Sentences with phrase «less student learning»

These schools may have had declining enrollments precisely because they were among the least effective schools, and ineffective schools will produce less student learning.

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Both are fairly small, intimate experiences with the school entering less than 100 students in each of the past two years — and both are filled with a good bit of experiential learning opportunities to offset the younger age of the students here who tend to have a bit less work experience.

If we learn to teach with different foci and emphases, perhaps with less isolation from one another and more emphasis on the needs of students, the church, and the world, can we affect the ways in which our guilds function?

Less painstaking procedures are found in Julia G. Crane and Michael V. Angrosino, Field Projects in Anthropology: A Student Handbook (Morristown, N.J.: General Learning Press, 1974).

A student, however, unlike the minimal event, is a complex entity which will continue to exist — though less authentically and effectively — even if he or she does not encounter proper learning patterns.

Inner - city Catholic schools (the Church in America's most effective social welfare program) demonstrate that time and again: They spend less than the government schools, and their students learn much more — and not just in quantifiable, standardized - testing terms.

«The lack of access to nutritious food here has big consequences, from higher rates of diet - related illness to students who are less prepared to learn,» the Pillsbury United Communities (PUC) reports.

But then, once a basic level of calm prevailed in the school, the coaches turned their attention to encouraging what they called cooperative learning, a pedagogical approach that promoted student engagement in the learning process: less lecture time; fewer repetitive worksheets; more time spent working in small groups, solving problems, engaging in discussions, and collaborating on longer - term creative projects.

(1) Teach in a dynamic, well - organized style that makes use of proven pedagogical approaches to promote student engagement in the learning process via less lecture time, fewer repetitive worksheets and more time spent working in small groups solving problems, engaging in discussions, and collaborating on longer - term creative projects.

All students with learning disabilities may appear less capable of learning than they really are.

Teaching is communicating knowledge and / or skills to someone (the student) who knows less than the person doing the teaching, and doing it faster than if the student were learning it on their own.

You can see how this is a lose / lose situation — hungry students have a harder time learning, and when kids skip meals which would be paid for by the federal government, the cafeteria brings in less money to help offset its fixed expenses like labor and overhead.

Research shows that students cheat more when they believe that grades and performance are valued in their classrooms and less when they believe that learning, deep understanding and mastery are valued.

The white paper indicates that students cheat more when they believe that grades and performance are valued in their classrooms and less when they believe that learning and mastery are valued.

We've found that students in FoodCorps schools with more hands - on learning activities are eating triple the amount of fruits and vegetables as students who receive less of that hands - on learning.

«It's important to emphasize that the changes in scores do not mean that schools have taught less or that students have learned less, but rather reflect this new standard, the Common Core adopted by 46 states because these standards represent the trajectory to college and career success,» King said, on a conference call.

Critics, including Upper Manhattan City Councilman Robert Jackson, said charter students at the schools are getting illegal, preferential treatment, while public students are being treated like «second class citizens,» forced to learn in lesser classrooms and loosing out on their fair share of library, auditorium and lunchroom time.

In conversations and course evaluations, students said learning felt less threatening when led by a fellow undergraduate.

The final unit puts into practice everything that students have learned, as they explore ideas for re-designing and maintaining school buildings to use less energy — and minimize the impact on the environment.

To support the development of young students — particularly in low - income schools, which are at risk for having less effective teachers and less engaged students — researchers are looking to classroom interventions focused on social - emotional learning.

The frequency of messaging was also found to be a factor in the interruption of learning: Students who tweeted or sent messages with higher frequency on content not related to the class took lower quality notes than those who tweeted less frequently on non-classroom related subjects.

College students who receive special accommodations because of a learning disability say they have less difficulty completing assignments and more contact with faculty outside of class than peers who don't receive extra help.

Finally, any infrastructure that is built must be useable and intuitive, so researchers and students spend less time learning to use the infrastructure and more time doing critical scientific inquiry.

