Sentences with phrase «needs students toward»

Here are seven apps to help special needs students toward reading readiness, touchscreen games that engage children through play with colors, shapes, animation, alphabet sequencing, and sentence structure.

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The RMC MBA curriculum is geared toward the needs of students who have military work experience, such as supply — chain management, transportation, finance or human resources.

I believe that the contemporary student generation's concern for freedom in higher education and their recognition of the slavishness of much of what goes by the name of liberal studies points toward the need to restore the lost element of leisure in the life of learning and to renew the conviction that understanding contains its own rewards.

As this Age of Great Enlightenments contnue onwards the Kingdom Domains of God does progressively teach one and we are taught from its outward creviced distances toward almost absolute finiteness or the very very smallest of distinguishable degrees, God will allow our students and teachers of such studies to meaningfully create manly made biologic mechanisms for the betterment's welfare of all our physical needs and trade orientated desires.

In the last ten years I have moved increasingly toward experiential teaching (using self - awareness exercises, role playing of counseling methods, live demonstrations of growth groups, and so forth), which involves the students» own feelings, responses, and needs; asking the students to draw up their own «learning contract» based on what they want to get from a given course or workshop; expecting students to participate in the teaching by sharing in some systematic way the insights they have discovered to be meaningful; revealing my own struggles, uncertainties, and weaknesses; and asking the students to evaluate anonymously the course, including my teaching.

Perhaps those younger students had taken into the film a certain bias toward how they believed a plot needed to progress.

They would identify those student - athletes who needed extra help to maintain their [NCAA] eligibility, steer those student - athletes toward the paper classes and then work closely with Crowder to register them.

And so in these schools, where students are most in need of help internalizing extrinsic motivations, classroom environments often push them in the opposite direction: toward more external control, fewer feelings of competence, and less positive connection with teachers.

We assess our students to understand their educational needs as well as their attitudes toward learning.

If schools had to compete for students the same way businesses compete for customers, schools would need to strive toward increasing test scores and better preparing students for the workforce.

Governor Andrew Cuomo included $ 25 million in this year's budget for universal full - day pre-K, targeted toward high - needs students in lower wealth districts, which follows a top recommendation his education reform commission made last December.

Democratic Assemblyman Angelo Santabarbara in a statement Thursday said he opposed giving computer tablets to inmates in the state prison system, saying the equipment should instead go toward students, especially those with special needs.

Dolan Wednesday said there was discussion of expanding the tax credit to include those who give money that can be used toward scholarships for college students in need who might not otherwise qualify for assistance.

The evening opened with brief remarks from Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña, who presented a humanistic philosophy toward public education at sharp odds with prevailing notions that schools today are workplaces where students apply themselves to learn skills needed to pass tests.

This kind of feedback goes a long way toward identifying the needs these students have.

This fact, combined with a need for additional staff who are well versed in science and also for ready access to a pool of students and postdoctoral fellows, moved us toward the notion of growing our own licensing specialists.

Our findings underscore the need for supportive services in higher education to integrate student veterans into campus communities and refer them to mental healthcare resources toward improving their academic success.»

This comprehensive trauma - sensitive yoga program is designed to provide the instruction and tools you need to understand PTSD and trauma at a deeper level and to guide your clients (or students) toward greater healing.

Students who receive financial aid must not only demonstrate financial need, but must also make satisfactory progress toward the completion of their programs of study as determined by MUIH in accordance with federal regulations.

Emma Dargie, a Ph.D. student in clinical psychology says, «Establish the needs of each partner early on, practice working toward meeting those needs, and give feedback about which needs are still being unmet.»

This portrait of the pupils, teachers, and local environment of Norway House Cree Nation — a robustly successful school and community center in Manitoba, steered toward the needs of Native students and the hiring of Native faculty — represents the 85 - year - old Obomsawin's 50th feature, and she is already at work on the 51st.

As much as possible, the teacher should encourage this interaction by directing students toward other groups when they're stuck or need an extension.

It points students toward the knowledge, skills, relationships, and experiences that they need to live full and productive lives.

Despite all the back - and - forth, almost all teachers acknowledged the need to drive students toward deeper learning.

Shawn Cornally, founder of the Big Ideas School, suggests that the first step toward successful PBL is getting students to understand why they don't need to experience dread when they hear the word project.

