Sentences with phrase «impact upon student»

(Md.) More and more, schools are turning to research - based programs to engage parents and guardians in the education of their children — a strategy that evidence is showing may be a key impact upon a student's academic achievement.

This will give you the power to make an impact upon your students or employees by playing to your strengths and providing the best possible educational experience.

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«Passing MFM in the Wadham Student Union has not only been a huge step forwards in terms of our direct impact upon the environment but has also been really great in producing a discussion about vegetarianism,» said Davis.

«Whilst it is too soon to evaluate the impact of the launch of the BBC micro: bit in changing the current generation of students from passive end users into creators of technology, showing capability in coding and digital creativity, feedback at this early stage is suggesting that the device has created excitement in learning amongst students and its widespread availability now means that schools can build upon this to create a diverse, cross-curricular platform for the teaching and learning of digital skills,» comments Geoff Hampson.

No matter which piece a particular researcher focuses upon, though, it's important to pay attention to matters of sample size and context and actual student impacts — as opposed to, say, teachers» qualitatively gathered impressions.

This lesson resource allows students to understand how changes in real exchange rates will have an impact upon their own economy.

They can learn more deeply as well if they're also not being impacted upon by repeated disruptions from, again, those small number of students that might be in your classroom.

To calculate the latest information on voucher impacts upon college enrollment and bachelor's degree attainment, we utilized data from the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) to glean information on college enrollment and attainment for 99 percent of all participating students.

In particular, students learn how to make sustained, clear interpretations about the impact of the dramatic devices upon tone, plot, and meaning.

DICE was a two - year research study that involved 12 countries, 111 different Drama programmes and 4445 students, and the measurable impact Drama had upon their educational attainment.

Teachers are widely agreed upon to be the most important in - school factor influencing student achievement, but we are less sure about the mechanisms through which teachers can have an impact.

The grand jury report stated: «We left convinced that overcrowding has a severe, negative impact not just upon the ratio of teachers to students, but upon the entire educational environment our schools are able to provide.»

Students ill then look in depth at the Six Articles and how they impact upon the life of Muslims.

How can it be that we pile dollars upon dollars and launch reform after reform yet have so little impact on student learning in our public schools?

Unmotivated and / or disruptive students are difficult issues for teachers to control as this can impact upon learning and student achievement.

To maximise the impact of teaching upon student learning, we need to have more teachers in the profession who are able to teach like the best.

Through Boston Teacher Residency, we train teachers at our Teaching Academies, in Dudley; upon graduation we send them out to schools all over Boston, where they have impacted 18,000 Boston students to date.

When looking to improve retention, most courses focus on how institutions can identify at - risk learners, but these solutions rely on staff to review reports and contact students — potentially negatively impacting their efficacy as it is contingent upon their execution — and ultimately increasing their unit cost.

I know there will be critics out there and some who may suggest that actually, schools with a higher ability intake face an equally tough challenge, meaning that if those higher ability students don't achieve then the cliff face they fall off as a school will significantly impact upon their progress score too.

Furthermore, I'm your worst nightmare: a teacher in DCPS, who has data to prove my students achieve every year, was rated «highly effective» under IMPACT and am continually called upon by my department to do trainings and workshops for other teachers.

Their receptivity to standard forms of instructional practice, however, was conditional upon the quality of district support for implementation (staff development, materials, supervision), perceived fit with state / district curriculum requirements, evidence of student impact, and opportunities for teacher discretion within the boundaries established by the district.

One or two clearly made points of a specific nature that are received and acted upon by a student will have a far greater impact that lengthy, multi-focal feedback that students are unlikely to be able to process.

The brand - new middle and high school experience builds upon the best research showing that when students are engaged with content, the impact is profound.

Public schools across the country rely upon federal investments for key education programs such as Title I grants for disadvantaged students, special education under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), and also programs such as Impact Aid, which provides support to school districts educating students whose parents are enlisted in our Armed Forces and those who reside on tribal trust lands.

By directing our attention to the mighty middle, we act upon an understanding that even small shifts in teaching quality across the majority of teachers will have greater impacts on the majority of students than elimination of the lowest performing teachers possibly can.

Upon entering high school, I knew I wanted to be a mathematics teacher but did not realize the impact a teacher could make by empowering their students.

Ary Spatig - Amerikaner builds upon the well - documented correlation between people of color and people living in poverty to assess the ongoing impact of the comparability loophole on students of color.

Research indicates that adding time to the school day and / or year can have a meaningfully positive impact on student proficiency and upon a child's entire educational experience.

Thus, it is no surprise that calls for accountability regarding the impact of these efforts upon student achievement continually echo throughout the country.

Another emergent theme on the impact of computer technologies upon student learning is that student attitudes toward learning and schooling improve.

