Sentences with phrase «growing class of students»

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Most concerning, class sizes are growing and classrooms host an increasing number of students with learning challenges or other special needs — with too few staff and resources made available to support them.

There's a sort of shared anticipation in the air as the days grow shorter, the breezes get cooler, and folks everywhere begin new journeys together — a new school year for teachers and students, new jobs for recent grads, new projects at work, new Sunday school classes at church, new shows on TV, a new session of Congress in Washington, new routines, new people, new information, new schedules.

However, I'm 36, and grew up in the last generation of High School students who had to get updates and spread gossip the old - fashioned way — by a locker, between classes.

The complication, of course, is that students who grow up in conditions of adversity are primed, in all sorts of ways, not to believe any of Farrington's four statements when they're sitting in math class.

IS 318 was in South Williamsburg, near the border of Bedford - Stuyvesant — its most famous graduate was the rapper Jay - Z, who grew up in the nearby Marcy housing project — and the team reflected the student body; the students» families were mostly from the struggling working class, and the majority of their parents were employed but not college educated.

Thacker decries the changes he witnessed in the past 30 years in college admissions — more AP and honors classes, growing checklists of pro-forma service engagements, and ever - greater stress experienced by students and fomented by parents and admissions officers.

«Once a week, we were bringing in a blender and plug - in tabletop range to teach cooking classes to students after school,» said Francey Slater of the nonprofit Mill City Grows.

Siena will remain at P.S. 150 through the end of the school year, but she will also begin making plans for the Peck Slip School, which will open with two kindergarten classes in Tweed Courthouse next fall and will ultimately grow to 712 students.

Conference notes that this growing phenomenon includes: (i) management - led working practices which have not been workload impact assessed; (ii) coercive practices such as insidious threats to career progression; (iii) the de facto lengthening of the school day through the expectation that teachers will deliver extra lessons outside of the normal timetable; (iv) the loss of lunch breaks for teachers and students alike; (v) the bullying of teachers into running «booster» and revision classes after school, at weekends and during holiday periods and (vi) the consequential compromising of the teacher's work / life balance.

The demonstrations have virtually taken over Lower Manhattan for more than two weeks and grown into thousands Wednesday night as college students walked out of class and labor unions took the streets in solidarity with the anti-Wall Street protest.

Mulgrew said the full payment of the CFE funds would help New York City public schools reduce class size and better serve the growing population of English language learners and special education students with more teachers, guidance counselors, social workers, school psychologists and school nurses.

As Las Vegas grew up and corporate bigwigs displaced mobsters as the city's ruling class, Mulroy prided herself on being a student of character.

In a small but growing number of schools, students watch lectures online and come to class prepared to tackle assignments and collaborate with teachers and peers.

From the structure of class, to designing your own brand, to growing your student base in and out of the studio — I will be there for you every step of the way.

The beginning of an academic year is not only a chance to connect with a new class of students but also a chance for you — the educator, the backbone of our public education system — to grow in the job, show leadership, and speak up about your school's and district's direction.

«This new school will be a jewel of South Melbourne — giving local students and families access to first - class facilities and easing enrolment pressures in our growing community,» he said.

The growing awareness of the challenges such students face, they note, has spurred an increase in professional development, particularly for teachers of regular classes.

My respect for anyone who stands in front of a class has grown, as has my understanding of today's students.

«Each year I tell the students in my history classes that they will eventually grow up and forget all the details of what I'm telling them,» he says.

If your class is frequently built around student - led, in - depth discussions, you already understand the basics, and adding a little bit of technology can exponentially grow the impact of the in - class experts you have been building.

A kindergarten teacher reported how she was instructed to ask her students, on the third day of class, «to reflect on how they'd grown as writers.»

The growing black middle class soon joined the exodus, leaving urban schools with the difficult task of educating the majority of the nation's poor and minority students.

Several teachers boast that even the shyest students begin participating in class discussions because of their ever - growing comfort level.

With real - time questioning, result aggregation, and visualization, teachers have instant insight into levels of understanding so they can use class time more wisely and help their students grow.

Growing Coders: Rochester Programming Classes Bet on the Future Minnesota Public Radio, October 14, 2013 «It's also about teaching kids how to see the world in a whole new way, said Karen Brennan, assistant professor at the Harvard School of Education who developed Scratch, the kid - friendly program the Rochester group uses to get students excited about coding.»

