Sentences with phrase «needs students together»

The ugly truth is that districts group high - needs students together in particular schools while other district schools have virtually no high - needs children.

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Some argue that a democracy needs public schools that all students attend so all learn shared values and discover how to work together across class and racial lines.
The teacher decides which picture the students need to understand, then they move together into action on it according the pace of the student's individual and the class's collective rhythm.
Mary Beth Plank: Full Sail University's philosophy is to give our students a complete education that brings together hands - on experience, traditional classroom work and industry - specific career development throughout their education; that unique combination will allow our students to gain the knowledge and tools they'll need to succeed in this industry.
Placing students of similar ability together certainly makes for easier and more efficient instruction; the more able students do not need to wait for the slow ones to catch up, and the slow ones are not made to feel inadequate in comparison with the fast ones.
And on campus many Christians have found that we really need Muslims to help us withstand the assaults of pagans in the department of religion and at the local shopping mall, I've watched conservative evangelical, Bible - thumping Christian students link up with conservative, Qur» an - thumping Muslim students — they are brought together by the realization that in many subtle and disturbing ways the modern university is aligned against belief in and fidelity to any God.
For the thoughtful student there is a need to bring together, for example the knowledge about evolution encountered in the science lessons and what is presented in the R.E. class about God's word.
Our flexible program meets the needs of individual students as they meld into cooperative class groups, advancing together through expanding realms of information and accomplishment.
The educational practice of teachers and young adolescents remaining together for two or more years, known as looping, provides a stable learning environment that supports students» developmental changes and responds to their individual needs.
When I teach students in the relatively new discipline of infant mental health, which brings together researchers at the interface of developmental psychology, neuroscience, and genetics, I tell them that almost everything they need to know to support young children and their families can be found in the essay «The Ordinary Devoted Mother» by pediatrician turned psychoanalyst D.W. Winnicott.
Top - up funding can also reflect costs that relate to the facilities needed to support a pupil's or student's education and training needs (either for individuals or on offer to all), and can take into account expected place occupancy levels and other factors, see section How place funding and top up funding work together.
It is amazing to me, in this great State of New York, with all the financial resources we have, that the Senate and Assembly can not get together, as well as the Governor, to see what needs to be done to provide balance of education and the needed funds to allow students, parents and families more of an opportunity to attend parochial schools.
New York State Senator Cecilia Tkaczyk, a Democrat from the 46th district, remarked that teachers, parents, students and administrators need to work together to bring up New York's Common Core passing grade.
Together, these organizations will meet the community's unmet healthcare needs by providing high quality patient care and experiences; offering unique patient, provider, staff, and student education; fostering interprofessional learning experiences; and achieving many other benefits to each organization through collaboration, resulting in healthier communities.
So, although speakers agreed that the need for new approaches to graduate education is pressing, effective reform to prepare students for existing nonacademic opportunities will take strong action by entities that are currently finding it hard to work together.
After discussing the different ideas that arose during our first meetings, we decided to split into several working groups, each being responsible for different tasks such as finding the equipment we would need for the fair, looking for sponsors and taking care of the finances, talking to companies, designing a Web page, and even putting together a CD with the CVs of all the students who submitted one to us, to then be sent to the companies.
Undoubtedly a need exists for a good, clear, comprehensive book on animal welfare for students, bringing together the scientific evidence that has now accumulated on various aspects of this subject.
As immigration increases the number of non-English speaking «culturally and linguistically diverse» students, schools will need to band together in networks focused on the challenges of educating what has been called «the new mainstream,» according to a Boston College professor.
In order to give students practice at this kind of discernment, problems within class and homework assignments need to be interleaved — mixed up, all jumbled together, so that the student never knows in advance which type of problem she will be confronting but needs to figure it out afresh each time.
Using Project 2061's Atlas of Science Literacy and other tools, workshop participants get a better understanding of the science ideas students need to learn and develop new strategies for sequencing lessons to build on what students already know and for helping students see how concepts fit together and can be applied to various scenarios.
Taken together, these differences may lead teachers to be less responsive to student needs, which can have consequences when compounded with other characteristics of middle school.
«To build tissues, we need to be able to take stem cells and use them to make many different cell types which are grouped together in particular spatial patterns,» explained Andres M. Bratt - Leal, the paper's first author and a former graduate student in McDevitt's lab.
