Sentences with phrase «help teachers test»

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Did a teacher ever tell you to make sure you were active in the afternoon to help you ace your next test?

Teachers have a variety of techniques for preparing students for tests to help ensure the tests accurately measure the grade level skills kids have mastered.

With a heavy focus on the importance of hands - on experience for their students, rather than standardized testing, Waldorf teachers help their students to explore curricula through diverse activities, with plenty of room to customize lesson plans.

These tests are given to help teachers and schools understand what your child knows when they begin kindergarten.

Also, the California State Test scores were often not available until the end of summer or after school started and couldn't be used by teachers to help them make placement decisions.

Then there's James — a boy who grew up in a low - income Brooklyn neighbourhood who, despite the fact he couldn't perform well on traditional tests — might be the best 13 - year - old chess player in the U.S., all through the help of an attentive, nurturing teacher.

The teacher will be able to tell you your child's reading level, discuss any problem areas indicated by those tests, and offer help.

In 2006, state lawmakers passed legislation establishing a Farm to School grant program, which helps fund school gardens, teacher professional development, farm field trips, local food taste tests and the integration of nutrition into the curriculum.

To help your child in preparing for preschool, try this parent - and teacher - tested advice.

Under previous education commissioner Richard Mills, the two officials said, the questions on the tests had become more and more predictable, so that teachers were able to help their students «game» the tests.

New York is going back to the drawing board to rethink the way it evaluates school teachers and principals after controversy over the use of student test scores in job evaluations helped fuel a massive boycott of state exams in recent years.

Students across the region began taking New York State Regents tests Tuesday and a Buffalo Public Schools teacher is using digital means to help students review for their History Regents.

The NY Post says the teachers union «broke» the governor, thanks to reports that he plans to abandon the effort to use student scores on state tests to help judge teacher performance.

Findings will help language teachers devise more effective strategies for assisting learners and influence the accuracy of tests that predict SFL reading abilities.

Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia has been reassuring teachers, administrators and parents that computer testing can help ease the fatigue many third to eighth - graders got when taking the year - end state assessments.

Now he's reportedly set to give up — abandoning the effort to use student scores on state tests to help judge teacher performance.

The object of all this ire and satire was Pearson PLC, the company based in Great Britain that has a nearly $ 33 million contract with New York state to write and administer tests given to K - 12 public school students and to help run teacher training tests.

But the allies who helped him adopt the new curriculum, testing and teacher evaluations law — members of the state Board of Regents and leaders in the State Senate and Assembly — are now defecting as they confront a grassroots revolt.

«The state has to restore the trust and confidence of parents in its assessment system and part of that includes assuring parents that tests are being used by teachers to inform instruction so they can better help the students in their classrooms and that the data is used for those purposes.»

It gave former Mayor Bloomberg outsize power over the system, and helped make sure that teachers, parents and advocates had to fight at meetings, on the streets and in the courts to block his efforts to close schools and establish standardized test scores as the only measure of students and teachers.

ChangetheStakes.org, a citywide grassroots organization, is one of the groups helping to promote an important discussion on high stakes testing, the Common Core curriculum and teacher evaluations this Wednesday at Lehman College in the Bronx.

«Early retirement incentives for teachers don't hurt — might help — test scores.»

To help teachers hone this knowledge, Sadler and his colleagues have made the kind of tests used in their study publicly available.

As part of an unusual study, Philip Sadler, the Frances W. Wright Senior Lecturer in the Department of Astronomy, and colleagues tested 181 middle school physical science teachers and nearly 10,000 of their students, and showed that while most of the teachers were well - versed in their subject, those better able to predict their students» wrong answers on standardized tests helped students learn the most.

As part of an unusual study, Sadler and colleagues tested 181 middle school physical science teachers and nearly 10,000 of their students, and showed that while most of the teachers were well - versed in their subject, those better able to predict their students» wrong answers on standardized tests helped students learn the most.

After reading reports of how quickly the disease was spreading through Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, Hallisey felt moved to help, and with encouragement from her science research teacher, she looked into existing tests for Ebola.

Roseman is looking to improve the new energy curriculum with the help of teachers in Virginia and Maryland who will participate with their students in pilot testing of the unit next spring.

«We also intend to make the tests as diagnostic as possible so that teachers can use test results to help their students learn more.»

«These tests should not be a cause of stress for pupils - they help teachers make sure children are learning to read, write and add up well.

It is shameful that a small minority of teachers feel the need to help their students cheat on tests.

