Sentences with phrase «learning for students does»

Ensuring high levels of learning for all students does create pressure on everyone in every role, but in a professional learning community there is the recognition that this is our job — what we signed on to do!

The expansion of charter schools, less university - based teacher preparation, and putting digital technology before superb teaching as a way to personalize learning for students do not characterize the policies of international educational leaders like Canada, Finland, or Singapore.

Not exact matches

While the curriculum is designed for high school and community college students — and select schools will start offering the curriculum this fall — you don't have to attend school to learn to code in Swift, Apple's programming language.

Enter the DO School, a global institution that, for select programs, borrows students passionate about social change from accredited colleges and offers them experiential learning through doing, challenging them to solve real - world, pressing problems in sustainable ways.

It doesn't, however, integrate with Lynda.com, the online learning company it acquired for $ 1.5 billion last year, that could help students pick up extra skills for the jobs and professions they discover through the app.

«We regularly review our course materials and textbooks to ensure they are up to date, and any changes that need to be made will be done at the appropriate moment to ensure the best learning outcomes for schools and students,» a spokesperson for the company told CNBC.

When two students killed 13 people at Columbine High School in 1999, some parents did not learn their children's fate for two days.

A: God uses evil as a learning tool to draw us closer to him (like a test does for students)

The set will include practices of teaching and learning, practices of research, practices of governance of the school's common life, practices having to do with maintenance of the school's resources, practices in which persons are selected for the student body and for the faculty, and practices in which students move through and then are deemed to have completed a course of study.

I have been in that situation, and yes, I did take responsibility for changing my approach to ensure that the child was able to learn to read like the other students.

To exalt him as a great thinker, as though he could take delight in being praised for having honed his mental tools very sharp, no matter what they cut; to speak admiringly of him as an excellent orator, as though adeptness in the use of images were an enviable thing, no matter what they imaged; to do him reverence as a great student who learned from Newton and Locke and the Platonists, from nature itself, no matter what he learned — to honor him thus is to do him no honor that he could accept — or which, accepting, he would not thereafter bitterly rue.

This concern with the students» personal lives do» not mean that the students do not learn the classics, Jewish and otherwise, but they do so in order that they may become whole persons able to influence others and not for the knowledge itself.

We don't do so only because we need jobs, or because students who should learn close reading for future success might as well learn it from reading the Bible, Augustine or Kierkegaard as from anything else.

Far too many of them are included for students to be able to learn how to do any of them for themselves.

I designed one side of my wall with a chalkboard I'll update every week that includes the essential question (what the students will be learning), an «I Can...» statement (what they will be able to do at the end of the lesson), HW that is due, and HW for that night.

Students at Elm City (86 percent of whom qualify for free or reduced - price lunch) now control their schedule and follow their own personal interests in their learning much more than they used to, and they have more autonomy in the subjects they study, including daily «enrichment» courses in robotics, dance, and tae kwon do.

Students don't learn to read on time because it is harder for them to concentrate on the words on the page.

There is a growing body of empirical evidence that suggests that Lenz is right: deeper - learning methods, when employed well, do actually produce measurable benefits for students in poverty.

-- Christof Wiechert Social Emotional Intelligence: The Basis for a New Vision of Education in the United States — Linda Lantieri Rudolf Steiner's Research Methods for Teachers — Martyn Rawson Combined Grades in Waldorf Schools: Creating Classrooms Teachers Can Feel Good About — Lori L. Freer Educating Gifted Students in Waldorf Schools — Ellen Fjeld KØttker and Balazs Tarnai How Do Teachers Learn with Teachers?

And we'll say to high school students, if you can tell your roommate, to turn down the music, you're going to learn how to ask for a raise some day; because it really all comes down to the muscles that we all use, the skills that we need to express ourselves, to advocate for ourselves; and relationships can be the place where we learn how to do that.

Not only do our students need fuel to think, learn, and stay attentive throughout the day, but school breakfast programs can help increase revenue for your school nutrition program.

We will ask them what works and what doesn't, learn their best practices for a successful breakfast - in - the - classroom program, and learn more about what students want on their school breakfast menus.

Learn more about our unique approach to engaging students through their heads (intellectual involvement in a subject), hands (experiencing a subject by doing), and hearts (living into a subject in an emotional sense to connect it to a broader narrative), fostering the desire for lifelong learning.

Even if your child doesn't have daily homework, reviewing notes and preparing for tests and quizzes is really the only way students can truly understand and learn a subject.

