That process begins by
focusing attention on students and teachers.
• Encouraging schools to
focus their attention on students close to the proficiency cut (the «bubble kids») as opposed to all students, including high - and low - achievers.
Once students have been placed among the 4 quadrants, the school comes together every 8 weeks as a collaborative team to
focus their attentions on students in Quadrant 2, which are referred to as Q2 meetings.
Instead, they said, lawmakers should ask how to raise the bar of all programs,
focus attention on student outcomes instead of inputs like certification and years of experience, and hold programs accountable for how well their graduates perform in the classroom.
In addition to
focusing attention on student learning, the Education Enhancement Act raised salaries for teachers and principals while dramatically raising standards for teaching.
Not exact matches
My
attention is
focused on the human spirit, not the human body, for I am attending not as a medical
student but as a campus minister.
As a professor in the master's program for Tequila Production Process at the Autonomous Guadalajara University, the recommendation to my
students is to pay
attention to every single detail of the tequila production process and always
focus on quality.
In addition to meeting the
students where they already are — in the hallway — it allows school nutrition staff to take back the responsibility of handing out food from teaching staff, who can then
focus all of their
attention on starting the school day as
students eat breakfast.
After cutting his teeth running the foodservice program for Eastern Kentucky University — which included operations for a K - 12 school as well as the college dining services — Chris decided to
focus his
attention on serving younger
students.
MIDDLEBURY — The 2016 U.S. presidential campaign has helped
focus media
attention on mounting
student debt and the rising costs of a college education.
But as Laurie Leshin, president of Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, noted during a panel
on «Key Issues and Opportunities,» very little of the day's
attention focused on students.
The rubric will also be useful, the researchers concluded, in
focusing curriculum developers» and teachers»
attention on the importance of engaging
students with natural phenomena (or in solving problems) and making sense of them in terms of NGSS core ideas, crosscutting concepts, and science practices.
This is because over the last 20 years a number of countries have
focused national
attention on their
students excelling in the areas of math and science education as a way for their country to create a highly - skilled workforce, allowing the country to compete in the increasingly competitive global economy.
In earlier studies that primarily
focused on energy expenditure, teachers observed increased
attention and better behavior of
students using standing desks.
The authors advocate that colleges and universities
focus greater
attention on developing
student values and other personal qualities that will produce a new generation of citizens who are committed to creating a more just and equitable society.
In the structured Ph.D. program, career - oriented skills training unrelated to the research project, combined with serious
attention to planning for the
student's career, should strengthen the
focus on the
student's prospects and progress.
He's now a Ph.D.
student at the University of Exeter in the School of Sport and Health Sciences, where his research
focuses on visual
attention and performance.
While Topics in Human Genetics
focused my
attention on the issues involved in one particular area of science, the second course that influenced my appreciation for ethics was appropriately named Bioethics, one of the core courses all
students at Meharry must take regardless of department or funding status.
The pain experienced by some of the
students seemed to serve a unique causal function,
focusing the
students»
attention on the shared pain and, ultimately, promoting group cohesion.
«When
students described practice experiences related to a
focus on the nose during meditation, they tended to describe a quality of mind, specifically how their
attention «felt» when they sensed it.»
«We found that when
students focused on the breath in the belly their descriptions of experience
focused on attention to specific somatic areas and body sensations,» the researchers wrote in their conference abstract.
Rather than flowing from one pose to the next
on autopilot, Porat says learning a new variation forces her
students to really pay
attention to her instruction and
focus on their bodies — which also means they're tuning out the outside world along with their own mental chatter.
While the front of the body is being stretched in backbends (specifically the thighs, front groins, belly, chest and armpits), we should continue to
focus our
students»
attention on the back torso.
Still based
on the more traditional and Hatha / Iyengar approach, this class is for
students who wish to deepen and expand their poses at a faster pace with a
focus on improving alignment For
students with some yoga experience.This hatha yoga class combines strength, flexibility, and endurance through precise
attention to the body and the breath.
