Sentences with phrase «of challenging students»

All videos have been developed alongside teachers currently working in the sector who have a passion for education and the understanding of the challenges students face.

The learning is designed as a way of challenging students to examine new ideas, and ideally it results in students producing work that goes beyond their expectations of their own abilities.

Every teacher knows the feeling of dread when the parents of a challenging student are due for their parent / teacher conference.

Moreover, its success has come in spite of a challenging student demographic profile and relatively modest resources.

Contrary to the claims of the powerful charter school lobby, the charter initiative has left public schools with a higher and higher percentage of challenging students and fewer resources to offer them.

There are better, alternative discipline methods that can create positive, meaningful long - term changes in the behavior of challenging students.

Finally, all states should make an investment to link K - 12 and higher education data systems to get a better understanding of the challenges students face after College Signing Day.

Arnup and Bowles also highlight data from the OECD's Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS)-- focusing on lower secondary school teachers and their principals — suggesting «the majority of teachers are satisfied with their jobs, but teaching classrooms with a high proportion of challenging students is associated with lower levels of job satisfaction (OECD, 2014)».

This report detailed the college completion rates from the first two KIPP middle schools and offered a clearer picture of the challenges students from low - income communities face on the path to a degree, as well as the factors that help them succeed.

But when they analyzed what teachers and students were doing and saying, they noticed that teachers opened their lessons by summarizing the main idea of a story instead of challenging students to identify it.

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.

In this post, Mary Martinez - Wenzl describes many of the challenges students face when making this transition and lists changes in policy and practice that schools can make to better support immigrant newcomer students.

«Charters serve more of these challenging students,» Marchand said.

If there was any one reason why Brown initiated LCFF with the Supplemental and Concentration grants included it was so districts with high concentrations of challenged students would be better served.

The teachers who were coded as asking more higher - level questions appear to be teachers who understand the importance of challenging their students» thinking about and comprehension of what they have read.

Our unique e-learning solutions harness the student's natural abilities, and provide just the kind of challenge students need to improve and develop these essential skills.

It's an apt metaphor for the Bauhaus practice of challenging students with a series of design problems instead of teaching them rote theory.

Knowledge - Based Education — We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS)(values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome - Based Education (OBE)(mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student's fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.

After years working with learning disabled students, Michaels suffered her own disability — severe hearing loss — that helped her gain a new understanding of the challenges her students had faced throughout the years.

What are some of the challenges students like you face in today's world of foodservice?

Evangelical state legislators and school board members mounted similar efforts this year in Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas, Texas and Alabama, and the Texas Republican Party platform opposes «the teaching of... critical thinking skills and similar programs that... have the purpose of challenging the student's fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.»

When Ms. Reed took the reins of the school system in 2005 after earning her doctorate, one of the first actions she took was to give teachers and principals training on the effects of poverty on children so that they could better understand some of the challenges their students face in learning.

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In Texas, for example, the Republican Party approved a platform opposing the teaching of critical thinking skills, saying it's behavior modification with «the purpose of challenging the student's fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.»