Sentences with phrase «individual differences in a school»

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Along the way, certainly, those efforts have produced individual successes — schools and programs that make a genuine difference for some low - income students — but they have led to little or no improvement in the performance of low - income children as a whole.

«Teachers can make a huge difference in individual classrooms and schools, and how we prepare teachers is very important,» Tough told me in a recent interview.

A difference of 3.16 points was measurable through 15 years.17 A casual observation regarding reactions to such data demonstrates anger in individual mothers who protest that their bottle - fed infants turned out fine and went to college and graduate school.

Just as her school embraces differences in individual children, from personality and learning style, to culture and language, so too do her books.

«This research highlights the potential role of individual differences in verbal abilities during childhood as a risk factor for the subsequent development of alcohol use during adolescence and young adulthood,» said Michael Windle, professor and chair of the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University.

«In fact, our results for prejudice were comparable to life expectancy differences that have been observed between individuals with and without a high school education.»

So, obviously there are individual differences in self - regulation when children come to school — not only gender differences, but there are socioeconomic differences and there are individual temperamental differences in children's ability to regulate their behaviour.

This is a much more positive and optimistic view of learners» capacities for learning than past views that individuals differed markedly in their ability to learn and that part of the role of schools was to identify these differences and to sort students accordingly.

At a time of continued recruitment challenge, we know that schools in low income communities that are most in danger of losing out on talented individuals who could make a real difference.

But as the student population has grown, the school district has changed the start times for many individual schools in order to maintain a balanced bus schedule, generating differences in start times for the same school in different years.

The promoted individuals are identical to the baseline career teacher in terms of age at entry into teaching and initial salary; the difference is that they are promoted to these administrative posts at the median promotion age for their respective positions (age 38 for school leadership, age 45 for superintendents).

It's time for states to apply for a part of the federal stimulus plan's $ 4.35 billion in Race to the Top innovation grants, and direction from individual schools can make a difference.

The comments come from current Teachers, Teaching Assistants, SEND co-ordinators, heads of house, inclusion managers and Form Group Tutors...: We used this in small groups in our new class every morning for a week, what a great start, everyone is still buzzing... Builds a strong sense of belonging to something special... your class... Encourages differences and similarities to recognised and valued... Hugely improves our efforts at inclusion... The students quickly came out of their shells and are blossoming... Reveals much of the nature of the students... Gets us buzzing as a group... Encourages participants to take part in their own game and go and find things out from others... brilliant ice breaker game... Helped to resolve a huge problem we had in getting students to gel... Switches the students brains on from the moment go... Helps to break down various barriers... Gives a big boost to developing important life skills... This gives a great insight and a fantastic array of examples, clues and hints as to the characters of each individual in the group... Helps participants learn some things about themselves... Helps participants learn some things about others... Helps you learn about the participants (you can be a player as well on some occasions)... Makes it easy to develop class rules of fairness and cooperation... Builds a sense of purpose... Creates a sense of community and togetherness... Brilliant, just brilliant... our school is buzzing...

Individual schools would receive federal funds based on student counts, with a weighting formula to adjust for factors such as the increased burden of educating high - need students and for regional differences in costs.

Mapping Cross-Linguistic Writing Development in Adolescents The EF Project is conducted to explore individual differences in pre-adolescents» and adolescents» English academic language proficiency (or school - relevant language proficiency).

The self - efficacy was the second theme and students spoke so positively about the high value they place on prac and the capacity for them to build relationships with students and also to see a glimpse of their own future and what it's going to be like to be a drama teacher in schools, seeing the difference that their teaching had on individual students.

In testing whether adolescents attending schools with a strong civic climate were more likely to envision themselves as active citizens, I control for differences in a wide variety of individual and contextual factors that could also affect anticipated engagemenIn testing whether adolescents attending schools with a strong civic climate were more likely to envision themselves as active citizens, I control for differences in a wide variety of individual and contextual factors that could also affect anticipated engagemenin a wide variety of individual and contextual factors that could also affect anticipated engagement.

