Sentences with phrase «of students of different ages»

As for joy of learning, there is a mountain of evidence that American kids enjoy learning math more than Japanese kids, evidence collected from large, random samples of students of different ages and grades.

Not exact matches

The teacher can help the student, possibly from about the age of seven, to recognize different categories of language use.

The Festival is aimed at a range of different audiences, including policy makers, business, the media, the general public and students of all ages.

Detmar Meurers, professor for computational linguistics at the University of Tübingen, summarizes: «Authors of textbooks should consider much more systematically what makes texts suitable for students of different age groups and performance levels in order to advance students in terms of language and content.

Erin Anderson, lead author of the study and a graduate student in psychology at Northwestern, said, «We know that by four years of age, children can detect and use relations like same and different.

One quick thing; lets get this out of the way, right away, apparently — and I didn't know about this — the age of your medical students in England is different from that in the United States; is that right?

Future research is needed to establish the benefits of the program across different age groups and populations, for example, college versus high school students.

In a different experimental approach, Terziz et al. (2003) compared the muscle fiber distribution of physical education students (aged 22 years) selected according to shot put performance (> 9.5 m with 6 kg shot).

The Viniyoga tradition acknowledges that each of us are different in age, constitution, mental clarity, structural stability, etc; therefore, each student will have unique needs and abilities.

Kam Heskin (Tomcats, Blackjack) stars as Elizabeth Bennett, a student / bookstore clerk with a mind of her own, very different from her four other outgoing, man - hungry college - age roommates.

The answer will also depend on the age of the student and the student's particular areas of strength and weakness — adolescents have different needs than younger students and students who already are competent in a requisite category of soft skills have different needs than those who are not.

«The matters brought to the circle might sound different, depending on the ages of the students, but for all of them it's an opportunity to learn how to manage an emotion that could be an impediment to what they're trying to accomplish during the school day.»

The random assignment of students to classrooms, however, meant that pairs of children with the same birthday fell into different positions in their classroom age distribution by the luck of the draw.

This view recognises that students of the same age will be at different points in their learning and may be progressing at different rates, but sees every learner as capable of making good learning progress.

They like going to the different groups and they mix with different students of different ages and they also get to try different subjects.

Different texts may be better suited to older or younger students: a parent or teacher should always preview each individual piece of writing to make sure it is appropriate for a specific age group.

Psychologists recommend mixing different approaches according to an average age of a group of students.

There are 36 different student cards; each card gives a first name, a nationality, age, birthday, number of brothers and the number of sisters.

Many of the pages at this site were prepared by students and teachers in the individual countries, so each is different, and your students will enjoy reading about each country's holidays and festivals in the words of students their own age.

Other possible activities include asking students to research the history of different nicknames and how they may be influenced by age, gender and social relationships.

The Sutton Trust report, «Background to Success», investigates patterns of academic attainment of more than 3,000 students whose educational outcomes were studied across different phases of school and pre-school from age three to age 18.

Included: Four different «hunts» — for students of all ages.

Assuming the child is more aware and more sensitivity (which means they will be different from most of the population since the number of gifted kids ranges about 6 percent of school - aged children) then it is paramount that we educate these students about themselves and the differences.

And all of this is so important, because we know that students in the same year of school or students at the same age are very, very different in their levels of achievement.

To foster that «family atmosphere,» she modified the lunch schedule so that students of different ages ate together.

School grounds that provide a satisfying range of settings for play for students of different ages and interests are likely to reduce the number of conflicts.

Play spaces will typically involve combinations of: • Large areas of hard surfaces (for a range of ball games, rebound walls, etc.); • Smaller hard surfaced areas for hop - scotch, elastics and other small group games; • Large grassed area for running, ball games, athletics and other activities; • Play equipment for different aged students, catering for potentially large groups of students at any one time and providing a range of types of activities; • Small spaces with seating for individuals and small groups; • Smaller grassed areas for a variety of activities requiring intimate spaces; • Sand play areas, dirt, water and planting for creative activities; • Areas suitable for marbles, small cars and toys, digging, and play with loose materials and surfaces; • Areas for dramatic / role play which might include decks, cubbies and planting; • Shade and shelter, drinking water and other utilities; • Shrubs and trees for hiding, shelter, imaginative games; • Tables and seats for a range of group activities; • Gathering spaces for assemblies, performances and community activities; and, • Quiet spaces as well as busy spaces.

