Sentences with phrase «most able students»

In schools where there are few most able students, they perform considerably less well.

The conclusion one could draw from this is that it might be better to have a core of most able students in all schools, rather than push them into one place and spread thinly across the others.

Virginia Governor's Schools provide some of the state's most able students academically and artistically challenging programs beyond those offered in their home schools.

Barnaby Lenon, chairman of the Independent Schools Council, says they will stretch the most able students.

Realistically though, the most able students are likely to spend S5 and S6 studying for Highers and Advanced Highers and not take additional N5s without good reason.

In other words, a National 5 would only be a stepping stone towards a Higher for the most able students.

Bearing in mind the enormous range of ability and achievement found in the mixed - ability classroom, the pre-existing knowledge of many of our abler students, and the pressure on teachers to revise and re-revise work to ensure that less able students achieve mastery, it is no wonder that many of our most able students are left unstimulated and unchallenged by the regular school curriculum.

The PA State Board of Education has approved new regulations that will make it easier to identify students as gifted and to ensure the schools meet the needs of its most able students.

Oxplore has already been well received by teachers, and many are using it as an out - of - the - box activity to support their most able students, or encouraging them to access it in their free time.

Most able students divide by 0.1, 0.01 and 0.01.

The most able students will be identified by prior attainment data, and by subject teachers to ensure that differentiated curriculum development, enrichment and extension activities are made available to them in addition to a programme of support, mentoring and intervention.

Ofqual head Glenys Stacey says: «We want to see qualifications that are more stretching for the most able students, using assessments that really test knowledge, understanding and skills.»

Earlier this month, we published a follow - up to our 2013 survey examining whether our most able students in the non-selective system were being properly challenged and encouraged to fulfill their potential.

The KS3 Maths Stretch and Challenge Workbook makes it as easy as possible for you to stretch and challenge the thinking of your most able students.

The P.E. facilities at Guildford County limit us in terms of what we are able to offer our most able students, whilst catered for well in lessons by differentiation of task or outcome, rarely are we able to take them all together and really challenge what they can do or what they know.

In a recent Teacher column, Professor Geoff Masters AO discussed the importance of challenging our most able students.

When leaders at the Australian International School (AIS) in Singapore examined the data and discovered a need to extend their most able students in maths, they turned to research for help.

While state schools were found to be the most likely to over-predict, the report also found that the most able students from disadvantaged backgrounds were most likely to be underestimated.

Obviously the most able students should not be given a word bank.

The advantage of the booklet is that students can work at their own pace and most able students can move on to the next activity easily.

Please also look at this YouTube tutorial video for additional information: https://youtu.be/-inQkNFqFAI The use of Sky High Questions has also been noted by Ofsted - «The most able students make good progress in a number of subjects.

Very nice interactive activity towards the end that is easily differentiated by giving your most able students the roles of the reporter and the news reader.

This decline was especially marked among our most able students.

Meanwhile, countries around the world are investing heavily in talent development, and particularly in their most able students.

All three together allow you to differentiate incredibly effectively for your most able students, with little or no planning required.

The KS3 Religious Studies Stretch and Challenge Workbook makes it as easy as possible for you to stretch and challenge the thinking of your most able students.

The GCSE Religious Studies Stretch and Challenge Workbook makes it as easy as possible for you to stretch and challenge the thinking of your most able students.

Indeed, within the current milieu, one major drawback is that our most able students are not so much «shortchanged» as they are ignored.

How are you challenging your most able students?

Dr. Levine: Too many of our most able students are likely to bypass teaching for more lucrative and higher status professions such as law, medicine, and business.

Furthermore, just as comprehensive schools are desirable as a solvent of social class lines, so classes with students of differing abilities are valuable, provided the classes can be internally organized so as to let students proceed at their own pace, with enrichment through greater depth and scope of materials independently mastered by the most able students, and with special assistance by the teacher for the less able.

Not exact matches

A classic psychology paper, Pygmalion in the Classroom, describes a study in which elementary - school students were given a test to identify the most able.

Among seriously Christian environmentalists with a biocentric bent, Lutheran pastor Paul Santmire stands out as one of the ablest and most careful students of the history of theology.

In the United States most colleges require that students be exposed to a spread of courses, introducing them to a range of academic disciplines, but students are soon able to order most of their work to their anticipated jobs.

I can not but think that the most important step forward that has occurred in psychology since I have been a student of that science is the discovery, first made in 1886, that, in certain subjects at least, there is not only the consciousness of the ordinary field, with its usual centre and margin, but an addition thereto in the shape of a set of memories, thoughts, and feelings which are extra-marginal and outside of the primary consciousness altogether, but yet must be classed as conscious facts of some sort, able to reveal their presence by unmistakable signs.

He had time now to devote to one of the most able of the students who had gathered around him, Bartholomaeus Bernhardi, a mature student, graduate of Erfurt, only four years younger than Luther.

In the Midwest few parents were able to contribute to their offspring's higher education — that was known, taken for granted, and most students preferred it that way.

It is important to note that in the Fast Response Survey System (FRSS) Kindergarten Teacher Survey on Student Readiness, teachers reported that the most important signs of school readiness are being able to communicate needs and wants and being curious and enthusiastic about trying new activities.

As part of an unusual study, Philip Sadler, the Frances W. Wright Senior Lecturer in the Department of Astronomy, and colleagues tested 181 middle school physical science teachers and nearly 10,000 of their students, and showed that while most of the teachers were well - versed in their subject, those better able to predict their students» wrong answers on standardized tests helped students learn the most.

The results showed that students» scores showed the most improvement when teachers were able to predict their students» wrong answers.

As part of an unusual study, Sadler and colleagues tested 181 middle school physical science teachers and nearly 10,000 of their students, and showed that while most of the teachers were well - versed in their subject, those better able to predict their students» wrong answers on standardized tests helped students learn the most.

Beginning in July 2009, most medical students will no longer be able to defer loan repayment during their medical residency years.

The implication is that students who are able to transfer all or most of their community college credits are more likely to graduate than peers who started their postsecondary education at a four - year school.

He and his colleagues believe that their graduate students and postdocs should be able to perform most experiments.

Based on the subsequent isolation of papillomavirus types in genital warts and laryngeal papillomatosis, two of zur Hausen's later students were able to clone and partially characterize the most prevalent virus types in cervical cancer, HPV 16 (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 80, 3812, 1983) and HPV 18 (EMBO Journal 3, 1151, 1984).

Most beginning students aren't able to easily touch the crown of their head to the floor in the last stage of this forward bend.

The distance learning, independent studies, online education, coursework, and readings all are necessary for the student to be able to get the most out of a module and integrate what they learn.

I was most worried that I wouldn't be as advanced as the other students or I wouldn't be able to keep up.

Students seeking teacher certification must: • Have a minimum of one year of yoga practice experience, any style (recommended) • Have a passion to learn and to explore the deeper dimensions of yoga • Be free of major injuries (please inform of minor but recurring injuries in advance) • Be fully committed to 100 % attendance • Be able to forgot most of their personal and professional commitments during the course.

Most of my fellow students wanted to become directors, but I was fortunate to just be able to see pretty clearly that cinematography was something I was good at, and it would probably be simpler to pursue that path.