Sentences with phrase «needs of your students rather»

There are smaller steps that could be taken to accomodate the prayer needs of those students rather than rescheduling a whole school system over the needs of a small minority.

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Like the study plan made by the students, your to - do list is likely simply a way to clear your brain of the annoying intrusions caused by the Zeigarnik effect rather than an actual list you consult to remember what you need to do.

«It's appalling that students in the Vancouver school district will be stuck with leaking roofs and damp classrooms because the premier is playing politics rather than looking after the needs of aging school buildings in B.C.,» said New Democrat education spokesperson Rob Fleming.

As I am presenting some rather difficult material on process thought, I may notice the eyes of some students wandering, a few yawns, signs that they may be tired, in need of a break, or bored.

Populist conservatives would also need to show that while Huckabee can talk with some eloquence about the struggles of a single mother, he'll follow that with meandering, bizarre stories about students and their desks rather than conservative policy solutions.

Students are made to be passive consumers of content (or «knowledge digesters»), as if preparing for the world of 1953, rather than becoming the «knowledge transformers» needed in an increasingly competitive global environment.

StudentsFirstNY is New York's leading voice for students who depend on public education for the skills they need to succeed, but who are too often failed by a system that puts special interests, rather than the interests of children, first.

Formed in April 2012, StudentsFirstNY with more than 150,000 members, is New York State's leading voice for students who depend on public education for the skills they need to succeed, but who are too often failed by a system that puts special interests, rather than the interests of children, first.

About StudentsFirstNY Formed in April 2012, StudentsFirstNY with more than 150,000 members, is New York State's leading voice for students who depend on public education for the skills they need to succeed, but who are too often failed by a system that puts special interests, rather than the interests of children, first.

It's easier to imagine the Liberal Democrats doing so: one doesn't need to list the rows that have taken place over VAT, student finance, housing benefit, the immigration cap and so on to prove the point (though some of the Government's biggest disagreements, such as those over prisons policy or the EU, are concentrated within one of the Coalition parties, the Conservatives, rather than between them).

The framework builds on 2 decades of research on how children learn, including the need for students to understand the context of what they are being taught rather than simply absorbing factual information.

Some are hard cases, the necessary outcome of any innovative system for distributing authorship: Should the system be abrogated when hard cases arise, such as the need of a young student to receive publication credit if he or she leaves the lab at the M.A. level, rather than staying on for dissertation work?

There are also «rumors from several places that in the faculty meetings... one of the very first suggestions is that the schools should look to expand graduate enrollment» based on thinking that «we're going to end up having fewer postdocs, so now we need more grad students» — thus implicitly defining postdocs mainly as labor rather than trainees.

«Discovery» learning, in which students discover facts for themselves rather than receiving them directly from an instructor, has been in vogue lately; Blikstein and his colleagues at FabLab@School, a network of educational workshops Blikstein created in 2009, are trying to get at the heart of how much or how little instruction students really need.

Unfortunately, today's rather immature (and still somewhat numerically challenged) first - year science student needs to be led more gently and slowly into the intricacies of topics such as the equations of stellar interiors, spherical trigonometry and introductory cosmology.

To accomplish meaningful diversity in biochemistry, we will need to redefine diversity and understand it as a variation in the types and applications of content offered to students rather than varying shades of students in lecture halls.

Rather, every class welcomes each student to arrive as they are, listen to the needs of their bodies and minds in any given moment, and enjoy practicing togetherIn this training, you will learn the tools to work in alignment with wisdom.

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This kind of treatment is needed for students who should be wrestling with fundamental concepts of government rather than their personal feelings about it.

Rather than asking how reforms can encourage an array of options (public, private, or for - profit) to emerge that fit the needs of today's students, the free - public - college crowd wants to simply cram more people through the same old expensive, mediocre model of education.

Building learning from text strategies and other learning supports into the curricula that will also help teachers to teach those skills as part of what students need to know, rather than as extraneous items that compete with the enormous amount of content they need to cover.

What if teachers were responsive to the unique needs of each student, rather than providing the same set of supports for everyone?

This makes it more of a conversation rather than telling students what needs to be done.

Rather, my students said that their learning improved because, in my paperless class, everything they needed was on their iPads, so they stayed more organized and felt more in control of their learning.

Given the emerging national market — with providers like K12 and Connections Academy present in dozens of states — it would be feasible to focus not just ratings, but in - depth analysis on just a dozen or so providers that serve tens of thousands of students, rather than the thousands of schools that sites like GreatSchools need to populate ratings for.