Is it possible that encouraging students to be responsible, organized, and self - disciplined through homework is actually a recipe for creating apathetic, disinterested learners who are good at doing as they're told but not remotely interested in truly learning or thinking for themselves?

I don't understand why it's so difficult for school administrators to understand that a hungry child or student can't learn.

The aptitude / achievement discrepancy method caused many problems for learning disabled students who did not meet the cutoff test scores:

I'm drawn to educational models like Expeditionary Learning, which emphasize long - term, project - based learning and use assessments in which students are much more involved - for example, student - led conferences where students themselves help to assess how they'Learning, which emphasize long - term, project - based learning and use assessments in which students are much more involved - for example, student - led conferences where students themselves help to assess how they'learning and use assessments in which students are much more involved - for example, student - led conferences where students themselves help to assess how they've done.

This can cause tremendous frustration for learning disabled students because of the effort they must put forth to get their work done.

To qualify for a 504 Plan, a student must have a disability that limits a major life activity and has nothing to do with a child's ability to learn.

We all want our kids to be happy and confident students so going the extra mile to make sure they are well equipped for learning takes skill to do on a budget.

Even though the school's students are parents or soon - to - be parents, this does not diminish the important role that the teen students» parents and families play in creating a successful learning experience for the students.

You don't want to show up on the first day of school with an EpiPen and trying to tell the teacher how to care for your child while he / she is learning the names of 25 students.

Students meet monthly to come up with ideas on how to promote Liberty's PRIDE VALUES and to encourage students to develop their intrinsic values of learning to do the right thing without expecting rewards for dStudents meet monthly to come up with ideas on how to promote Liberty's PRIDE VALUES and to encourage students to develop their intrinsic values of learning to do the right thing without expecting rewards for dstudents to develop their intrinsic values of learning to do the right thing without expecting rewards for doing so.

Dealing with failure productively might have a lot to do with success in learning, according to Williamstown Mass. mathematics professor Edward Burger whose unconventional approach to student failure is producing very successful long - term results for his students.

But because it was an elective class, the students who most needed to learn marital skills didn't benefit because they didn't sign up for the class.

«She's always trying to learn something new and different, and she does it for the students,» said Webster.

His program at Holy Trinity is telling us some important things about kids and school food — namely, that food doesn't need to be «dumbed down» for kids to accept it; that kids implicitly understand when deep care is being put into the preparation of their food and they respond with equal respect; and that improving school food can change kids» attitudes about food outside the school yard gates, as was the case with the student quoted by Chef Boundas who cut back on fast food now that he's eating healthful foods at lunch and learning about nutrition and cooking in Chef Boundas's kitchen.

We also offer tips for encouraging kids with SM to participate and verbalize, strategies for handling testing and advice on what to do if you learn you will be getting a student who has struggled with SM in the past.

That's why in discussion with the school authority we decided to refurbish the library to provide a conducive place for learning and to preserve the books which we hope will send a signal to continuing students that all they need to do better than us in conquering the world can be found in books and in the library.

I've seen quite a few poorly - trained teachers become obsessed with drilling students for exams because they don't know how children best learn; their lessons involved a lot of copying and sedentary learning.

«No matter how much we do for our schools, if our students aren't well - fed, they won't be able to learn.

That's what happens when students don't go to school, don't read, don't study, don't learn for three months.

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They argued that his remarks interfered with the district's ability to do business and violated the state's Dignity for All Students Act, which requires the district to guarantee students a learning environment free of harassment and discrimStudents Act, which requires the district to guarantee students a learning environment free of harassment and discrimstudents a learning environment free of harassment and discrimination.

During the question - and - answer period, the state lawmakers» main question for Mulgrew was: If the state doesn't use state ELA and math scores to evaluate teachers, what would teachers consider authentic measures of student learning?

Carla Percia, director of grants for the Utica City School District, says those hours will be spent doing activities that tie into what students are already learning in the classroom.

Student - veterans learn quickly that serving under fire does not guarantee that Uncle Sam will pay for all, or even most, of their educational costs.

«I don't understand the motivation for trying to cut off something of benefit to both sides,» says Martin Briggs, a hydrogeology graduate student at Syracuse University in New York, who spent two months at Fudan University in Shanghai on a fellowship funded by the NSF to learn about water quality.

In addition to learning how to use a Gas Chromatography / Mass Spectrometer (GCMS) for separation and product characterization, my students will do literature searches about possible chemical synthesis routes.