Sentences with phrase «majority of their school day»

In addition, students should spend the majority of the school day with a teaching team, and teaching teams should be together for three years or more (Erb and Stevenson, 1999).

Students who are academically or intellectually gifted and talented should spend the majority of their school day with others of similar abilities and interests.

Schools that require students of color to be silent for the majority of the school day show a belief that what teachers have to say matters more than what kids, themselves, are critically thinking.

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If the «wall of separation» is lowered, we are told, our schools may be returned to the days of prayers prescribed by state legislatures; evolution may be banished from the classroom and replaced by «creation science»; and religious minorities may be at the mercy of intolerant majorities.

But for the majority of recruits, the time between National Signing Day that happens during their junior year of high school and the end of their senior football season is the most crucial part of their recruitment process because of all of the key moments that happen.

I barely missed a day of my own schooling, and still remember with affection some of the teachers — despite having forgotten the majority of what I was taught.

This can be difficult when children are away at school for the majority of their day.

It seems that a large majority of the country has already started school while we've still been over here soaking up the final days of summer.

This follows on from the day of strike action taken on 27 June in the North West of England which resulted in the overwhelming majority of schools being closed or partially closed.

Participants took part in a real - time electronic poll which explored their views on a series of issues relating to their profession: Among the results were: over three quarters of BME teachers considered themselves to be ambitious, yet stated they are being held back by racial discrimination, and the attitude of senior colleagues; nearly two - thirds (62 %) of BME teachers felt their school or college was not seriously committed to addressing their professional development needs and aspirations; 63 % of BME teachers said their employers were not committed to ensuring their mental and physical wellbeing at work, with workload cited as the single most negative factor impacting on their wellbeing; the vast majority of BME teachers felt the Government does not respect and value teachers and does not understand the day to day realities of teaching (99 %); three quarters of BME teachers said they were not confident that their headteacher will make professional and fair decisions regarding their future pay.

Legislator Rath picked up cards made by St. Gregory the Great School's students on Feb. 5, pictured with Erik Kraus of Clarence and Helana Whissel of Williamsville, and will be delivering the cards with members of the Legislature's Majority Caucus to the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station before Valentine's Day.

The summer, when children are no longer in school for the majority of the day, often produces a spike in homelessness, disrupting fragile doubled - up situations.

It hasn't happened in a majority of districts, but teens who do have later school start times are sleeping longer and are more alert during the day.

The study revealed, however, that the majority of children, regardless of socioeconomic status, do not consume enough low - fat milk or whole grains on school days, opting instead for packaged snack foods like potato chips or fast - food style items, like French fries, high in sodium and saturated fat.

Modern life makes this difficult for most people, since the majority of many peoples» day consists of sitting down (office jobs, school, driving, eating, TV, video games, etc.).

I think I will always prefer to be more smart than casual and each day on the school run I am probably more dressed up than the majority of mums.

Although school counsellors are available, they are often only in school one day a week and the majority of young people will leave school without receiving adequate treatment for their mental health issues.

In a world where technology and digital resources are engrained into our day - to - day routines, it's not surprising that a majority of schools have also adopted this way of working to add value to the classroom and students» learning opportunities.

The common sense of our present day — that the majority of students in American public schools ought to achieve at reasonably high levels — is unprecedented.

Still others act as case workers or counselors (but actually spend the majority of their day in the learning environment with students) to focus on the non-academic problems — like food, health, or emotional issues — that too often trip up students (and sadly receive short shrift in many schools today).

Once in the role, school directors continue to teach to stay connected to the classroom; they also set priorities so that they can spend the majority of their day observing classrooms and coaching teachers.

For many years the majority view (reminiscent of Tom Brown's School Days) was that a little bit of schoolyard bullying was fine, probably made young people more resilient, and unless someone was in need of hospital treatment, it really wasn't the school's busSchool Days) was that a little bit of schoolyard bullying was fine, probably made young people more resilient, and unless someone was in need of hospital treatment, it really wasn't the school's busschool's business.

It seems, if our P - Files team is an indicator, that the majority of schools start building bridges to parents and students long before the first day of school.

This is an important resource, because a majority of students stay after school on any given day to work on portfolio arts projects while taking a full academic schedule.

The majority of socializing during the school day takes place in the cafeteria, and according to information from Tolerance.org, 70 percent of students said the cafeteria is where social boundaries are most clearly laid down.

With the majority of students and parents I interview, however, I find they fall into the second category, that the traditional concept of what the «school day» is could use an overhaul.

A majority of schools in the UK host enterprise days or even a week long enterprise fayre, but there remains a lack of consistency and a lack of commitment to develop or expand upon the ideas and concepts that are taught, leaving students uninformed and uninterested in entrepreneurship.

But it seems to be that as long as the majority of public - school kids in this country remain poor, with unstable housing and massive day - to - day challenges, perfect attendance will remain an elusive goal.

This comes just days after The New York Times / Siena College Poll released last week showed a resounding majority (See NECSN's release here) of New York City likely voters favor creating more public charter schools.

«I'm delighted that for the first time the majority of teachers are being trained on school - led routes in the classroom from day one and learning from the best teachers.

Even in schools with EL specialists, ELs spend the majority of their instructional day with core teachers.

But most notably, Mr. Benigni has brought expanded learning time to three of the district's elementary schools, positioning Meriden — a majority - minority district — at the forefront of a national movement to increase student achievement and well - being through longer, more enriching school days.

So even with AC today, the majority of schools today still have the 180 - day schedule.

The State Board of Education shall by majority vote accept or reject the decision of the district school board no later than 90 calendar days after an appeal is filed in accordance with State Board of Education rule.

This enabled the majority of parents to get in line by 7 a.m. to be admitted into the School Board meeting later that day.

The statewide teacher walkout resulted in six lost instructional days and affected the majority of Arizona's 1.1 million public school students.

A majority of the meetings are held during the school day.

As a research - driven model reflecting international practice, Meaningful Student Involvement effectively reveals the evolving capacities of children and youth in the environments where they spend a large majority of their days: schools.

The majority of respondents said their school was providing subsidies to help meet the costs of day and residential school trips for poorer pupils, while half said their school paid all or part of the cost of participation in sports clubs and other extra-curricular activities.

Then, days ahead of commencement, President Donald Trump proposed cutting off federal funding for African American - majority institutions — an existential threat to schools already struggling to make ends meet.

«As far as students coming out of high schools, we really can get to a place where the vast majority of those students are ready to succeed from day one,» Morgan said at a press conference in the state capitol on Wednesday.

The goal is to give teachers the chance to remain in the classroom for a majority of their work day, but to spread into other areas of school leadership without completely becoming a school - based administrator.

The reality is that the vast majority of America's 50 million school aged children and their 3 million teachers go to school 180 days a year and never have more than a preparedness drill.

Tonight's meeting comes just three days after Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw slammed May's «obsession» with grammar schools, which he said will «reduce standards for the great majority of children», and undo much of the progress in recent years, and be socially divisive.

• Each day our website is accessed by a majority of the 100 largest school districts in the United States.

Teachers can ease these fears by sending a student welcome letter that answers a majority of these questions a few days before school starts.

The majority of teachers are on board with the move to a four - day school week.

«Everyone knew this day was coming, and now it is upon us, and we need to have an open, honest debate about the consequences of a law that will label a majority of our schools as failing,» Justin Hamilton, press secretary at the U.S. Department of Education, said in an email.

The majority of state and local funds for schools for day - to - day operations flows through state - determined school finance formulas.

At the end of the day, public schools are going to be teaching the majority, 1.5 million students, and we're going to be doing it with less resources.»