If you choose complicated and / or unfamiliar asanas, you will have to spend too much time and
attention focusing on alignment, which will distract you and your
students from the breath.
Every
student level can benefit from the one -
on - one
attention and
focus of an experienced and certified yoga teacher.
But these results at least indicate that accountability systems can help to
focus attention on poor and minority
students whose needs have been ignored or neglected.
Microsoft Excel required Suitable for Early Years 2 files, 9 topics A new set of questions every time the files are opened Every question
focusses the
students attention on the number 10 File 1 - 3 separate grids - 20 numbers in each Shade in the pairs that = 10 Shade in the squares with numbers less than 10 Shade in the squares with numbers greater than 10 File 2 - see cover image for 4 of the topics The other two topics are 3 word quizzes and Place value, how many 10's are in each number.
The task force's report, for all its
focus on student performance, pays sparse
attention to teaching.
For example, if in repeated instances several
students are observed paying close
attention to a particular instructional method (say, a demonstration) and failing to
focus on another (say, a lecture), it can be inferred that those
students regard lectures as less engaging.
«Reassessing the Achievement Gap: Fully Measuring What
Students Should Be Taught in School» argues that NAEP results offer a «distorted» picture of
student achievement because of their exclusive
focus on academic skills and take
attention away from nontested areas that often fall under the purview of schools.
It has
focused public
attention on the performance of all
students, not just the top performers — and that has dividends for everyone.
One middle school instructor makes
students who are slow to pay
attention responsible for handing out material or starting the discussion and
focuses on them more at the start of a lesson.
Were teachers, we wanted to know,
focusing their
attention on either high - achieving or low - achieving
students in an effort to meet target scores?
There is also a razor - sharp
focus on individualized
attention and what it means to be part of a community — something from which all
students would benefit.
Over time, discourse in the video clubs shifted from a
focus on the teacher to increased
attention to
students» actions and ideas, toward increasingly detailed analyses of
student thinking.
Comics offer a way to
focus students»
attention on elements like dialogue, interior monologue (thought bubbles), character development, and setting.
Likert scales are a way to measure whether an individual agrees with or disagrees with a particular statement or idea, and a simple Likert scale of faces with expressions ranging from a smile to a frown is an appropriate way to begin the monitoring process, and will encourage
students to
focus their
attention on their learning.
As educators across the country
focus attention on designing new and better ways to gauge what
students are learning, they risk distorting the meaning and practice of formative assessment and squandering its potential to enhance teaching and learning, an assessment expert is warning.
Whereas most of the energy in the school choice debates has
focused on vouchers and charter schools, relatively little
attention has been paid to another important choice model that serves as many
students as charters and has been in existence for longer — magnet schools.
Even the Every
Student Succeeds Act, the law's 2015 iteration, which reduces the federal role in school accountability, still insists that state and local governments
focus attention on the lowest - performing schools.
Within Texas, we
focus our
attention on large school districts, those with more than 25,000
students.
All of my
students speak and are learning English as a second language, and for this reason, their class schedules ensure that they
focus extra
attention on learning English.
Although these rituals differ, a
student's own ritual can serve to ground them, create a calming space around work and
focus their mind and
attention on homework time.
The design of NCLB necessarily
focused the
attention of schools
on helping
students attain proficiency.
For nearly a decade, the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) has
focused the
attention of policymakers and researchers squarely
on the achievement of low - performing
students, with some apparent success.
Others have suggested leaving a government - operated school system intact, but putting different people — mayors, [3] appointed boards, or state officials [4]-- in charge and using performance standards to
focus the
attention of educators
on student learning, not distracting rules.
Sponsored by Stanford and supported with a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Nov. 17 - 18 conference was billed as a «prelude to a national movement» to
focus attention on revamping traditional approaches to educating disadvantaged
students.
«It is hard now to think back 30 or 40 years ago when there was not much
attention or
focus on special education of
students or perhaps more recently, in the last decade, with
focus more
on English - language learners and the rapidly changing demographics in states.»»
After
students turn in rough drafts of their papers, the class
focuses its
attention on punctuation.