Sentences with phrase «more challenging pupils»

Janet Downs, a former secondary teacher and campaigner for the Local Schools Network, which supports maintained schools, said: «I can't see any advantage apart from schools being able to offload more challenging pupils.

So schools which were working with more challenging pupils with low prior attainment were effectively marked down in the league tables, because this extra challenge was not considered.

As a result more than a fifth (22 %) say they have been forced to claim job seekers allowance; nearly two thirds (64 %) of supply teachers say they do not have access to training and professional development opportunities; Nearly two thirds (64 %) of supply teachers say they do not have any access to a mentor or line manager to discuss their work; Nearly half (44 %) of supply teachers feel they are used to cover the lessons of more challenging pupils; only 31 % of supply teachers said they were always made to feel welcome when entering a new school; over a third (35 %) of supply teachers did not always have access to food and drink facilities in the schools where they worked.

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«The NASUWT is continuing to support its members in challenging these injustices, but much more action is needed by Government to affect the systemic change which is needed to ensure that no pupil or teacher is held back because of their ethnicity or faith.

[Cuomo said the latest lawsuit challenging the way New York allocates education dollars is flawed because the state spends more money per pupil — on average — than any other state and doesn't get top results.]

The private and voluntary sectors should be more involved in educating the most challenging pupils, the Conservatives argued today.

«Employers who fail to disclose safety information leave themselves vulnerable to legal challenge and industrial action, but more importantly they are behaving recklessly with the health and wellbeing of staff and other pupils and this simply can not be justified.»

By 2014/15 the government will be spending # 2.5 bn on the premium, but I would personally like to see funding in the next parliament grow towards # 5bn per year, to cover more pupils and to ensure that schools have the resources to match the very tough challenges.

Cuomo has frequently pointed to New York's highest - in - the - nation spending per pupil, and argued that more money isn't always the answer to education challenges.

He and his colleagues are also considering other mental challenges to make pupils dilate that might be more fun to do than arithmetic.

All tasks are differentiated to at least 3 levels to allow pupils to practice the skill and also stretch and challenge the more able.

More than 1,000 schools and 400,000 pupils are taking on the challenge of «Around the world in 10 days», as part of Sustrans Big Pedal event 2018 with world record breaking cyclist Mark Beaumont.

The move is part of the government's push for more academically challenging subjects and follows a large rise in pupils studying computer science, which the DfE believes gives pupils a stronger foundation for further study and employment.

James Noble - Rogers, executive director of the Universities» Council for the Education of Teachers (UCET), said: «Recruitment to secondary programmes is becoming increasingly challenging, and will become more so as pupil numbers go up.

Suitable for all abilities, this has been taught at a mixed ability school and has differentiation included for to stretch and challenge more able pupils.

Differentiated questioning strategies include a «Pokemon'themed scoring system whereby pupils collect Pokemon and answer more challenging questions in order to «evolve» their Pokemon.

To help you out, we've selected some of our favourite resources, that will give you the tools to tackle more challenging behaviour while encouraging pupils to take responsibility for their actions.

Our «Transforming Learning» research looks even further beyond these benefits to analyse with teachers and pupils how new flipped, challenge ‑ based and blended learning methods compare with more traditional methods.

I added more challenge and a reading activity on a French timetable so pupils will be able to extend their vocabulary range on the topic of school.

Use these IF Campaign (Enough Food for Everyone) teaching resources, lesson plans and activities to help your pupils understand more about the challenges of hunger in many developing countries.

Pupils who may find traditional academic subjects more challenging can thrive in music, drama or art.

(But it has proven more challenging at the primary level, where England has some 11,000 schools enrolling fewer than 250 pupils each, without the organizational or financial wherewithal to succeed as free - standing organizations — though the government is devising schemes for getting them to share services and pool resources.)

Can be used in a simple way for foundation pupils concentrating on simple sentences with a range of adjectives to describe people or in a more challenging way for more able students.