Mirroring the flexibility in a competency - based system, in which students carve their own paths and pace, these state stories highlight the ways in which each state's unique needs shaped its individual path and pace toward competency - based education.

But just as students need to be encouraged toward reflective thought, teachers need to be encouraged by both the school administration and the school...

The curriculum — which embeds all - purpose academic words the students will need to read high school and college textbooks in math, English, science, and history — has helped to «build a bridge toward greater understanding of what is being read by students,» says Ben Honoroff, the literacy coach for MSQI in the Department of Education.

This points to a desperate need to move toward a competency - based learning system that measures and rewards individual student growth, as well as an underlying shared learning infrastructure that allows the country to identify each unique student in a consistent way — so that when he or she moves geographies, the student's record does as well — and to keep track of what that student knows and can do in a consistent way across geographies.

Teachers need to actively reevaluate students» levels and coach them toward higher - level groups.

Just as students need to master reading, writing, and arithmetic, they also need to learn the importance of acting respectfully toward their teachers and classmates.

He redirected students toward the assignment when needed by having them reflect on their collaboration.

Just as students need to master reading, writing, and «rithmetic, they also need to learn the importance of acting respectfully toward teachers and classmates.

Online learning holds the potential to create a student - centered educational system that can personalize affordably for students» different learning needs at different times — a key to allowing all students to maximize their success — if policy moves away from regulating inputs and toward focusing on individual student outcomes and other conditions are put in place.

At the policy level, we will need to strive toward a stable consensus among political factions, and clearly articulated vision of the kind of education students now need.

Despite past federal support directed toward the needs of low - income students, African American 4th and 8th graders did not make measurable progress on the National Assessment of Educational Progress between 2005 and 2007.

Lessons and activities were geared toward providing students with a better understanding of how their schoolwork relates to the workplace and answering the age - old question «Why do I need to know this anyway?»

According to Shananhan, who is a member of the National Reading Panel and was actively involved in the development of Reading First, adolescent students need more required reading, more instruction time specifically geared toward reading, and low - level readers need even more time.

With all of the advances we see around us in technology, and seeing all of the capabilities students now have at their fingertips, it's important to note that some of that innovation has been directed toward addressing students with special needs.

We think we need to move from having students drive toward their future while looking in the rear view mirror (tell what you know) to an «Eyes Forward» assessment (preparing them for the world to come).

Teachers will need to develop entirely new curricula and majors to account for this change — and students will need to look toward the future to plot out career prospects relating to these new fields, especially in technology - centered careers.

Specifically, the site provides tools and templates that guide teachers in developing modules — two - to four - week plans that include (1) student performance tasks; (2) a list of the reading, writing and thinking skills students will need to complete the tasks; (3) student activities (called «mini-tasks»); (4) instructional strategies that guide students toward completing the tasks and (5) sample student responses and how those pieces scored on an LDC rubric, as well as an option for teachers to design a summative assessment related to the teaching task.

These measures are used to determine local educational agency (LEA) and school progress toward meeting the needs of their students.

Schools, districts and states need adequate resources to address the needs of students, particularly as we ratchet up the momentum toward college and career readiness for all students.

Whether it's independent research or teacher - led interventions, what the students don't know points toward what they need to know.

«With a trend toward regular classroom services for all students, it is vital that all teachers be prepared and willing to serve the needs of the gifted appropriately,» said Catherine Little, professor of education at the University of Connecticut.

5 - Year Graduation Rates While we often think of high school as a four year program, many students need extra time to complete this important step toward future success.

Designed to start early preparation and soothe any preconceived apprehensions toward test environments, Practicing for Today's Tests gives students the confidence they need for approaching standardized assessments.

«The proposed increase in the budget through giving thousands of charter schools the funding needed to open new charter schools, and expand and replicate their successful models will go a long way toward providing those students and their families with a much - needed, high - quality public school education.

The Obama administration's $ 650 million Investing in Innovation Fund — designed to spur investments in innovative educational providers and practices — specified that applicants needed to «demonstrate their previous success in closing achievement gaps, improving student progress toward proficiency, increasing graduation rates, or recruiting and retaining high - quality teachers and principals.»