Sentences with phrase «not achieve in the classroom»

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However, today's classrooms do not have enough teachers who achieve the high - growth, higher - order learning our modern economy demands — at least, not in today's one - teacher - one - classroom mode.

CAMBRIDGE, MA — Studies of two middle - school programs for high - achieving students — known as gifted and talented (G&T) programs — show that being placed in programs with academically strong peers does not boost students» achievement over and above what is learned in a regular classroom from the start of 6th grade to mid-way through 7th grade.

As the research literature confirms, the peer composition of a classroom is very important: not surprisingly, children benefit from being in a class with well - behaved, high - achieving children, and are harmed by the presence of poorly behaved classmates.

If, on the other hand, you lovingly confront even the smallest misbehaviors, then it will be clear to students that, inside the four walls of your classroom, things that detract from what you're trying to achieve — even in small ways — just don't fly.

When recently asked about the risk involved in schools taking pupils on trips, chief executive of the Council for Learning Outside the Classroom (CLOtC), Elaine Skates, asserted: «To anyone who thinks that school trips are too risky I would ask them about the risks of not taking children outside the classroom for learning, the risks of not expanding their horizons, the risks of not helping them to achieve all they can.»

Too often, the great things that are being achieved in classrooms in every school every day are not observed or recorded, let alone celebrated.

«Frankly, the timeline states set up may or may not have a relationship to when the standards were implemented in classrooms,» said Mike Cohen, the president of Achieve, which led the development of the common - core standards.

Since the grades assigned vary much less across classrooms than does students» performance on standardized tests, high - achieving students should be more likely to earn high grades in classrooms where the other students, on average, do not perform well on external assessments.

«I've seen kids who might not have achieved as highly in a regular classroom really achieve at a much higher level because they had the extra help and the extra options of the videos and time in class to talk about what they didn't understand, not just to try to copy down notes as quickly as they could,» Gironda said.

Why not factor in how well students in those teachers» classrooms are achieving?

It seems, then, that teachers think that high expectations are important, but they are not always confident that everyone in their classrooms can achieve academic success.

«It's so hard to achieve and get anything done... if you can't even sit in the classroom with one another and teach effectively and learn effectively.»

Accelerate Education provides online education courses for Kindergarten through 12th grade to meet the needs of all students, from at - risk students who had trouble succeeding in the traditional classroom to high achieving students seeking classes their schools can not provide for them.

Though the test has undergone some changes, a 2007 study of North Carolina teachers found significant overlap in the effectiveness distributions of elementary teachers who did and did not pass the Praxis II Subject Assessment Test, while large numbers of teachers who did not pass the exam achieved the same or greater levels of effectiveness in the classroom.7

Instead, most teachers only have the chance to expand their leadership responsibilities by assuming an administrative position, which requires them to leave the classroom entirely.4 Even if teachers do not want to leave the classroom, pursuing a role in administration may be their only way to achieve increases in pay, responsibility, and autonomy.5 Although some school districts implement career pathways, diverse leadership roles for teachers are few and far between.

Children who have not responded well to classroom instruction in Kindergarten and grade one, and who have not developed effective patterns of literacy learning, can make accelerated progress and achieve the average level of the classmates within approximately 15 weeks of individual instruction.

This is not to say that improving conditions in schools is not important; to the contrary, improving conditions in schools is imperative, and one now documented way to achieve this is through effective professional development focused on character education as a model for classroom management and instructional support.»

This also allows our diverse community to achieve a closeness not possible in a larger context, and mutual trust and respect are central to our culture within the classroom and beyond.

Thus, high performing teams rely on the results of their common formative assessments to increase student achievement in ways that they can not achieve with classroom formative and benchmark assessments.

246 Using technology in the classroom helps to refine the skills that lawyers need to achieve professional competence.247 For attorneys today, the computer is a key practice resource, not just a means for enhancing productivity.248 Integrating technology in the LRW classroom allows professors to better prepare students for law practice, since attorneys rely less on the library and support staff, and more on their own computers to complete work at their desks.249

But these 10 practices, especially taken together, can help to shape a school and peer - group culture that maximizes the motivation to learn and achieve, even in students who might not bring such dispositions to the classroom.