Sentences with phrase «hold higher expectations of students»

Educators hold higher expectations of students whose parents collaborate with the teacher.

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A commonly proposed strategy for raising achievement levels in schools is to specify high expectations or «standards» of student performance and to hold students, teachers and schools accountable for achieving those standards.

If teachers of color hold higher expectations for minority students — stemming from their perceptions about student ability, effort, and behavior — they might be more likely to push students to work hard and to insist on their best effort in all assignments.

Again, this is something I never doubted — but I know there are many in this country that seem to believe as long as we «hold high expectations,» add hours to the school day, deliver rigorous lessons and insist that students rise to the challenge, they can overcome everything and go on to college and the career of their choice.

While most teachers believe in the importance of holding high expectations for students, many appear to fall short of doing so in practice, according to a new nationwide survey of educators.

Challenging Ensuring that every student learns and every member of the learning community is held to high expectations.

Advocates for Children of New York (AFC) leads a statewide coalition of educational and advocacy organizations and families who have come together to urge the creation of multiple pathways to a diploma in New York State, each of which holds all students to high expectations, provides them with quality instruction, and opens doors to career and post-secondary education opportunities.

[iii] To the extent that students attending schools with more demanding expectations for student behavior hold themselves to a higher standard when completing questionnaires, reference bias could make comparisons of their responses across schools misleading.

Given that we do not yet know how to measure students» discipline, motivation, and social skills directly, setting high expectations for skills we are able to measure and holding students accountable for meeting them may well be the best ways to improve all of the above.

In «Navigating the Common Core,» Michael McShane of AEI argues that while Common Core holds much promise for creating common expectations for students, successful implementation is contingent upon navigating «a field of mines, any one of which could blow the enterprise sky - high.»

They have this sort of philosophy which is high expectations and accountability, which is they hold students and teachers and principals to really high levels.

«When teachers are fully informed and empowered, they hold themselves and their students to high expectations,» said Ama Nyamekye, executive director of the Los Angeles chapter and a former New York City teacher.

In these schools, the crisis has been overcome, because the educators sought to control what they could, held high expectations for student learning, and supported their students in surmounting the debilitating effects of poverty on learning.

Research shows that black teachers connect more deeply, hold higher expectations, and provide stronger role models for black children, who make up nearly 90 percent of the city's public school students.

Application of Common Core State Standards for English Language Learners [PDF] The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and the Council of Chief State School Officers strongly believe that all students should be held to the same high expectations outlined in the CCSS.

Teachers may discover they are a «4» in holding high expectations for students, but a «2» in pushing for depth of understanding in struggling students.

Even if the curricula is aligned with the standards, the curricula won't work if teachers are not capable of improving student achievement, if school cultures damn some kids (notably those from poor and minority backgrounds) to low expectations, and if school operators aren't held to high expectations (as well as rewarded and punished accordingly).

We provide an unparalleled program that emphasizes community and responsibility and holds students to high expectations in every area of school life.

Good teachers have always held students to high expectations and showed sincere concern with the individual needs of students, however, as technology advances, more tools have become available to support teachers and students in constructing a more personalized experience.

Instead of setting high expectations for student learning and holding students and educators responsible for meeting or exceeding them, we've eased graduation standards and made them optional.

Teachers of color have a particularly positive effect on students of color: They have been found to hold higher expectations for students of color and to be both more likely to refer students of color into gifted and talented programs and less likely to refer them for suspension and special education (Ford, 2010; Grissom & Redding, 2016).

Though 95 % of the students at Aspire's charter schools in Los Angeles are from low - income families and most are English - language learners, Aspire holds all staff and students to the highest expectations, says Roberta Benjamin, LA Superintendent for Aspire Public Schools.

Teaching to the middle has been considered a poor practice for decades; however, the diversity of the population and the need to hold high expectations for individual students makes small group instruction a significant priority in an increasingly low - income community.

This teacher explains that they hold high academic expectations from the very beginning, wanting their students to believe that they can go on to any school or profession they wish, and it's never too late to start seeding that level of ambition and hope.

Increasing racial, ethnic, linguistic, socio - economic, and gender diversity in the teacher workforce can have a positive effect for all students, but the impact is even more pronounced when students have a teacher who shares characteristics of their identity.20 For example, teachers of color are often better able to engage students of color, 21 and students of color score higher on standardized tests when taught by teachers of color.22 By holding students of color to a set of high expectations, 23 providing culturally relevant teaching, confronting racism through teaching, and developing trusting relationships with their students, teachers of color can increase other educational outcomes for students of color, such as high school completion and college attendance.24

A successful arrival system engages the transportation staff in holding high expectations for student behavior, and for maintaining safe functionality of the bus space.

By assuming a comprehensive approach to academic content that holds students to high expectations, institutions of education can expand student learning and subsequently improve readiness for, and success in, a wider variety of postsecondary and career endeavors.

Participants told us that their distinct understanding of hardship, in particular, allows many black teachers to have compassion for students while also holding them to high expectations.

In the classroom, they tend to be «warm demanders,» holding all students to high expectations, both academically and as members of a disciplined learning community (Ware, 2006).

In journal entries at the end of the semester they indicated that, contrary to their prior expectations, the teacher implemented «a rigorous curriculum,» held «high expectations,» taught «in an integrated style,» and built «on the students» prior experiences.»

We hold members of the school community — students, families and staff — to the highest expectations, both academically as well as behaviorally.

When that school opened, a number of Massachusetts charters were already achieving great success with educational models that hold students to very high standards and expectations.

They align with the developmental and cultural needs of secondary students and the academic expectations held by high school teachers.

The research on Catholic schools finds that they succeed academically because the members of the school community — pastors, principals, teachers, parents, students — trust each other and hold each other to high expectations.

This should involve increased efforts to support more students with disabilities in general education settings, the maintenance of high expectations for students and clear mechanisms to hold district and school leaders accountable for the performance and graduation of students with disabilities.

The two most common themes throughout the study are the importance of leadership from the principal's office and the high expectations for all students held by these schools.

By Chris Geary, Guest Blogger As an AP World History teacher at a charter school in the Far Northeast of Denver that holds uniquely high expectations for students, I have witnessed the fundamental necessity of expecting students to perform to the best of their ability on a daily basis.

Studies have found that teachers of color hold higher academic expectations for students of color and students of all races have more favorable perceptions of teachers of color over their white counterparts.

I thought my message of reverence and thanks to my high school teachers — who were, with the exception of one, all white — for holding me to the same high... Continue reading White Teachers Tend To Have Consistently Lower Expectations of Their Black and Brown Students

Despite the idea that there are more egalitarian gender roles in heterosexual relationships, this research indicates more traditional attitudes for the first date — there are higher expectations for men to initiate, plan and pay for the date.1 According to this work, the vast majority of which focuses on first date scripts held by heterosexual undergraduate students, both men and women think that men have greater sexual expectations and are more likely to make a sexual move on the first date.1, 2

Preoccupied teachers may take relational conflict more personal because they tend to hold high, unrealistic expectations of relationships with students.