Share space in class conversations: I work not to prioritize my voice over the voices of my students through established rhythms and routines — for example, I ring a chime rather than raise my voice above my students» voices when I need to interrupt conversations and bring us back together as a group.

The basic idea in the grant proposal was that teachers had to overcome their squeamishness in talking about sex; indeed, they needed to learn how to stand in front of the classroom and describe intimate body parts using their students» vernacular, rather than the technical terms found in biology textbooks.

We need to tailor our learning environments to student standards for comfort rather than expecting students to adjust to our perceptions of comfort.

The real pressures on such schools and their staffs are to meet student needs that are often ubiquitous and acute in such communities (e.g., health, nutrition, remediation, attendance, language, discipline) rather than to maximize the learning of their high achievers.

Rather, we need to double down on redesigning the experiences of students in order to re-engineer the unequal results that schools currently produce.

«In general, I think it's important for students to realize through experience that assessment and testing can help them understand their strengths and needs as learners, and I think it is vital that students learn the «literacy» format of tests so that they control the test situation rather than being controlled by it,» said Walton.

More analysis needs to be done here, of course, because the kids aren't identical and it's possible that student characteristics and school selection effects rather than instructional effectiveness explain much of the achievement track record.

«Middle schools need a reliable structure to build community, teach (rather than assume) social skills, and prepare students for learning each day,» observes Linda Crawford, executive director of Origins, a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering learning and community in schools and other educational institutions.

Blended learning, the mix of online learning in brick - and - mortar schools, can shift how teachers allocate their time by allowing them to actually work with students based on individual students» needs, rather than simply lecturing to an entire class that may have vastly different levels of understanding.

Judy Willis, suggesting that effective assessment is built on students» strengths and interests, offers five forms of assessment that will help students retain content rather than forgetting material they no longer need.

By using standard notice - and - comment rule making, by bringing the agency's policy in line with the Supreme Court's interpretation of Title IX, by getting a better handle on the extent of sexual assault in educational institutions and effective prevention measures, and above all, by focusing regulations on improving the educational opportunities that we provide students rather than upending the sexual mores of society at large, they can demonstrate that not everyone appointed by President Trump need sink to his level.

By focusing on the needs of students and the quality of education they receive rather than pointing fingers over where they are served, we will do more to ensure that our most vulnerable children have access to the education they need and deserve.

Issues with over-identification were raised, amid concerns over too much emphasis on targets rather than placing priority on addressing the needs of individual students.

Successful CTE programs, Kreamer writes, are «not focused on short - term labor market needs — although they may fill them — but rather on the lifetime success of their students.»

Rather than a pedagogy of poverty, what students who live in poverty need is powerful pedagogy: powerful instruction resulting in powerful (or deep) learning.

Tier 2 groups typically consist of 2 - 4 students, grouped by a common need / topic rather than by grade.

Time spent among students and teachers was an example of serving learners» needs well with a meaningful context, rather than incremental skills to be acquired (IBO).

Rather, we need to focus on personalizing student instruction and driving student ownership of learning in an integrated way to best prepare our students for college and a career.

Introducing new words and using full sentences («yes, we do need to put on our raincoats» rather than «yes, sure») also expands vocabulary, which not only helps students when they are first learning to read at around the ages of five and six, but also later in elementary school when they take the next steps and work on comprehension and fluency — the ability to read text accurately and quickly.

Ultimately, using a combination of approaches rather than a single strategy is likely to prove most effective in helping teachers get the training they need to feel confident they are providing all their students with the instruction they need to succeed.

Conceivably, the market strategies of charter schools and large CMOs, rather than the needs of families and students, could drive the market, leading to more imitation and less diversity.

So much of great teaching is about packaging content so that students recognize it as something they need to know and can actually use, rather than something to do «because I said so, and you don't want a zero, do you?»

States need not identify schools for «additional targeted support» annually because these schools are identified for having a subgroup performing similarly to students in the bottom 5 percent of Title I schools; rather, states can identify these schools every three years, each time they identify their lowest - performing 5 percent of schools.

Rather than forcing parents to navigate the system and fight on behalf of their children, investing in systems to better ensure that schools, classrooms, and curriculum meet the needs of students with disabilities can better support parents of children with disabilities.

Although in the best flipped - classroom implementations, each student can move at her own pace and view lessons at home that meet her individual needs rather than those of the entire class, most flipped classrooms do not operate this way.