Sentences with phrase «numbers of challenged students»

This is what it boils down to: many of California's school districts thought it was unfair to judge their schools as failing because they served large numbers of challenged students whose growth and progress wasn't fairly measured by a narrow set of tests.

Not exact matches

Most concerning, class sizes are growing and classrooms host an increasing number of students with learning challenges or other special needs — with too few staff and resources made available to support them.

Although my response to their challenge has hardly been uncritical, I remain profoundly grateful to them for the help they have given me and any number of my students in more adequately understanding our own theological responsibility.

Recognizing that working long hours in a new and intensely challenging environment can also pose challenges to balancing work and home life, a number of programs are in place at Floating Hospital to help ease the transition from student to pediatric specialist.

So we didn't find a «magic number» of AP courses that corresponded with optimal health; it really depends on the individual student, the homework load that s / he can handle given the other courses and extracurricular activities each semester, and what makes sense in terms of challenge levels and individual interests.

More than 31 million children in the United States participate in the National School Lunch Program, or NSLP, each school day, 1 and a large number of students consume up to half of their daily calories at school.2 Yet, many schools were built decades ago and face challenges as they strive to serve foods that meet children's dietary needs.

Labour's Jeremy Corbyn challenged Green, asking why there were no specific figures of the number of students affected.

This year saw more than 900 Westchester students sign up for the challenge, nearly double the number of students who signed up in the first two years combined.

Placement opportunities are available to a number of Northumbria's undergraduate Social Sciences students in challenging environments such as prisons, youth offending teams, homeless charities and parliamentary offices.

The LSE men's rugby team was notably dissolved for a year due to the student unions commitment to challenge «cultures that allow misogyny, sexism and homophobia to exist» after they pulled a number of high - profile pranks apparently indicative of «lad culture».

«She was coming with us to Albany when there were no cameras,» said Ansari, who runs the New York City office, «and using her celebrity to help elevate the voices and stories of parents and students that, like myself, have been coming up there for a number of years challenging New York State, to say, «When are black and brown kids gonna get their fair share of these dollars?

Superintendent Kriner Cash said he is happy to explore the possibility, but cautioned that teen mothers are just one of a number of student groups with unique challenges.

Half of the students completed an easy version of this task, where the numbers always appeared in sequential order; the other participants completed a challenging version of the task where the numbers always appeared in a random order.

The findings are the result of a huge and challenging field effort: over a three - year period, local students and technicians spent several weeks every month at each site to measure each tree's woody growth rate and the number of small roots that had grown.

Thoroughly at home in scholastic surroundings, Delfyett recalls a number of challenges in his professional career and reminds his students to stay the course no matter what.

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.

I want students of color to know that I had a number of challenging experiences throughout my graduate school tenure.

Even with the ever - growing awareness toward problems concerning women in science, a number of challenges still plague female graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty.

But improving academic performance is especially challenging in the Silver State, where the number of public school students increased by more than 50 percent between 1994 and...

It turns out that the most significant challenges that teachers report facing are systemic — number one being «state or district policies that get in the way of teaching,» followed by, «constantly changing demands placed on teachers» and «constantly changing demands placed on students.»

It's important because feedback is critical to student learning; it's challenging because of time constraints and the number of students at varying levels in our classes.

Our numbers have grown, and a new group of students will take on the challenge of finishing up the house come September.

A number of students work with zookeepers and scientific staff in studying animal behavior, keeping animals active and challenged, and promoting public transit to the zoo.

A consequence of not challenging the current model is likely to be that large numbers of less advanced students will continue to fall behind in their learning as each year - level curriculum becomes increasingly far ahead of them.

«A number of students suggested that we let off fireworks, in the Chinese tradition — and Dan accepted the challenge.

Ideally, a good game curriculum will help the nonmathematical student grapple with numbers and the linguistically challenged to navigate the terra incognita of the subjunctive.

For students with milder learning or behavioral challenges, the standard academic programs that many charter schools offer may help to reduce the need for special services and thus the number of students classified under federal and state special education rules.

A study by Josh Goodman published in Education Next challenges the conventional wisdom that the number of school days cancelled due to snow has a significant impact on student learning.

The final three steps challenge the students to discover the formulae for the sums of the first n integers, square numbers and cube numbers.

Students have enjoyed the challenge of listening to and saying four -, five -, and six - digit numbers.

The two top priorities are drawing together staff from both sectors to deal with Common Core challenges and boosting the number of special education students taken by charters.

The student group will host a number of events on campus that explore a variety of challenges unique to educating in rural settings.

Strong students can challenge themselves to solve their mystery term in the fewest possible number of questions or they can «debrief» afterward to determine a more efficient path to the solution or to rank - order questions.

In two important ways teachers are on the front line in the battle to help the soaring number of students who have challenging and frustrating attention issues.

Pokemon Are Smart and Healthy 3/22/2000 [Games, Math Grades 3 - 5, 6 - 8 Submitted by Janelle Schumacher] Students play a dodge - ball type game as they perform a number of mental and physical challenges.

