Sentences with phrase «of rigor students»

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At 49, as a grad student, I will be able to take habits I created from 30 years of improvisation and add rigor to my work, which will make it more accurate and meaningful to those around me.

«Our students are taught by the same Wharton faculty who hold them to the same standards of performance and intellectual rigor,» says Anjani Jain, Wharton's vice dean of MBA Program for Executives.

Guiding Principles Religious and theological studies depend on and reinforce each other; A principled approach to religious values and faith demands the intellectual rigor and openness of quality academic work; A well - educated student of religion must have a deep and broad understanding of more than a single religious tradition; Studying religion requires that one understand one's own historical context as well as that of those whom one studies; An exemplary scholarly and teaching community requires respect for and critical engagement with difference and diversity of all kinds.

The academic program provides both rigor and flexibility to meet the diverse needs of middle school students as they transition from Lower to High School.

Waldorf is dedicated to providing its middle school students with an academic curriculum with rigor and purpose — one that is creatively designed to meet the particular needs of middle school students — along with exceptional teachers, regular class travel, a no - cut athletic program, and fine arts and performing arts courses.

Is the danger that we see a return to a 1960s -»70s style of progressivism, which was very student - led but sometimes didn't have the same sense of rigor?

Capacity: The new two - story facility, with a capacity of 1,600 students (an increase of 400 from the former campus), allows for the standard middle school configuration of Grades 6 - 8 on one campus... which provides sixth - graders with greater opportunity for academic rigor, fine arts and career electives and athletic and extra-curricular activities, as well as 30 additional minutes of instructional time each day, compared to an elementary schedule.

«The rules adopted today by the Board of Regents maintain the rigor of our graduation requirements, while providing a new mechanism for students with disabilities to demonstrate they've met the State's graduation standards.»

«They're increasing the rigor without preparing students for that jump in competence for where they want them to be, so the assumption that they have skills to meet the rigor is a little bit of a faulty assumption,» said Pikul.

«These new regulations preserve the rigor of New York's graduation requirements while at the same time offering students comparably rigorous options that keep them engaged in school and learning.

The study, reported in the journal Academic Medicine in February, brought to the fore the problem of depression among students immersed in the rigors of medical training.

As summer draws to a close, participating middle school students will begin tackling chemistry concepts to prepare them for the rigor of high school biology courses.

Bowen helps prepare his students for the rigors of science by emphasizing writing.

The generous scholarships — $ 15,000 a year for 4 years — are another key element in the Meyerhoff program, helping to retain talented students who might otherwise forsake the rigors of a science major because of economic necessity.

At Inside Higher Ed, Cheryl Ball, whose sound advice we have recommended before, offers pointers for faculty members who want to help their students and trainees through the rigors of the job search.

The panel, which will begin meeting next week, includes several prominent players from both sides of the ongoing debate over whether recent curricular reforms provide students with enough mathematical rigor while also fostering a deeper understanding of the subject.

Watch the student - athletes prepare for and play each week's matchup while juggling the rigors of their academic lives.

Baltimore school officials are standing by their decision to use popular magazines and other nontraditional texts as part of a strategy to engage middle school students, despite criticism from some teachers and community members that the new language arts curriculum lacks rigor and downplays formal grammar lessons.

I introduced the guest journal once again, but to increase the rigor, instead of an object, my students were to bring in a news article for discussion and then ask the class an open - ended question relating to society.

But the proposal's pitfall is that it assumes colleges will respond to accountability measures by improving teaching and maintaining rigor rather than simply lowering standards in the interest of pushing students through.

However, to ensure rigor, the alternative formula figured a state's starting point as a function of 20 percent of the state's grade - level population of students.

Instead of indiscriminately signing up students willy - nilly, K12 would then have a reason to vet each family's situation to make sure they are ready for the rigors of online learning.

We end up retaining 10 to 15 percent of our students each year because they started so far behind that even after extended day, extended week, and extended year, they are still not ready for the rigor of the next grade level.»

The real blame lies with the combination of shoddy elementary and secondary schooling and, yes, students» failure to prepare themselves for the rigors of college.

It will take a lot to make public schools more effective for all students: greater academic rigor, higher standards of conduct, more parental involvement, meaningful professional development for teachers, stronger incentives for the students themselves, and, of course, more access to health and social services for the many students who are in need of such.

But at face value, whether a student can or can not carry a machine around all day tells us little to nothing about a school's actual pedagogy, about the quality of interactions between students and teachers, or about the rigor of the software programs delivered through those devices.

A growing body of research suggests that college remediation programs — meant to bolster the skills of students deemed underprepared for the rigors of postsecondary study — seem to make very little positive difference to students, and may even have a negative effect on overall success in college.