Embracing different languages while helping students achieve high grades and test scores leaves teachers with a conundrum.

I wrote The Busy Educator's Guide To The World Wide Web to address the needs of K - 12 classroom teachers and to help them avoid frustration while looking for online educational resources about classroom management and discipline, lesson planning and work sheets, grants, testing, and subject - specific topics.

The Educational Testing Service last week acquired the assets of a Portland, Ore. - based company that specializes in helping teachers use classroom assessments to improve daily instruction.

Teachers can help ease student stress by emphasizing that tests are tools to identify future areas of instruction that can be addressed by the teacher, or «what the teacher may still need to teach (or re-teach).»

Highlights of the conference include include debates and resolutions about controversial teacher testing, charter schools, and a proposal by AFT president calling for an extra year of high school to help prevent high school - dropout rates from climbing.

This set of resource includes: • 6 attractive PowerPoint presentations which lead the class through each of the lessons • Fun and thought provoking activities and discussion starters, worksheets and questions to reinforce the learning • 6 differentiated homework tasks • A mark sheet which allows pupils to track their own progress • An end of unit test to prepare the students for exams or can be used as a form of assessment • A complete teacher's guide including easy to follow lesson plans • An answer booklet to help the teacher along The lessons are: Lesson 1 — Looking into ethical and moral dilemmas such as driverless cars and the impact of technology on modern life Lesson 2 — More ethical dilemmas including the ratings culture, medical apps, sharing personal data and cyber bullying Lesson 3 — Environmental issues with technology and how organisations and individuals can reduce these effects Lesson 4 — The Computer Misuse Act 1990 Lesson 5 — The Data Protection Act 1998 Lesson 6 — Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 For more high - quality resources written by this author visit www.nicholawilkin.com

«Tests should not be a cause of stress for pupils - they are there to help teachers understand where children may need more support and we trust teachers to approach testing in a proportionate manner.»

Nor can a teacher be asked to help supervise a lunchroom or study hall, help special - education students on and off the bus, help college applicants prepare their transcripts, score city - wide tests, or write truant slips.

Teachers have to help students understand the fact that knowing your struggles and having strategies to combat them while taking tests is a life skill that may be applied to many areas outside of the classroom.

Great science teachers help their students develop the language and culture of scientists as they engage in inquiry, formulate hypotheses, and test solutions.

Education Minister Christopher Pyne guaranteed $ 24.7 million to construct the online platform to demonstrate the Government's commitment to helping deliver the better - quality results schools, parents, teachers and students will see from online NAPLAN tests.

Although there is some indication that the implementation of MCAS testing has improved curriculum and helped push students and teachers to focus more aggressively on academic achievement, the potential consequences of depriving thousands of students a high - school diploma is simply unacceptable to most teachers.

Education World's Best Idea Ever feature highlights a favorite teacher - tested idea designed to help you teach a lesson, manage a classroom, communicate with parents, impress colleagues and administrators — and amaze them all with your energy and creativity!

Last month, Education Minister Christopher Pyne guaranteed $ 24.7 million to construct the online platform to demonstrate the Federal Government's commitment to helping deliver the better - quality results schools, parents, teachers and students will see from online NAPLAN tests.

On average across middle and high school math, TFA teachers out - performed veteran teachers by 0.07 standard deviations, the equivalent of 2.6 additional months of instruction or helping a student move from the 27th to the 30th percentile on a normal distribution of test scores.

The ultimate test will be how many more students these teachers can help make outstanding progress, not just in the first year, but in subsequent years as more teachers on new teams break through to excellence with the help of their outstanding peers.

The groundswell of community support for the school helped create and maintain what is now the most ethnically and socioeconomically diverse school in the district, with consistently some of the highest test scores — and very little teacher or student attrition.

These were: well - being and welfare — insisting upon the adoption of well - being policies in all education settings; empowering and enabling — identifying the balance between empowering and overburdening staff; freedom and flexibility - reversing the trend for testing and increasingly structured curriculum frameworks and trust and train teachers to do their job with a focus on reflective practice; and celebrating success — making sure we all better celebrate the amazing experiences and achievements of teachers to help stem a current tendency for public pessimism.

Beginning in the 1990s and through the 2000s, analyses of year - to - year student - test data consistently showed that some teachers helped their students learn significantly more than did other teachers.

The twin challenges of meeting standards and testing requirements make it even more important that teachers have tools to help get the most out of time with their students.