«We needed a new method that could identify and align shared groups of cells present in multiple experiments so that we could integrate the datasets together,» says Andrew Butler, a graduate student at NYU and lead author of the study.
While our open - group yoga and meditation sessions are intimate and specialized to provide a certain level of attention to each student in addition to serving the purpose of coming together in universal consciousness, we understand the need for private sessions as well.
One thought... in the last bit about safe lifting technique you mention that «We don't need to worry about # 3 and # 4 (our load IS close to the body and hopefully nobody is keeping the feet together)...» but I find that in yoga classes a LOT of time either a teacher has specifically asked students to stand with their feet together or students think it is correct / necessary to do so.
It involves both special needs students as well as regular education students who play together as a team against teams from neighboring districts.
The staff crowdsources the best tips to put together «21 Life - Changing Dating Tips Every College Student Needs to Know» or «23 Genius Dating Tips from Tumblr.»
I learned that I needed to get to work at 7:15 AM for an 8 o'clock start time just so that I could get my head and heart together before the students came in.
This signal (made by touching the fingertips of both hands together in an «A» shape) can be used by teachers or students to remind a speaker that she needs to include a unit or a label, or to use a complete sentence to express her thinking.
This includes funding major renovations to the school's campus, most notably, turning the first floor of Gutman Library into a desperately needed cafe and student center hub that has truly brought the whole school together, and making sure that every classroom renovated during the past few years was done using green, sustainable materials.
The consultants brought together multiple panels of school personnel and asked them to design a program that would ensure that all New York City students could get a sound basic education and determine the resources needed to deliver the program.
Architects, consultants and designers need to work together in a truly symbiotic way and they all need to work with (and understand) those who will use the school - namely the teachers and the students.
Let's meet our students where they are, and together, let's use all of the tools we have to understand the information and employ it to meet our collective needs.
I mean, it's not really a fundamentally new idea and certainly I «flipped», for want of a better word, my classroom in 2006 seriously - that's when I first started saying to my students that anything I felt I really needed to explain to them I would do that in a podcast or a screencast and when we come together in the classroom, we'll do things that require togetherness.
Along those same lines, Moodle enables and encourages collaboration and teamwork — the communication features in Moodle listed above (discussions, forums, messaging) allow students to work together, share ideas, and ask / answer questions if needed.
The are many opportunities here to address real needs, but students and local partnerships need to work together to find a focus.
How can we (the teacher and I) work together to create a technology integration goal based on his or her students» needs?
Turning Points 2000: A Blueprint For Middle Grades Education Reform A new report by the President's Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans advises that groups need to work together to help Hispanic students close the achievement gap with students of other ethnic groups.
And the «homework» doesn't necessarily need to be individual homework, it can be group homework because now you've got students who are all there together so they can work on something collaboratively.
When a team of teachers operates effectively, there is one group leader and usually five to six committed educators who are all working together to meet student needs.
Working together with public, private, educator and IB association partners, we are looking forward to further serving the community of Kent by creating educational pathways that allow students to excel in their immediate job or professional needs and also prepare them for a lifetime of learning and success.
Of course students need to learn to become proficient in writing, but Novak's point, and one of the points of UDL, is that separate skills — in this case, writing and demonstrating an understanding of the concept of point of view — should not be lumped together.
Early in the process, teachers and students together explore values — like empathy, patience, kindness, courage, and open - mindedness — that need to be respected for people to be willing to share openly and honestly in circle.
Disability and charter leaders now meet regularly with researchers and legal experts to understand facts and work on solutions together to ensure that charter schools effectively serve all students with special needs.
Recognizing the need to provide support to BPS educators in using the system, Murnane created a course bringing practitioners and HGSE graduate students together.
Advocate for plenty of planning time so teachers at your school site can create lessons and units together — starting first with the needs and assets of the students they serve, then using the standards as a guideline to plan relevant and engaging content and activities.
Staff members regularly review data together to catch any students in need of extra support and help ensure students grasp concepts by focusing lessons on grade - level skills and then modifying content to address any language gaps.
If we in schools want to foster and develop the natural talent of our brightest ICT students, turning smart young people from technology users into technology doers, we need to do it together.
It's also a platform by which special - needs and mainstream students can work together in an inclusive environment and certainly a medium that educators should consider not just as an initiative, but as an investment in the future successes of special - needs students.
More importantly, it can lead to an atmosphere of inclusiveness, an environment where special - needs and mainstream students can work together on a single vision.
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