Tracking has been around since the beginning of the 20th century, when students were placed on different school trajectories after a certain age.

Once they have the background, you can explore a variety of different topics, depending on the age of your students and the subject you're teaching.

The approach focuses on assessing and monitoring student growth over time and is underpinned by an understanding that students of the same age and in the same year of school can be at very different points in their learning and development.

Prepare an example seating plan for each member of staff and a pack of different coloured stars to demonstrate how simple it is to selectively group students on target grade, ability, reading age and KAGAN group structures.

Monitoring progress against a map is important because students of the same age and year level can be at very different stages in their learning.

As Dr. Haertel points out, contrasts between age - based and grade - based gaps and trends can be useful because children are starting school at a later chronological age and students of various racial and ethnic groups are retained in grade at different rates.

This finding undermines the Government's approach to UTCs and Studio Schools where students are selected into different schools at age 14; and its insistence on resits of GCSE English and maths for students who don't achieve a grade C or above.

The research team deemed this a high - utility technique because it has been proven in several studies to be very effective across students of different ages utilizing it with a variety of materials, and on most measures of achievement, even over long delays.

Complete solidarity comes from the perspective that students are not different from adults simply because of their age.

Semi-vertical tutoring (7s and 8s together, 9s and 10s together) will promote positive relationships between students of different age groups within the college community

The way it looks for different age groups will be different, obviously as younger students are not always cognitively ready to do this kind of thinking.

Specifically, we wanted the research team to help us and others across the valley: understand near - term trends in changing demographics of school - age children for Ada and Canyon counties; identify «hot spots» in development and where demand for new school services may be greatest; discuss school quality in these growth areas — how many students are attending low - performing schools or could benefit from different school options; and discuss how the changing student demographics might be served by new school options.

«In an age of tweets and snapchats, it is good to know students are writing in many different genres.»

Sixty healthy middle - school students matched for age, gender and ethnicity but of different socioeconomic status took tests that challenged brain areas responsible for specific cognitive abilities.

As students read this coming of age novel, they will have a different reading strategy to focus on during each chapter.

Teachers help children of all ages to learn and understand concepts of different subjects, and to help develop their students» critical thinking skills.

Other strategies include: (1) establishing and using a time - out or cooling - off place (even an informal time - out activity like having a child take a message, book, or box of chalk to another teacher could give the student the space and time he or she needs to maintain or regain composure); (2) applying role plays, simulations (for example, Barnga, Living in a Global Age, Rafa - Rafa, and Broken Squares) and moral dilemmas to teach students how to resolve conflicts, make collective decisions, appreciate different perspectives, weigh consequences, identify right from wrong, and check impulsive behavior; and (3) suggesting or assigning literature with characters who face similar challenges to that of the disabled student.

Other countries routinely humble the U.S. in international comparisons of student achievement, but PIAAC is different because it examines college and working - age adults instead of K - 12 students.

In the past he has worked as a Teaching Fellow at Breakthrough Greater Boston where he taught literature to a class of seventh grade students, he has worked as an assistant special education teacher in an elementary school in Massachusetts, and he has tutored students of many different ages in the DC Reads program.

The teacher may interact with students of different ages, from infants to adults, students with different abilities and students with learning disabilities.

As far as is practicable and appropriate, the placement should include different age groups of students including those with special educational needs and the student should experience mixed ability teaching situations and team teaching / co-teaching situations.

Teaching adults can be very different from teaching children, or even students of traditional college age.

The school provides «intragenerational associations» in which students of different ages are brought together to learn.