«A growing number of other countries are turning out entire high school graduating classes that are much better educated than ours, with much more equity, and they are doing it at a lower cost per student,» says Marc.

Though justified by claims that these curriculum changes increased equal opportunity of education, in reality they had a grossly unequal impact on white working - class young people and the growing number of black students who entered high schools in the 1930s and 1940s.

A range of lessons (originally aimed at lower ability GCSE students) on some of the themes in Blood Brothers: social class, childhood and growing up, women, motherhood and motifs.

The Howland plan called for starting with 4th and 5th grades, with two classes of 15 students in each grade; it would add 3rd and 6th grades in year two, 2nd and 7th grades in year three, 1st and 8th grades in year four, and kindergarten in year five, growing to 540 students in grades K through 8 by 2010.

In a classroom setting, time - strapped teachers charged with serving an array of students often feel pressed to move on after a fixed amount of time practicing, especially if the class is growing restless while only a few students seem to need more practice and feedback.

A growing number of other countries are turning out entire high school graduating classes that are much better educated than ours, with much more equity, and they are doing it at a lower cost per student.

As part of the study of memoirs, for example, Alexa Dunn's English class read Funny in Farsi, Firoozeh Dumas's account of growing up Iranian in the United States — yes, the students do read books — and talked with the author in California via Skype.

Flashing a seating chart for a second to the audience, Higgins shared that she actually plans how she is going to cold call in class based on a couple of factors: students expertise on a subject, nonverbal cues they show during class, and her desire to help them grow and learn.

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In today's environment of growing class sizes — with an average of 25 students in elementary classrooms and 150 students a day in high school classes — it's difficult for teachers to provide one - to - one instruction.

Baer's HGSE visit concluded with a lecture to students in Professor Joe Blatt's class, Growing up in a Media World, specifically a session focusing on the impact of globalization on media.

As Chester E. Finn Jr. first explained, in the past half - century our K — 12 public education student population has grown 50 percent while our teacher corps has grown nearly 300 percent, largely in pursuit of smaller classes.

Their mission of creating «an environment where teachers can watch, share, and learn new techniques to help every student grow» 2 dovetails perfectly with the Performance Matters mission of delivering world - class professional learning solutions to accelerate measurable improvements in learning and teaching.

Its mission is to help teachers grow to improve outcomes for all students, and 1 million education leaders already use the award - winning website, best - in - class video library of teacher practice, and professional development platform to improve both teacher development and student outcomes.

Culture as the beliefs and practices of the families and communities in which students grow up is largely ignored — and race, social class and power receive little attention.

Additionally, Ms. Funk has found that her students, having grown up with technology, respond positively to online learning programs where they are able to direct their own learning, lowering the number of behavioral issues in class.

Without the extra cash, class sizes could grow from an average of 33 to 37 students in elementary grades and up to 41 in high school, according to the district.

Indeed, a growing body of research suggests middle - class and White students benefit because diverse learning environments make us all smarter.

With the stress of standardized testing and other external pressures, it's easy to forget that there is more to class than just teaching for the test, students come to school to feel safe, a sense of community, and to grow as individuals.

Two weeks after the preservice teachers designed and presented their modelactivities during the sixth week of classes in the fall semester, one student (to be named «Trent» hereafter) inquired about a set of TI - 83s to use withhis onsite, small group teaching lesson, a requirement of the practicum course.Trent had been searching for ways to improve the test scores of these studentswhen he heard during class that using the TI - 83s and StudyCards was one wayin which a teacher had reached her social studies students with special needs.These special needs students had grown - up with GameBoys and other handheldvideo games and were motivated to learn using the TI - 83 since it was a similartype of device.

Not only are black and Hispanic children more likely to grow up in poor families, but middle - class black and Hispanic children are also much more likely than poor white children to live in neighborhoods and attend schools with high concentrations of poor students.

Despite a focus on getting more kids to class, the number of students who were chronically absent in LA Unified grew by 1 percent last year from the year before.

While the issues at stake vary by state, a number of elections this cycle will hinge on a variety of education - related questions, including recent cuts to public schools, growing class sizes, Common Core State Standards, access to pre-K education and the availability of state - funded student loans for college.

The self - paced classes represent one of the fastest growing segments of the $ 2 billion digital learning market for elementary and secondary students.

One model has expanded from a founding class of 56 students to over 1,500 (and growing) today.