Sentences with phrase «high achieving students»

By targeting the help a student needs, a teacher can create flex groups for the most remedial students while also organizing flex groups for higher achieving students.

In this two part series, we look at how one school is using research - informed strategies to challenge high achieving students in maths.

Meanwhile, the scores of higher achieving students were flat, statistically unchanged.

The actions of school districts with high achieving students operated in five critically different ways.

The vast majority of even very high achieving students from low - income families do not apply to a single selective college or university.

Often, they're high achieving students who have the kind of creative minds that would otherwise excel at it.

Increased exposure to rigorous content, deep engagement, and academically - oriented peer support benefit high achieving students and lead to strong preparation for top colleges and universities.

The practical implication of this policy change is that high achieving students now regularly attend classes with low - achieving peers.

Many schools chose to send high achieving students to these events believing that they will benefit from it and be able to engage easily with the tasks.

In other words, the increased share of high - scoring AP students is not simply due to states making sure that only higher achieving students take the exams.

In this two part series, we look at how one school is using research - informed strategies to extend high achieving students in maths.

Small group instruction can occur in groups of students with similar academic needs or in cooperative groups of students with diverse abilities, putting higher achieving students in the role of a peer mentor.

A dedication of the scholarship to low - income high achieving students in a way does both.

There are good charter schools, but many of them maintain their success by systematically selecting higher achieving students and excluding students who may have challenges.

Our gifted students often have challenges that high achieving students do not.

Moreover, the growth model offers an opportunity to increase academic growth for higher achieving students.

For example, a student who is achieving at a low level may or may not benefit by transferring to a school that is producing high gains only with high achieving students.

In 2013, staff analysis of Year 3 and 5 NAPLAN results showed high achieving students at Quinns Baptist College were making a slower rate of progress than lower achieving students.

«The Australian Research Council's Federation Fellowships scheme, for example, encourages Australian researchers working overseas to bring their skills back into Australian science, while scholarships offered under the Endeavour Programme allow high achieving students from around the world to undertake study or research in Australia.»

After all, we've shown that teachers who are assigned poorly prepared students get lower classroom observation ratings than teachers who are assigned high achieving students, and we've said that is unfair and needs to be corrected.

Nami is a very high achieving student who is exceeding grade level goals and is functionally bilingual in English and Japanese.

That's exactly why ST Math fit into their program so seamlessly, because even high achieving students inevitably encounter challenges that require them to push themselves.

Oklahoma serves as an «any state» example of the low level of standards found in American schools that fail to challenge high achieving students.

«What concerns me... are the number of high achieving students whose lives are governed by what they, or perhaps more often their parents, imagine is going to improve in some slight way their chances of admission.

«College Selectivity and Degree Completion,» by Scott Heil of the City University of New York (CUNY), Liza Reisel of the Institute for Social Research in Oslo, and Paul Attewell of the CUNY Graduate Center, is the first study on this topic to use nationally representative data and to account for the higher graduation rates of highly selective institutions in terms of their ability to attract and enroll higher achieving students.

The difficulty of attracting high achieving students to university education programs is more challenging than is reflected by ATAR entry scores.

This article glosses over (ignores) any negative effect on higher achieving students by having lower achieving students present who strike out behaviourally when confronted with learning environments beyond their capability.

For today's eighth graders, the tracking question generally boils down to whether high achieving students who are ready for a formal algebra course will get one — or whether all students will take the same general math course.

Finally, where traditional public schools need to take in new students who happen to move into the neighborhood at any time, causing disruption to the norms and routines established by the teacher, KIPP students would enjoy a more positive peer environment if KIPP either limited its influx of new students or tended to take in mostly high achieving students.

BASIS has a very rigorous curriculum designed for extremely high achieving students.

Tracking, the practice of putting a small group of higher achieving students into separate advanced or honors classes, isn't popular with progressive educators.

Certified teachers not only produce higher achieving students, but, conversely, teachers without certification showed significant negative effects on student achievement (Darling - Hammond et al., 2005).

Accelerate Education provides online education courses for Kindergarten through 12th grade to meet the needs of all students, from at - risk students who had trouble succeeding in the traditional classroom to high achieving students seeking classes their schools can not provide for them.

Only 35 percent of parents agreed with the union's argument that, «Public charter schools take resources and high achieving students away from traditional public schools.»

[Once again, it was an ironic move considering the cut will dramatically reduce the number of Advanced Placement courses which not only provide high achieving students with additional educational opportunities but significantly help students get into college.

edX activities will offer high school and high achieving students courses within Renzulli Learning that will be aligned with their interests, learning and expression styles.

Or paying high achieving students to tutor?

For all too many schools, back to school night has devolved into just another poorly attended event where the parents of a few high achieving students visit with teachers.

According to Leah Latimer, author of Higher Ground: A Guide for Black Parents to Chart a Successful Course for Their Children from Kindergarten to College, high achieving students stand out among their peers because they knew what they needed to do well before the time came to do it.

Though there are a number of different techniques for implementing acceleration, the general idea is that high achieving students move faster through the curriculum, either by skipping over things they have already learned or by compressing the time in which they learn it.

With DreamBox, high achieving students gained a different access point for content at and above grade level, something families and schools continually seek.

A lowest performing supergroup captures students who are lagging behind their peers, but ignores higher achieving students who are low - income, of color, English learners, or have a disability.

«Indeed, teachers working with higher achieving students tend to receive higher performance ratings, above and beyond that which might be attributable to aspects of teacher quality,» and vice-versa.

Alternatively (and much cheaper), the state could send the outgoing Commissioner of Education on a tour of schools to attempt to persuade high achieving students to enter a profession where they can expect to earn significantly less than other professionals and be subjected to a testing and evaluation system that according to some is «driving teachers crazy.»