Every aspect of Active Physics is designed to nudge students to be more engaged in learning and to think more and memorize less.

At the college level, the evidence is clear: science students learn less when they are expected to listen passively

Extrovert Chinese students learning English as a second language are likely to perform better in speaking and reading, but less proficient in listening than their introvert counterparts, according to a study published in Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (JSSH).

Lectures did occur less often in smaller than larger classes, the study found, and open layouts did correlate with more student - centered learning.

While he insists much remains to be learned about ERAD in particular, Rapoport recently added a fourth project, the mechanism of protein import into peroxisomes, to attract students and postdoctoral fellows who want to make an impact on a less - studied biological problem.

The pleasure of observing students learn is as rewarding as research, although it might seem the results are less tangible.

Indeed, D'Mello found that the students whose eyes more often matched the «zoning out» patterns learned less biology than the students who exhibited «not zoning out» patterns.

; instead, what is needed are better teaching, improved students, less memorization and more learning to increase understanding, instruction about problem solving, instruction to counter the false Hollywood message that science and research are entertainments, teaching children and adults how scientific research is very important in the daily life of all people, etc..

When the students who had a boyfriend or girlfriend learned that the new lab partner was single (and thus, a threat to their relationship), they consistently chose the images that represented a less attractive likeness.

This gives a beautiful meditative quality to the room and allows students to spend less time on postures they have already mastered and more time on new postures that they are just learning.

Props are used to facilitate learning and provide support for less flexible students.

If you're a yoga student wanting to learn how to ensure your yoga practice is giving you all the benefits, with WAY less chance of injury, you will also get a ton out of this training.

However, in countries that have done away with those arguments, they've learned that teachers do much better by having less classes, less students, and more time for the mounds of paperwork they're obligated to grade.

More emphasis on problem - solving, less on rote learning, the argument went, would decrease the likelihood that students will be taken in by questions like the following: «There are 26 sheep and 10 goats on a ship.

CASEL president Roger P. Weissberg and Joseph Durlak, a Loyola University psychologist, reviewed 300 studies and found that, compared with nonparticipants, students participating in programs aimed at improving the social and emotional learning environment in schools «have significantly better attendance records; their classroom behavior is more constructive and less often disruptive; they like school more; and they have better grade point averages.

This chapter provides a historical review on service - learning research findings, concluding that the studies generally indicate that students who participate in service learning maintain higher levels of motivation for learning, incur fewer disciplinary problems in the classroom, demonstrate improved attendance, possess higher self - esteem, and are less likely to drop out of school.

I wasn't keen on grading every single assignment that students did, because I could find out just as much about their learning with a lot less paper.

If you punish students in the learning process, then they are less likely to engage with it.

My understanding is that students are more focused because they have learned how to effectively manage their attention, they like being in class, and they're less worried about discord and bullying.

«Our educational system is less about having students race to the top and more about going back catching those that are behind and building a pipeline to provide all students a fair and subsequent opportunity to learn,» he said.

Less teacher talk and more student - centered learning makes for a happy, healthy, and productive learning environment.

Learning about a list of lesser - known poets and those who may not be officially published is great inspiration to any budding writer or student of self - expression.

Even aside from the question of whether schools are adequately exposing students to ideas of political theorists like Locke and Mill (much less to those of Plato, Jean - Jacques Rousseau, or Thomas Jefferson), the learning theory known as «constructivism» has encouraged the ahistorical trend.

At Funbrain.com, students can play Change Maker: The Cash Register Game and learn to make change for amounts less than $ 1 or less than $ 100.

At the same time, retention is ineffective: students who are retained ultimately learn less than students with similar test scores who are promoted.

The impact for this particular group of students is likely to be much less, unless you make the bizarre assumption that it is only the diploma — not what the student learns — that affects job prospects and future income.

This approach to organising teaching and learning might be appropriate if students of the same age commenced each school year at more or less the same point in their learning.