Here we were motivated by questions about (1) district antecedents of school leaders «efficacy, and possible differences in the antecedents of individual as compared with collective leader efficacy, (2) consequences of school - leader efficacy for leader behavior, as well as school and classroom conditions, and (c) effects of leader efficacy on student learning.

Differences in Key Provisions in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) for Eligible Children with Disabilities in Public and Private Schools:

Unless assessments are sensitive to important differences in instructional content coverage, student achievement gaps can be misattributed to individual background factors that are not within schools» control.

Even still, school districts within an individual state often offer key differences from their neighboring counterparts as local control also plays a critical role in shaping school policy and implementing educational programs.

While this may seem a semantic difference at first, we have seen the way the earnest and well - intentioned commitment to the individual has skewed our accountability systems in schools.

«A summative rating, in contrast, necessarily glosses over differences in performance across indicators and inappropriately draws school leaders, stakeholders and the public focus on the single rating rather than a more robust reflection of performance demonstrated by the individual indicators,» they wrote.

By separating church and state in our schools, while protecting individual expression of religion, we teach tolerance and acceptance of difference, as well as a respect for the religious freedom this country was built upon.

The Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) and EdScoop are calling on U.S. school district leaders to nominate promising individuals who are making a difference in K - 12 education technSchool Networking (CoSN) and EdScoop are calling on U.S. school district leaders to nominate promising individuals who are making a difference in K - 12 education technschool district leaders to nominate promising individuals who are making a difference in K - 12 education technology.

The fact that police, fire, and soldiers were cited as examples of scaled salaries is a prime example of why schools should be able to set individual pay based on performance: the job of teacher is more technical, requires more education, and the results make more of a difference in society.

Through regular meetings, special events, group actions and online communication, we aim to increase access to resources that help teachers and schools in their efforts to form safe, inclusive environments that welcome and support individual differences of identity and self - expression.

«On the other hand, large scale gains in Chicago and suburban Chicagoland, and more isolated gains in individual districts across the State, offer good evidence that school effectiveness is making a difference and that demographics are not the only important influence on student learning outcomes.»

Individual merit makes for a better story — a better After School Special if you will — but the context in which students are learning makes a significant difference to the level of success possible.

«My children's ability to choose the school which worked for them has made all the difference in their individual success as students,» she said.

Units of study include: The Individual, My Family Community, My School Community, My Town Community, Community Celebrations, Making a Difference in the Community, GCDS Community (Kindergarten Circus) and a Character Education unit that spans the entire schoolSchool Community, My Town Community, Community Celebrations, Making a Difference in the Community, GCDS Community (Kindergarten Circus) and a Character Education unit that spans the entire schoolschool year.

Conlon describes how these changes have made a difference for individual students in terms of being more engaged in school and pursuing deeper learning.

Accommodations for individual differences without classroom ability groups: An experiment in school restructuring.

At Robert C. Hatch High School, we strive to create a challenging learning environment that encourages success and allows for individual differences in learning styles.

Then I asked what was happening in the region that might show the «power of one,» the power of an individual or school or company to make a difference.

It makes no difference if a young person is in high school, working, pursuing higher education or unsure of their next step - we aim to treat each individual case with respect and consideration.

For example, the development of attention and its use in the control of emotional reactivity begin to emerge in the first year of life and continue throughout the preschool and school years.6, 15,16 Individual differences in the ability to voluntarily sustain focus or shift attention are critical components of self - control of attention.

The main difference, and this primarily impacts what marriage and family therapists study in school and in supervised work situations, is that instead of dealing with emotions and behaviors between one individual and his or her relation to a social group, marriage and family counselors have to take into account the dynamic interplay between two or more people in a relationship.

The results of a variance decomposition show that individual differences in aspects of cooperation and communication are only minimally explained by the type of school attended, but that differences between individual schools are somewhat larger.

However, we took steps to reduce potential confounds by including a range of covariates in our models and controlled for individual differences in earlier verbal ability, general cognitive ability and EF (as well as parental education, child age, and formal schooling) in each of our models.