A more complete and accurate conception, in line with the colloquial meaning of the term, recognizes that standards also refer to the desired qualities of student work and the degree of rigor that must be assessed and achieved.

Participants learn how to design interdisciplinary curriculum that attends to the ethical, aesthetic, and social dimensions of learning, and they explore instructional methods that deepen student engagement, model intellectual curiosity and rigor, and make learning more visible.

This unit has been created specifically to intigrate KS4 skills into the KS3 curriculum to prepare students for the rigors of the new 100 % exam GCSE specification.

On the other hand, Delpit provides counterexamples of success, for instance, Afrocentric assignments, inspiring teachers who love and sympathize but maintain rigor, and a beloved white teacher whom the students consider «black» for this reason: when asked «how he felt as a white man teaching black history... tears came to his eyes as he answered that when he learned about Emmett Till and other terrible things white people had done to black people, it sometimes made him ashamed to be white.»

Not surprisingly, perhaps, board members who are or were educators (27 percent of the total surveyed) believe that funding is a barrier and that the focus on student achievement is misplaced; these beliefs were held «regardless of the actual level of funding in the district,» «regardless of the actual teacher salaries» in the district, and «even after controlling for the type of student population that the district serves and the actual rigor of academic standards» in the district.

However, there is consensus among three key federally funded agencies (What Works Clearinghouse, National Center on Student Progress Monitoring, and Florida Center for Reading Research), as well as several peer - reviewed journal articles that review research on education products, that Accelerated Reader has met high standards of scientific rigor with positive effects and no contrary evidence.

The near - exclusive focus on the most disadvantaged students (in New Orleans, for example) has also led to large numbers of custodial «no excuses» schools using traditional pedagogies, albeit with great rigor.

According to the College Board, in order to have a 65 percent chance of getting a B - average in college, students should achieve about 1030 on the math and verbal SATs and earn a B average in high school (taking courses of at least «average» rigor).

But the guidelines for what students should learn in each grade have a low level of rigor compared with those of some other states, content is repeated across and within grades, and the tests are not as challenging as they should be, the analysis concludes.

The engine of social justice at the College Board is the presumption that more rigor draws students to a higher level.

Explicitly designed according to a set of design principles that stress academic rigor and personalization, attention to youth development, strong community partnerships, and accountability for results, these schools have produced powerful results for students — many of whom fall squarely within the cohort of the «underprepared.»

«Brain research» that has (not always with the finest of scientific rigor) claimed to identify diverse «learning styles» and forms of «intelligence,» thereby challenging teachers to individualize their classroom practice to accommodate such student variability.

This all means that the public has little information on the outcomes of online education on a large scale — whether students are getting the same caliber of instruction, with the same rigor, or whether their diplomas carry the same significance.

Thus, simply arguing «growth measures good, current law bad» may in the end not be very helpful to the deliberations on Capitol Hill and could well undermine the efforts of those who favor only those growth systems that can meet tough standards for rigor, reliability, and inclusion of all students.

So varied are state standards that the relative rigor of a state's proficiency definition is a better predictor of the percentage of schools said to be «failing» (not making AYP) than the overall quality of student performance in the state, as estimated by average NAEP scores.

We're All Wonders by R.J. Palacio Book Companion is jam packed with printables, activities, a fun writing craftivity, collaborative posters, a Wonder student award, and notes of love and kindness that will help you maintain high levels of rigor and fun as you use the book We're All Wonders to promote acceptance and kindness in your classroom and school.

Whether a student can or can not carry a machine around all day tells us little to nothing about a school's actual pedagogy, about the quality of interactions between students and teachers, or about the rigor of the software programs delivered through those devices.

The permaculture design principles are a filter for developing more strategic outcomes that contain rich academic rigor and an increased understanding of students» tremendous potential as change makers in their communities.

The SAT is valuable for two main reasons: 1) It provides colleges with a common standard against which to evaluate students who attend high schools with varying grading policies and levels of rigor, and 2) it partially predicts students» grades during their freshman year of college, a measure of how prepared they are for higher education.

In a sense, the IB's programs express the effort to nurture both ambitions: the Diploma Program along with its pre-secondary school counterparts embody the rigors of classical education, including the arts and sciences and mathematics, languages, and independent writing projects; at the same time the IB has developed career programs for students focused on more immediate employment.

Regardless of how you define «rigor,» the important thing is that students are thinking deeply on a daily basis.

It found that «attending an exam school increases the rigor of high school courses taken and the probability that a student graduates with an advanced high school degree» but «has little impact on Scholastic Aptitude Test scores, college enrollment, or college graduation.»

Driving the point home, it claims, «Educators, for example, protect children from the rigors of testing, ban dodgeball, and promote just about any student who shows up.