The lack of information on numbers experiencing blended learning has created challenges at multiple levels — from understanding if the phenomenon is actually scaling to contextualizing if bumps on the road, like the recent demise of Amplify, are mere blips or catastrophic events, and from understanding where policymakers and philanthropists can make the most impact to knowing whether the blended learning that is occurring is a good or bad thing for students.

Many of these schools had higher proportions of students living in challenging circumstances: high poverty and low parent education, or high numbers of students whose first language was neither English nor French and who were struggling with academic language proficiency.

The differentiation for achievable challenge would be to make progress in learning the procedure of calculating the average of a group of numbers, but using numbers for which students have adequate foundational knowledge.

The Court of Appeal acknowledged that the challenged statutes increase the number of ineffective teachers in California schools and that low - income and minority students in California are disproportionately taught by less effective teachers.

It can be a challenge even to say those large numbers; give students plenty of practice.

A bundle worth # 27 with speaking and writing mats and a transition pack from primary school to secondary school offered (# 5 worth)- A starter activity for each lesson on the first slide + learning objective + challenge activities throughout the power - point - Vocabulary games and worksheets with challenge activities - Speaking and writing activities to be able to talk about yourself (age, name, family)- Learn this alphabet (link to songs on the power - point)- Countries + game on flags - Talk about your nationality (gender and adjective agreement)- Definite and indefinite articles (le / la / les - un / une / des)- Say where you live and where you used to live (survey activity with editable worksheet)- Work on formulating simple questions in French - Avoir with a dice game and grammar activities to practise this irregular verb - Numbers up to 31 + months + seasons + birthday + date - Talk about your favorite object - Colours + adjective agreement - A worksheet to accompany each power - point - A revision worksheet to practise the vocabulary and grammar points seen in the unit - Writing end of unit test + a vocabulary test - Mon autoportrait (description of your hair and eyes)- An adjective agreement game to do in class with all the students (see explanation under the slide)- Grammar explanation on adjective agreement - A lesson on the verb «être» with various activities to practise the irregular endings (also some activities with être and adjective agreement)- A written activity on yourself and your family with a nice worksheet.

A bundle worth # 45 with a transition pack from primary school to secondary school offered (# 4 worth)- A starter activity for each lesson on the first slide + learning objective + challenge activities throughout the power - point - Vocabulary games and worksheets with challenge activities - Speaking and writing activities to be able to talk about yourself (age, name, family)- Learn this alphabet (link to songs on the power - point)- Countries + game on flags - Talk about your nationality (gender and adjective agreement)- Definite and indefinite articles (le / la / les - un / une / des)- Say where you live and where you used to live (survey activity with editable worksheet)- Work on formulating simple questions in French - Avoir with a dice game and grammar activities to practise this irregular verb - Numbers up to 31 + months + seasons + birthday + date - Talk about your favorite object - Colours + adjective agreement - A worksheet to accompany each power - point - A revision worksheet to practise the vocabulary and grammar points seen in the unit - Writing end of unit test + a vocabulary test - Mon autoportrait (description of your hair and eyes)- An adjective agreement game to do in class with all the students (see explanation under the slide)- Grammar explanation on adjective agreement - A lesson on the verb «être» with various activities to practise the irregular endings (also some activities with être and adjective agreement)- A written activity on yourself and your family with a nice worksheet.

Everything changed when these big operators made it clear they were going for scale, thus challenging L.A. Unified for huge numbers of students.

The Grimbles» Last Game - a sketch for teenage drama students Great to explore ensemble cast work with a number of speaking roles Mask work and «games» are included Physical theatre Challenging and creative A dark, surreal and comic tale For the PERILOUS TALES collection of surreal and slightly dark cautionary tales by Offbeat Theatre's Barbara Hockley An excellent opportunity to use bizarre costumes and masks A dance number is required at the end - anything you like... Dark, surreal and completely off the wall Ed and Molly Grimble play computer games all the time - in fact, they do little else.

There are a small number of students, such as the severely cognitively disabled, who will not perform at such a level, and the law should recognize these challenges.

Because an accountability test that supports teaching is focused on only a very limited number of challenging curricular aims, a student's mastery of each subject can be meaningfully measured, letting teachers determine how effective their instruction has been.

Tabs in worksheet: Interactive Matching: Students match mean mode etc to the appropriate definition Interactive Averages: Find mean mode etc from changable list of numbers Worksheet: List of mean, mode, median and range questions Challenge Questions: Students have to find data that would give the specified mean mode etc Basic Definitions: List the basic definitions.

The challenges included highest attendance, cleanest hallway and lockers, most canned food collected during the annual food drive, number of students on the honor roll, highest amount of homework turned in on time, and most pennies collected during a penny drive.

With the construction of the monumental building, though, came challenges of equal proportions — and lots of concepts and numbers for students to wrap their minds around!

Beyond the security challenges concerning the welfare of students, Rob Moir's team was keen to minimise the risk of serious unknown malware and ransomware attacks and was aware that the number of zero day threats in educational institutions was on the rise.