Because student achievement levels vary upon entry across schools, student growth measures are better measures of the impact of a school on student learning than a proficiency rate or average scale test score.

Upon completion of this lesson, the student will be able to explain the impact that tobacco had on the settlers at Jamestown.

But research suggests that teacher perceptions and expectations of a student, which can be preconceived, have an impact upon a child's IQ scores, academic achievement, and attitudes and behavior.

Given the growing understanding that value added measures (VAMs) of teacher effectiveness rely upon tests not designed to detect teacher input, are highly unstable, and can not account for teacher impact on variability among student scores, it is quite apt that Dr. Audrey Amrein - Beardsley of Arizona State University and a leading researcher on value - added measures, described the proposal as going from «bad to idiotic.»

My dissertation builds upon key understandings of the effects of stereotype threat and evaluative pressure in testing contexts to extend our understanding to encompass how these pressures impact students when experienced during learning opportunities.

Here we draw upon this literature to illustrate findings on the district role in reform in three areas: the challenges confronting district efforts to implement system - wide improvements in student learning; district strategies for improving student learning; and evidence of impact on the nature and quality of teaching and learning.

Examples of policies that can raise disparate impact concerns include policies that impose mandatory suspension, expulsion, or citation (e.g., ticketing or other fines or summonses) upon any student who commits a specified offense — such as being tardy to class, being in possession of a cellular phone, being found insubordinate, acting out, or not wearing the proper school uniform; corporal punishment policies that allow schools to paddle, spank, or otherwise physically punish students; and discipline policies that prevent youth returning from involvement in the justice system from reenrolling in school.

These opportunities are based upon the research of Dr. Saul Rubinstein, Rutgers University, and his colleague Dr. John McCarthy, Cornell University, that labor - management collaboration impacts student learning and teacher retention.

Finally, Christmann and Badgett (1999), demonstrated that computer technologies seem to have a stronger impact upon science achievement scores of urban students, «e.s..68,» than upon suburban, «e.s..27,» or rural students, «e.s..16» (p. 139).

Since the amount of interest you pay has a significant and direct impact upon the size of your monthly payment, these kinds of incentives are yet another factor that can affect your student loan interest rate.

Policymakers and advocates increased their attention on the impact of heavy student debt burdens, and President Obama called upon Congress to act.

Having belatedly stumbled upon a notice of a recent exhibition of Professor Remington's work, I was inspired to revisit my former professor's legacy and, in retrospect of over 40 years since my initial contact with her at Cooper in the 1970's — when she was a new painting professor and I was a young, developing painting student — reflected upon her impact as both an artist and a teacher.

Our goal is to ensure that all Otis College students have access to and engage in multiple high - impact practices in their academic career and gain the relevant academic knowledge, skills, and dispositions they need to be career - ready and engaged citizens upon graduation.

Students will examine the way in which technological innovations at this time made an impact upon material culture and allowed British artists and craftspeople to become leaders in their fields.

They are of three types: (1) self - help programs; (2) «cutting costs by cutting competence» programs, by way of greater use of, students, paralegals, and «unbundled» legal services, wherein the client does more with the intended result that the cost will be lower because the lawyer does less; and, (3) pro bono charity, which, albeit commendable, is too small to have any significant impact upon the volume of legal services needed.

They are of three types: （ 1 ） self - help programs; （ 2 ） «cutting costs by cutting competence» programs, by way of greater use of, students, paralegals, and «unbundled» legal services, wherein the client does more with the intended result that the cost will be lower because the lawyer does less; and, （ 3 ） pro bono charity, which, albeit commendable, is too small to have any significant impact upon the volume of legal services needed.

wouldn't tell the public that the problem is not the Law Society's problem, as in effect it does; (15) LSUC's website wouldn't state that lay benchers «represent the public interest,» which is impossible now that we are well beyond the 19th century; (16) CanLII's services would be upgraded in kind and volume to be a true support service, able to have a substantial impact upon the problem, and several other developed support services, all provided at cost, would together, provide a complete solution; (17) LSUC's management would not be part - time management by amateurs - amateurs because benchers don't have the expertise to solve the problem, nor are they trying to get it, nor are they joining with Canada's other law societies to solve this national problem; (18) the Federation of Law Societies of Canada would not describe the problem as being one of mere «gaps in access to legal services» (see its Sept. 2012 text, «Inventory of Access to Legal Services Initiatives of the Law Societies of Canada» (1st paragraph), (19) LSUC would not be encouraging the use alternatives to lawyers, such as law students, self - help, and «unbundled, targeted» legal services, as a «cutting costs by cutting competence» strategy; and, (20) it would not be necessary to impose an Ontario version of the Clementi Report (UK, 2004) that would separate LSUC's regulatory functions from its representative functions, to be exercised by separate authorities.

This course is designed to assist students in understanding the impact of social / cultural forces upon identity development and formation.