Sentences with phrase «levels in a single classroom»

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These children are not all in special education classrooms, alternative schools, or special programs: they're in every single one of our classrooms, no matter the geographical setting, socioeconomic level, or racial or ethnic group.

Ransome emphasizes that single - sex education isn't for everybody but says that, for those who choose it, single - sex classrooms allow girls to «hold onto their childhoods a little longer» and attain a level of confidence not commonly seen in girl graduates of coed programs.

Most of that money was paid out using traditional single - salary compensation schedules, a system that typically pays the same salary to all teachers with the same level of education and number of years in the classroom.

First and most obvious, we've organized the entire, massive K — 12 system around an age - based, grade - level, 180 - days - per - year calendar; around mostly self - contained and generally low - tech classrooms; and around a pedagogical model centered on a single teacher teaching a uniform curriculum to twenty to thirty children for a prescribed amount of time each day, children who don't have much in common except that they're more or less the same age and (usually) live in pretty much the same community.

The model was developed for rural schools because Colbert and her cofounders recognized that children in these communities have unique circumstances surrounding their schooling, such as the need to leave school during harvest season to work the family farm or single - classroom schools that serve many grade levels at once.

Such research would, in a single effort, examine school level factors (e.g., building climate, home - school relations, schoolwide organization for reading, collaborative efforts) while examining classroom / teacher factors (e.g., time spent in reading instruction, time on task, student engagement, approaches to word recognition and comprehension instruction, teachers» interactive styles).

Rather than distill a student's growth into a single number or percentage, we've leveraged our rich data about each student to provide teachers with classroom - level strategy group support, a real - time activity feed that shares information about whether a student has demonstrated understanding in a lesson, the opportunity to experience the tasks and questions students were given in each lesson, and the ability to easily assign differentiated lessons that take into account each student's prior knowledge.

Classroom - level data presents some privacy challenges because of the small number of students involved, particularly if disaggregated data (for example, the performance of an single racial group in a classroom that has only one or two members of that group).

Mass education presents a difficult balance for teachers, in that students of varying ability levels are in a single classroom.

At the elementary level, DCPS and many other schools have groups of children rotating between stations in a single classroom, with each group spending a third of their time working at computers loaded with software geared to their needs.

For example, a study at Stetson University in Florida showed that among fourth graders at a public elementary school in the state, 37 % of boys reached proficiency levels in co-ed classes, while 86 % of boys in single - sex classrooms did (the boys in the study were matched so that they were statistically equivalent).

Much research has supported the fact that the classroom teacher serves as the single greatest «in - school» factor in impacting levels of student academic achievement.

It's designed to fight back against Chromebook encroachment in the classroom, by offering a comparable level of manageability and security — including a single - minded, some might say limiting commitment to Windows Store apps.