It's time to end the bias in American education against gifted and talented pupils and quit assuming that every school must be all things to all students, a simplistic formula that ends up neglecting all sorts of girls and boys, many of them poor and minority, who would benefit from more challenging classes and schools.

i) Quadratics lesson notes + Answers + notebook file Activities; 1) Quadratics inequalities steps match up task 2) Discriminant scratchcard, pupils cross out the incorrect steps in each line 3) Completing the square fill in the blank 4) Completing the square + application differentiated worksheet 5) Quadratics Bingo activity 6) Full topic A3 review sheet 7) A cubic and quadratics matching sheet with stretch and challenge for the more able students applying the reverse process

Does incorporate problems involving the angle sum of triangles and quadrilaterals too, to make it more challenging and varied (see cove image for an idea of some of the easier problems) Activities included: Starter: A set of basic questions to check if pupils know the rules for angles at a point, on a line, in a triangle and in a quadrilateral.

This includes examples that students now need to do on the foundation tier as well as more challenging examples that pupils will need to tackle on the higher tier.

Some questions in a geometric context, culminating in some more challenging problems where pupils look for tetromino - type shapes where area = perimeter.

A more challenging task of pupils trying to make an equation with a certain solution.

Ambition two is closing the attainment gap by raising standards for every pupil, supporting teachers early in their career as well as getting more great teachers in areas where there remain significant challenges.

More than 2,000 new schools must be built within the next four years to accommodate the rising number of pupils in England, according to Scape Group's «School Places Challenge» report.

LEARNING FROM OTHER SECTORS Professor John Howson, chair of the REC's Education Steering Group has argued that «the increase in pupil numbers and decline in trainee teacher numbers heralds a period when recruitment will become more of a challenge, especially in certain subjects and phases».

The pupils can have fun while learning french grammar, conjugation, vocabulary, tenses, etc... You can make them play in teams (two per computer or two kids reprensenting a team on the interactive board) to make the game more challenging and exciting.

(a) In grades kindergarten through five, the program shall be designed by a certified school counselor in coordination with the teaching staff, and any appropriate pupil personnel service providers, for the purpose of preparing students to participate effectively in their current and future educational programs, to provide information related to college and careers, and to assist students who may exhibit challenges to academic success, including but not limited to attendance or behavioral concerns, and where appropriate make a referral to a properly licensed professional and / or certified pupil personnel service provider, as appropriate, for more targeted supports.

The sheet provides differentiated questions for pupils whilst challenging the more able with extended questioning and false answers which are common misconceptions.

Use as support for lower attaining pupils throughout the topic, as extra challenge for more able (give them to them ahead of the forthcoming topic) and as revision at the end of a unit.

2 worksheets attached where the level of difficulty gradually increases to allow more able pupils to access more challenging questions.

Although the exams will cover more challenging content, the DfE insists this won't necessarily mean pupils score lower grades than they might have under the old system.

Pupils display red when they require help, amber when they feeling more confident and green when they are confident and need more of a challenge.

What's more, the daunting challenge of matching teacher supply with demand will only become more acute in the coming years as a result of rising pupil numbers.

In other words, targets are more challenging for high - ability pupils, and may not be hard enough for low - ability children.

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In about a third of primary schools, more able pupils do not make enough progress because the work they are set is not challenging enough.

We are campaigning on high stakes testing, so that pupils learn less by rote, and more by considering problems and challenges in real life situations — where they are required, also, to develop the skills that employers are crying out for — speaking and listening well; collaborating with each other well; using IT.

«Inspirational teaching, challenging stereotypes and getting young people excited about the huge potential of science is the best way to get more pupils studying it and going on to enjoy the higher wages these skills command.»

Many of these pupils will need a specialist SEND mentor, while participants with more severe needs receive two - to - one support — representing a significant staffing challenge for the organisation.

A project called Challenging the Gap, which helped schools to collaborate with each other to help poorer pupils achieve as highly as their more affluent peers, had no impact.

One of the greatest challenges in teaching today is to make pupils more independent — they rely on teachers for everything which is why they struggle with those exam questions that look like nothing they've seen before.

«We know there are some local challenges, the truth is despite rising pupil numbers and the competitive jobs market a stronger economy has created, more people are entering the teaching profession than leaving it, there are 13,100 more teachers today than when we came to office and the ratio of teachers to pupils is stable with more teachers also choosing to come back to the classroom,» he said.