking taxpayers and their families by providing new property tax relief, rebuilding our infrastructure to spur job creation and giving students across the state the opportunities they need and deserve,» Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos said.

«We also need to embed employability in education, with a greater focus from schools on employability outcomes for their pupils, and with management modules becoming mandatory in higher education, to give students in different disciplines more opportunities to learn to lead.»

«The focus, I think, has been on making sure that teachers and students get the kind of training that teachers need to support students, so you are seeing increases with the trend going in the right direction,» responded Elia.

State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia and Board of Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa said in a joint statement that Cuomo's State of the State address «contains a number of policy proposals that will help New York's students in important ways, including focusing resources on at - risk students and schools with the greatest needs.»

«The commissioner remains focused on improving our school to ensure sure every student can build the skills and knowledge needed to succeed in college and a career,» Tompkins said.

The initial focus is on science and math due to the urgent nationwide need for students leaving high school with those skills, Zimpher explained.

I don't understand the opposition to common core — it goes back to basics and focuses on just a few subjects so students have more opportunity to master those subjects that are needed to be productive.